Sometimes, to add a bit of flavor to my campaigns, I slip in the lyrics from any of many deserving death metal bands. Below is a song by Amorphis, "Death of a King" - it recently featured as a mysterious scroll found in the former lair of a necromancer and labelled as an oracle.
When the dawn is bright and new
And the day is full of hope
It’s easy to continue your journey
Like a king on his royal way
You will stand there amidst silence
In the void of endless winter
On the ice of an unknown lake
In the heart of loneliness
There you will meet yourself
There you’ll weigh your crown
On the ice of the lake of death
On the shining mirror of time
When the days are getting colder
And the winds clash against each other
When light is getting dimmer
And darkness shrouds the roads
You will drift into strange byways
Lost in foreign lands
Stranded on frigid shores
On a godless desolate plain
There you will meet yourself
There you’ll weigh your crown
On the ice of the lake of death
On the shining mirror of time
It’s there where your endeavor ends
On the face of a forlorn lake
Under weight of a timeless sky
It is there where you shall die
This is a good one, since it actually IS a genuine oracle, and a clue for the campaign. The players are finding the king in question (more on him in another post sometime) to be an important figure in the region's formative history. His crown, mentioned above, rests at the bottom of a lake, also mentioned above - and the players seek to find it. (Will they succeed? I hope to find out!)
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