Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Sothalkarr

 (Ineia #7)

Similar idea as previous poem, but fewer words and narrower scope. Ineia accepts that Sothalkarr is the one city they will go to. There won't be time to go somewhere else. She hasn’t quite decided what she will do when she gets there, but she’s only got three phrases left to get translated, and so it won’t be this poem.

Sothalkarr The fair, 
carven trees of stone
Adorn her graceful courts where 
cold North wind had blown 

Built above her sisters there 
Sothalkarr can alone 
See the Doom her sisters share 
By Shadow overthrown 

Within your own walls a snare 
Traitors with hearts of stone 
Root them out, Sothalkarr fair,
Else be captive in orkon's lair.

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