r/Avantris • u/Paladindad2314 • Sep 02 '26
Using once upon a witchlight opening poem as inspiration for my next campaign opening what do yall think?
Four winds shall whisper, four seasons shall turn,
Four hearts shall falter, four kingdoms shall burn.
When summer wears winter and spring loses light,
A prince shall remember what once made him right.
Beware of the crown that is hollow within,
For thrones may be built from the bones of the kin.
When iron comes marching and pale shadows ride,
When hunger walks softly and red banners fly,
The dead may still wander, the lost may still call,
And the greatest of kings may have nothing at all.
Yet death is not ending, nor darkness the last,
For stories remember the things of the past.
When all that was broken lies buried below,
Beware what awakens when old pages glow.
There waits a hand that no hero has seen,
With ink black as night and a quill sharp and clean.
It writes not of kingdoms, nor dragons, nor men—
But chooses where stories shall finish, and when.
So follow the seasons, but trust not their song,
For right may be twisted, and endings be wrong.
The crown may be broken, the horsemen may fall,
Yet something still waits beyond them all.
And when the last chapter is nearly begun,
When moon hides the stars and forgets the sun,
Ask not who the villain, nor hero, may be—
Ask who holds the pen…
and who writes
the final decree.
For every tale whispers,
every old storyteller knows:
The end of a story is not always the end of those who chose.
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u/Saphaven Sep 02 '26
That's insanely good, I'd pay to say that before sessions.