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

The Sixth Song: King - Reno

Look no more
Only the weak use their eyes
But I, I will teach you right
Come with me, come inside
Spread your sails, shed your pride
And don't mind those salty sips
That drag you down
You'll just be gone and I'll
Sing on and on
And on and on and on
To capture the next one

Long live the king, the king is dead
Your prayers won't call him back to your bed
With all this blood I've laced upon the moon
No spells of tricks will bring him home
Long live the king, the king is mine
The king is dead

An addict to my tones
You will drink me till you say when
And then you’ll have to drink some more
You'll love me like the devil loves
To drink his water laced with wine
But you won't like him be called an angel
When you fall

You'll just be gone and I'll
Sing on and on
And on and on and on
To capture the next one

Long live the king, the king is dead
Your prayers won't call him back to your bed
With all this blood I've laced upon the moon
No spells of tricks will bring him home
Long live the king, the king is mine
The king is dead

One day I'll be conquered by a wily voice and eyes
And my tomb will be a stage where great cities rise
And the queen will be dead, long live the queen
And the queen will be dead, long live the queen!

Long live the king, the king is dead
Your prayers won't call him back to your bed
With all this blood I've laced upon the moon
No spells of tricks will bring him home
Long live the king, the king is mine
The king is dead
Long live the king, the king is dead
Your prayers won't call him back to your bed
With all this blood I've laced upon the moon
No spells of tricks will bring him home
Long live the king, the king is mine
The king is dead

The Seventh Song: Grubbery - Mantel

You are mistaken when you come with shovels in your hands
The ghosts caught between your teeth will find their way home

And empty hides left that you sniff out, will consume you
Take themselves back
Watching your teeth bend closer to the ground
Raining from your mouth, watering and hungry
As as your feet walk closer to the mouth
You'll be the grubbery for your robbery

And how you will pay for the rush of rot through your heart
The fork turns beneath the ground
It ends this way

You cannot keep all the lives that you eat...
And empty hides left that you sniff out, will consume you
Take themselves back
When you chew now, you should look out
When the ground moves, hungry like you

The Eighth Song: Death Whispered a Lullaby - Solitaire

Out on the road there are fireflies circling
Deep in the woods, where the lost souls hide
Over the hill there are men returning
Trying to find some peace of mind

Sleep my child

Under the fog there are shadows moving
Don't be afraid, hold my hand
Into the dark there are eyelids closing
Buried alive in the shifting sands

Sleep my child

Speak to me now and the world will crumble
Open a door and the moon will fall
All of your life, all your memories
Go to your dreams, forget it all

Sleep my child

The Ninth Song: Empty - Luna

Empty vessel, under the sun
Wipe the dust from my face
Another morning, black Sunday
Coming down again
I'm coming down again

Empty vessel, empty veins
Empty bottle, wish for rain
That pain again
Wash the blood off my face
The pulse from my brain
That pain again
And I feel that pain again

I'm looking over my shoulder
'Cause millions will whisper
I'm killing myself again
Maybe I'm dying faster
But nothing ever lasts
I remember a night from my past
When I was stabbed in the back
And it's all coming back
And I feel that pain again

I abhor you, I condemn you
'Cause this pain will never end
You got away without a scratch
And now you're walking on a lucky path
I have to laugh
But you'd better watch your back
Cause I’m so empty...

The Tenth Song: Here Come the Vultures - Maria

I once had an understanding that everything would go my way
But now we’ve come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs
I’m not in it for the fun of it but for the pain
I’m not at all interested in your temporary fame

I just want to see you stare
As I lay my soul bare for you
To crush upon with heavy feet
I’m in it for the beat

Stranger the faces
Stranger the places
They’re becoming us
Here come the vultures
Here come the vultures
Heading over us

It’s just a black murder of crows
Across the sky
The moon announces that it will soon be night
The light dies down
The spot goes on
As loveless lips
Break into song

I once had an understanding that everything would go my way
But now we’ve come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs
I’m not in it for the fun of it but for the pain
I’m not at all interested in your temporary fame
And the same old song we sing

Here’s to the ghost
We still seem to host
How he’s becoming us
Here come the vultures
Here come the vultures
Screaming down at us

They said you can not sing the blues
When you’re pretty and young
Let me show you a face that fits to neither one
This heart is black
Like blood that has dried
This song is blue
Like bruises bright

I once had an understanding that everything would go my way
But now we’ve come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs
I’m not in it for the fun of it but for the pain
I’m not at all interested in your temporary fame
And the same old song we sing

Murder of crows across the sky
The moon announces that it will soon be night
Fog closes in
And all I see
All empty eyes
Through silent screams

The Eleventh Song: Cut the Cord - Raine

You’ve pulled a few strings
Stolen my ideas
Taken my kindness for granted
You’re not worth all the tears
I see you’re slipping stitches
Your setup so passé
It's an easy victory for me
When your work's so cliché

Nobody stands a chance here in my way
Is it so wrong to be selfish for a change?
Nobody stands a chance here in my way
Is it so wrong to be selfish today?

Cut the cord
Mark the pins
You’re not bad at darning, darling
But that doesn't mean anything
Cut the cord
And mark the pins
You're not bad at what you do
But that doesn't mean a thing

Seamless needlework
Tailoring the perfect trim
I've got so much work to do
Where on earth do I begin?
Fearless infantry
Stand behind me in my stride
Stopping's not an option
When your goals are anything like mine

You've put up a fight
Tearing at the inseam
Watching everything falling apart
Won't keep me from my dream

Nobody stands a chance here in my way
Is it so wrong to be selfish for a change?
Nobody stands a chance here in my way
Is it so wrong to be selfish today?

Cut the cord
Mark the pins
You’re not bad at darning, darling
But that doesn't mean anything
Cut the cord
And mark the pins
You're not bad at what you do
But that doesn't mean

Cut the cord
Mark the pins
You’re not bad at darning, darling
But that doesn't mean anything
Cut the cord
And mark the pins
You're not bad at what you do
But that doesn't mean a thing

The Twelfth Song: End of Time - Caelvan

You built your life
Above the sand
You hold my hand
Before the end comes
For kidding me
For what I've done till the end of days
'Cause I belong to you
'Cause I am part of you
I am dying in your arms
It's time to go
I can make it through
I've come to realize
Tonight my dear the end of time
Is not so far away
We cannot pray to save our lives
I can feel you and
I think that everything you wanted make
Was the mirror of your dreams
But I couldn't believe what you take
As I belong to you
My flesh and blood in you
I am burning in this fire
It's time to go
I can make it through
I've come to realize
Tonight my dear the end of time
Is not so far away
We cannot pray to save our lives
I've come to realize
Tonight my friend the end of time
Is not so far away
We cannot pray to save our lives
I'm coming home again
And now I know where I belong
Reeling from my instincts
'Cause I realize I'm not alone
I've come to realize
Tonight my dear the end of time
Is not so far away
We cannot pray to save our lives
I've come to realize
Tonight my friend the end of time
Is not so far away
We cannot pray to save our lives

The Thirteenth Song: No One There - Kestrel

The axe, the bottle, and the rope
The feeling there really is no more hope
The thought of the great unknown
And facing it alone
The dark, the silent, and the cold
The feeling I have come to the end of my road
Yes these are the things I spend my remaining moments with

And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there

Why did it have to be so hard
For us to live our lives
Again I reach out in the dark in despair

The desperation and the snow
The feeling of finally coming back home
The melancholy and the hole in the soil so hard and cold

And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there

Your love for me, my love for you
Things we somehow managed to lose
Now there's only the ruthless wind
To blow right through
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
To think we both will die alone
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there

The Fourteenth Song: Spellbound - Talaniel

Burning here, in the room
Feeling that the walls are moving closer
Silent scene the dark takes me
Leads me to the ending of another day
I'm haunted
Tell me who you are. I am spellbound
You cannot have this control on me
Everywhere I go I am spellbound
I will break the spell you put on me
Velvet drapes, glowing candles
Silent whispers of words inside of my head
The night that comes, it waits for me
Lift me to the ending of another day
I'm haunted
Tell me who you are. I am spellbound
You cannot have this control on me
Everywhere I go I am spellbound
I will break the spell you put on me
Tell me who you are. I am spellbound
You cannot have this control on me
Everywhere I go I am spellbound
I will break the spell you put on me
Everywhere I go I am spellbound
Everywhere I go I am spellbound
Everywhere I go I am spellbound
I will break the spell you put on me

The Fifteenth Song: No One Will Save You - Cara

I hear music in the air tonight
One familiar fading tune
Something pulls at my infected soul
I think I remember you

I burned your world away
Devoured by my conviction
I left you home afraid
While mother's ventured out
Don't cry when lanterns fade
Soon we'll be awakened
But it breaks my heart to say
No one will save you now

I could be your own avenging angel
But this dream is ending soon
Don't you scream when all the wolves come find you
Underneath this bleeding moon

Listen closely for your sister's footsteps
Lest you fade here all alone
I have never seen a night this haunting
In these streets of blood and bone
I can't hold the beast that crawls through my veins
Sacrificing my own eyes
No confessions left to purify me
Something's watching from the skies

I hear music in the air tonight
One familiar fading tune
I can't save you from the monsters coming
But we'll wake up very soon

From our friend,
Do you think you can catch her if she keeps moving?
_____________________________________________

Now it is in our opinion that we should figure out how to stop her from moving through time.... we have plenty of ideas, but this sounds like a first or beginning step, so we would like to hear others before tainting your ears.

You have my assistance. I aim to see this through as I have more questions than answers.

Chronicler will always hold a place with me. I will be glad to help how I can.

-Ilana

A question or three.

Is this the same Kyari that is known as a Kolator to the Argentian people?

Why should we care if we do not worship your deity?

If it is the same Kyari that is a Kolator, then perhaps we should be letting the gods sort their own business. What does it benefit us to be involved in their struggles?

What happens if this Kyari succeeds? Does it not mean that the original being finally may pass to its rest? If that is the case, it is seeming to me to be very selfish of mortals to stop this. It would be like preventing a soul from passing on or keeping it trapped in a husk of a body.



Sergei

Belegchand,

You know I will assist you however I can. Just let me know what is needed of me.

Khala Stormbringer
Dean of Druidics
Darkwood Academy

As a follow up to Sergei's points, if this is what their fate demands, why are we attempting to stop it? Shouldn't Chronicler of all beings understand what is driving her twin- Her Self- to do this better than even we do?

-Allyce

I lend you my voice and my power for your cause, Belegchand.

Allyce,

Chronicler asked for the assistance.

Referencing the first message Chronicler provided, this version of Kyari is trying to force changes to fate and alter histories that have already happened to ultimately end Chronicler.

Despite Belegchand's personal investment, this sounds similar to when the Dischordians started attacking time with their cacophony. It's simply preserving history so we may exist.

Hope that clears things up a bit.

-Ilana

Reading Jackdaw's song, these are beginning to seem like prophecy. Study your songs and steel your resolve; there seems a wickedness in the air.

~Nalick

Allyce, and any others who protest-

I wasn’t aware that we were in the business of determining if someone who asks for our help deserves it. You are a guard, not judge, jury and executioner. Instead of deciding whether or not it is someone’s destiny to die without knowing the facts, maybe instead focus on how you can save the very history that defines our timeline. One change could trigger the success of the nulls, or change our world to one overrun by vampires at all times, or any number of horrible fates. Time should not be changed. History can be observed but should not be touched, for one rock can change the path of a river. Time is no different.

Sergei,

You are for the most part correct, the fate of the Chronicler is at least, of no concern to us.
In our own personal motives we have our reasons to act on this.
Kyari however does concern us, because unfortunately Kyari and the Chronicler are one in the same, for them to die would mean us, as kin, loosing that pillar or respect we hold to her.

If you look for motivations,
Through time the Kolator have earned our peoples respect, this is why we show them equal regards as the head of a family. Stopping the death of one, even with them being even a mockery and abomination of or culture, would prove to uphold or possibly even pay back their past actions in the assistance of our wandering ancestors. Still, we wouldn't put this as something to die over, if you choose to involve.

We as the head of the house Potrevski however COMMAND the assistance from the kin holding our name, in the air of connivance; If you cannot make it to this endeavor or have pressing matters you deem possibly more urgent, send us a missive, we will wander by the hostel and find time to speak with you on your discrepancies.
(OOG see Steve's post, if this isn't something for you, that's 100% cool)

If Kyari is changing things to get to Chronicler, why not simply convince them to allow this to happen? Will not the Chronicler take a new form as they did the last time? From what you all have said, she does not wish the mantle of godhood, merely to complete her own fated goal. Since the Chronicler was mortal when they ascended, it seems merely like the mortal wish to not die.

Cousin, I see and respect your own wishes, but the Taleshi have no need of the Kolator, and I share that sentiment.

Cara, I am indeed one who judges who needs aid. I must make decisions that will the most aid myself and my people. My foremost responsibility is to the thousand souls of Inovar, as well as my family and kin. If I am pulled in a thousand directions, I am unable to help them. So, yes. I will absolutely decide to not help if I deem them undeserving.

Were this merely a gadje matter, I would ignore it completely. But as it is likely to affect my people, THAT is why I am concerning myself with it and asking questions. Your opinions of me do not matter in the least. I care about my folk foremost.


Sergei

Sergi-

And if a life she attempts to change is of your kin? If she causes the death of one of those people you protects ancestors that unmakes dozens of people you care about? Hundreds? If the action she takes wipes out your people completely? We don’t know what it is she is doing yet, don’t know what history she aims to change. Don’t discount our actions to save our present by saving history. I understand if you don’t want to be involved, and can force no ones hand, but before you say maybe this is meant to be look at the larger scope of the situation. Maybe it could affect you more than you realize.