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Part 1 of Shadow's Scribbles & Drabbles 2023
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2023-11-04
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Candles in the night

Summary:

The Grey Company has been summoned.
A ranger reflects on how their people came to this point.
The sacrifices they made, but also the hope they hold for the future.

Notes:

It took me far too long to get started on this, but what finally tipped me over the edge was a LOTRO cut scene, so this is dedicated not only to Lferion's beautiful art "Stubborn Light", but also to Candaith the Ranger from LOTRO.

Work Text:

A moodboard with two images of small candles, a cloudy sky and a text box which reads: "A light in the darkness. A lamp in the hall. Oh shelter the flame. Both stubborn and small.

A message born on the wind, carried across the lands to call us to arms.

Long have we laboured, prepared for this time, at last we are called to fulfil our oaths.

Our chieftain has need of us.

For centuries we nourished the candle of hope that one day, our kingdom would be rebuilt.

Is the time now at hand?

 

Through darkness we passed, and through battle, but at last, we triumphed.

Let our candles become bonfires, lighting the way to a better future.

A future of peace where our weapons stay sheathed, as two broken kingdoms become one again.

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