Lughern's Lance 

A poet and musician born in 1945, Gilles Servat endows the fantasy epic with a sharp yet sensual lyricism. With Les Chroniques d'Arcturus he has embarked on a spectacular epic cycle based on Celtic mythology.

The history of Bré, ruled and watched over by the Rotanes, is packed with battles between the Kernis and the Domnis. But times have changed. The Bresis have a common enemy, the Ssahanis, invaders from space who have decided to conquer the planet and convert the inhabitants to their faith. Their only hope is still in fact Arcturus, but he is no longer either warrior or druid having been thrown out of the rhythmic cycle for incest. And so it is without weapons or losca that he must find a new way of saving the Bresi people, for whom he remains the prodigal son.

The leaving banquet in the Kornok Inn takes place the day after the tenth day of the Branvode, when the Kernis were victorious over the Ssahanis. At the request of the king the drwidhs recount... (and especially Breo who knows, but can he tell all?) how Bleunjote found her losca.

That same day, Ssuweyo the Ssahani, the Angel of the East, having escaped the disaster of the day before with his family, has decided to sacrifice himself for the sake of his kin by returning to Kornok to destroy Lughern's Lance that gave victory to the Kernis.

This is the lance which in fact did not find its champion at the end of the Branvode and which Bleunjote claims for herself. Bleunjote has taken up her warrior name again and (with who's help?) is freed from the Bresi codes.

However Ssaa, the Ssahani god of love, has started to sow discord amongst Bresi couples...