AabahranThe Chronicles, Vol.20
The Chronicles · by Historian Eril Ballyshack
/--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | | | * * * * * * Sixday 6th | | Vol. 20 * * THE CHRONICLES * * Winter, 1476PC | | * * | | | | - Behold Maelbrim [Eril] | | _ _ | | |\ /| ore than sweat has been paid as cost of reclaiming Rheydin | | | \/ | from chaos. Tears, blood, the lives of the rich and poor, | | | | the powerful and weak. Purses have been filled, slashed, | | | | and given away. Wars between brothers were nigh waged. | | Great leaders retired. Towering at the axis of Maelbrim | | is the statue of Sir Anamus the Regent, whose mind it was that | | spurred construction originally. | | When I was not even in my teens, an infant of Maelbrim, fresh | | and brittle, was my home. Orphaned like so many others, I was | | exposed to the surreal process of it all. Terror still fresh in | | the minds of the survivors. Soot-covered cheeks, bad breath, folk | | dying of thirst or drug withdrawal. I saw a child pulling some | | splinters out of the soft part of his foot. He told me he had | | just climbed out of the wreckage of his home, and that his parents | | were missing. | | Look now! Six decades in the making! | | The moons make their laps, and the world below lives on. For | | those whose registry remains in the Maelbrim offices, there are | | sure to soon be great economic advantages. The west is again tied | | to the east. | | | | )----------------------------------------------------------------( | | | | - Ballyshack [Eril] | | _ _ | | | | hat a ridiculous name. Where did it come from? How many | | | | strange conversions had the family experienced over the | | | /\ | centuries? Which delightful smoking past-time or game | | \/ \/ spawned the term in the first place? Maybe it came from a | | gnome at one point. Maybe it is an ancient curse. Maybe | | it is the title of some comical song. Maybe it is the password | | to unlock the chest containing some deed for an old estate. | | For every thing that we know, there are a hundred things we do | | not know. I ask these questions because I am the last Ballyshack. | | And why would it concern you? Everyone has a name, or some | | unique word that they identify themselves by. Perhaps you are a | | halfling, wondering why a half-elf who belongs somewhere else is | | the last remaining spokesperson for the freeing of the ancient | | Shire from Tribunal occupation. Perhaps you are a Knight curious | | as to how the Historian has become a widow. Perhaps you are a | | Tribune considering what is left of the Outlaw who roused more | | riots than anyone else before him. Perhaps you are a Demon | | waiting to strike where weakness is showing most reddened. | | Fliblin Ballyshack was a man I loved, and a man I rarely ever | | saw. I knew his heart, and it was one of such passion that no | | amount of dust will ever wipe over the memory of him. | |____________________________________________________________________| |Chief Editor: Historian Eril | The Library accepts any articles of | |any artistic merit. Send any texts and expressions you wish! | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/