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. Cáemgen was to travel north to Glendalough, where his namesake had founded a monastery of great beauty. The pilgrimage was not easy though. Along the eastern shores he found skirmishes with lingering Ostmen, and 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, he arrived at the Black Pool.

Dyflin was a tattered ruin. The local gaels had moved down into the settlement and were beginning to reclaim what had once been a sacred well. After a brief stop at the Monastery of Saint Cáemgen, the young man had two choices. Continue on into the heart of Eire to Tara or Armagh, or strike outwards onto the sea - perhaps to follow the Ostmen who had held sway over his homeland for so long. Taking ship he made land at 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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