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:iconpernastudios: Perna Studios is very excited to announce our very first trading card set entitled Classic Mythology. This set will focus on 6 timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic, Japanese and Hindu. We have an impressive list of artists involved on this set working on both base/promo cards and sketch cards. Set scheduled to be released in early Spring 2012.



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This awesome sketch art card of Nuada from Celtic Mythology is created by the very talented artist Keith O'Malley :iconcyberpunq: for our Classic Mythology trading card set.



Nuada (Nuadu or Nuadha) - Celtic Mythology – Nuada was known by the epithet Airgetlám (meaning "silver hand/arm"). Nuada was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He was king for seven years before they came to Ireland. During their first great battle at Mag Tuired, Nuada lost an arm in combat with the Fir Bolg champion Sreng. Having lost his arm, Nuada was no longer eligible for kingship due to the Tuatha Dé tradition that their king must be physically perfect, and he was replaced as king by Bres, a half-Fomorian prince renowned for his beauty and intellect. The Fomorians were mythological enemies of the people of Ireland, often equated with the mythological "opposing force" such as the Greek Titans to the Olympians, and during Bres's reign they imposed great tribute on the Tuatha Dé, who became disgruntled with their new king's oppressive rule and lack of hospitality. By this time Nuada had his lost arm replaced by a working silver one by the physician Dian Cecht and the wright Creidhne (and later with a new arm of flesh and blood by Dian Cecht's son Miach). Bres was removed from the kingship, having ruled for seven years, and Nuada was restored. He ruled for twenty more years. Nuada's great sword was one of the Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann, brought from one of their four great cities.


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