About Teirnan Starfall

  Teirnan is a character I have created many times over.  In my poetry and fiction he is a mariner of the heavens - a grand voyager who led his people into the stars and continues to light the way forever. In Destiny he is a hunter. He hunts his enemies, Earth's enemies; he hunts truth - the truth about the fall, the truth about himself. This is his story - his destiny.

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