Rurich The Gaiscioch

Rurich was born in Scotland, three hundred years after a calamitous European nuclear war. After his mother’s death, his father trained him to become, Gaiscioch, a warrior at the age of five. The Gaiscioch are a brutal force wielded by King Donald and his forefathers, to subjugate the people under his rule and protect his kingdom. The Gaiscioch Captains, are his enforcers, judge, jury and executioners. On the Eve of King Donald’s final day, Rurich thwarts an incursion by assassins and kills their leader. He turns out to be the son of The Bruce; a neighbouring king who has subjugated the rest of lowland Scotland and has now turned on his last opponent King Donald and his Gaiscioch. Rurich is forced to flee, taking with him, twins who were the target of the amorous advances of the traitor who finally put an end to Donald’s reign. With nowhere safe in lower Scotland, Rurich is forced to flee North, to the lands of his ancestors and attempt to cross the deadlands, a belt of irradiated land that cuts the country in half. A journey that no one has survived in three hundred years.