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  Scathach
Scathach ("the shadowy one"), is a warrior queen and mistress of a school for young warriors.
The three wishes are to train him in the arts of war, to marry her daughter Uathach and to tell his fortune which she does by using imbas forosnai ("charm of the palms"), party foretelling the events of the Tain Bo Cuailgne (Cattle Raid of Cooley) in dark terms.
Scathach is said to be the daughter of the king of Scythia.
www.pantheon.org /articles/s/scathach.html   (248 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scathach may not be quite the manipulator Medb was (mostly because she'd usually TELL you straight out when she was manipulating you), but she always had her own agenda, and rarely let you know what it was.
Scathach is one of the few people on either island who already spoke the tongue of the invaders, and she tries teaching you a few Latin words as well.
Scathach is as non-committal here as she always is. Tanethlon is a moderate voice, apparently willing to consider opposing the Romans, but not interested in any kind of brash plan.
www.amadan.org /HDR/archives/CIARAN8.TXT   (9359 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN Myths and Magic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scathach (skah-thahgh), the warrior-woman risen to divinity, is the Gaelic goddess of the dead, those slain in battle and the passage of the dead to Tir Nan Og.
It is also the duty of Scathach to drop those who acted poorly in life on one of the mystical islands of the other world, where they pay their debts and learn their folly.
It was from Scathach that Cu Chulainn received the 'Gae Bolg', his formidable barbed spear (or sword, in some versions) whose thrust was invariably fatal.
www.irelandsown.net /scathach.html   (295 words)

  
 Scathach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Female warrior who lived on the Isle of Skye, and gave her name to the island; in the Ulster Cycle, she initiated Cu Chulainn in the art of war and the art of lovemaking.
Forgall the Wiley sent Cu Chulainn to Scathach, figuring that she would kill him, telling the boy-hero that she was the greatest teacher, and without her he would never understand the true art of being a warrior.
Cu Chulainn fought his way to her house, endured tests, and then was accepted as her pupil, which included sleeping with her, and fighting the princess Aife, her rival.
www.maryjones.us /jce/scathach.html   (100 words)

  
 List of the damned
Lady Scathach is the eighteen year old eldest daughter of Baron Uryen, Laird of the Spirit Mountain, situated on the Western border of Bereny, separating the Kingdom from the Province of Derwent.
Scathach was enthusiastic in her participation in the Royal Tourney and initially based herself in the Caverns of Hasjan.
Scathach was known for her outspoken loyalty to King Mark and was elected Second Royal Adventurer, whilst on this mission.
uk.geocities.com /hayeshelm/list_of_the_redeemable.htm   (246 words)

  
 Main: Scathach Morrighan - Mother of the Whirlwind
To call upon Scathach in matters of divination is to invoke an honesty in foresight that may seem to border on cruelty.
Scathach is not the Patron of those divinators who curry favor (and repeat business!) by telling what they think someone wants to hear.
It is not, after all, a scholarly connection I have with Scathach, but an emotional, spiritual, quite visceral one, and it would be a disservice to Her to treat Her in purely academic terms.
mywebpages.comcast.net /livingblade/main.scathach.whirlwind.htm   (6200 words)

  
 Why the Scathach Wear No Colors
But when we did die, it was Scathach who came to collect us when we reached the end of our roads, and she who guided us to the Cauldron, that we might be reborn.
Scathach gathered her children as well, and the two mighty armies clashed upon the field of battle.
The children of Gwydion, Eiluned, and Dougal never forgave Scathach for barring them from her Cauldron, and so they turned from the children of Scathach, and said we were less than they.
members.tripod.com /~Val_Grey/ScathachColors.htm   (1361 words)

  
 The Muscadet Adventure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scathach, magicienne et guerrière, régnait sur Alba, pays légendaire situé bien au delà des brumes et des embruns de la mer d'Irlande.
A la fin de son séjour, Scathach lui offrit la plus redoutable des lances de combat : le gae bolga et lui fit trois prédictions : il triompherait à lui seul d'une multitude, les poètes immortaliseraient ses hauts faits, enfin sa vie serait aussi courte que bien remplie.
Enfin, Scathach signifie : celle qui fait peur et celle qui protège.
lemuscadet.free.fr /image/hight/bateau/scathach_h.html   (192 words)

  
 Scathach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scathach, whose name means "She who strikes fear", was the Goddess of the isle of Shadow, in the Hebridges, where she had a school to which the greatest of Irelands Warriors came to be trained.
She was famous for invincible battle methods such as the magickal leap and the battle yell, a technique also employed effectively by the Native Americans (the war whoop), and by the Confederate soldiers, (The Rebel Yell), in the American Civil War.
He finds Scathach in her house with her two sons, and puts a sword to her throat threatening to kill her if she does not teach him.
www.janih.com /kitiana/celtic/scath.html   (312 words)

  
 Scathas The Queen
THE LAUGHTER OF In the year when Cuchullin left the Isle of Skye, where Scathach the warrior-queen ruled with the shadow of death in the palm of her sword-hand, there was sorrow because of his beauty.
Scathach watched him till he was lost behind the flare of the camp fires of the rath.
Great men they were, strong warriors; but stronger was the yellow hair of each, and stronger than the hair the bough wherefrom each swung, and stronger than the boughs the wind that swayed them idly like drooping fruit, with the stars silvering their hair and the torch-flares reddening the white soles of their dancing feet.
www.sundown.pair.com /SundownShores/Volume_II/scathas.htm   (1271 words)

  
 Scathach
Scathach is from the Celtic era where a form of heterognostic learning (and yes I am making up a new word right before your eyes) was practiced.
In Scathach's era however women not only participated in battle but were some of the most fierce and able proponents of the craft.
Scathach, along with her family and students lived on a the Isle of Skye in a castle, which seems earthy enough until you consider the trials that those who sought training from her had to go though.
community-2.webtv.net /TerMcC/Scathach   (606 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scathach is capable of speaking for herself, of course, and a Gaul would be less surprised by this than a Roman, so whether she is letting you do the talking as a way of testing you again, or out of disdain, you can't be sure.
When Scathach stirred and indicated that the time was right, he felt both a burning desire to be away from here and a relief that he could do something...
Scathach is studying the bottom of her cup.
www.amadan.org /HDR/archives/CIARAN16.TXT   (13601 words)

  
 cuchulainn2
Scathach mourned the death of one of her best generals but as was also his custom Cu Chulainn said he would take on the responsibilities of Cochar and lead his soldiers into battle and be Scathachs' champion.
Scathach gave Cu Chulainn a sleeping draught as she did not wish for him to be harmed but a potion that would keep a normal man unconcious for a full day lasted only one hour on Cu Chulainn and he woke and joined the battle.
Scathach was afraid for her sons but Cu Chulainn leapt forward into battle and joined her sons and killed the three warriors.
members.aol.com /carrickman/cuchulainn2.html   (1989 words)

  
 Red Branch
From Scathach he learned the Salmon's Leap and the dreaded gae bolg, a deadly spear.
Scáthach (Scathach) lived in the Land of the Shadow (which was possibly the island of Skye, near mainland Scotland).
Scathach's chief enemy was another woman warrior named Aife, whom she has feud with.
www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/redbranch.html   (3380 words)

  
 Moonlit Trod - The Gray Walker and the Unicorn
Though injured, the hunter struggled to his feet, for even in that ancient day and age those of the Scathach line would not back away from a fight until they were dead or their enemies were.
And the Scathach listened to the words of the unicorn, of the secrets of the glen and the Dreaming, of the mysteries not commonly known to the fae.
The Scathach, his oath fulfilled, decided to make good use of the campsite and went to sleep.
www.moonlit-trod.com /contests/00walker.html   (1708 words)

  
 House Scathach
House Scathach founded in the Sundering by a warrior-woman born of the union of a sidhe with a mortal.
House Scathach has no official presence within the nobility of Rowan-Oak, although many have noted that Master Coulkan of Ben Bison dresses very plainly, and is ununsually soft-spoken even for a Seer.
House Scathach are so dedicated to their duty that once engaged, they find it difficult to back down from a fight.
www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/rhydin/111/scathach.htm   (625 words)

  
 Gloranthan stories: Teef!
And while it was doing that, Scathach hit it with her grandfather's javelin, and that one died, too.
Scathach heard the rock coming, and dodged to one side just as it landed.
Then Scathach went home, and put the javelin back in the roof beams, washed the red out of her hair, and claimed her apron and pots back from her mother.
www.jane-williams.me.uk /glorantha/stories/teef.cfm   (1288 words)

  
 The Trials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was she who told him his trip had been set up by Forgall, her father, for he did not want her associated with the young warrior.
Then she told him that if he wanted to learn off Scathach he must go to the place where she was teaching her two sons Cuar and Cat, and he must impress her mightily once he arrived there.
The point of this he placed between her breasts and made her promise three things: thoroughness in his training, a dowry for his marriage, and tidings of his future - for Scathach was also a prophetess.
www.louthonline.com /html/the_trials.html   (819 words)

  
 Celtic Legends of Rhiannon Page 3
The Isle of Sky was named after Scathach, the fierce Celtic warrior goddess.
Her martial skills were unsurpassed & young Celtic warriors from many lands traveled to her school for a soldier's training.
Scathach's Axe may bless you with Ability and Energy.
www.magickalgifts.com /lr3.html   (248 words)

  
 The Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
All the while Cuchullainn was staying with Scathach in Alba and sharing her daughter Uathach's bed, there emerged from Munster another great champion called Lugaid mac Nois, who was a foster brother of Cuchullainn's and the son of Alamiach, the King of Munster.
He swung her onto his back like a sack of grain and ran to the circle of Scathach's encampment, for Aife's men were outraged and affronted by his brazen trickery.
Then Cuchullainn received word that he was to be recalled to Ulster, and he bade Scathach and her kin a teary farewell.
www.louthonline.com /html/the_union.html   (1720 words)

  
 Book of Lost Houses: The Second Coming (Changeling: The Dreaming) by Christopher Howard Deena McKinney Carla Hollar ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scathach (as you might remember from Nobles: The Shining Host) have finally been made playable, further details given into their house flaw and boon, as well as (thankfully) a more detailed description between how the Scathach differ from other sidhe.
For those unaware the Scathach are yet more Celtic warriors, the one Sidhe House to have remained behind and undergone the changeling way, no longer truly sidhe they share souls with mortals like the commoners do.
The merits and flaws, oaths, and house boons/frailties and the scathach combat techniques and treasures, are worth it alone and throw in all the background information and you've got a book that's one of the best Changeling releases ever.
www.darkspiral.com /item/1565044835/Book-of-Lost-Houses:-The-Second-Coming-(Changeling:-The-Dreaming)   (1088 words)

  
 Sir Keighvyn ap Scathach
When the wave finally subsided, he looked down at himself to discover that his nightshirt had been replaced by a jerkin of studded fl leather, and that a fine sword with a gleaming moonstone set in its pommel hung at his hip.
Ciaran took Keighvyn to the freehold of Countess Miriam, ruler of the County of Buckeyes, where the new changeling was Sained with all due ceremony.
In his faerie identity as the Sidhe knight, Sir Keighvyn (pronounced "Kevin") ap Scathach, his rich blue-fl hair is worn just short of shoulder length (though often bound back with silver cord), framing a profile that would be at home on classical statues (if not for the pointed ears...;-).
www.black-unicorn.org /rpg/characters/Keighvyn.html   (1098 words)

  
 Aeryn ni Scathach -- Biography
He also taught Keely the arts of battle, and, true to her birthright as a child of House Scathach, she excelled at the fighter's craft.
It was little surprise when she earned her place as a knight three years later, and though some of the more traditional knights grumbled about having to accept the young Scathach as an equal, she was welcomed by most of the others with open arms.
From her questions to the kithain of a nearby freehold, Raven learned that Aidan's murderer was one Giselle of House Scathach, a mercenary in the employ of the lord of the Unseelie freehold of Blackmoon.
www.black-unicorn.org /rpg/characters/AerynCtD.html   (1736 words)

  
 Vassilisa (Red Sonja foe)
Fearing to attract the wrath of Scathach by killing "Sonja" directly, or even within her own castle, she had Yuri take her to the distant woods to kill her.
Scathach has selected Red Sonja to be one of her champions.
The Official Handbook of the Conan Universe#1 notes that Sonja, after her family had been slain, was approached by "a human shape", "embodying strength and beauty but neither male nor female", and made her vow to that figure.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/vassilis.htm   (2160 words)

  
 The Other Side of the Mirror -- Alternate Versions of Lady Valeria ni Scathach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Raven ni Scathach: A sidhe knight of House Scathach originally from Ireland, Raven left her homeland on a quest to find the fae who murdered her beloved husband, Sir Aidan ap Fiona.
Along with her allies, she seems to have gotten herself embroiled in the prelude to a possible race war between the humans and elves -- something which puts her in a very awkward position considering her heritage.
An elven sorceress from the lands of Faerie, she fights the forces of evil in the city of Santa Angela, California, as a member of The Sentinels, Santa Angela's premiere group of superheroes (interestingly enough, Scathach's husband, the elven warrior Cuchulain, was inspired by the character Sir Kellin ap Scathach, Lady Valeria's son).
rpg.black-unicorn.org /characters/OtherVals.html   (301 words)

  
 Third Challenge - Lessons from Scathach
When he got to the Island of Skye, so named after Scathach's Isle (pronounced Skatha's Isle), he came across a band of young warriors who told him that before he could meet Scathach he had to cross the Pupil's Bridge.
Once on the island, Scathach invites you to accompany her on a hunt.
Then you are welcome to feast with Scathach while waiting to find out who will be awarded the title of Samildanach.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/384133   (390 words)

  
 DRAMA
Legend tells us that Scathach's stronghold is situated off the coast of Alba (the old Gaelic name for Scotland).
Scathach is pronounced 'Sca-hah', or 'Sce-hah', so it is said that the Island owes it's name to this famous warrior woman!
When he was trained Cúchulainn had to fight and conquer Aoife to repay Scathach for teaching hime the skills of warfare.
www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Dawn_Whelan/training.htm   (414 words)

  
 Changeling-the Dreaming - Book of the Lost Houses: The Second Coming - Rezension bei drosi.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Haus Scathach, die Sidhe die niemals die Erde verlassen haben.
Der 'Berserkergang' der Scathach ist zu den Frailtys übergegangen und das Haus hat neue Bans and Boons bekommen.
Der Unterschied zu Sidhe und Scathach ist grösser geworden.
www.drosi.de /rezension/cod00002.htm   (1130 words)

  
 Seanachas04
Scathach (pronounced Scá-ya or Sky'-ya) was an Amazonian Queen of the Island of Skye, and is supposed to have given her name to that island.
In the year when Cuchullin left the Isle of Skye, where Scathach the warrior-queen ruled with the shadow of death in the palm of her sword-hand, there was sorrow because of his beauty.
Once, in a windless, shadowy gloaming, she asked him if he loved any woman.
www.sundown.pair.com /SundownShores/Washer/Seanachas/4scathas.htm   (1293 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Scathach and Maeve's Daughters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grade 6-9-- The Scathach, a crochety, ageless magic and mischief-maker, takes under her protection Maeve Moira, daughter of an eighth-century Irish king.
Through the years, the Scathach appears to the girls in times of crisis, often in the form of a bird.
Walker's ability to create characters comes through clearly in her portrayal of the Scathach and of Maeve Nicole in the final chapter of the story, but the other characters do not come to life.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0689316380   (259 words)

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