Despite his half-Fomorian blood through his mother Ethniu, Lugh championed the Tuatha Dé Danann against the Fomorians and destroyed their power at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired.
The Fomorians demanded two-thirds of the Nemedians' grain, milk, and children each Samhain, and when the Nemedians revolted and stormed the tower of Conaing on Tory Island, the sea rose and drowned nearly all of both sides.
The Dagda fought the Fomorians at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired. They stole his harp Uaithne, but he pursued them and called it back. The Fomorians also humiliated him by forcing him to eat a vast porridge from a pit.
The Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians waged war across two ages of Ireland, their enmity reaching its climax at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired where the Tuatha Dé Danann shattered the Fomorian host and drove them from the land.
The Fomorians held Tory Island as their stronghold off the coast of Ireland, from which Balor's tower commanded the sea and the Fomorian host exacted tribute from the peoples of the mainland.
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