5/19/2023 0 Comments Shardik![]() That all changes when a fire on the other side of the Telthearna, the great river in which Ortelga is an island, drives an enormous bear into the woods. ![]() Kelderek is a lonely hunter, considered by the other Ortelgans to be something of a simpleton because of his habit of playing games with children. ![]() Ah, Lord Shardik: supreme, divine, sent by God out of fire and water: Lord Shardik of the Ledges! Thou who dist wake among the trepsis in the woods of Ortelga, to fall pray to the greed and evil in the heart of Man! Shardik the victor, the prisoner of Bekla, lord of bloody wounds: thou who didst cross the plain, who didst come alive from the Streel, Lord Shardik of forest and mountain, Shardik of the Telthearna! Hast thou, too, suffered unto death, like a child helpless in the hands of cruel men, and will death not come? Lord Shardik, save us! By thy fiery and putrescent wounds, by thy swimming of the deep river, by the drugged trance and savage victory, by thy long imprisonment and weary journey in vain, by thy misery, pain and loss and the bitterness of thy sacred death save thy children, who fear and know thee not! By the fern and rock and river, by the beauty of the kynat and the wisdom of the Ledges, O hear us, defiled and lost, we who wasted thy life and call upon thee! Let us die, Lord Shardik, let us die with thee, only save thy children from this wicked man! ![]()
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