![]() ![]() To strike a decisive blow in the conflict Sláine and his companions (including Calgacus, Mogrooth, Oeahoo, Murdach, Giya, Tlachtga and Pluke) had to venture into the tomb of the dark god Grimnismal. He eventually became embroiled in a war between earthly mystics, led by Myrddin, and the aliens called Cythrons who were harvesting humanity's negative emotions. He spent years exploring Tír na nÓg in the company of his unscrupulous servant, the dwarf Ukko, and occasionally aided by the druidess Nest. When he was sixteen Sláine was cast out by his tribe, the Sessair, for an unauthorized liaison with the King's bride-to-be, Niamh. ![]() ![]() Sláine's true father was Duban, a druid who taught Macha magical secrets and had liaisons with her in subterranean tombs. The normally obtuse and unperceptive Roth was correct about this. ![]() Roth may have made his boast deliberately as a way of getting rid of his wife, because she had been unfaithful to him many times and Roth suspected that she was lying when she said that Sláine was his. The king forced her to run and she was trampled to death by the horses as Sláine watched. The first significant event in Sláine's life occurred when he was seven and Macha's drunkard husband Roth Bellyshaker boasted that she could outrun the king's chariot in a race. His mother, Macha, was a deadly warrior who gave Sláine his first solid food on the tip of a sword blade. Sláine MacRoth is the eponymous hero of the long-running 2000 AD strip Sláine. ![]()
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