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<div align="center"><font face=1>The Song of Pelinal<br>
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Volume 1: On His Name<br>
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<div align="left">[Editor's Note: Volumes 1-6 are taken from the so-called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library. It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era. Beyond this, little is known of the original sources of these fragments, some of which appear to be from the same period (perhaps even from the same manuscript). But, as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments, no opinions will be offered here.]<br>
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That he took the name "Pelinal" was passing strange, no matter his later sobriquets, which were many. That was an Elvish name, and Pelinal was a scourge on that race, and not much given to irony. Pelinal was much too grim for that; even in youth he wore white hair, and trouble followed him. Perhaps his enemies named Pelinal of their own in their tongue, but that is doubtful, for it means "glorious knight", and he was neither to them. Certainly, many others added to that name during his days in Tamriel: he was Pelinal the Whitestrake because of his left hand, made of a killing light; he was Pelinal the Bloody, for he [drank] it in victory; he was Pelinal Insurgent, because he gave the crusades a face; he was Pelinal In Triumph, as the words eventually became synonymous, and men-at-arms gave thanks to the Eight when they saw his banner coming through war; he was Pelinal the Blamer, for he was quick to admonish those allies of his that favored tactics that ran counter to his, that is, sword-theory; and he was Pelinal the Third, though whether this was because some said he was a god guiser, who had incarnated twice before already, or that, simpler, he was the third vision given to Perrif, anon Alessia, in her prayers of liberation before he walked among the quarters of rebellion, is unknown.
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<div align="center"><font face=1>The Song of Pelinal<br>
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Volume 1: On His Name<br>
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<div align="left">[編者注：第1-6巻はImperial Library所蔵のいわゆるReman写本から抜粋された。それは、Second Era初期に一人の無名学者によって収集され、書き写された物語群である。物語のうちのいくつかは同時代のものと思われる（おそらく同一の写本から抜粋されたのだろう）が、原典に関してそれ以上の情報はほとんど無い。これら6巻の年代順について目下学術的なコンセンサスは得られておらず、ここで意見を述べる事は避ける。] <br>
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のちに彼に付けられた呼び名は数多く有っても、"Pelinal"という名前ほど奇異なものは無い。それはエルフ風の名前であるが、Pelinalは彼らにとっての天敵であった。彼はそういった皮肉を解するには厳格過ぎたようだ。若くして白髪となり、その後も困難な生涯を送ったのである。エルフ達は敵である彼をその名で呼んだだろうか？それは疑わしい。なぜならその言葉は"栄光の騎士"を意味し、当然彼らにとってPelinalはそういった対象ではなかったからだ。彼は、Tamrielでの生涯の中で、実に多くの呼び名を得た。Pelinal the Whitestrake（白きストレーキのPelinal）、その左手が殺人光線で出来ていたゆえに。Pelinal the Bloody（血塗れのPelinal）、勝利の為に流血を惜しまなかったゆえに。Pelinal the Insurgent（反乱のPelinal）、聖戦の象徴となったゆえに。Pelinal In Triumph（勝利のPelinal）、兵士達が戦場にはためく彼の旗印にEightへの感謝を寄せ、ついに勝利を収めるに至り、その名が勝利と同義となったゆえに。Pelinal the Blamer（咎めのPelinal）、彼の戦術に従おうとしない味方をすみやかに、剣の力でもって戒めたゆえに。彼はPelinal the Third（３番目のPelinal）とも呼ばれた。彼がこれまでに二度顕現した神の化身の三人目であるとからとも言われるし、より単純に、彼が反乱に東奔西走する以前、Perrif、のちのAlessia女王が解放の祈りの中で得た三番目の予言に彼が登場するからとも言われるが、真相は不明である。
