Orlanthi Blank Verse

[OrlanthRex]

I like the various blank verse poetry that appears in Cults of Prax. Is there a web link with additional Orlanthi verse?

[AndrewTBP]

There's a fair amount published, but not collected on the Well of Daliath, for example. 

[jajagappa]

1 hour ago, OrlanthRex said:

Is there a web link with additional Orlanthi verse?

John Hughes wrote a lot of Heortling skaldic poetry for his Far Place material.  You can find it here:  https://myth-o-logic.org/glorantha/gloranthan-fiction/heortling-skaldic-poetry/

 

[Joerg]

These verses aren't that hard to come up with. Find a mythical motif, settle for a rhythm, and alliterate away:

 

Umath ascending - Aether's abode,

proud planets plunging - panicked and old.

Jagrekriand standing - steadfast alone

cruelly crashing - Storm King to a hold.

 

Far north they went fighting - with fire and bolts

white pillar toppled - painful the trip.

Seduced below surface - siring a son

forced to fight the ferocious - fire-born foe.

 

Hell-spawned hostile - hospitality-breaker

Jagrekriand wrestled - recovering raider

Stormfather in shackles - smitten apart

uncles find Umath's - underaged offspring.

[OrlanthRex]

Thanks for the feedback. Having my Orlanthi priest or runelord recite verse before a challenge or encounter adds a since of flair to an encounter. 

[Rodney Dangerduck]

21 hours ago, OrlanthRex said:

Thanks for the feedback. Having my Orlanthi priest or runelord recite verse before a challenge or encounter adds a since of flair to an encounter. 

So long as it is Bad Poetry.  That's the traditional Orlanth skill.  Good poetry?  Somebody else...  🙂

[Akhôrahil]

12 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

So long as it is Bad Poetry.  That's the traditional Orlanth skill.  Good poetry?  Somebody else...  🙂

For actually good poetry, is probably better to find a good translation of Icelandic poetry (not a rhymed translation, sheesh!), like Egil Skallagrimsson, and modify it.

(Also, improvising poetry in order to save yourself from execution? Peak Orlanthi.)

Edited July 28, 2021 by Akhôrahil

[soltakss]

On 7/26/2021 at 1:36 AM, OrlanthRex said:

I like the various blank verse poetry that appears in Cults of Prax.

I used to love reciting Orlanthi Poetry as a Wind Lord.

Foul slime, curse of existence, begone!