Covenant:Fianna

Irish legend speaks of warrior-aristocrats who turned their backs on civilization to live, and train, in the wilderness. They were soldiers and woodsmen without equal, at the High King's service in times of war, but lawless and contentious in times of peace. Convenant's reclusive Irish community has remade itself in their image.

Back in the town's heyday, Irish miners were protected by a secret society called the Molly Maguires. The Mollies waged a war of intimidation against the mine owner, his managers, and the strikebreakers who were hired to keep employees in line. Their goals may have been noble (better working conditions and fair pay), but their methods were vile (blackmail, kidnapping, and murder). Understandably, they made the Irish few friends among the town's "upstanding citizens."

As Catholics, they had no trouble believing in the Apocalypse, but they found Dougal's decidedly Protestant take on God hard to swallow. Dissent isolated them further still. In one generation, the forest swallowed Eire Lane and turned it into a town within the town. The rest of Covenant calls it Shamrock Street, but not to the residents' faces.

Fifteen years after the Fall, the residents discovered The People Under the Hill. Conflict with these strange cave-dwellers rekindled the elders' interest in Irish myth. Once it took root, there was no stopping the transformation. Their leaders took on the names of Irish gods (Dagda and The Morrigan) and cast their families as a conclave of warrior-poets locked in an epic battle against supernatural forces. The Fianna reborn.