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Inspiration for the name came from my favorite book series: ‘The Lost Years of Merlin’, by T.A. Barron. In which Merlin spent a great deal of his adolescent years on the forgotten Isle of Fincayra.

Branwen described Fincayra as “A place of many wonders, celebrated by bards of many tongues. They say it lies halfway between our world and the world of the spirit—neither wholly of Earth nor wholly of Heaven, a bridge connecting both.”

Young Merlin must confront the fact that someone of human blood can never truly belong in Fincayra. For “this is a land neither of Earth or Otherworld, though it is a bridge between them both. Visitors come here from either world, and they sometimes stay for years. Yet they cannot call this place home.”

And there is one great mystery about Fincayra’s people: the mystery of their lost wings. “In the far, far reaches of time, they walked upon the land, as they do now. Yet they also could do something else. They could fly.”

The legendary Treasures of Fincayra were always used to benefit the land and all its creatures until Stangmar seized them for his own use. Only one remains beyond his grasp — the Last Treasure, which young Merlin believes is the pendant he wears around his neck, the legendary Galator, whose power is said to be greater than all the rest combined.

The Treasures include: the Orb of Fire, the Caller of Dreams, the Seven Wise Tools, the sword Deepercut, the Flowering Harp and the Cauldron of Death.