O pale luminescence!
Floating orb incandescent!
Show us a sight tonight
So we for centuries might
Sing aloud for centuries long
And dance to a glory song!
Through a moonlit valley I trudged
A trace of skooma on my shirt
Parting aside noctural grasses tall
To introduce thee to my tale, that’s all.
Did I see a deer, or hear?
Did I see a skeever in fear?
For far away upon Angmar’s Stone
Along yonder rocky roads there shone
For a second in the vivid moonlight
A warrior’s armor crafted from ebonite
And just as ’twas ‘fore my eyes laid
Disappeared as swiftly as displayed
But hold!
Did I see another deer, or hear?
Did I see a bear to be feared?
For now the night not be a virgin
For now a tale be told, a gin?
O pale luminescence!
Floating orb incandescent!
Show us a sight tonight
So we for centuries might
Sing aloud for centuries long
And dance to a glory song!
Behind the trees of White Wolf Hill
I hid filled with impending thrill
Pellucid vison of Angmar’s Stone
Neither hunter not hunted were alone
As I had seen the rising soot
From the garrison of Elden Root
From a Khajiit I came to know
Not all within fell to the fiendish blow
There lived a Bosmer brave
There lived a Bosmer sly
To the Thalmor not a slave
Only to his kin an ally
From the Khajiit I spoke of last
Did slip me one more tale fast
Of the Altmer that swore revenge
His kins he seeked to avenge
And so did the Bosmer pledge he told
Undo the sorrow of Elden Root Hold.
O pale luminescence!
Floating orb incandescent!
Show us a sight tonight
So we for centuries might
Sing aloud for centuries long
And dance to a glory song!
And now the stage for battle lay
Far away from horses and hay
The moon bade a swift goodbye
And hid Angmar’s Rock from my eyes
So like vile Falmer who be blind
I let a spell unwind
Took me sailing across the wind
My ears began to sing
Through the wind I heard a swoosh!
And the shadow of an archer sly
Through the wind I heard a swoosh!
A poisoned arrow into the Altmer’s hide.
And then flash after flash did fly
By the serene night did neither abide
As two elves set the night ablaze
A battle distinct even through haze
A night that seemed quiet amd still
From Elden Root’s gloomy window sill
O pale luminescence!
Floating orb incandescent!
Show us a sight tonight
So we for centuries might
Sing aloud for centuries long
And dance to a glory song!
In Arenthia they first were seen
The illusionist’s thunderous sheen
As lighting to himself he summoned
And upon his foes a death command
But hold! Not tonight!
For with the archer of Bosmer legend
There never is no end
As spell after spell he fought back
As spell after spell he shot back
And now I saw Talasan
To avenge the great Niyuren
For centuries to be as the man
The one who avenged mighty Niyuren.
Stroke upon stroke hell upon him
Stroke upon stroke he lay upon him
As Angmar’s Rock burst into flame’
Upon Talasan’s sword only one name
As swiftly as fabled Bosmer of old
As swiftly may this tale be told
Talasan drew a poisoned balde
Into Norionil’s heart and slayed
The slayer of fallen heroes of Elden Root
That now lay in peace albeit in soot.
O pale luminescence!
Floating orb incandescent!
Show us a sight tonight
So we for centuries might
Sing aloud for centuries long
And dance to a glory song!
Ink Idle 
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