Characters.

Felix- is a distant relative of Abigail. Its her that pieces together the story and eventually teams up with the man foretold on the stone. born in America as her distant relatives has fled Scotland during the wars which began in 1308.
She’s very independent, sarcastic, witty, she’s bright and passionate about her work.
Her family being Scottish in origin she’s interested in its history. As a historian she pulls enough strings to be granted permission and funding to do some research in the Scottish highlands.

Felix’s team.
Mitchell- works with Felix and has a secret a crush on her. He’s a total science geek, loves what he does, overly intelligent. Charlie’s twin brother.

Charlie- is Mitchell’s twin sister and only really on the trip as a way of travelling. Typical blonde airhead to begin but eventually comes into her own through the story showing she has depth to her.

Zander- not as bright as the others but he was brought along because he’s the protective force in the team. He’s all about money and glory.



Robert Bruce – current king, but in truth is the devil.
Self-righteous, suave, intelligent, apt in the game of war. People love him as he is manipulative, but charismatic to the masses, makes promises that want to be heard by the people. True agenda is to cause pain on Gods children, and use Scotland as his base on earth, as the population are tired and easily manipulated into his way of thinking.

Jessica (Jess) Bruce – meaning of her name in Hebrew is seen by God, this could have a dual meaning as the devil possibly wanted her to be seen by God as a way of getting one over on him, and also it could mean seen by God as he intervened making the child one of good and not evil.
Quiet, secretive, intelligent, sits back and takes in everything going on around her, has the true interest of the Scottish people at heart. Pale complexion with red flowing hair.

Ruairdh Bruce – pronounced ro-arree, Gaelic name for Roderick meaning famous ruler. Name indicated his father’s plans for him. Ruthless, greedy, and war hungry, dictator. His father’s puppet to be used after his father’s body dies a stand in until his father is re born.
His one flaw is the jealously he has for his sister and Alasdair; he is lonely and feels his sister should be at his side and he would do anything to have this.

Abigail - Hebrew name for handmaiden. Brought up Jessica in the grounds of the Bruce estate. She had to give her children to her mother to look after as lack of money meant she had to work. She had lost her husband during the wars. She missed her children desperately and looking after jess took the edge off it slightly. She was also paid a little more which meant that she could send more money home for her family. She and loved jess dearly, it was her love that had the major influence on turning Jess to god. Not particularly bright, worked hard and stayed out the way. Affectionate, loving, friendly, and honest. Went to church and believed in god.

Red Comyn, John III Comyn lord of Badenoch – should have been king through his blood line, he truly has Scotland’s best interests at heart, he knows there is something amiss with Bruce and sees him for what he really is.
Soft, caring, loyal to his family and his people. Would go to any lengths to protect, and in the end he paid with his life.

Alasdair Comyn - Gaelic spelling of Alexander, defender of men.
The son of Comyn and the next in the true blood line to be king of Scotland. His father had passed on his passion, although he needed the aid of Jess to realize his path. Before jess he was filled with hatred and anger because his father had been murdered. These emotions playing into the hands of the devil.


The symbols.

Front panels on the stone

Tells the story of how Jess and Alasdair were over powered.
The mirror represents the female within the stone, and is any one were to find the mirror it would act as a guide to the circumstance that lead her to life force being cast into the stone, which stands as a warning not to cross the king.
The beast, sea animal, is the sea monster that aided their escape from the island. Depicting part of the story.
The chariot and z-rod depicts the battle which lead to the capture and murder of Jessica and Alasdair. The rod is the sword which lead to their demise.
The beasts in the top panel of the stone indicates the power behind the king, the devil and his dark army.

Back panels on the stone

Prophesy of how darkness can be overturned. The future events of the story.
(this part of story still to be written)
The man at the top with his arms outstretched wielding a sword, standing between two sea monsters. This represents the man which can turn the fair of the world around, and deliver us from evil. The sea monsters represent that he is strongest when at sea and has power there.
The large cross indicates Gods chosen ones can undo the wrongs that have been done, originally had a family name carved onto it but was ordered to be chiselled off by the king.
The circular design with four smaller discs within shows how everyone’s fait is tied together and will inevitably they will reunite time and time again until the balance of good and bad is restored.







synopsis

1308’s events are viewed by Felix in the future, after she finds the stone on a research visit to Scotland by her and her team. Following the find, her dreams (a recurring dream of a woman sobbing, turns out to be Abigail) become much more vivid and she starts to see things in the mirror that’s been passed down through her family from mother to daughter. She thinks she’s going crazy and begin researching her family’s past after she realises that the carving on the back of her mirror is identical to one of the engravings on the stone. Her task is made difficult by the authorities and pressure from a vicious king keen to make her his trophy.

Story begins in 1308 during the Battle of Inverurie (mouth of Ury, or loosely interpreted as Mouth of Fury). The Battle was part of the Scottish wars of independence.
Inverurie is a small farming town outside Aberdeen the story is played out in the magnificent countryside, and around the Benniechie mountain range.

Bruce promised freedom to the Scots, and he could give it, at least from the English. Now as king he ruled over the Scottish people using them as he saw fit, his plans were greater this was his first step.
He would reap revenge for being cast out of heaven, he would cause as much chaos and pain as possible while he reigned over them.
He had on small problem the body he was in would only live so long, he had to find someone to rule in his place until he could come back and finish what he started.

A child was born, Jessica, to a witch his most loyal supporter and one of few who knew the truth. He was furious they were sure it would be male. The child was cast aside and brought up by an employee of Bruce, a maid, Abigail, who loved her as her own.
Another child was born this time a boy, to follow his father’s footsteps, the child never wanted for anything and never was apart from Bruce.
The child learned from his father from the moment it was born, and from his mother he learned about dark magic.

Red Comyn was adamant that Robert was no good for the people. What he saw was the people starving, working for nothing, basically slaves to the King. The people hadn’t realised the truth as they were just content to not be at war any longer with the English, and because things were marginally better they assumed Bruce had their interests at heart.
Comyn’s aspirations for Scotland had been grander than this; his ideal was for people to eventually rule them selves not to have an alternative dictatorship.
He needed an informant from within Robert Bruce’s estate.

Abigail had worked for John Comyn’s uncle before he had died. Comyn knew she was a good honest woman and that he could trust her, especially with the added incentive of moving her family closer and taking care of them.
Abigail was only too happy to oblige, she had grown increasingly worried about the goings on in the Bruce house hold. The fact that her family would be looked after was just a bonus.

Through information being filtered back from Abigail Comyn began piecing together a small part of Bruce’s plans for Scotland.
Only he got it wrong he thought the witch was manipulating Robert.
He put a plan in action to kill her only it back fired resulting in Bruce finding out.
There was a battle Comyn mustered all his old allies, as there was a few left in hiding that believed that Robert Bruce had his own agenda other than Scotland’s best interests.
Some 3000 went to war against Bruce, they marginally lost. Bruce was enraged and murdered the Red Comyn.

Abigail felt deeply guilty for what had happened she was fearful for the safety of his child. She hid the boy with her family knowing that Bruce wouldn’t look there for him, as Bruce thought her partly to stupid to think of it, and to scare to cross him anyway.
The boy grew up unaware of who his father was, thinking himself Abigail’s son. It wasn’t until his 18th birthday that she unveiled his identity to him.
He wasn’t shocked that he wasn’t her son as he had always been aware he didn’t fit, but he was shocked at his true identity.
Rage began to take over him he couldn’t deal with how he felt and disappeared.

During the time he left he began to realise what he should do, but he had no idea how to go about it.
He remembered Jessica, he dreamed of seeing her again raising a family with her it was his feelings for her that eventually brought him home.

During his travels the king Robert Bruce had died through natural causes leaving the kingdom to his son.
Also while he was away his surrogate mother Abigail had been found out she was brutally, publicly tortured by Ruairdh. He had personally carved her up after extracting the truth from her distributing her body parts to all thoughts who thought to cross him.

Jessica was banished her as a precaution, she to was the child of the devil and a witch this scared him a little as she was the only one who could do him harm. She now lived on a small island just off the coast of the most northern point of Scotland. She lived in a small cottage but she was relived to be out of her brother’s grasp.

Over time with evil securely in power things had gone from bad to worse, the people Scotland were suffering terribly. Ruairdh’s perception of fun was brutality, and the torture of people. His version of a relationship with women was to rape and murder them afterwards.
The boy had grown into pure evil. Ruairdh was out to make an impression, trying to live up to his fathers hopes for him.
He was striving to live eternally in his father’s kingdom on his right-hand side.

Alasdair looked and looked till he eventually found her. He stowed away on the small boat that went to the island to drop of bare essentials to her. On seeing her be broke down in tears she held him and the made love,
During which he asked to marry her.
The time they had together till the next boat came was bliss, but they realised they had to go to the mainland and attempt to put right all the wrongs.

They pleaded with the seaman but he was harsh and wouldn’t let them board.
Jess knew she had some kind of power but she had never used it for anything, she had always thought it wrong, but knowing she was about to set on a quest for the good of the people she had no choice.
She summoned a giant sea monster, which had been asleep for 1000 years.
He was angered to have been woken, but had no choice but to serve her.
They made it back to the mainland in a lightning pace arriving before the seaman could send word to the king of their union together on the island.

Within the week they had married, and set about building an army. Over the next year they grew in strength, and numbers.
By the time the year was over they had a child together, realising it would be in danger it was sent to seek safety in a convent in France , they planned to send for the child as soon as possible.

During the same year Ruairdh having been tipped off by the sea man, he prepared for his sisters threat to become apparent.
He doubled his army in size, and summoned dark warriors from the underworld.

The battle commenced on Christmas day 1338 on the mountain range on Bennichie, where Jess and Alasdair had set up camp.
The slaughter was imminent, they were outnumbered the battle was drawn out only because on the protection offered from the mountain.
On the 2nd day they had been captured and held at the top of the mountain by Ruairdh’s top guards.
Ruairdh unsheathed his sword turned and in a single movement sliced off Alasdair’s head. She looked down to her feet as her loves head rolled towards her.
Ruairdh turned to her, “commit your self to me, and marry me! Or u will serve as a warning to all who plan to cross me”
She spat in his face, held her head high, told him “does what u will, u can’t hurt me anymore”
Ruairdh lifted his sword and plunged it into the earth, as he began to chant lightning connected with the sword, and the sky darkened.
He pulled it from the ground and pointed it at her the lightning that had been harnessed into the weapon now surged wildly from it in the direction on her, and she was gone.

The same day a standing stone covered with symbols appeared at the foot of the mountain. The stone was there to warn the town folk of the dramatic occurrence that had taken place.
the images on the front depict the story of Jessica and Alister, and their struggle against an evil tyrant. The carvings on the back are clues for future generations, how to bring back the balance of good and evil.

Story unfinished, final part is concluded in the future.

Through out the story it jumps backward and forward, the future acts as a narrative to the past through dreams and the mirror.