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<DIV align="center">The Death Blow of Abernanit<br>
With Explains by the sage<br>
Geocrates Varnus<br>
<br>
<DIV align="left">   Broken battlements and wrecked walls<br>
   Where worship of the Horror (1) once embraced.<br>
   The bites of fifty winters (2) frost and wind<br>
   Have cracked and pitted the unholy gates,<br>
   And brought down the cruel, obscene spire.<br>
   All is dust, all is nothing more than dust.<br>
   The blood has dried and screams have echoed out.<br>
   Framed by hills in the wildest, forlorn place<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   Sits the barren bones of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   When thrice-blessed Rangidil (3) first saw Abernanit,<br>
   It burnished silver bright with power and permanence.<br>
   A dreadful place with dreadful men to guard it<br>
   With fever glassed eyes and strength through the Horror.<br>
   Rangidil saw the foes' number was far greater<br>
   Than the few Ordinators and Buoyant Armigers he led,<br>
   Watching from the hills above, the field and castle of death<br>
   While it stood, it damned the souls of the people<br>
   Of Morrowind.<br>
   Accursed, iniquitous castle Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   The alarum was sounded calling the holy warriors to battle<br>
   To answer villiany's shield with justice's spear,<br>
   To steel themselves to fight at the front and be brave.<br>
   Rangidil too grasped his shield and his thin ebon spear<br>
   And the clamor of battle began with a resounding crash<br>
   To shake the clouds down from the sky.<br>
   The shield wall was smashed and blood staunched<br>
   The ground of the field, a battle like no other<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   To destroy the evil of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   The maniacal horde were skilled at arms, for certes,<br>
   But the three holy fists of Mother, Lord, and Wizard (4) pushed<br>
   The monster's army back in charge after charge.<br>
   Rangidil saw from above, urging the army to defend,<br>
   Dagoth Thras (5) himself in his pernicious tower spire,<br>
   And knew that only when the heart of evil was caught<br>
   Would the land e'er be truly saved.<br>
   He pledge then by the Temple and the Holy Tribunal<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   To take the tower of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   In a violent push, the tower base was pierced,<br>
   But all efforts to fell the spire came to naught<br>
   As if all the strength of the Horror held that one tower.<br>
   The stairwell up was steep and so tight<br>
   That two warriors could not ascend it side by side.<br>
   So single-file the army clambered up and up<br>
   To take the tower room and end the reign<br>
   Of one of the cruellest petty tyrants in the annals<br>
   Of Morrowind,<br>
   Dagoth Thras of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   They awaited a victory cry from the first to scale the tower<br>
   But silence only returned, and then the blood,<br>
   First only a rivulet and then a scarlet course<br>
   Poured down the steep stairwell, with the cry from above,<br>
   "Dagoth Thras is besting our army one by one!"<br>
   Rangidil called his army back, every Ordinator and<br>
   Buoyant Armiger, and he himself ascended the stairs,<br>
   Passing the bloody remains of the best warriors<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   To the tower room of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   Like a raven of death on its aerie was Dagoth Thras<br>
   Holding bloody shield and bloody blade at the tower room door.<br>
   Every thrust of Rangidil's spear was blocked with ease;<br>
   Every slash of Rangidil's blade was deflected away;<br>
   Every blow of Rangidil's mace was met by the shield;<br>
   Every quick arrow shot could find no purchase<br>
   For the Monster's greatest power was in his dread blessing<br>
   That no weapon from no warrior found in all<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   Could pass the shield of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   As hour passed hour, Rangidil came to understand<br>
   How his greatest warriors met their end with Dagoth Thras.<br>
   For he could exhaust them by blocking their attacks<br>
   And then, thus weakened, they were simply cut down.<br>
   The villain was patient and skilled with the shield<br>
   And Rangidil felt even his own mighty arms growing numb<br>
   While Dagoth Thras anticipated and blocked each cut<br>
   And Rangidil feared that without the blessing of the Divine Three<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   He'd die in the tower of Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   But he still poured down blows as he yelled,<br>
   "Foe!  I am Rangidil, a prince of the True Temple,<br>
   And I've fought in many a battle, and many a warrior<br>
   Has tried to stop my blade and has failed.<br>
   Very few can anticipate which blow I'm planning,<br>
   And fewer, knowing that, know how to arrest the design,<br>
   Or have the the strength to absord all of my strikes.<br>
   There is no greater master of shield blocking in all<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   Than here in the castle Abernanit.<br>
<br>
   My foe, dark lord Dagoth Thras, before you slay me,<br>
   I beg you, tell me how you know how to block."<br>
   Wickedly proud, Dagoth Thras heard Rangidil's plea,<br>
   And decided that before he gutted the Temple champion,<br>
   He would deign to give him some knowledge for the afterlife,<br>
   How his instinct and reflexes worked, and as he started<br>
   To explain, he realized that he did not how he did it,<br>
   And watched, puzzled, as Rangidil delivered what the tales<br>
   Of Morrowind<br>
   Called "The death blow of Abernanit."<br>
<br>
<DIV align="center">***
<br>
<DIV align="left">Geocrates Varnus explains:<br>
   (1) "The Horror" refers to the daedra prince Mehrunes Dagon.<br>
   (2) "Fifty winters" suggests that the epic was written fifty years after the Siege of Abernanit, which took place in 3E 150.<br>
   (3) "Thrice-blessed Rangidil" is Rangidil Ketil, born 2E 803, died 3E 195.  He was the commander of the Temple Ordinators, and "thrice-blessed" by being blessed by the Tribunal of Gods.<br>
   (4) "Mother, Lord, and Wizard" refers to the Tribunal of Almalexia, Vivec, and Sotha Sil.<br>
   (5) "Dagoth Thras" was a powerful daedra-worshipper of unknown origin who declared himself the heir of the Sixth House, though there is little evidence he descended from the vanished family.<br>
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