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"Kreuzlied, have you ever heard the pipes call out in the dusk?"
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"Have you heard a voice in the wind sing: farewell, goodbye forever?"
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"We shall not weep for you, for the night breeze will bear our tears away."
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"Yes, comrade, it shall bear our tears away."
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They say that there was once a traveling musical troupe who conspired to assassinate the ruling house.
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Among them was a renegade noble scion named Kreuzlied.
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A tune was written for him after the plot failed.
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His real name was, of course, not "Kreuzlied," and has been lost to time.
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The word Kreuzlied itself used to mean "The Quartering Song" in the old tongue.
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In those days when the nights grew long and the dark hung low, quartering was a cruel punishment that left its victims begging for the release of death.
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Deserters, bandits, rebels and makers of moonshine would be executed in public in this manner, while the ruling aristocracy basked in their dreadful cries.
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In those days when one could not see the light of dawn, "Kreuzlied" became a byword for those who rose up and failed.
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But in this way, it also became the rallying cry for rebellion.
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The Kreuzlied of the traveling troupe has had their name lost to time, yes.
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But it matters not, for by then, Kreuzlied had already taken on countless monikers carried on the wind in song:
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"The Nameless Shepherd." "Imunlaukr." "Midnight Rogue."
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"Dawnlight." "Gunnhildr." "Ragnvindr."
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Till at last the final Kreuzlied would awaken from a thousand-year slumber,
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Answering the small cry of a foreign maiden who had drifted to this land,
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Just as he had once been born from the wish of a certain youth...
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The songs that told of Kreuzlied would be fashionable for a time.
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But in the end, they would leave the lips of men, for in the time after the darkness, there was no longer any need for this name.
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"Kreuzlied, have you ever seen the horizon turn white?"
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"Have you heard the maiden sing to the wind: farewell, goodbye forever?"
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"The morning sun has kissed away my tears, and told me that dawn has broken,"
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"O my lover, the dawn, it has broken."
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