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The story is the game...
Miles from friends and neighbours, and having ambitious and busy parents, Rhiannon must make her own life. A friend from the past visits briefly; there is a superficial Email exchange with a local girl, but by and large, Rhiannon is alone. Which is probably why parents Malcolm and Jen put their only child's increasingly wayward stories of unexplained noises and sightings down to a lack of stimulation and a consequently overactive imagination.
Rhiannon is adamant that these are not imaginings. Now the Internet lifeline in her room puts her in contact with historian and mythologist Jon Southworth. Through his special interest in the Mabinogion, Southworth knows that it is no coincidence that the house has the same name as a Welsh mythological character. He knows of the terrible connection to an age-old battle of man and magic. And he is learning ever more about the danger in the blurred, shifting lines between legend and fact; and between Then and Now. Beyond this however, there is a disturbing truth that Southworth will also discover about himself.
As myth spills over into reality, Rhiannon has become engulfed, like her namesakes before her. There is a reason why all this is happening now. Malcolm and Jen have done what little they can in taking their daughter away and leaving you to look after the part-home, part-construction site that is Ty Pryderi. But their absence can only postpone an ancient inevitability.
Unless you can stop it!
The 'Mabinogion' is a classic collection of Welsh myths, legends and fantasies mixed with history. First written down around 900 years ago, they are stories of the trials and tribulations of ancient kings and warriors of the British Isles.
At the core of the Mabinogion lie the 'Four Branches'. These particular tales were the inspiration for 'Rhiannon - Beyond the Mabinogion'. Among other themes, they relate the life of Pryderi, a warrior Prince of Dyfed - and of his relationship with his father, King Pwyll and mother Rhiannon.
They tell also of Pryderi and Rhiannon's feud with the evil wizard Llwyd Cil Coed. This began with Llwyd's humiliation at Pryderi's hand and ended with Llwyd being forced to swear that he would not take revenge during Pryderi's lifetime.
But he made no such promise about what would happen after their deaths...
