"My Company of Worn-Out Words" — Songs of a Crusader

Item · 50 gp · Weight 2

Collection of ballads composed by a bard who fought in the Second Crusade. The first songs are brimming with swaggering optimism, but as the collection progresses, the texts grow darker and more obscure as the despair and madness slowly take possession of the bard's mind. Miammir has annotated one of the verses: "Long dead fingers of blackest stone, The forbidden tree stretches out its branches to me, White pebbles dog my steps, A thousand piercing eyes on hoar-frosted ground, The winter sun's rays caress the runes, Ancient symbols burn on hardened bark, Secrets crusted over with white lichen, And a white fog steals over my weary mind." In Miammir's handwriting, a note reads: "Tree? Runes? Stone Book of the Druids of Old Sarkoris here?"