In the world of the Telepathic Clans, the descendants of the ancient race that once ruled Europe live in a shadow society, hidden from the human world. Their society is based on an ancient clan structure. Indeed, the word ‘clan’, or sometimes ‘cla’, is the same in all European languages.
In the novel The Succubus Gift, the Telepathic Clans are descendants of an ancient people who once ruled Northern Europe. Genetically, they can interbreed with humans, but they are also quite distinct. The Gifts are not evenly distributed, over fifty percent of telepaths have only one gift, Telepathy.
In mythology, a succubus was a female demon who visited men in their sleep and seduced them, stealing their sperm and draining their life force. By doing so, and causing an addiction to the succubus’ insidious charms, they stole the man’s soul and debilitated him to the point of death.
In Ireland the oldest people are remembered as the Tuatha de Danaan, the People of the Mounds. In their ancient language the word for Tuatha, or People, was Clan. When the first Gaels, the sons of Mil, arrived in Ireland, they found the Tuatha De Danaan, the people of the Goddess, in control of the land.
