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