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There are, of course, some four hundred and eighteen more verses,
but the quality definitely deteriorates beyond this point, and the
descriptions of the punishments invoked upon enemies are too
graphic to repeat in a text which might inadvertently fall into the
hands of women or children.
THE HOLY BOOKS
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THE LAMENT OF MARA
NOTE FROM THE IMPERIAL LIBRARIAN OF TOL HONETH:
This peculiar piece was produced by a melancholy monk at Mar-Ten"n
in the late 27th century. Though he steadfastly maintained until his
death that these were the actual words of the grieving God, Mara, it is
easily evident that this mournful work is rather the product of a mind
diseased by solitude, racial guilt and the continual wail of the wind in
the barren trees near the monastery.
The unfortunate history of the destruction of Maragor and the
extermination of its people is a moral burden which the Tolnedran Empire
must bear. We must not, however, lapse into hysteria as a result of our
sense of guilt. Rather we must resolve never again to turn to such
savagery in our quest for advantage and profit.
Truly, the spirit of the C4od Mara stands as a continual remonstrance
to us,. and, balanced against the proverbs Of OUT own beloved Nedra,
provides every decent and right-thinking Tolnedran with those bounds
against which he may measure his conduct.
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Oh Weep for Mara whose people are no more.
Sorrow,
Sorrow,
Grief and Woe
The people are destroyed, the elders and the
children.
The men are cut down, and the women, fountainhead-of race and blood and kind
are slain.
The people of Mara are no more.
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Sorrow
Sorrow
and
The people of Mara are no more.
Cursed then is the land.
Betrayed am I by my brothers.
Betrayed land of the Marags shall be forever
Accursed.