Eventide

This ring, a token of tragedy and woe The swan, ascending in ruins left alone Severe misfortune, burdens weight Unswayed endeavors, suffer in its wake Swept away from home Tend the fires of the forge Toil in it's glow Ire rises and the wheels turn Cruelty, companion Retribution unearthed Spill the blood A legacy laid waste Gems fashioned with their eyes Chalice forged from bone Teeth to a breastpin These gifts bestowed The fires of deliverance Fortress swallowed in flames Wipe the ash from your eyes Upon gilded feathers take flight

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Beware of great halls that are built with words Take care that your brother does not draw his sword first Deadly is the fate of honor under plight A bird with a mortal wound cannot take flight Another nameless army They gather in straight lines Can you rise above them? To the summit we must climb As you bleed your banners burn Unfurled beneath the sun No king holds his court to reason Fire spreads and spares no one What is your reward? Death

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

The frost, a catalyst Icy flow Beginning Beast of flesh Consumes salt She brings forth The head of a man Nourished by milk Blood becomes earth From bone: the mountains From hair: the forests Of the skull: the aching sky From his brow: midgard! Into this cursed realm we are all born In light and dark Brightness and misery From the thaw

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Sacred preperation Kept from the sun Never: a mortal blade can wound it Mani turns his back: then hide Here the stone is bathed in the corpse sea To signal the keeper of the field of the hosts Divine Meadows Find the winds that blew us here Dwellers of the underworld: Tread elsewhere Here the stone is bathed in the corpse sea To signal the keeper of the field of the hosts

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Bestowed to him a curse, like a crown for him to bear Under the weight of a spell, thrice will autumn's harvest fail Long is the winter, desperate hunger All look for an answer. What must we offer on high? Chieftains gather in the hall to cipher celestial will Prosperity's price, paid with life. The burden of sacrifice Dry is the summer, desperate Hunger All look for an answer. What must we offer on high? We have given all that we had Cattle driven, cut, and bled Fed the alter with the lives of men Stone figures marked with red To renew a land felled by hardship a higher price must be paid From the throne he was led Their Knives sharpened and still One light fades as the other grows bright They released the king from his life

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Perhaps you are there in service to the golden one Carve paths through ice and snow when she calls Hear my song and traverse vast plains Scale all the mountains Fork the waterways Honorable: None more than you Guide and oversee You knew every way And you could see beyond the veil Hear my song and traverse vast plains Scale all the mountains Fork the waterways Past grievances brushed away To be cared for In service to the lady of the Vanir

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025