Vasty'naar Verses: A Regalian Selection

Vasty'naar Verses: A Regalian Selection
Literature
Author	Vasty’naar
Genre	Poetry
Printer	The Sennelan Cooperative

There are many competing beliefs about who Vasty’naar was. Some say she was born in Daen during the end of the Consolidation, and as the suffocating over-population of the urban landscape took hold during the Floundering, she was driven to seek inspiration for her art. Others contend she was born on the Sundial Isles and remained there all her life, only traveling to the nearby Sunbright Isles (now part of Rokhara) once in her life. But what is certain is that the Vasty’naar Verses, as they are now known, became legendary works of Suvial musical composition and poetry. “Vasty’naar Verses: A Regalian Selection” was compiled in 295 AC as part of a Regal-led knowledge collection mission to the Suvial inhabited areas of the Regalian Archipelago, who selected five works of prominence for inclusion in the final document.

Vasty’naar Verses: A Regalian Selection

Ninth Verse on Nature/Artful Description of a Fireplume Blossom

See the crimson feather be discarded into

A sea of emerald tongues, seeking to savor

The sweetness of other bundles

Motherhood

Nasha rising hoods around the flower

Is this what fostering the bloom involves?

Swaddle life in warmth of form

Like Nasha circling the egg-young

Water as the Cycle in sweet essence

Let your song carry deep to the very root

All poured in will circle in the end

Like Nasha circling the final hour

Besotted

As a Hiran delicately steps

with slim form gently through

paths seen only by Hiran-light

this one before me with

legs uncovered and

eyes as deep as forest

pools lapped in Hiran travels

alights me

Third High Call to Aish-eia

Connivance of Persuasion, Deceit-god

Ashëa, Persuasion Master

Teach the way of deep-water deception

Allow the learning of pointed politics

Teach the way of unraveling of tapestry-lies

Allow the learning of falsehood perfection

Connivance of Persuasion, Deceit-god

Ashëa, Persuasion Master

Deliver to this speaker but a smirk

The gaze of knowing, of conniving content

That might show favor for masterful

Persuasive Lying

Epic of Drevooth, in three Lyrics

Drevooth of princely status

Sinadhäele in hand with Vanna was held

Blossoms were bitter in Indora

Arms raised to test Sinadhäele

In examination, Drevooth is lost

Vanna remains lost, without being so

Within the cracks, she mistakes herself

Mahavin, tempress, reaches her before Indora

The Wife gives in to sorrow in depths

Indora is driven to Ailor acts

Mahavin, murdered, Indora, accusing Vanna

From light lost gone, Drevooth steps

Lost in rivers, waters plied by Fin’ullen saviors

Aya’uiona clears Vanna’s heavy mind,

With Indora cast down

Trivia

• The Epic of Drevooth is an ancient Altalar story set in the Sundial Isles, but modern interpretations, expressed in the epic play form of the Suvial, often reflect modern ideas. Indora is portrayed as a schemer, who is ultimately turned into a Kathar at the play’s end, while Mahavin is herself a Kathar from the very start.
• The Vasty’naar Verses feature a number of High Calls to different Avatars beyond the selection picked out here and suggest that the Faith of Estel once featured prayer far more than it does in its modern, or even later pre-Cataclysm structures of devotion.
• Vasty’naar’s fate is ultimately unknown, though it is said her bloodline eventually blended with that of one of Sinadhäele’s oldest dynasties. Sadly, 90% of this family was lost in one of the earliest Void-outs launched on the Sundial Isles, alongside their records of literature and music, including a number of ancient copies of Vasty’naar Verses.

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Writers HydraLana Processors WaterDruppel, MantaRey, BillyTheScruffy	Last Editor HydraLana on 04/3/2022.

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