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BLOOD RAVEN’S LAST BATTLE PRINCE
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Unsheathing their broad-bladed, blood-grooved swords, the two Saxon guards positioned their swords to strike Vortimer’s head from his shoulders, one prickly tip at his clavicle, the other’s razor-edged blade laid so precisely against the jugular.

The cold steel oozed little droplets of blood along the groove before Vortimer’s father motioned the guards to cease.

High King Vitalinus failed on his promises of wealth and supplies to the Saxon mercenaries he’d summoned from Jutland in 449 to protect the Britons from the Picts and the Scots (the Irish).

In 455, the Saxon mercenaries rebelled. Vitalinus married the sultry, voluptuous Rowena, daughter of the Saxon leader, Hengist, in exchange for more land to the Saxons. Growing in strength and numbers, the Saxon mercenaries became more powerful, soon befriending the British Celts very enemy that they, the Saxons, had driven back from the borders.