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The name Balor may come from Common Celtic *Boleros, meaning "the flashing one". [2]In the early literature he is also referred to as Balor Béimnech (Balor the smiter), [2] Balor Balcbéimnech (Balor the strong smiter), [3] Balor Birugderc (Balor of the piercing-eye), [4] Balor mac Doit meic Néid (Balor, son of Dot son of Nét) [5] or Balor ua Néit (Balor, grandson of Nét).
A chaos deity is a deity or more often a figure or spirit in mythology associated with or being a personification ... Balor; Norse-Germanic. Midgard Serpent; Nidhogg;
Balor - last king of the Fomorians, capable of killing with his deadly eye; Buarainech - parent of Balor; Cethlenn - prophetess and wife of Balor; Cichol Gricenchos - early leader of the Fomorians; Conand - oppressive leader of the Fomorians; Elatha - Fomorian prince; Tethra - ruler of Mag Mell following his death during the Second Battle of ...
Balor killed Nuada with his terrible, poisonous eye that killed all it looked upon. Lug faced his grandfather, but as he was opening his eye Lug shot a sling-stone that drove his eye out the back of his head, wreaking havoc on the Fomorian army behind. After Balor's death the Fomorians were defeated and driven into the sea.
Merwyn is now using the monoliths to invade other worlds to find food for her empire, but Balor soon unsurprisingly betrays her to absorb chaos magic to empower himself. Eile raises the commoners with song. Fjall fights Balor’s monster using his witcher abilities.
Ethniu gives birth to triplets, but Balor gathers them up in a sheet and sends a messenger to drown them in a whirlpool. The messenger drowns two of the babies, but unwittingly drops one in the harbour, where he is rescued by Biróg. She takes the child back to his father, who gives him to his brother, Gavida the smith, in fosterage. The boy ...
As Lugh and Tarte begin their lives in the Balor region, Maha and her friends work hard to make a living in the merchant town Milteu. Unfortunately, they are captured by a group of bandits and taken to a orphanage, which turns out to be a front for a prostitution ring. There, all the girls, except Maha, are forced into prostitution under the ...
The word cath is an Old Irish word meaning "battle, combat". [2] Mag is an earlier spelling of maigh, meaning "plain".Ellis suggests that tuired (tuireadh in modern spelling) means "pillars" or "towers", [3] but the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language translates tuiredh as "a lament".