The Secret Book of Cadwallon the Druid
This is one of the books written an age ago, used by
dweomer masters. Below are some exercepts used in the
Deverry novels...
If you read them carefully, they show the stylised story of Deverry
or is it just that I've been in the Vurt too long!?...
"Men see life going from a dark to a darkness. The gods see life as a death..."
Daggerspell P.15 (Paperback)
"The young fool tells his master that he will suffer to gain the dweomer. Why is he a fool? Because the dweomer has already made him pay and pay and pay again before he even stood on its doorstep..."
Daggerspell p.21 (Paperback)
"If you write in the sand with a stick, soon the waves and wind will wash away the words. So are the mistakes of ordinary men. If you cut words into stone, they remain forever. A man who claims the dweomer becomes a chisel. All his misdeeds are graved into the very flank of Time itself..."
Daggerspell P.65 (Paperback)
"If a man would claim the dweomer, he must learn patience above all else. No fruit falls from a tree before it is ripe."
Daggerspell P.161 (Paperback)
"Dweomer is a vast wilderness crossed by a few safe roads. To either side of the road lies uncharted country, filled with wild beasts, charms, and swamps, danger that can slay the unwary soul as surely as a wild boar will slay the unwary hunter. Mock them not until you have faced them..."
Daggerspell P.237 (Paperback)
"Every light casts a shadow. So does the dweomer. Some men choose to stand in the light; others, in the darkness. Be ye always aware that where you stand is a matter of choice, and not let the shadow creep over you unawares."
Darkspell P.13 (Paperback)
"And are all things that happen in life preordained by the gods? They're not, for many things happen by blind chance. Mark this well: every man has a Wyrd, and every man has a Luck. The secret of wisdom is telling one from the other."
Darkspell P.243 (Paperback)
"You must never speak of 'binding' a spirit into a crystal or a talisman. If the spirit chooses to serve you in this way, well and good, because it will gain knowledge and power as its reward. Let us leave this talk of binding and subjugation to the dark path."
Darkspell P.281 (Paperback)
"Often those who study the dweomer complain that it speaks in riddles. There is a reason for this riddling. What is it? Well, that happens to be a riddle of its own."
Dawnspell P.13 (Paperback)
"The Lords of Wyrd do not make a man's life as neatly as a master potter turns out bowls, each perfectly shaped and suitable to its purpose. In the ebb and flow of birth and death are strange currents, eddies and vortices, most of which are beyond the power of the Great Ones to control."
Dawnspell P.211 (Paperback)
"The fool sees peaks rising above the water and says 'Look, many islands!' The wise man knows that all are connected under the Southern Sea."
Dragonspell P.3 (Paperback)
"Some say that all the worlds of the many-splendoured universe lie nested one within the other like the layers of an onion. I say to you that they lie all braided and wound round and that no man nor woman either can map all the roads of their twisting."
Red Wyvern P.1 (Trade Paperback)
"Sleep and Trance are Lord Death's twin sisters. A master of the dweomer befriends all three."
Red Wyvern P.279 (Trade Paperback)
"Three are the Mothers of All Roads, not four, not two, but three. If you would walk upon one, you must know all three as well as you know the path from your back door to the market place. For if you set out upon one, only the knowing will save you from walking all three."
Red Wyvern P327 (Trade Paperback)
Images are all courtesy of Jase...
