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In this, the first of what Donna Lyon Rhose intends will be several books, she begins her tales. It is actually part one of a larger book divided due to the scope she is giving to the entire piece overall. In many ways, this is a spiritual and very personal journey. When she writes her stories Donna Rhose is writing in a general sense about the Bards of ancient Cymru (Wales); what she envisions that their lives were like and what their beliefs and disciplines were about. Saying that, these stories are not meant to be too closely examined for historical merit and are what is often termed ‘alternative history’, being ‘very loosely’ based on Cymru in about the 4th to 5th Centuries CE. Though the Bards did have a time of power in Cymru, she really doesn’t know that it had the dominance that she envisions in her works. In all, these works are more or less her perception of what a Bardic Society might well be like if it were allowed to truly flower to its full potential.