These guys are my secret weapons. First up is a new character from the FIONN graphic novel, Liath Luachra (“Lee-ath Loo-CH-ra”), one of Fionn’s foster-mothers. She’s a highly skilled warrior and hunter and she lives (and hunts) in the forests of the Slieve Bloom / Sliabh Bladhma mountains in the midlands of Ireland. She teaches Fionn how to hunt and fight.
Her partner is Bodhmall (“bo-mall”). Druid, Fionn Mac Cumhaill’s other foster mother. This Mumsy, caricature, earth mother pagan flower-girl look didn’t last, it only came about because I was playing off opposing harsh and frilly appearances for her and her partner. It took quite a lot of willpower to not throw out the Fionn GN story altogether & do one about just Bodhmall herself... She studies as a Druid, becomes one, leaves or is pushed out, falls in love with a warrior woman and then steps up to look after her missing sister’s son while in hiding from the powers that be. She’s quite a lady.