In the 6th book of the Storyteller series, Master Bard Gwernin Storyteller first participates in a bardic initiatory ritual for Taliesin Ben Beirdd's student Mael, then returns to Ireland with the two of them to meet their friend the Archdruid Fráechán mac Tenusán again and witness the fate he had once foretold for High King Díarmait mac Cerbaill.