− | '''O thou, new-born, delaying long,''' <br> '''Delayest the sorrow in men and shadow blood alike,''' <br> '''That longs to burst a frozen bud''' <br> '''And flood a fresher throat with your scythe''' <br> <br> '''In front of a mirror will be born the infant twin''' <br> '''from the ancient line, childe fae not born fae.''' <br> '''so destined is the messiah to Eredane''' <br> '''they will say the living twin deserves the day.''' <br> <br> '''Through a slit in the Sarcoson belly ''' <br> '''The childe born with fang: ''' <br> '''Called by a barbaric name from the dead twin.''' <br> '''The forebears come forth from the depths of hell.''' <br> <br> '''The Enemy is troubled by this Queen's gambit.''' <br> '''The Scrollbearers will fear for their lives.''' <br> '''The darker brethren will doubly disguise his action,''' <br> '''His and her kin face the traitor in anger, and fear.''' <br> <br> '''Sorrow and revolution caused by the scythe bearer''' <br> '''making a change not seen in centuries.''' <br> '''The mobile sign thus moves into the messiah house:''' <br> '''Equal in favor to both sides.''' <br> <br> '''When the great wooden columns tremble''' <br> '''in the western wind, covered with blood.''' <br> '''Such a great assembly then pours forth''' <br> '''that Sharuun and the Westlands will tremble.''' <br> <br> '''When the great Queen sees herself conquered,''' <br> '''she will show an excess of masculine courage.''' <br> '''Naked, on horseback, she will pass over the river''' <br> '''pursued by the sword: her faith outraged.''' <br> <br> '''A founder of sects, much trouble for the accuser:''' <br> '''A beast in the theater prepares the scene and plot.''' <br> '''The author ennobled by acts of older times;''' <br> '''the world is confused by schismatic sects.''' <br> <br> '''Beasts ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers:''' <br> '''The greater region will be lead by the Ardoome,''' <br> '''The great one causing it dragged in an iron cage,''' <br> '''The Kasmaelian childe will observe its own tide.''' <br> <br> '''Earthshaking fire from the center of the Eredane''' <br> '''will cause tremors around the High City.''' <br> '''Two great rocks will war for a long time,''' <br> '''then Pelluria will redden a new river.''' <br> <br> '''In the land with a climate opposite to Sharuun''' <br> '''there will be great shedding of blood.''' <br> '''The heavens unjust on land, sea and in the air.''' <br> '''Sects, famine, kingdoms, plagues, confusion.''' <br> <br> '''At night they will think they have seen the sun,''' <br> '''when they see the half pig man:''' <br> '''Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies.''' <br> '''The brute beasts will be heard to speak.''' <br> <br> '''A coffin is put into the vault of iron,''' <br> '''where seven children of the kings of night are held.''' <br> '''Sharuun, Caradul and ruler of Highwall will form.''' <br> '''lamenting to see thus dead the fruit of their line.''' <br> <br> '''From the Aruun will come that Sussan heart''' <br> '''trouble Slyvan and the heirs of the men of stone.''' <br> '''Hunting scrollbearers, with fleet of Pellurian''' <br> '''the temples of the Erethor and the holds of Kaladrun shall run or run red.''' <br> <br> '''The motion of senses, heart, feet and hands''' <br> '''will be in agreement between Caradul and Calador.''' <br> '''Swords fire, floods, the Pellurian shore drowned,''' <br> '''killed or dead because of a weak heart.''' <br> <br> '''The treacherous one, who is offered rule,''' <br> '''quickly raised from low to high estate.''' <br> '''He will suddenly turn disloyal and volatile.''' <br> '''This man will govern the horde white or night.''' <br> <br> '''The rock of the world holds in its depths white ''' <br> '''which will come out milk-white from a cleft''' <br> '''Needlessly troubled people will not dare touch it,''' <br> '''unaware that the foundation is of clay not steel.''' <br> <br> '''A thing existing without any senses''' <br> '''will cause its own end to happen through artifice.''' <br> '''At the underworld hearts of the Icewall''' <br> '''there will be great damage from hail and ice.''' <br> <br> '''Beneath the rock, struck in stone, lit in lightning,''' <br> '''the treasure of treasures is hidden not far.''' <br> '''The lost things discovered, hidden for many centuries.''' <br> '''when found, one struck blind, eye pierced by beast.''' <br> <br> '''The great rock, dwarfholds and underdark,''' <br> '''after peace, war, famine, blood.''' <br> '''It will spread far, drowning great countries,''' <br> '''even antiquities and their mighty foundations.''' <br> <br>
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