“Arawn keeps them as his guards in Annuvin, for their power wanes the longer and farther they be from their master. Like death, they are forever silent and their only thought is to bring others to the same bondage. It is said he steeps them in a cauldron to give them life again-if it can be called life. “They are the dead whose bodies Arawn steals from their resting places in the long barrows. “Among them, the Cauldron-Born, who serve Arawn as warriors.” “Are they not men?” Taran asked. “There are others to whom a sword means nothing,” Gwydion said. The Horned King’s eyes blazed behind the gaping sockets of whitened bone. The mask was a human skull from it, the great antlers rose in cruel curves. The Horned King! Taran flung himself against an oak to escape the flying hoofs and the heaving, glistening flanks. Horror-stricken, Taran saw not the head of a man but the antlered head of a stag.
A crimson cloak flamed from his naked shoulders. On the Horned King:Īstride the foam-spattered animal rode a monstrous figure. My favorite parts of the entire series are the descriptions of the Horned King and the cauldron-born in The Book of Three (which is volume 1 in the series). Looking at books like these as an adult can be hit or miss, as I found a while back when I attempted to reread the Narnia books (they didn’t hold up well at all for me). I don’t know if I ever read them when I was younger, though I have fond childhood memories of the Disney animated movie (and a coloring book based on it). I recently got the urge to read the Prydain young adult fantasy novels.
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