Assistance Needed: The Ediyri Songs

Subjects of Travance,

I am writing this message to request assistance from any who wish to provide it against a dire threat.

As many of you may be aware, there is a threat being levied against the Chronicler, Goddess of Knowledge. In order to explain this threat, I will give a brief history of the situation, as befitting my Goddess.

Chronicler began her life as an Ordrim named Kyari. Ordrim are Astral beings who will be reborn until they complete their life’s purpose, at which time they become mortal. Kyari’s original purpose was to create fifteen songs, known as the Erdani Songs. This roughly translates to “Songs of Second Chances.” These songs were designed to give individuals determined by the Ordrim another chance of some kind, differing by recipient, and through these songs miraculous things occurred. Upon completing her fifteenth song, Kyari became mortal, but Her life took an unexpected turn as she ascended the Amber Path and became a Goddess.

However, because of the nature of astral beings such as Ordrim, this ascension caused a schism. As Kyari shed her name and became Chronicler, a splinter of herself was left behind. In the last year, those of us who pursued the songs learned that one of them Kyari wrote for herself. When Travancians were gifted by Chronicler the ability to view the events at the Quartz Mountain Academy back in April, Kyari’s purpose was revealed: Kyari declared to us that her purpose was the kill Chronicler.

This past Feast, after our Elven guests returned to their lands, singing was heard in the field next to the Dragon’s Claw Inn. Upon approaching, myself and others recognized the voice and presence of Kyari. While we did not see her face, we only encountered a wrapped stack of papers with her energy fading around them. She left behind fifteen new songs, called the Ediyri Songs. This roughly translates to the “Songs of Stolen Hope.” Upon praying to Chronicler, two messages were received, and a number of individuals gathered around the songs were given a Holy Vision by Her Will.

The first message was:

Sing to stop her
Songs of lost hope
Written to end lives that were
To change history and Her story
Sing to stop her
Sing to save lives
Sing to keep history.

The second message was:

15 songs in HER mission
15 words on HER arm
15 lives brought to ruin
15 chances to right their harm
15 times to turn back to
Oh, Lord, you’ve been less cruel to me.

Based on these messages and the visions we received, we will need to sing all fifteen songs. Each song will bring whoever is nearby back to a moment in history, where Kyari has planned something, and we need to stop her to prevent Chronicler’s demise.

Chronicler’s Divine Insight did tell us that, if we work together, and gather enough people who understand History, we should be able to put together the Story behind each song before we attempt it. The power of the songs is great, so we would not intend on attempting more than one each feast. Below, I am going to list out the lyrics to all fifteen songs, along with their titles so they are available for all to read. In order to activate the song in question, the original page will be required. Next to the songs, I will be listing fifteen names. These are people who happened to be present when the songs were found, and were the first to pick up each song. They are the ones the originals will be entrusted with.

Currently, I am asking any who are skilled in the Knowledge of History and are willing to assist to step forward. I will be very vocal and public about when songs are intended to be sung, so that way any who wish to assist have the opportunity to plan accordingly.

I cannot stress enough how important this is to me, as well as those of my Church. Our Goddess is in mortal danger at the hands of an Astral being who cannot be killed until she completes her purpose. We need any assistance that people are willing to provide. I humbly thank any of you willing to assist in this Divine mission.

In service,
Belegchand Dinephilin
Seeker of the Veiled Truth
Champion of Knowledge

The First Song: Tanta Furia - Belegchand

Been coming up for a long, long time
When am I gonna fall?
I left my body behind as I climb
To the centre of it all

Levitate from my state
Fill you up with my hate
Throw the dust in the sky
Looking up with open eyes
Holding time in your hands
An hourglass of sinking sand
Holy night, what the hell
Is stopping me from waking up?

I’m looking down at the ground
As I’m bound to the angel of my hurt
I see his halo is burning
I’m turning the pages of the earth

Animal that you are
Feral love give me scars
Cut the cord from your life
Visions of a serpentine
Holding trust in your lips
Secrets of a Serpent kiss
Turn your cheek for a friend
I never want this moment to end

She’s got the power of words
How I herd my fury to her shrine
I know she’s lifting the curse
As we worship for reasons undefined

Bite my lip, not my type
Visions of a sacrifice
Say the name in blood
Drink it down and raise it up
Bitterness overripe
Hanging from, tree of life
Let me go to despair
TANTA FURIA

The Second Song: Ghosts - Moostrav

The ghosts in my house
Are whispering and calling out to me
They wake me up at first light

The nightmare is coming home
Here lies the one
You gave up on
Not good enough
Not good enough
The ghosts in my house
Are laughing at me
"The living can never be free"
They wake me up just to go back to sleep
So I'm living in a permanent dream
This house will fall
In drunken scrawls
Not good enough
We had it all
So don't try to leave
'Cause you promised me
So don't try to leave
'Cause you promised me
Here lies the one
You gave up on
Not good enough
Not good enough

The Third Song: Deathbed Confession - Jackdaw

I took a walk through the cracks of an alley
Where I saw the whites of your eyes getting heavy
It’s a sad little burden that you keep and you carry
But you love to weep and you love to be sorry

I was almost out when the guns had been loaded
When you heard me shout that the war wasn’t over
Do you have to doubt the power you own
So you ran and you beg to the blood red throne

Say to me, what you see
You believed, the grass was green
They have been, safe and clean
It won’t mean they’ll save you

High is the risk and the bets that you are placing
Don’t you think that it’s time
That you stopped all the shaking?
I can see for days you’ve been jealous and sober
Cos I made my bed with a drunk little soldier

Well he sat me down, said to me:
“I’m trying to decide how I want to spend eternity
I’m saving all my sins up for a deathbed confession
But I did not know, that your God was Kormyrian”

What did you think of the food from the table?
Did you have to eat so that you could be able?
To spit out your sins, be sanctified
Now you call all you follow to lay down and die

The Fourth Song: Second Sleep - Svedka

Your ship is sinking, the lights are blinking
And I am watching as you drown
Your ship is sinking, and your obsessing
The lights are blinking
You are going down
Keep asking why the boards have broke
As every scream will only choke
So many words, it doesn't move
As you're struggling to breathe, you realize...

The ship is sinking, ship is sinking
Ship is sinking, the ship is sinking

You had a warning
You kept ignoring
And now you're drowning
You are drowning

Lightening and tears
The boards have broke
And every scream has only choked
Now as your lungs take in the cold
The fading of your life is the one thing you cannot control

The ship is sinking, ship is sinking
Ship is sinking, the ship is sinking
Ship is sinking
Your ship is sinking, your ship is sinking...

The Fifth Song: The Sailor's Wife - Lois

The Sailor’s Wife, alone one night
In slumber as she bathes
She dreams of ships her sailor’s lip
Against the ocean waves
The sailor’s wife was pale and white
Beauty near divine
‘Oh how the sea has stolen thee’
She drinks, she waits, she cries
Life is but a dream
The sailor knows that waves will grow
When all is not content
The sky grows dark, a lightning spark
A message must be sent
He shouts down to the sorry crew
‘The sky’s no longer blue
A storm is come to claim someone
So pray it is not you’
Life is but a dream
The sailor’s wife had bare a life
Before she slipped and fell
Her back was broke, and as she soaks
She cannot cry for help
The sailor clings to ropes and things
He won’t survive for long
Then crashing down upon his crown
A final, parting song
Both of them sinking as death pulls the plug
One in the ocean and one in the tub
The water’s running
The storm is coming
The sailor is drowning, drowning
Life is but a dream