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| yellowed song scroll | |
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| Look: | This is a Bardic scroll, enscribed with the non-magical Bard chant "Peri'el's Song". It must be studied to be used. If it is being read by another, no one but that person can study it. |
| Weight: | 5 stones |
| Metal: | Unknown |
| Appraised Cost: | 1,875 Kronars1,500 Lirums <br />1,353 Dokoras <br />1.875 LTBpoints <br />1.875 Tickets <br />1.875 Scrips <br /> |
| Properties: |
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| Dimensions: | ? length x ? width x ? height |
| Sources: | Source is Barley Bulrush's Bardic Ballads |
Song
"Peri'el's Song", by Saesealm Faoilean.
- "Listen...
- "Elanthians hear
- the tale often told
- How the world we love
- weathered great woes
- The Immortals conjoined
- to keep from the cold
- The wide world
- with its wondrous moons,
- The strong sun itself
- safe from spoil."
- "Their courage count great
- their efforts immense
- Guardians of all peoples
- guide to this day
- The wyrd of the world
- safe for a while.
- "Each played his part:
- hear now of Peri'el's."
- "Soft slept in a cave,
- in a cradle cavern
- Peri'el counted her crystal
- as it formed for the world
- Cocooned in a crevice,
- Peri'el dwelled
- Surrounded by beauties
- unborn to the world."
- "Drew delight in the colors
- and crystalline shapes,
- Infinitely sweet
- she sang to the earth
- Coaxing forth song-shaped
- pieces of joy
- Pyrite and diamonds,
- idocrasse, cerussite,
- Tourmaline, celandine,
- Hav'roth's toys."
- "Then came the Dragon....
- "Moved on the surface
- the shape of sound
- Wings o'er the world,
- like a sigh in the trees
- A sound-storm gathered,
- as the Dragon descended.
- Swiftly the fire-drake
- sought fuel for Its heart
- Cracked open the heavens,
- blotted the stars."
- "Its moon-shell falling
- plummeting down
- Elanthia flooded.
- The Immortals amazed
- Called forth to battle
- kindled to war
- The skies scorched
- Elanthia flamed
- All burning in battle
- the Dragon came."
- "Then came the Dragon....
- "War-wrath of Truffenyi,
- stirred by the scorch-storm,
- Immortals sword-swinging
- a terrible toil
- To wrestle the world
- from the dragon-devourer.
- A week they warred
- weary but willful,
- The fire still unquenched,
- the Dragon unquelled."
- "The battle abated,
- the Dragon still lived.
- Weary the Dragon,
- weary the warriors
- Many were worried
- the world itself died.
- Phelim angered
- ambushed the Dragon
- Sanded Its eyes."
- "Then slept the storm-worm,
- "Though the Dragon was bound,
- disaster was dealt,
- The World was bereft,
- fire drained to its depth."
- "Peri'el warrior,
- eyeless and useless
- Crippled in combat,
- no rune could restore,
- No magic remake her,
- no salve should save her.
- Endured to endure
- the dark world's death.
- So softly she sang,
- singing she swept
- Her hair from her face
- and single, pale eye."
- "Peri'el pointed --
- the silent serpent
- Would warm the world
- with Its wing.
- Clearly she cried
- in a voice that could vibrate
- The earth itself
- to order and shape,
- 'Bury the beast
- in the heart of the earth
- 'Let Its fire
- return what it took!'"
- "A new lair they gave It,
- the Dragon they covered
- In a cold cavern
- Peri'el found
- In the heart of the earth
- its heart It became
- The hot-serpent slept
- as Peri'el sang."
- "Phelim's sands she scattered
- swift if It stirred,
- Lullabye lured
- the Dragon to lay
- Slumbering still
- It sleeps to her voice,
- Her voice clear
- as the quartz she once made."
- "She sings It the heavens
- she sings It the soil
- She sings It the wonders
- buried below
- She sings It the stars
- faint but still falling
- She sings the fire of her heart
- and her soul."
- "Thus sleeps the Dragon....
- "Put your ear to this shell,
- thus Peri'el soothes It
- It slumbers and warms us
- we rest on Its wing."
- "Listen oh children
- she sings to It still
- In the breathing sleep
- of a babe
- Or a loved one,
- in a sea-shell
- Or shush of the sea,
- you might hear
- How Peri'el put aside
- singing bright stones....
- "To sing soft the heart of the warm world."