Filan McLelland: Born the golden son of a law giver, Filan spent his youth traveling the lowlands and along the border repeatedly learning lessons of right and wrong and honor and dishonor as his father administered the law. When Filan came of age he was sent by his Clan chief to foster with the Campbell’s of Loch Awe, a growing power to the north, in an effort to hone his martial skills. During this time Filan assumed more of the character that his name implies, for Filan in Celtic means wolf, and a wolf Filan surely became.

During his time with the Campbell clan Filan would only take a man’s life in self defense as his fathers many lessons has taught him, even so, together the boars and the wolf were an unbeatable combination.

After some years Filan began to see that the Campbell clan and the McLelland clan were destined to oppose one another in the matter of Sir Robert the Bruce. He also became painfully aware of the generally duplicitous nature of the entire Campbell clan and soon made plans and arrangements to return to his own clan and lands.

As he began his travels he was verbally accosted and challenged one night in a pub by some of the very men he had lately called foster brothers. Blades were drawn, the steel rang out, and sparks flew in all directions, but soon enough the blood of the boars stained the floor and the wolf, victorious, returned to his journey home.

So do we now find Filan, journeying home through hostile territory, with only one other mission on his mind, to further avenge the betrayal of the McLelland clan by the Black Douglas clan, because to him James Douglas and Threave Castle were not nearly punishment enough!

"I destroy proud things so think on"
Filan Mac Lelland