Made prettier by use of EBook Design Group Stylesheet.
Ok the proofing was hell on this one. This book ocred very badly and had a LOT of place and character names in it. If anyone has deadtree edition feel free to check the names and up the version number and upload result. It took me many hours just to get it this good.
The Foe of the Serpent
No true Crawling viper
But a Black-Robed mage
Heart darker than garb of night
Hands adrip with blood
Beyond death and passing years
Kings falling, towers crumbling
Slithering in dark dreams
The Serpent Who Shall Rise Again.
Whispers he to princes
Steals he into minds by night
Men of malice chant his name
Gasping Fools Fill his Fane
Crowns tumble before his fangs
Men mutter of him, and cower
True Crawling viper, after all
Yer stand against him not in vain
Keep sword sharp to be his bane
Stray not to peaks snow-cloaked deep
Ruins Forgot, nor echoing grot
Hunt no wyrms, gold aseeking
For the Foe of the Serpent
from The Way of Valor
by the Bard Haelithe of Ranshree Penned in the days of KingGaur (too long ago)
From the Chronicles of Aglirta: A
Now in the Time of Many Wizards, when all Darsar sought the Dwaerindim and realms rose and fell with each passing season, there arose in Aglirta four heroes, who were destined to give the Kingless Land a king once more—though to many it seemed not the salvation and peace for all Asmarand that had been foretold.
