Cattabrinade, prophecy of
Cattabrinade, Prophecy of
While many fools have blamed this prophecy for the end of Bartoich dancing, in reality, prophecy is merely a stock form of writing amongst the ancient dragon kings, used for everything from ordinary commercial contracts to bawdy poetry about one's enemies and social rivals. It is clear to those of us who retain our senses that Bartoich Dancing ended at approximately the same time that the Hundirnan Scholastics discovered a cure for Softscale (amongst their many wonders), a common venereal disease whose symptoms it would be undignified to elaborate upon but the more printable of which closely match the recorded behaviours and symptoms of the Mad Ones.
The Prophecy itself is a long harangue of much skill in the Dragon King's eastern tongue meant for chanting, with a corresponding interpretive dance performed by the Bartoich dancers. It purports to describe the future actions of the Dragon Kings as the Ytterno Kingdoms of the Far East fall before the forces of a figure often identified by later scholars as Vignam the Abomination, with several moving passages describing noble warriors dying in suicide stands to provide time for their charges to retreat. The Dragon Kings were disturbed not by the prophecy's content, since they had no idea who Vignam was at this point in history but by its strange structure, which they claimed only an unbound Primordial could have composed. The source of this claim and the ensuing discussion upon it are somewhat obscure, and what little we know of it relies heavily on the Stele of Kosrot, difficult as that source might be at times.
-Pon Fa Hui, August Mendicant of the Inspectors of Hidden Causes, former servant of the Tiger Quilled Duke of Wang Ba
Cited: Hundirnan Scholastics Stele of Kosrot Vignam the Abomination
