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The First and Final Prose of an Undead Bard - Doru7 - 07-26-2024
The Herald. Wormwood. Antoine de Armoise.
All these names could be attributed to the undead bard present at the foot of the Tower of Aetius when the Necromancer group Morningstar sought to claim the tower for their dark purposes.
The bard met his end, swiftly and with little room to suffer, at the hands of a fellow musician. Among the skeleton's belongings were several farming tools, a book of the Morningstar's interpretation of the Art of Necromancy... and a worn and tattered book, looking as though it had seen severe water damage that left it useless.
All ruined except for a single page. The following is what could be transcribed from the skeleton's book of poetry.
Quote:"By Time's fell hand the living doth erode,
Their legacies thus buried in debris,
Alike the grand Delphinian abode,
And Sirenian wonders of the Sea;
The eye of heaven burns the desert sand,
Where once were meadows, flowering fields of grass,
The ashes carried far by windswept hands,
And none alive to see what Time doth pass;
But by His grace we find ourselves anew
To once again behold the break of day,
To feel the rain, the wind, and morning dew;
Now Time no more shall take my love away;
I thank Him for the sanctity of Bone,
For now we are become as Living Stone."