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Tag: dark age legends

  • The Black Shield Rides

    The Black Shield Rides

    Where the moon hides his face
    and the wind smells of rain,
    rides the man with no name
    on the blood-dark plain.

    No banner he bears,
    no kin’s colours to show,
    yet the fire in his eyes
    makes the battle-wolves know.

    He strikes in the fords,
    and the rivers run red,
    he burns the long spears
    where the warriors bled.

    The ships in the harbour
    find flame in the tide,
    and the gates of Dun Rath
    stand broken and wide.

    By feast hall or fort,
    none escape from his hand,
    for the Black Shield rides
    where the outlaws stand.

    Ask not his name,
    nor the oath he has sworn,
    for the storm takes the rider
    and leaves only the morn.

    © 2025 StormborneLore – From the Bardic Archives of Caernath

  • The Bard’s Warning

    The Bard’s Warning

    Hear me, hearth-folk and warriors,
    for I speak of the High Warlord who walks the storm.
    His name is Taranis Stormborne,
    breaker of oaths, rider of wolves
    whose eyes burn like embers.

    He has raided the corn
    from the winter barns,
    struck down chiefs
    beneath the peace banner,
    and set fire to groves where the gods were honoured.

    The druids name him outlaw;
    the kings demand his head on a spear.
    Yet the warbands whisper,
    his name in the night,
    and some would follow him,
    even into the jaws of death.

    If his banner rises in your valley,
    bar your gates and guard your herds,
    for where the Stormborne passes,
    the thunder will follow and the land will not rest.