Okay, technically, this "song" will actually comprise two poetic quatrains distributed into four Lusternian stanzas each, and ending with a couplet that gets one Lusternian stanza all to itself. It also utilizes perfect rhyme, which is considered rather amateurish these days... but hey, I couldn't care less. I like rhyming.

Behold! Mother Night is richly swath'd
In samite of depthless ebon hue;
Upon her hair is wreath'd a crown
Of silv'ry pinpricks: dark sky's distant dew.

Beware the gloaming, all who oppose!
Lest savage malisons scourge your mind;
Should you glimpse a cloak of twilit pinions,
Brother Crow, unseen, surely follows close behind.

F'ai Glomdoring! Our clarion call! Ring triumphant, for our enemies doth fall.

Congratulations! You are now a hired writer for the Glomdoring Library!

Very good! I like it!

I wonder if anyone's ever done a bard version of "This is the Song that Never, Ever Ends." /random

Awesome!

(Do you mean that literally? What does it entail, other than the obvious?)



Thank you! And, I hope not....

Yay rhyming!

Just wondering, what is a Lusternian stanza?

The usual definition of stanza is "an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, ..." but for bard's composition skill each line is referred to as a stanza.

Each 75 character-max line of a bard song is a stanza.

I like the rhyming and I love this song! It is a good line for your dirge, too!

It's just a made-up phrase I'm using because of Lusternia's game mechanics. Typically, bards will only assign one line of verse to each "stanza" in our songs. Not only is there a character limit, but running two discrete verses together on one line (instead of having them on separate lines) might ruin the flow of the song/poem.

In the real world, a stanza comprises a couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), quatrain (four lines), or so on and so forth. You'll note there's no option for a one-line stanza, thus the discrepancy in terminology when comparing real-life terms to Lusternian game mechanics.

(Yay unnecessarily long elaboration? )

Thank you all for the compliments! Especially Talan, our guild Champion!

It means I'll be expecting written works from you IG.

Huh! For some reason, I hadn't noticed there were new replies to this thread until approximately fifteen seconds ago.

I will certainly be writing pamphlets, books, songs, poems, descriptions, designs, and plays, all in due time. At the moment, however, I am focused on reading other players' books, soaking up Lusternian lore, and mastering the basics of gameplay, not to mention wrangling unruly aliases, triggers, and variables.

Excellent!