Maelstrom

<p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>1</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>2</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>synopsis</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Maelstrom [ed3] The Chronicle of the Ostmen; book one.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> It is 869 and Ard Mhacha remains the principal meeting place of the </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> ancients. Within a land controlled by clan lords the monks tell its people </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> how to act and what to learn Mael MacConaill a privilaged young noble </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> disregards the messages of God's path for him. When the monastery is </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> raided by Ostmen everything changes. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The warlords lead by the power of their warriors. Mael is propelled into the</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> chaos surrounding the Danish invasion of the British kingdoms. As an </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> outsider in a pagan culture within a foreign country now as he learns to </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> rely on his resourcefulness in a brutal chaotic realm. Mael sees the world </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> of the Pagan the traditions the rites the sacrifices. He sees how others </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> make sense of their world their beliefs and the tribal symbols that unify </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> them.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The monks brought the message of an eternal afterlife for those who </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> embrace the faith in the one God. Can a Saxon leader show the courage </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> his people need to fight for their home? The battle for the last Saxon </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> kingdom is brought to a teetering threshold of existence by the onslaught </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> of pagan forces.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p>