My ambition (as yet unfulfilled) was, and still is, to tell the story of the race known to us through the annals of Ireland as the Tuatha Dé Danann, but not as other writers had done in separate or simplified episodes. My intention was to tell their story from start to finish over the span of three volumes in a reliably consequetive way and in language easily understood by the modern reader. I wanted the format and presentation to be both appealing to the general public and true to the spirit of my original inspiration and source material. I knew well, before I started, that I had set myself an exceedingly difficult task as no writer had ever before attempted to gather together all the various folk-tales, myths and battle sagas concerning the Tuatha Dé Danann and to retell them in a continuous narrative sage with all the episodes set in chronological order from the earliest invasions of Ireland to the final dissolution of the race of the Tuatha Dé Danann as the pre-eminent inhabitants of Ireland with the coming of the Celtic Gaels.