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|look=This is a Bardic scroll, enscribed with the non-magical Bard song "Nissa's Ride". It must be studied to be used. If it is being read by another, no one but that person can study it.
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=Song=

You begin to sing "Nissa's Ride" by the famed bard Silvyrfrost.

:"Lanival's eyes were the color of gray
: Cold as the ice on the lake
: Mantled he sat on his stallion Fairstorm
: Knowing that much lay at stake.

: "Knowing that all lay at stake.

: "Mantled he sat, in a cowl of woolen silver
: And stared at the lowering sky
: Teiro's men lay across on Mereshadow's shore
: And he knew to win, men must die.

: "Knowing in war, men must die."

:"Weary he played with the plans in his mind
: Two years the war had gone
: Weary as he were his soldiers in tow
: Longing with him for spring's sun.

: "Aye, longing as all for warm sun.

: "When shining from the shadows on the back of a mare
: Came a maiden with hair toss'd wild
: Elven her features, frightened her visage
: Carrying with her a bleeding child.

: "Carrying a bleeding Human child."

:"'Water!' cried she, leaping from her steed.
: 'Water and someplace inside.
: This child is dying, I've no time for formalities,
: And my Elven face I shall not hide.'

: "'No, my hated face I cannot hide!'

: "Lanival saw her to his own tent,
: Saw her heal the child with her hands
: Saw her bandage the wounds then turn to him
: So tired she hardly could stand.

: "So spent she barely could stand."

: "Lanival helped her to sit in a chair,
: Held a cup as instructed to her lips.
: And grateful she drank, and thanked him in Common,
: Then into sleep she slipped.

: "Aye, deep into sleep she slipped.

: "And when she's awoken she's seen the child's well
: And turn'd to face Lanival once more.
: 'Nissa is my name,' she said to the proud one,
: 'Fresh coming from Teiro's own shore.

: "'A place I shall go nevermore!'"

: "And her tale then she told, of how Teiro's men
: Captured the child and brought it to pains
: And how Teiro himself brought down the whip
: And Nissa at last intervened.

: "Nissa had no choice but to intervene!

: "'War may be war,' she said clear and sure,
: 'And blood may indeed be war's fee,
: But children are not soldiers, save in dreams and play
: And children are all the same to me.

: 'Whether Human or Elven they be!"

: "'Lady, you are wise,' said Lanival to her,
: 'And the gods smile on such kindness indeed.
: It can be forgotten in times such as this....
: Pray, would you stay to remind me?

: 'I feel there is much you may teach me.'

: "Nissa spake clear as ice and snow
: And said to Lanival plain,
: 'I've secrets to tell, and I'll gladly join up,
: If you promise I need not see Teiro again!

: 'If I do I shall be his bane!'"

: "So it was that the Maiden did join with his men,
: And brought Teiro to thundering shame
: The battle was fast, and Lanival won
: But many battles would happen again.

: "But none would e'er be the same.

: "For there is a new soldier who does not fight
: And she rides at Lanival's side
: On a mare of all white, in a cowl like the snow
: And she reminds him that not all must die.

: "That to fight, one must not always die."

The song falls into silence like a winter's day.

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CARAAMON at 14:11, 29 August 2013