Welcome terrific readers. Thanks for being here.
Yesterday I started telling you the story of Dorian’s tattoos. The first part he got in Salus on planet Harappa. The rest of it he got on Earth.
The history of Dorian’s first trip to Earth has been written many times but I don’t know of any that have told the story of Dorian’s Earth tattoo.
After his tour with the Friends, the tour that started all the mess that Dorian is blamed for, he was contacted by the SID and they offered him asylum. They did so in order to get him to speak on their behalf. He did so for a while but when he went to Cascadia the SID turned on him and declared him a terrorist.
That forced him underground and he had to make his way from Cascadia to the Texas Space Port. With the help of some of the Cascadians he walked to New Denver and from there he got on the the train system. While he was traveling through the western wilderness he and his party came across a band of nomads.
They had a legend that an otherworlder with the mark of the eagle would come to deliver them from the wilderness. No one knows where that legend came from but it turned out to be fortunate for Dorian. Had he not had the “mark of the eagle” on him the nomads may not have let him pass through their lands.
When the nomads saw dorian’s tattoo and learned that he was really from another planet they fell in love with him. They made him a member of their clan and they asked if he would accept a gift. That gift turned out to be a matching eagle tattooed on his other shoulder. A tattoo done in the old way.
Dorian said they had two artists working on him for over twelve hours. He would never have made it through that ordeal without something they gave him to eat that put him into an altered state.
Dorian wont say so, he has good friends among the nomads still, but I believe and many other historians believe that the tattoo was a test for Dorian. Apparently he passed the nomads moved to Kusha to be near him. They turned out to help him when he fought Lanice and her attempt to overthrow him.
The tattoo the nomads did was a matching eagle on the other shoulder and a banner that connected the two eagles. What does that banner say?
Dorian has been evasive over the years about the message on his chest. It is not a secret. There have been pictures published showing the tattoos and some of them have the resolution to show what the words say, but many people just don’t know. So for you . . .
“vires per unitatem”
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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