Tradition summary
Balor's single eye lays waste to whatever it looks upon, and it took his own grandson to close it.
Mythic Dream reflection
to dream of him is to face the ruinous power of a gaze turned against the world, and the mercy of a lid finally allowed to fall.
Literary reflections
These fragments are original Mythic Dream writing, offered as prompts rather than historical source material.
It took four men with hooks to haul the great lid of his eye open, and where its poison light fell, whole armies withered on the ground like cut grass.
A prophecy said his grandson would kill him, so he locked his daughter in a tower of glass, and every stone of that tower helped the future find its way in.
Sources & editorial status
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