Grim Omens

[THE TRAVELLER:]

"Harken, o'kinsmen what I have to tell

The marsh realm is suffering from sinister spell

Come gather around the ember so bright

And listen to what has happened that night

Unknown paths to areas unseen

Surrounded by twilight, at heart kind of keen

Through tendrils like claws I made my way

Deities besides me tempting to stray

As I roamed through these woods of old

I felt there was something grim to unfold..."

[TROLL CHIEFTAIN:]

Forlorn mortal now listen to my vow

An oath I swear as thy oldest foe

Just before the next full moon rise

We'll celebrate thy tribe's demise

For too long we've avoided a war

But now we'll start it with barbaric roar

Fear the fall of the forthcoming night

It's end will be thy end alike!

[TROLL WARLORD:]

O' powerful seer grant me thy charm

The rage of a bear that no one could harm

Ancient idols awake! For I offer thee blood

Mortal lives I will take and drown them in mud!

With the sunset at the edge of the heel-stone

Let us summon by the marshland border

For the war god's watching from his wood-throne

Thus we will obey this final order

[TROLL BERSERK:]

Horror is mine... Bones I grind

The skull of thine... They won't find

In my lair... My hidden cave

Thy despair! My home - thy grave!

Blood gush I source - Bloodshed I force

[THE TRAVELLER:]

"The only reason they left me alive

Is to announce that (at last) no one will survive

Beware of the shapes that in twilight creep

Grim omens that tell us we're (already) in too deep..."