"TO THE HALLS OF SOLGAARD" || A Response to Challenge

[Pallodium 3775]

  

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स्वधर्ममपि चावेक्ष्य न विकम्पितुमर्हसि |

धर्म्याद्धि युद्धाच्छ्रेयोऽन्यत्क्षत्रियस्य न विद्यते ||

 

“Considering your own duty within all accordance, one should not waver, for there is nothing higher for a Kshatriya than righteous battle.”

- The Bhagavad Gita

 

AN OPEN RESPONSE TO CHALLENGE 

 

Torn and tattered, did a flayed roll of parchment crest and fall through the harrowed nornish lands. Bore by a pygmy drake, the scroll held by the miniscule wyvern was battered by sheet after sheet of the sickly storm which sloughed down from the tainted clouds.

 

It came to rest before a vast stronghold, nestled within the bitter north, trickles of acrid blackened rain and virulent soot stained its form. Curled into a slumber, it sloughed and emboldened into whitened-azure flames, returning to its nest; the letter it bore gleamed in somber lights, pinned with hardened flames to the doorway of Sólgaard:

 

There comes a time where none have admitted guilt.   None have granted their admittance to Sir Ailred’s death. None have confessed to the children of Sólgrunnr what motives brought cause to such a demise. There is a vivid dismay that is borne here, that not one individual, be it man, dragon, nor aengul has bore even the slightest admittance to such an open challenge.   The writ bore here is not solely to ʞonan-Thegn, yet to all those of Sólgaard’s keep and Northern lands. My due friends, my brothers elden, and those powers-beyond; an injustice has been forged. And thus a quandary opens, in how it must so be corrected.   ʞonan-Thegn, o’ friend: I accept the challenge of Holmgang, in the stead of my siblings glued to their wealthy hordes. Though I am innocent in this endeavor, should you wish to draw your blade in revenge, your righteousness and courage will be met equally so, a duel drawn to the fellen death.   I shall bear no armament; no armour; no shield; no blade. For one day, thou shalln’t view me as compatriot. For one day, I shall be no more than Dragon, drakesflight invoked oncemore and thou shall draw your blade before me. And yet then, there is a question, o’ friend; of Justice, of Revenge.   Slay me if you wish, harvest thy sweet revenge at last- yet the cycle churns on, giving motion to the formless wheel forevermore.. Our deaths will lead to another to fall in Revenge. Then one more, and yet another again, in the name of Justice. You seek vengeance, and it shall be offered forth; yet does it bear meaning yet?   Fell me, and thus invoke vengeance make its mark, the dharmic cycle yet churns. Be felled, and thus invoke the cycle to churn, as too vengeance makes its mark.    O’ ʞonan-Thegn, does Holmgang await us both.   Izel

 

 

जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च |

तस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ||

“Death is a certainty for one who has been born, yet in death is rebirth inevitable- therefore, one should not lament over the inevitable.”

- The Bhagavad Gita

 

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Reach out to me via discord, and a time to meet shall be metaplayed determined :3

 

 

[DahStalker 3692]

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+1 simply for song selection.

 

[Venomous_Pup 2978]

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This is a weird lore post from Pallo, I don't see any abilities? How do I get grandfathered?