Artist: Rebecca Kneuhbuhl, Gabriel Mann
Album: The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night Original Game Music Score
Year: 2007
Label: Universal Music Production Library
Disk: 1
Track: 06
Name: Arborick Boss
Lyrics:
Original Wording from:
Work - Ibis
Author - Ovid
[Original in Latin]
Protinus Eumenides lavere palustribus undis
Qua cava de Stygiis fluxerat unda vadis
Pectoraque unxerunt Erebeae felle colubrae
Terque cruentatas increpuere manus
Gutturaque imbuerunt infantia lacte canino:
Hic primus pueri venit in ora cibus:
Perbibit inde suae rabiem nutricis alumnus
Latrat et in toto verba canina foro
Flebat, ut est fumis infans contactus amaris
De tribus est cum sic una locuta soror:
‘Tempus in inmensum lacrimas tibi movimus istas,
quae semper causa sufficiente cadent.’
[Translation to English]
At once the Furies washed him in marsh water
Where a water channel ran from the Stygian stream
And smeared venom from a snake of Erebus on his chest
And clapped their bloodstained hands together thrice
They moistened the child’s throat with dogs’ milk:
That was the first nourishment in the boy’s mouth:
From it the fosterling drank it’s nurse’s fury,
And howled with a dog’s cry over all the city.
The child wept when he was touched by bitter smoke
While one of the three sisters spoke, as follows:
‘We have set these tears flowing for all time, in you
And they’ll always have sufficient reason to fall.’
These lyrics trace parallels with the story of Malefor birth, seeming to trace parallels also with the story of the two sons of Rome. The child bloodstained and smeared with venom, is Malefor, whom is given as corrupted by darkness since his birth, probably referring to Malefor's belief that his fate is to destroy and rebuild the world. Malefor's fed from his own infinite potential as a natural purple dragon, to feed his megalomania and spread your word with power. But Malefor failed, he was betrayed and sealed away by the other dragons, what fuelled even more his broken visions of world and created a desire for vengeance.
The two sons of Rome make part of an ancient myth, that's about the creation of the city of Rome, started with the birth of two brothers, that are fed and guarded by a dog. In adulthood, one brother kill the other, and shape the paths to construct the roman civilization. This is an allusion to Malefor's and Spyro's story, and how they conflict can be somehow destined, the city of Rome is the new world that Malefor pretends to build, after eliminating Spyro's menace of destroying his plans again.
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