Vox Ranzina

Sulphur Winter Crisis
The prophecy known as the Vox Ranzina, "the voice of Ranz", was published by the Ranzine Monks in the Fall of 612 A.O. Anti-Trakorian political factions immediately claimed that it predicted the fall of the Trakorian Empire.

The text
1 Long road walketh the wise,

2 In the early morrow walks with halcyon his foot.

3 The late awoken must ever hasten,

4 Run unthinking to counsel and bloody deed.

5 Stars in procession I see assemble,

6 The fifth ship runs towards shore.

7 Bows bathe, rinsed in manblood;

8 Before this four have fled.

9 The sow berth of stars shall be sought by many,

10 Few shall find a fair future.

11 Thirsting armies as tears throng

12 Where ocean’s stones at sun shore melt.

13 The ban of the gods is at an end,

14 Darkness births ancient host.

15 Rotting realms tumble miserably,

16 False gods fall.

17 Flowers wilt, foliage withers,

18 From this sprouts tender saplings.

19 The old becomes mud, wanders in grave,

20 Horribly rotted, she fattens seedling.

21 Wolves are flocking by rose’s pennants,

22 Calamity brewed by liquid earth.

23 The land bleeds bloody power,

24 But fluids grey in hands of blue.

25 King I see come by sail,

26 His visage no one may see.

27 The sons of dimness ride on the foam,

28 Aged veining enwraps the oar.

29 Tattered hub, black as night

30 Adjoins to concord four spokes.

31 Widely is set to turn the wheel,

32 Rolls heavily over dawning days.

33 Man of darkness I see mightily stand

34 Ghastly forth from grave’s cavernous room.

35 Woe to the city where the cradle stood,

36 May the depths devour its walls.

37 The visage knows the bane that comes,

38 Sword biding in weak fingers.

39 Like the lancet glides without noise

40 Pointed ram against heart’s demesne.