Addewid - Fractured Paradise Volume II

Fractured Paradise - Volume II:
The Corruption of Addewid

Fractured Paradise: A Novel In Progress

by Oliver Smith
OliverSmith@CyberPoet.com

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Selection Table Fractured Paradise - Volume II
Synopsis	Outline	Fractured Paradise Glossary	Earth-Side Timeline
Fractured Paradise Volume I Outline	Fractured Paradise Volume III Outline	Fractured Paradise Volume IV Outline	David Maple-Green's Addewid Diary

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Volume II - Synopsis
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Volume II of Fractured Paradise, The Corruption of Addewid, takes up with the increasing interference in the lives of humans on Earth by Diawl, on behalf of Nerth and the other Henin who oppose the work of the Triple Goddess ( Cren, Treven, Hesbrid ).

This volume focuses on the conception and devolopment of the Alliance of Truth, the Canon of Truth and the Canon of Law, which started with Diawl's meeting with Cecilia, after she felt she had been sexually violated in the Ceremony of Creation being conducted by Minethul on Innisprid, the island where Minethul's Devod is located.

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Volume II - Outline
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( Story ) Minethule's Devod
Cecilia's meeting with Diawl
Diawl flies Cecilia to Cedule, his cavern on Inniscren.
Diawl intoduces Cecilia to Moshe, Abraham and Zoroaster.
( Story ) The Alliance of Truth is born.
( Story ) Nerth provides islands to be used by the Alliance of Truth. The main island becomes known as Innisindi, which is surrounded by a circle of twelve islands known as the Cadu Barrier.
Ragnvold is born (851 CE) and raised in Norway.
Ragnvold sets out to become involved with the Viking trade routes through Russia and down to Baghdad (879 CE).
Ragnvold meets Havva, one of Cren's priestesses in the Temple of Sin in Harran (883).
Havva shows Ragnvold the chamber where the Lance of Death is kept.
Cren speaks to Ragnvold through Havva and tells him that one of his descendents will seek the Lance of Death and find it in Jerusalem.
Ragnvold marries Havva and takes her back to Norway.
William Marshal is born to John Fitzgilbert Marshal and Sybil of Salisbury in 1147 CE.
When John Marshal is sent to Wales (1159 CE) to help enforce order and obeyance to Henry II's rule, William is brought along to St Davids, where William stays with friends.
Cren speaks to William Marshal at St Non's Well. She tells of his ancestry in Norway, through Ragnvold and Havva and that he will need to go on Crusade to Jerusalem in the future, to retrieve the Lance of Death. She gives him his Addewid name with instructions to ensure that the name is passed down to his descendents, for one of them will need to use it in Addewid.
John Marshal sends his son to Normandy (1161), where he will be apprenticed, as a knight, to William de Tancarville.
William leaves on Crusade to Jerusalem (1185 CE).
While en route to Jersualem he becomes embroiled in a battle between the Crusading Christians and the defending Muslims. During battle he rescues a young woman (Kurat), who was dressed as a man (using the name Ozge), from an attack by his companion Crusaders.
Because he had rescued what others thought was a Muslim "infidel" man, William was not able to rejoin the other Crusaders. Unsure what to do, given his mission from Cren, he was delighted to find out that Kurat (Ozge) was not actually a Muslim and had actually been abducted and taken from Jerusalem, being forced to fight with the Muslim army.
Avoiding both the Crusaders and Muslim forces, William and Kurat head for Jerusalem.
Along the way, William discovers that Ozge (Kurat) was actually a women disguised as a man, which distrubed William, who was raised in the culture of chivalry in Britain and France. In anger, William threatens to turn Kurat over to the priests who accampany the Crusaders, figuring tha they would know how to deal with the situation, believing that they would simply put her into a nunnery, after using her has a servant while on Crusade.

But while pleading with William not to hand her over to the priests, Kurat accidentally admitted that she was the guard for the Lance of Death, within the Knights Templars, but they must not know that she was a woman. The Knights Templars could only accept men, but Cren's priestesses would only allow one of Cren's priestesses to guard the Lance, since no man had touch the Lance since Mary Magdalene pulled the Lance from Hian's side, while Hian was hanging on the Roman cross. It was said that only one man would be able to touch this Lance on earth without dying.

Realizing that Kurat was the one who could bring him directly to the object of his personal mission, he confided in Kurat his encounter with Cren, hoping that she could help him better understand why he needed to obtain the Lance of Death, and provide him with more information about this Cren, with whom he had spoken years before at St Non's well.

Upon hearing of William's encounter with Cren, Kurat spoke of her role as a priestess in the Temple of Sin in Harran, where the priestesses speak to Cren, Treven and Hesbrid regularly. She also said that there was a legend that a descendent of Ragnvold and Havva would one day come for the Lance and that each of the priestesses should be ready for that day.
William and Kurat proceeded to Jerusalem, continuing to avoid both the Crusaders and the Muslim armies. When they arrive in Jerusalem, the Knights Templars where glad to see Kurat (as Ozge), but were not sure what to make of William, who showed up with Kurat. When Kurat explained how William had rescued her, the Knights Templars were genuinely thankful, for they did not know how to handle the Lance of Death once] they placed it into their underground vaults. They wanted to ensure that it did not get into the wrong hands.

Neither William nor Kurat reveal their intent to steal the Lance and allow William to take it back to Britain.
William gains the confidence of the Knights Templars by virtue of his swordplay, which was exhibited brilliantly when the Castle of the Knights Templars was attacked by a Muslim army. William lead the attack against the Muslims and ran them off.

Knights Templars were so impressed that they offered to induct into their ranks, but he wasn't willing to take a vow of celebacy, in order to become one of them, although he did promise to allow them the honor when he is on his death bed, sometime in the future.
As William prepared to return to Britain, he and Kurat made plans to steal the Lance of Death.

Since it had long been a ploy, on the part of Cren's Temple in Harran, to expose mortal lances to the presence of the Lance of Death, in order to provide certain leaders on earth with a strong, but weaker power, drawn from the Lance of Death (as was the case with mortal lances given to Constantine and Charlemagne), William and Kurat exposed a mortal lance to the Lance of Death and left the mortal lance in the place of the Lance of Death, within the castle of the Knights Templars. William, took the real Lance of Death with him back to Britain.
( Story ) On his death bed William Marshal requests a private audience with his oldest daughter Isabella (who is also Qwinn Jacobs' ancestor). He tells her a story that contains his Addewin name (but she is unaware of this). He also requests that she ensure that the Lance of Death be placed in his casket when he is buried.
( Story ) Upon William's death, Isabella Marshal places Lance of Death in William Marshal's casket with the help of a couple of servant women, who distract William's sons.
( Story ) Cecilia, acting on information provided by Diawl, finds out where William Marshal's Addewin island is and arranges to have Trellant, her ceffylmor, to take her to William's island.
William Marshal is buried in London's Temple Church.
( Story ) William Marshal arrives in Addewid.
( Story ) William Marshal fights with Diawl in the Cysgod desert and becomes shadowed when he comes in contact with the Cysgodian sand. As a result, he becomes Shadowed and forced to live as an apparition in the Cathig mountains.

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