Date: Fireseek ? – 591
PCs involved: Aramek, Fingol, Gar, Indranil, Lorindel, Rain
Where: Westkeep Palace
What: Great Feast in honor of the visiting Sir Ragnbjorn to the palace.
Events
The last performer in the great hall is the renowned half-elven Dellin of Pepez. Dellin has long curly blonde hair and soft blue eyes and when he begins to perform before the High Table for Prince Prospero, everyone in all the halls become silent in order to hear him. In fact, many of those in the adjacent halls who are sober enough, cluster around the entrance to the great hall in order to hear him better and catch a glimpse of this most famous of the surviving bards of the Hold of the Sea Princes. He sings the Ballad of the Twin Cataclysms, an old and famous ballad that tells the story of the destruction of the Suloise Imperium a millennia before and how its survivors came to the Sheldomar Valley and made peace with the Oeridian refugees who had come before them, and how together with the native peoples of the land they founded the Kingdom of Keoland.
A millennia ago and more
The great Suel Empire fell to dust
Their houses came to this Azure shore
Behind them their homes lost to power lust
For generations the empires of the Baklunish and Suel
Fought in the Sulhat mountains passes and halls
Both sides eventually called the hordes of hell
Orcs, and goblins, and worse came to their calls
The Oeridian tribes were driven away
The first to flee for the safer lands of the East
As the hordes of the empires brought dismay
To all those who were considered least
The cause of war now lost to time
But the end is still very clear
Two empires shattered in their prime
By wizards mighty wrath severe
On the Baklunish Empire the Suloise Mages of Power
Joined hands and brought the Invoked Devastation
Turning fertile lands into a burning pyre
Only the Dry Steppes now mark that ancient civilization
But the Baklunish magi-priests were not finished
In the ruins of Tovag Boragu they began to plot
They proved that their power was undiminished
The Rain of Colorless Fire they wrought
This fire burned through flesh and stone
Their cities and gardens burned in a flash
The Suloise were now overthrown
In their place a Sea of Dust and ash
And so the survivors began the Great Migration
Coming to this new land to begin anew
Theirs to choose, peace or war for domination
For the Oeridians and older folk were here too
This time the old houses chose well
With the people of the land they made their peace
Putting away murderous sword and spell
In this way they saw the prosperity of all increase
Nevermore would they allow
The evil of the Twin Cataclysms to fall
Arcane might and evil horde they would disavow
So that a new era could dawn upon them all
Dellin receives great applause for this, (of which only a mangled translation of a few of the verses have been provided), and he received many eagles (Keoland gold pieces) from the gathered nobles, and Lady Sedara even had one of the servants present him with a bouquet of flowers grown in her hothouse atop the palace. After Dellin’s performance and the serving of the Fourth Remove the feat came to an end, and the Prince-Governor bade the assembled guests goodnight. Shortly thereafter, the rest of the assembly returned to their homes or quarters in the palace, the servants began carting the dishes back to the kitchens, gathering up the linen, taking apart the tables for storage, and sweeping out the rushes.