I don't think it's a coincidence I find this upon the first day of a new year. Wōden bids me find wisdom, and so I shall by reading the works that inspired/were inspired by this song.
Ambushed, her friend, former lover & fellow herald Kris murdered, Talia was raped & tortured by agents of Ancar, usurper King of Hardorn. In time she was rescued, healed, married & had a family.
To add to that, the ultimate goal was for the Prince not King of Hardorn ( he murdered his father) to get his bloody hands on Princess Elspeth of Valdemar and force him to Mary him since could take the crown. He greed overran his brain when he got ahold of the Harold's though and his plot was foiled.
Was this song originally meant to have multiple singers? I thought it was sung by a queen at first but the last verse mentions "for herald Kris and my queen's own", so I'm a bit confused by that.
I think that is just a matter of how Royalty tends to speak of themselves in 3rd person. Also Queens own is a title of the Monarchs closest advisor and confidant
By any chance does anyone know if i can find this on Spotify? It's quite good but i really hare that i have to switch from spot to yt every time i want to listen to it XD
1:31 "By tricks that only miracles enabled us to foil" <-- There's a raw _honesty_ to this. She doesn't even mind admitting how close he came to winning. An admission of weakness? Maybe. (But yeah, no.) Doesn't matter. In context, all it does is add weight to the grievance she's expressing. As someone trying to piece together the context, without having read the books... I'm picturing her singing this to her army ahead of the battle, giving them at least, like, a +4 morale boost. With this line alone accounting for one of the +1's.
Battle-wise Germanic kings have allowed their people to be tortured and abused, unwilling to move to fast, to abandon their plans resulting in the destruction of the roman empires invaders. Takes time for kings to form alliance with each other and put aside their old blood-feud for a temporary alliance to oppose a greater threat. Time to gather the information about the Romans battle-tactics and numbers. Rome had to be delayed and deceived until everything was in place and the Germanic kings where lucky enough to have on their side. Arminius A cunning Germanic ally who managed to deceive and pull the wool over Romes eyes and gain their trust for years. who served in the roman army and was a gifted leader of men. Rome was confidence in the belief of turning him roman ,Arminius lead the roman army into a Germanic ambush and got them all slaughtered and had their hands nailed to the trees and the Romans generals severed head sent back to the emperor ending all attempt to conquer the Germanic tribes. The kings then assassinated Arminius and went back feuding with each other. Arminius turned the war into a almost bloodless victory on the side of the Germanic kings. Arminius spent to many years as a roman or perhaps he wanted to turn the Germanic tribes into a empire making the kings worry about their thrones. Herman may or not been his real name. Rome losing to much army men could result in a rebellion against the roman empire that was held together by a iron fist over the conquered and make them easy targets for invaders, roman was only giving a certain amount of man for expansion and conquest. the severed head is believed to of giving the emperor nightmares for years. having to walk through a Germanic forest in a long snake formation is always a bad ideal.
Beautiful artwork, gives more towards the "fury towards evil enemies", a sword weilding song from a Warrior who protects her own kingdom with a song of a cadence rythym, as we sing our own songs to "fight monsterous enemies" who plagueour lives. We, ourselves, can win battles, with your written lyrics, as so we dream our dreams, and fight our daily battles.
Lets see, a prince who murdered his father the king, murdered one of two emissaries from Valdemar, had his men rape the other, (Heralds of Valdemar) tried to put the blame of them for the kings death then tried to invade valdemar, intending to take the 12 yo princess as his bride. See Arrows Fall by Mercedes Lackey.
Haha that is the biggest understatement ever. Selenay is so far beyond upset at this point that if she herself had been a Herald Mage she'd have obliterated the little princling so thoroughly that even the Gods would be hard pressed to resurrect him
He is the Prince of a neighboring Kingdom to the Kingdom of Valdemar. He has his sights set on the young princess of Valdemar and was planning to marry her to gain power and take over Valdemar. In an effort to further his plans, he assassinated his father then kidnapped, Imprisoned and Tortured two of the Valdemaran Heralds acting as advanced Emissary's prior to the Queen herself arriving. He blamed his fathers death on them and killed one of the heralds when they tried to escape. The one he managed to capture he did Torture and let his men rape her repeatedly to the point where she was certain she was never going to escape and attempted to kill herself via poison. This herald managed to at least send a coded message back to the Queen though warning her NOT to come and what happened. Thus you now have this ballad about how one Pissed off Mother/Queen is ready to bring down the fury of the heavens on this little bastard.
This song reminds me of the time in CKIII where I was playing as an Irish Kingdom and my daughter was attacked by her Welsh husband. I laid his Principality to waste and wiped out his family line.
This song gets to me every time. The righteous fury focused to laser precision against a dishonorable foe. Keeping that kind of fury in check takes enormous will power.
I am her friend and thank ye gods I'm not the culprit of her vengeance. With that said, my D&D party doesn't want to be part of her personal quest. We're gonna go chill at Farmer Burren's farm. We're just going to drink beer and feast, there's no possible chance an interesting side quest might come up while our Mistress conducts her own personal business.
really like the song and that army like an eager hound, the way she sung it really threw me off guard and I had to go back and re listen cause damn I was about to say nope to a good song
Behold the Northern Queen, so full of threats and rage. In her rancor and petulance reason has been caged. Her tear choked threats of fire coming from on high. Only makes this Southern Queen shake her head and sigh. You've rebuked the teachings of your gods all for petty hate Your Herald friend who one night came to my court quite late. After hours she sulked about the halls of my castle in the dark Snuck into my only child's room his young life was her mark. She was just clumsy enough for us to stop and apprehend I won't lie, to get her to talk to hell she did descend. Like you I was prepared to go to war for this dreadful slight, But hot irons did loose her tongue and put conspiracy to light. I managed to control my fury on hearing of this vile scheme, To instigate war between you and I; to weaken us at the seams. A plot of our mutual enemies, to pit their foe against their foe To weaken us through subterfuge then come and strike us low. I hear of my emissaries turning assassin and saboteur This widespread rot has made us both look like fools. I uncovered their plan through that brutality you hate There's still time if you'd listen, we could change our fate. In your self righteous conceit for me and my 'barbaric' way You've closed away the truth and we battle on this day. Damn you and your 'civilized' men, look what you've wrought! My son did fall before my eyes, your arrow he has caught. Be it a sneak attack or kidnapping gone far from planned A boy of six whose only shield was his nurse maid's hand I could only watch from afar as she held him on her knees Your loyal men saw to it that she was butchered with ease. Then fall beneath the steel of you and yours, you've taken his life. Shock and grief passed quickly, giving way to choler and strife. You dare to call me savage when you have not honor nor mercy. I'll be the sadistic villain you want, I'll be even more blood thirsty. /building crescendo and speed/ I won't forgive, I won't forget On you this rabid wolf is set Those conspirators? They got their way. For neither of us will win on this dreadful day. You've left me nothing but my tears and spite. Both our men pillage and burn all in sight I'll see you paraded to me chained and naked Your men folk as well to be castrated. I won't let you die, death's too good for you Hellish torture, you'll suffer through and through Before them you'll take a thousand lashes Bow to me now, and call me Queen Bitch of the Ashes! /slow, quiet refrain/ You might not think it sobbing at my feet, But our revenge has lead us both to the same defeat. Both our Kingdoms smoldering and razed You said you wanted me to pay... and lo I've paid. ((PS: I know it is from a book. Just very similar to a D&D game gone very, very poorly and it struck a chord.))
