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Faded Echoes - Lore & Extras

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Should I come up with anything that I put too much work in not to share when building background for the Faded Echoes world state, I will post it here. Think of this like the Codex.

Chapter 1: Fereldan Folk Song - The Foggy Dew

Summary:

In "Chapter XXI: The Day Began the Night Before" of the In Exile: Act I, there are brief excerpts of a drunken fereldan song. Specifically, a song of the Rebellion.

I adapted this song from Canon O'Neill's "The Foggy Dew," written just after the First World War about the Easter Uprising, to reference a potential battle at a town along the Hafter River, Amaranthine. I don't recall if this is an officially established town or not in Bioware canon, but the geography and such all makes sense for a stirring rebellion ballad set near the sea.

Chapter Text

Twas down the glen one Solace morn
To a city fair strode I
There armored lines of marching men
In squadrons passed me by
No pipe did hum, no battle drum
Did sound its dreaded tune
But the chantry bells ore Hafter's swell
Rang out through the foggy dew

Now proudly high over Greenfell town
They hung out the flag of war
Twas better to die that Summertide
Then slain by the cold Montfort
And from the plains of South Reach
Strong men came running through
While Orlesian curs with their silver spurs
Rode in through the foggy dew

Twas Orlais that bade our arms to raise
That Perrandale might be freed
But their lonely graves are dug deep in graze
By the shade of the Ghislain trees
But had they died by Moira's side
Or fought with Loghain true
Their names we would keep where Fereldans sleep
Neath the shroud of the foggy dew

But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell
Rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Solacetide
In the summering of the year
And the land did gaze in deep amaze
At those fearless men but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
Might shine through the foggy dew

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