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Published: 2007-09-18 14:09:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 7453; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 206
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Life is a struggle and ultimately it must be lost. Death conquers all. To live at all is to fight, and struggle against the odds. To be valiant is to fight for honour and love. It is to defy pain, exhaustion, sorrow, adversity and doubt, refusing to yield until the bitter end. Battered and wounded, Odo Paganus battles on against the insuperable enemy. He is sustained by the spirit of knighthood and by righteous rage.

The Gargers assail him just as relentlessly, driven by the blackest hate. They know that they are a superior species and that their superior numbers must soon overwhelm this stubborn foe; even though no single man has caused such injury to their kind in all their collective memory. Soon they will bring him down and be avenged. They will pull off his armour and mutilate his flesh. Then they will take his women, and when they are through with them they will hang his corpse in the fair prisoners' cell. It will be an additional torment- a reminder of the futility of resisting the Gargers. The putrefying body of the damsels' would-be champion will make the underworld air viler still for them. His body, that is, but not Odo's blond head, for that the Gargers will take south and hurl into Sulisas, the city of the knights. Thus they will announce to his people the fate of their bold commander.
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Comments: 9

Animist [2010-03-12 21:19:03 +0000 UTC]

Dang... D8

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celery-soda [2008-06-11 02:30:35 +0000 UTC]

This is really, really great! I love all the details and emotions!

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faile35 [2007-10-02 16:27:19 +0000 UTC]

These action pages have a real Albrecht Durer quality to them--very complex, yet frozen and well-posed. Nice work!

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Lord-Calidor [2007-09-19 18:54:23 +0000 UTC]

Unless a deus-ex ending, this does not bode well for a good-ole Odo.

Fight till the end! Death is not a dishonor!

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Touch-Not-This-Cat [2007-09-19 16:59:03 +0000 UTC]

I just realized that "Odo Paganus" means "Odo the Country Born", or more basely, "Odo the Country Bumpkin". I take it he is a man who has risen up in the world.

A slight revision of an old favorite for the occasion:

Suls, wha ha'e wi' Odo bled,
Suls, wham Paganus has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victorie!

Now's the day, and now's the hour:
See the front o' battle lour,
See approach Foul Garger's power -
Chains and slaverie!

Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave? -
Let him turn, and flee!

Wha for Sulisas's King and Law
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand or freeman fa',
Let him follow me!

By Oppression's woes and pains,
By your daughters in servile chains,
We will drain our dearest veins
But they shall be free!

Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do, or die!

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alt128 [2007-09-18 23:59:06 +0000 UTC]

This job is definitely bad for the health.

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dashinvaine In reply to alt128 [2007-09-19 13:32:40 +0000 UTC]

nah, it's good exersise.

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InpuUpUaut [2007-09-18 16:44:33 +0000 UTC]

This can not finish in a good way...

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Drend [2007-09-18 14:13:34 +0000 UTC]

so nice! ^^ awsome to see some high fantasy on devart again!

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