Category: songs and poetry

“Warm Your Cold Arms” a Sonnet from the Saibhrean Isles

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There were many factors in the time and setting that likely would have had an effect on Bróccan the Bard's poetry, and not smallest among them was a plague that devastated nearly 20% of the population of the Saibhread Isles, spreading to many cities in Caelon as well, before it ultimately subsided. The toll it took on the people in that day was extraordinary. Statistically speaking, nearly everybody lost someone they loved, and not least among them was Bróccan, who lost an older sister when he was just a child to the disease.

Clerical Conversations (Sixth Letter)

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What follows below is the latest in a series of letters sent between two rival clerics, Professor Cesario de Torium and Professor Recamundus de Gelgadongo. In the most recent letter, the order of formality has been lifted and the two have begun their assault upon one another and their respective bodies of work, starting with Prof. Recamundus's attack upon Prof. Cesario's poem about the sunset. While the tension has been building for a while now, it has reached a point where the two are probably best to avoid seeing each other in public in any fashion, in fear of them coming to blows physically instead of just rhetorically.

The Deadliest Song Ever Sung in the World of El Tor

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In the year 972 of the Age of Kings, a man from the nearby village of Xiaca was hanged in the temple square in the kingdom of Vestilla. While public executions were becoming more and more common in the years following the attempt on the king's life in 966 A4, the sentencing and execution of this particular man marked the first time in known history of the kingdom that a man was put to death because of a song.

“Love in the Deep” a Sonnet from the Saibhrean Isles

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As mentioned recently, the prolific Bróccan the Bard, whose personality and work is well known in the Saibhrean Isles, wrote a sonnet about the Parade of the Dead (carbhán na marbh), the local legend that claims the souls of the dead are led through the sea by a white whale to the underworld (domhan thíos).

Clerical Conversations (Fifth Letter)

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The following is the latest in an ongoing communication between two clerics, Professor Cesario de Torium and Professor Recamundus de Gelgadongo. Most recently, the gauntlet has been thrown off and the pleasantries of their profession have all but disappeared, leaving only scarcely concealed candor. What started as a request by Prof. Recamundus for Prof. Cesario to denounce his poem that painted a criminal, in the land of Caelon near Prof. Recamundus, in a somewhat sympathetic light, now has devolved to spiteful critiques of each other's character and body of work.