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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Snowblood[/i] [br]Dear Scribes here is a bit of doggerel about the fall of Shantel Othreier originally called The Lay of Peraphus but more commonly known by skalds and troubadours of today as "The Song of a Sundered Crown" What do people think? The Song of a Sundered Crown The processions of the pretender Paraded through the streets Peraphus Othreier the puppet Marching the Vyshaan drummers beat Oblivious to the dangers Hammering at his door Peraphus the Pretender The feckless Vyshaan whore Whose dark and evil heart Was filled with greed and lust Could never have dreamed his mother’s realm Would soon be ash and dust For clan Hune and the Illithyri armies Their souls blighted by the poison of hate Had arrived with demons and dragons To smash Othreier’s gates The dusky blades of the Branded King These knights from times of yore Stood firm against Wendonai’s might Loyal down to the core Gathered on the plains of Sama On Chionathar’s southern bank Stood the proud and mighty Vyshaan horde In rank upon mithral rank A hundred thousand Vyshaan blades Raised in grim salute Melted to bright and shiny slag Their voices smashed and mute The implacable Selu’taar of Illithyr Called down stones from the sky A chromatic tempest of dweomer flames Gathered from stars on high The earth boiled and trees did scream As forests were torn asunder Peraphus died, disbelief on his lips Denying his awful blunder The Lightning flashed The thunder roared The rain came crashing As down it poured Corellon wept in pity and shame As the bitch of the Web, she hungered The fields of green would soon emerge From the shards of the crown that sundered http://phasai.deviantart.com/art/The-Song-of-a-Sundered-Crown-135149188[b][/b][b][/b][b][/b] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.