Compendium I

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Compendium I contains content warnings for the following: <ul><li>mentions of blood, violence and war</li> <li>martial violence</li> <li>religious themes</li></ul> <hr> <center>[[Return to Menu|menu]]</center>

<<run UIBar.show();>> <div id = 'locations'><div><img id="locationimage1"> <<linkreplace "Perjryines env tserya tenevris">>[[Travel Northwards|north][($location to "Citadel Shores, Sunlit") , ($poem1 to "Ia bytr deservar") , ($poem2 to "ilte tseryas tenevris") , ($poem3 to "ys namne enkavmin")]]<</linkreplace>></div> <div><img id="locationimage2"> <div></div>[[Travel Southwards|south][($location to "Hollow-spring Glade") , ($poem1 to "Fractars vozyk mnea") , ($poem2 to "zveheberes env caelyiosz") , ($poem3 is "vast, syn avysoviys")]]</div></div>

Sunset creeps over the North as blood blots into linen: slowly, until all at once all is stark bright-red. Autumn dulls, lingering heavy with anticipation of ravenous night, cosmic eye <<linkappend "withdrawn.">> Upon crux of land and sea and sky, the worn-thin firmament unweaves, leaving oil-slick sheen to be read; ill-omened portent upon the Lord-Harbinger's lips. Slate seas veined marble-white with frost turn cacophonous hammered copper, the sanguine sun exhausted; all was as it never had been. Armed well--formidable First Sword a dagger-shadow beside--she walks the cusp of night, clad to match. Her Sword not weapon tonight but shepherd in glinting starlight armor. Soft protest turns her <<linkappend "head.">> “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Tam bytsem stohres strakher, lysavys doviscrdem,">> <<option "There's nothing to fear, dear dove,">> <</cycle>>" Lord-Harbinger <<linkreplace "promises">>lies<</linkreplace>> gently. “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Dar Ia strakhe pro nas,">> <<option "Yet I fear for us,">> <</cycle>>" her Sword confesses. “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Pro renovkus namnea.">> <<option "For our daughter.">> <</cycle>> <<cycle "$language">> <<option "Vos imperyas iltsanjor, vasyr--vos amelas sanjus etym vylja.">> <<option "You demand sacrifice, slaughter--you love blood too much.">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Bytsem anirovers en tva oculusz ex Trybytram mnea.">> <<option "It is necessary in the eyes of my gods.">> <</cycle>>" Her Sword sneers, their daughter held tight against her armor. “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Delatan namne stomeridzes vsevyrams, tenavys mnea?">> <<option "Do we not share gods, my raven?">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Elpiy namne nykad delatos,">> <<option "Pray we never do,">> <</cycle>>" Lord-Harbinger <<linkappend "whispers.">> “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Elpiy ilya nykad scyran vsevyrams, etoc ilya apsistiys en tenevris.">> <<option "Pray she never knows them, that she remains in darkness.">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Vos stoysozdavas ilya os Respatha sicut mnea?">> <<option "You wouldn't make her a Sword like me?">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Stoaut Auvozykyr sicut mnea.">> <<option "Nor Harbinger like me.">> <</cycle>><<cycle "$language">> <<option " Sto ysoutyras aut ysprovykyras.">> <<option " Not if promised or prophesied.">> <</cycle>><<cycle "$language">> <<option " Sto netdazhe ys Trybytram mnea imerjsems ilya.">> <<option " Not even if my gods decree it.">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Coj delatan vos ve?">> <<option "What do you worship?">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Vosed.">> <<option "You.">> <</cycle>>" Another <<linkappend "lie.">> “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Tenevris mnea.">> <<option "My north.">> <</cycle>> <<cycle "$language">> <<option "Coj bytsem namnea.">> <<option "What is ours.">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Coj bytsem namnea?">> <<option "What is ours?">> <</cycle>>" Breath soft as the lapping waves, proffered hand cast in <<linkappend "shade.">> “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Tva svet Ia suvotkiy en jyrukas mnea.">> <<option "The light I hold in my palm.">> <</cycle>> <<cycle "$language">> <<option "Vse ilya osviestiys.">> <<option "All it illuminates.">> <</cycle>>" “<<cycle "$language">> <<option "Vos oute svet.">> <<option "You promise light.">> <</cycle>> <<cycle "$language">> <<option "Vosed byte dedytus ex ortysz vosed stosyte dezservas, Nosveltcem mnea.">> <<option "You are fond of promises you cannot keep, my Lord.">> <</cycle>>" <hr><center><<linkreplace "Termyjyn">>[[End.|END][($poem1 to " ") , ($poem2 to " ") , ($poem3 to " ")]]<</linkreplace>></center> <</linkappend>><</linkappend>><</linkappend>><</linkappend>><</linkappend>>

Harvest-calloused hands pass between them sorrows unspoken; to name them is <<linkappend "treason.">> “Lord of Quiet Sorrows," you entreat, your Lady's name butchered; you daren't speak it, lest you share her fate. Naught but <<cycle "$south">> <<option "sorrow" 1>> <<option "hate" 2>> <</cycle>> remains. “Hear me," you <<linkappend "plead.">> Come high-summer, the flagstone-cobbled square in the glade is crimson--not with encroaching autumn but Imperial heraldry. The Empire exchanges festivity for conquest. You twist wildflowers into braid by firelight, listening. No children wear new paths into flagstone. No birds offer song. The Empire gorges itself on your home's fruits; mirth an Imperial luxury. The shouts of bettors playing rigged games of chance are foreign in tongue, as is the ebb and flow of conversation, haggling argument punctuated with the clink-clink-clink of foreign coin forced into palm or rasping knife-blade against sheath, soft sob borne on soft winds through field and forest to rustle sweet-grass against your [[cloak.|south3]] <</linkappend>><</linkappend>>

Harvest-calloused hands pass between them sorrows unspoken; to name them is treason. “Lord of Quiet Sorrows," you entreat, your Lady's name butchered; you daren't speak it, lest you share her fate. Naught but <<if $south is 1>>sorrow<<elseif $south is 2>>hate<</if>> remains. “Hear me," you plead. Come high summer, the flagstone-cobbled square in the glade is crimson, not with encroaching autumn but Imperial heraldry. The Empire exchanges festivity for conquest. You twist wildflowers into braid by firelight, listening. No children wear new paths into flagstone. No birds offer song. The Empire gorges itself on your home's fruits; mirth an Imperial luxury. The shouts of bettors playing rigged games of chance are foreign in tongue, as is the ebb and flow of conversation, haggling argument punctuated with the clink-clink-clink of foreign coin forced into palm or rasping knife-blade against sheath, soft sob borne on soft winds through field and forest to rustle sweet-grass against your cloak.

<<include "south2">> The song of magic is fainter now. Whispers. Cries. The harvest meager, servitore thin as the grains they reap. Sorrows cannot feed a people. Your faith's viscera feeds an ever-hungry Empire who have come for what they cannot harvest themselves. Song leeches out where the Empire commands it lost: wispy smoke, starling murmuration, brief, dark cloud writhing and screaming. They leave silence. Less hands for the harvest; Imperial <<linkreplace "campaign">>slaughter<</linkreplace>> continues ceaselessly. <<linkreplace "None will return">>You will not return<</linkreplace>> <<linkappend "home.">> <<if $south is 1>><<set _prayer1 to "Lord">><<set _prayer2 to "Quiet Sorrows">><<set _prayer3 to "Preserve">><<set _prayer4 to "in">><<set _prayer5 to "lace-fine rot, permit us endurance.">><<elseif $south is 2>><<set _prayer1 to "Lady">><<set _prayer2 to "Deep Waters">><<set _prayer3 to "Deliver">><<set _prayer4 to "unto">><<set _prayer5 to "depths, drown the invader.">><</if>>“_prayer1 of _prayer2," you whisper. “Hear us. _prayer3 us _prayer4 your _prayer5<<if $south is 1>> There is nothing left but <<linkreplace "you.">>death.<</linkreplace>>"<<elseif $south is 2>>" There is nothing left but <<linkreplace "death.">>you.<</linkreplace>><</if>> <hr> <center>[[End.|END][($poem1 to " ") , ($poem2 to " ") , ($poem3 to " ")]]</center> <</linkappend>>

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