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<div align="center"><font face=1>The Song of Pelinal<br>
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Volume 7: On His Battle with Umaril and His Dismemberment<br>
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<div align="left">[Editor's Note: This fragment comes from a manuscript recovered from the ruins of the Alessian Order's monastery at Lake Canulus, which dates it to sometime prior to the War of Righteousness (1E 2321). However, textual analysis suggests that this fragment actually preserves a very early form of the Song, perhaps from the mid-sixth century.]<br>
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[And so after many battles with] Umaril's allies, where dead Aurorans lay like candlelight around the throne, the Pelinal became surrounded by the last Ayleid sorcerer-kings and their demons, each one heavy with varliance. The Whitestrake cracked the floor with his mace and they withdrew, and he said, "Bring me Umaril that called me out!" ... [And] while mighty in his aspect and wicked, deathless-golden Umaril favored ruin-from-afar over close combat and so he tarried in the shadows of the white tower before coming forth. More soldiers were sent against Pelinal to die, and yet they managed to pierce his armor with axes and arrows, for Umaril had wrought each one by long varliance, which he had been hoarding since his first issue [of challenge.]... [Presently] the half-Elf [showed himself] bathed in [Meridian light] ... and he listed his bloodline in the Ayleidoon and spoke of his father, a god of the [previous kalpa's] World-River and taking great delight in the heavy-breathing of Pelinal who had finally bled... [Text lost] ... [And] Umaril was laid low, the angel face of his helm dented into an ugliness which made Pelinal laugh, [and his] unfeathered wings broken off with sword strokes delivered while Pelinal stood [frothing]... above him insulting his ancestry and anyone else that took ship from Old Ehlnofey, [which] angered the other Elvish kings and drove them to a madness of their own... [and they] fell on him [speaking] to their weapons... cutting the Pelinal into eighths while he roared in confusion [which even] the Council of Skiffs [could hear]... [Text lost] ...ran when Mor shook the whole of the tower with mighty bashing from his horns [the next morning], and some were slain-in-overabundance in the Taking, and Men looked for more Ayleids to kill but Pelinal had left none save those kings and demons that had already begun to flee... It was Morihaus who found the Whitestrake's head, which the kings had left to prove their deeds and they spoke and Pelinal said things of regrets... but the rebellion had turned anyway... [and more] words were said between these immortals that even the Paravant would not deign to hear.
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<div align="center"><font face=1>The Song of Pelinal<br>
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Volume 7: On His Battle with Umaril and His Dismemberment<br>
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<div align="left">[編集者注：この断簡はCanulus湖のAlessian Orderの修道院跡から発掘された写本を典拠とする。これにはThe War of Righteousness(第一紀2321年)以前の日付が書き込まれているものもあった。しかし、原文を分析するに、この断簡は実際には歌のごく初期の形式を保持したものであり、恐らく600年代中頃のものであろう]<br>
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そして多くの戦いを経た後、Umarilの同盟軍であるAuroranの死体が蝋燭の灯りのように玉座の周りに横たわっていた。Pelinalは最後のAyleidの魔術王と悪魔どもに取り囲まれるようになり、各々が威圧するかのように覇気を纏っていた。Whitestrakeはメイスで床をぶち割ると彼らは後ずさりした。彼は言った。「私を呼んだUmarilを連れて来い！」･･･そして、厳めしい容貌と邪悪さに満ちた、死を知らぬ金色のUmarilは、接近戦よりも遠く離れた場所から滅ぼすことを好んでいた。よって、顕現する前は、白き塔の影に潜んでいたのである。多くの兵士たちがPelinalを殺すために送り込まれ、斧と矢でやっと彼の鎧は貫かれた。Umarilは最初に挑戦する宣告を発した頃より積み重ねた長い時間をかけ、各々の者をそう操っていたからである。･･･今やハーフエルフが自ら姿を現し、Meridiaの光に包まれ･･･彼はAyleidの血統を諳んじて彼の父、先なる劫の神World-Riverに語りかけ、Pelinalが遂に血を流し、深く息を吐いていることを、歓喜と共に話した･･･[文章は失われている]･･･かくしてUmarilは劣勢に立たされた。彼の兜の天使の顔がへこんで見苦しくなり、それをPelinalは嘲笑し、そして彼の羽の無い翼は剣の一撃で折られ、対峙するPelinalは憤慨して佇み･･･彼の先祖を侮辱して、Old Ehlnofeyより出でし者すべてを侮辱した。それが他のエルフの王を怒らせて、錯乱させた･･･そして彼らは武器に話しかけながら彼に襲い掛かり･･･Pelinalは惑乱から絶叫を上げつつ、八つ裂きにされた。Council of Skiffsでさえ、聞くことが出来たという･･･[文章は失われている]･･･翌朝、Morがその角で力強い一撃を加え、塔全体を揺さぶった時、逃げていった。そして、何人かは捕まって、惨たらしく惨殺された。人間はAyleidたちを殺そうと探し回ったが、Pelinalが殺しつくしてしまい、悪魔たちは逃げ出した後であった･･･Whitestrakeの首を見つけたのはMorihausだった。王たちは彼らの行為を見せ付けるために残しておいたのである。彼らが語りかけ、Pelinalは無念だと口にした･･･しかし、反乱軍はいずれにしても追い払ったのである。そして更なる言葉がこれらの不死なる存在の間で語られた。Paravantでさえ耳を塞いだであろうものが。
