Cáemgen mac Garbith ui Andrais

Cáemgen mac Garbith, a young Irishman striking out to test the murky waters of an Eire without the Ostmen. He set out from the southern province of Munster, where his family had long served the Eóganachta. Finding skirmishes along the eastern shores, Cáemgen used his basic skills at archery to assist wherever he could. After more than a year of travelling, in 902, reckoned as A.S. 42 [1], he arrived at the Black Pool. Finding the settlement abandoned and in ruins, he continued on to the Barony of Lions Gate. Here he was taken as fosterling into the house of a beautiful noblewoman, Bernadette Ebhilín Árd and her Scottish lord, Kenzie McBeighn.

Determined to take a more active part in the battles to come he began to train with the people of Lions Gate and was recently taken as a Man at Arms to Squire Sergeant Kerry Mac Garaidh. Not to be remiss in the other skills and talents of a Fer midboth, Cáemgen has been named Bardic Champion of Lionsdale for the next year, and intends to actively promote the art.

Perhaps a bit precociously, he is also contemplating applying to be admitted to the Sergeantry of Lions Gate as a brithem

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