Too rocky to make a safe haven in a storm and with overly aggressive wildlife, Gwaed has long gone unremarked by seafarers voyaging around the Sea of Tirpal. The island was once home to the Nolgind clan called Peren, but that ended with the coming of the Beast of Blood, an ancient and tragic tale only the Crones of the Nolgind clans remember. Now only the degenerate clan Hafen, to whom the Rhosgenethig Bog is sacred, venture to the island on pilgrimage.
by Alun Rees
