Tarehna was born on a cool Summer breeze one day in the manifest arms of a loving Japan. She was then fashioned into a scribe of indeterminate skill and therefor soon quit her acquired vocation to pursue being awesome. Tarehna’s awesomeness was achieved through various activities, hobbies, and many conversations with a guru named Phil who was actually an aardvark. Having mastered knitting and then crocheting (pronounced crotcheting) she dazzled the musical world with her deft beats and Townsend-like skill on the guitar. Now, as High Lord and incumbent Quick Wit of the Northumberland Plains, she spends her time raising dragons and festooning them with limericks written upon candy sheaths of amethyst hue.
Brandon once met a man. And this man was unto him as a father is to a moose. The weirdness that ensued encompassed lifetimes and taught young Brandon many things. Chief amongst the lessons learned was that of the hard-toothed grizzleback, wherein one can reach true enlightenment via the slithering and spelunking of days that once were not. And as the sun shown upon the land in his most severe decade a Truth was made known unto Brandon for the rock must start and the end must begin. And so he stood with head in hand and hand in glove and foot in boot, staring at the lost intent of youth.
Tarehna and Brandon have never been so entrenched in life that they could not love each other. Upon their first meeting Tarehna swam to the tops of the Andes Mountains to collect fine spring water with which to slake Brandon’s thirst. Upon their first meeting Brandon dug a hole so deep in the soil that none could see the bottom and fell through to the other side of the Earth in order to gather unseen flowers to deliver unto Tarehna. In time their two children would become heroes to those who had no heroes and villains to those who knew no good. In time the Legend of the BurkeWickers would ring out like a very large bell that rings quite loudly and therefor can be heard from such a distance that one might say to oneself “Verily that bell is large and rings out quite far for I am quite far from it and yet I can hear it still.” It is here that their story truly begins…
