Songs of the Ascended Barb

**Song of Beginning**

At the Time of Evaluation

The Spinning Creator did descend onto Xauir

She judged her first creations with disdain

So she turned to the creatures that crawled below

She offered her veins and so they suckled from her

Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen did drink deeply

Their were once thirteen but only three remained,

And they were infinitely bonded in mind and soul.

From their union did the first brood grow

From chaos to order.

Forevermore bound together

Evermore. So in the Realm of Beginning

The children did beget their own,

The power of the mind doth be an art,

Thy mind expand as did the brood

Whom numbers grew with each take.

And they brought

Beauty.

And beauty brought

Order. The Great Three saw and desired

From their realm, did they spy from afar.

Life had come to many planes, spread across the stars

To their spawn did they sent, who’s broods did follow after them

And brought, mind, claw, tooth and fang with them.

Came with them their greatest dream;

Order

Perfection:

Forevermore. Their time near ending,

The Great Ones did depart.

death could not claim them

Stagnant essence did fester

Till it spread too thin

So thus ended their physical coil

Gone the progenitors

Loss of form, embraced to eternity But the children, did not falter

Furthered on their quest to complete,

The time of becoming, grows closer

As new children are added.

Their mind grows as does the hive,

Beg for mercy, young upstarts

Give in to eternity

The brood is all

One is many, bound together

We are legion

Forevermore.

**Ballad of Henrik Gu'stand**

My songs are sung in grand drinking halls.

From Mountains of Jour to woodland realms of Marthland.

Buy me some ale! I'll drink it all in one.

My songs for not free!

The Great Ones of old left here long ago.

A tale of vast and cosmic sorrow so great.

They might come back, but not today.

They're fearful of their end to come one day!

I tracked and battled a great winged beast.

For it's eyes and claws to fetch a good price.

But when dear knife struck the hide.

It broke in two and I flew for my life!

I met a fair young maiden.

Who kept me to herself.

But love is not for me.

So I slipped away and she bellowed a cry for me.

A man with the face of a goat, claws for hands and hoofs for feet, did I meet. He howled like a monstrous ram.

So I climbed a tree!

I faced this beast and grabs a stick.

With in in hand, I sprang on it and stuck it good.

I must say that is quite too bad, for he tasted real good.

I swear it was for me!

A great lost automaton crafted so fair.

Confronted me once in a forest.

I told him where his makers had gone.

Then far did I throw it into the depths of vast sea!

One day, did I come across when drinking on fair morning eve.

A young man portly in shape, with horns of a goat.

Soft words did he speak, yet cruel was he to me.

They're not as I was to his other fellow.

My hands sharp now, my mouth wet for red drink and a pair of my own atop my head.

In darkest caves, or shadow groves by city walls do I lurk now.

No place is grand as once this great hall.

And raise a mug!

Make sure you drink for me!

**Melody of Desolation**

Forsake beauty, embrace the abhorrent, cast out virtue, give in to temptation.

They call out for blood and suffering, offer them willingly.

Raise your voices. The greatest scream will become the choir of the thousand bloody tomorrows.

Beg, beg for blessed pain. The Lady of Torment will show her might.

Learn to welcome the chains, the whip and the knife.

Glory to those of might, reveal in the pain, the torment of the unworthy.

**Song of Disharmony**

This place built on trust, bonds of love

It breaks, crumbles away, forever more

Destroyed and shaken to the core,

Betrayed by all, harmony diluted

My song, to bear fruits of despair,

Though hearts to sour, their love wither

Their will was weak, their bonds undone,

That strumpet, all

Thy heart betrayed, I took their bonds,

Broken by wicked words, forsake all by thy

Eternal now will be bond, fragment

'Tis the fate of all