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| | -- The Remembrance, Passage 121, Verse 43, Lines 12-24<ref>''Invading Clans (sourcebook)'', p. 49 - "Golden Century"</ref> | | -- The Remembrance, Passage 121, Verse 43, Lines 12-24<ref>''Invading Clans (sourcebook)'', p. 49 - "Golden Century"</ref> |
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| | + | ===Passage 204=== |
| | + | {{quote|''In our dark day of wandering,''<br> |
| | + | ''He gave us Hidden Hope;''<br> |
| | + | ''Our sacred duty calls us to return.''<br> |
| | + | ''As our Father told us''<br> |
| | + | ''And his father before him,''<br> |
| | + | ''Ours is the redemption of the Universe;''<br> |
| | + | ''Ours is the paradise of Terra;''<br> |
| | + | ''Ours is the war of liberation.''}} |
| | + | |
| | + | -- The Remembrance, Passage 204, Verse 6, Lines 2-9<ref>''Invading Clans (sourcebook)'', p. 51 - "Rise of the Crusaders"</ref> |
| | ===Passage 329=== | | ===Passage 329=== |
| | {{quote|''Fifteen years, fellow warriors. Fifteen years''<br> | | {{quote|''Fifteen years, fellow warriors. Fifteen years''<br> |
Clan Ghost Bear
Passage 8
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The General's intent was clearly stated,
To depart and never return.
He forced none but swayed many;
This compassionate, brilliant man
Had led thousands to victory,
And he would again lead the long march.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 8, Verse 6, Lines 12-17[1]
Passage 155
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Now is the time
To prove
What we know to be true:
That we shall conquer all.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 155, Verse 2, Lines 45-48[2]
Clan Smoke Jaguar
Passage 104
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Remember Franklin Osis,
Father of the Clan.
Three strenghs he gave us:
The jaguar's spring that brings the enemy down,
The jaguar's claws that rend the enemy's heart,
The jaguar's taste of the enemy's hot blood.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 104, Verse 18, Lines 5-10[3]
Passage 121
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Five are our foundation;
One above the rest.
Four are the steppingstones,
The fifth the pinacle.
The laborer, the technican, the scientist, the merchant,
These are the steppingstones
To the warrior's place.
As the insect feeds the bird,
As the bird feeds the wolf,
As the wolf feeds the smoke jaguar,
So all give life to the warrior
Who sheds his blood for their glory.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 121, Verse 43, Lines 12-24[4]
Passage 204
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In our dark day of wandering,
He gave us Hidden Hope;
Our sacred duty calls us to return.
As our Father told us
And his father before him,
Ours is the redemption of the Universe;
Ours is the paradise of Terra;
Ours is the war of liberation.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 204, Verse 6, Lines 2-9[5]
Passage 329
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Fifteen years, fellow warriors. Fifteen years
We are to suffer in shame and silence,
Listening to the crowing and laughter
Of our enemies, who think us defeated.
But remember, warriors, we are the Clans.
What fails to kill us only makes us stronger.
And when future sibkos learn of us,
They will know the sixteenth year
As the Stacalkas-Nomen: The year
The punishment of our enemies began.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 329, Verse 53, Lines 141-150[6]
Clan Wolf
Passage 2
| “
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Where nature's laws threatenend the weary;
When food, water, even air itself ran low,
It took just a command, a word, a smile,
From the General to light the way.
He was comfort, stem courage, compassion,
To our sires as he led them from the fires
That grew and fed on those they left behind.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 2, Verse 14, Lines 18-24[7]
Passage 3
| “
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The just deaths of the traitors frightened some
There among the darkness and alien stars.
A few lost heart and began with aquavering resolve
To question the Great Father's plan.
With stern compassion he spoke and all was revealed;
How their destiny was the Hidden Hope
Of all mankind and how their sons' sons
Would one day return to the Inner Spheres
Bringing back the enlightenment to the Star League
To those unfortunates they had left behind.
Such was their right, such is our legacy of blood.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 3, Verse 22, Lines 1-11[8]
| “
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There will be a time when our descendants
Return to reclaim what is our right.
With honor swelling their hearts, they will crusade
Against the dark emotions that have dimmed.
The Inner Sphere for so long.
But with the glory comes responsibility;
Without a pur soul we cannot give sight
To their blind lives, but will only blind ourselves.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 3, Verse 41, Lines 1-8[9]
Passage 8
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The rebels, heeding neither strenght nor sense,
Cowardly ambushed noble DeChevilier.
Although he fight like a lion, he died
And with his death came the clouds, and reason fled
Like a winter sun's feeble evening light
Above hopeless Eden and wicked Babylon.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 8, Verse 36, Lines 51-56[10]
Passage 67
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Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect.
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37[11]
Passage 72
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For the day will come and our kin will stand
On Terra's firm soil, ready to rebuilt
The Star League with their hearts and hands.
But who shall lead? Upon whose shoulders
Will the burden lie? The answer is the test;
The test is the journey. Whichever Clan
Carves its way through the barbarians
To reach that fabled cradle of us all
Shall be the vehicle of the League's rebirth. Upon
The Star League throne shall sit that Clan's
Wisest Khan. So should it be - So shall it be.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 72, Verse 22, Lines 14-24[12]
Passage 98
| “
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From Kerensky's Stars came the Eight Hundred
Beneath a banner of Truth and Righteous Light
To lift up those who had suffered and to smite down
With fearful vengeance those who had ruled
In the name of Vanity or Greed.
The thunder of their BattleMech's feet, the lightning
From their weapons, and the blood spilled in their name
Created the Clan Spirit, the forge upon which
We have fashioned ourselves to be the weapon
Of the resurrected Star League,
Honed to a razor's edge by the Trials,
By the Remembrance, and by the Words
Of the Great Kerenskys, our sires, our savior.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 98, Verse 24, Lines 8-20[13]
Passage 118
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All praise the art of batchall and bidding
For it proves our love of peace and tradition.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 118, Verse 3, Lines 11-12[14]
Passage 149
| “
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Like a poisonous weed, the Not-Named fostered
Thoughts and actions against the Clans, calling them
"Independence" and "Freedom", not realizing
Their every act chained them to the corruptions
That brought down the noble Star League
And set the Inner Sphere aflame.
But the Clans survived by condemning
Them to a bitter annihilation.
Led by Clans Wolf and Widowmaker,
The Grand Council wiped clean the records,
Obliterating with the warm blood
Of its tragically doomed warriors
Every mention of the Not-Named Clan.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 149, Verse55, Lines 21-33[15]
Passage 154
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About the fallen hero they gathered,
None able to give voice to his shock.
Khan Jerome Winson knelt, tears streaming,
To cradle Nicholas Kerensky's head.
To wipe the blood from the cold brow,
To close the lightless eyes. Peace great Hero.
Choked with sadness and anger
Khan Jerome Winson spoke. "Khan Cal Jorgensson,
I cry, not for myself, nor for others.
I weep for your Clan Widowmaker.
There is a price for such a crime
As you have committed. A price you
And your Clan will pay."
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 154, Verse 34, Lines 16-28[16]
Passage 167
| “
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And Minaka Widowmaker spoke,
"I claime the Bloodname Vordermark;
It was my mother's and my mother's fathers,
It is mine by association and blood pride."
The Council was stunned and outraged
By her lack of respect for the Clan ways.
Then the ilKhan rose and spoke wise words.
"Such a claim is not freely granted, Minaka.
Although your blood may cry out Vordermark,
It is your muscle and mind that will make it so.
Remember the Rede of our past, Widowmaker,
And do not ask words to win what the trial decides.
If strong, you will win the right.
But do justice to our future
By remembering our past, young one.
Those are my words, that is my judgement"
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 167, Verse 34, Lines 33-48[17]
Passage 222
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And never forget that help may come
From the most unlikely of quarters
And success rest upon the shoulders
Of those kept shadowed until the time of need.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 222, Verse 6, Lines 11-14[18]
Passage 272
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Then the order came, "Furth the sails.
Ready for jump, mighty warriors.
We journey back, we journey home,
Carrying the flame of the Star League
Back to the heart. We face the ignorant
Who believe themselves civilized and strong,
But they will soon discover otherwise.
We are the Clans, the Star League incarnate.
None can stand against us and survive."
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 272, Verse 8, Lines 11-19[19]
Passage 285
| “
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No natural calamiities cost you.
There was no great disease, no famines;
No interstellar catastrophe to blame.
You have no excuse to explain
How this, out rightful palace, has been fouled
With the dust of countless innocent dead.
The truth is that you are the descendants
Of traitors who scurry about like rats
In the dark, fighting over petty kingdoms
At the foot of the emty throne.
Never recognizing that you have given up
The one true prize.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 285, Verse 15, Lines 21-32[20]
Passage 294
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Tyra of the Rasalhague led,
Forth her fiery flighing Drakons,
Gallant in bronze. A warrior woman whose hands
Where unskilled int the ways of hearth and home,
In skills of war she was hard and trained
To leave behind the airy winds and fight
Where the void is eternal and life fleeting.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 294, Verse 8, Lines 17-23[21]
| “
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Tyra and her warriors fought
Like crazed demons above Radstadt.
When her fighter crippled by ours,
And her life leaked away into the endless night,
She chose to die
And sent her fighter like a spear
Through the Dire Wolf, claiming as isorla
Our mighty ilKhan's life. Sing of our loss, warriors!
Sing, but of Tyra also
For though an enemy, her courage none can deny.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 294, Verse 8, Lines 24-33[22]
Passage 327
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And so the Khans met in kurultai
To discusse the carving of Tukayyid.
As if it was some feast dish cooked
And tender, begging for the server's knife.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 327, Verse 3, Lines 5-8[23]
Passage 328
| “
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Sons and daughters of the blood legacy
Inspire me as I sing,
Of the deaths dealt out on Tukayyid
And of what our warriors faced and bravely fought:
Help me paint a portrait of an apocalypse.
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”
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 328, Verse 1, Lines 1-5[24]
References
- ↑ Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 10 - "Time of Decision"
- ↑ Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 17 - "Operation Revival"
- ↑ Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 47 - "Fires of War"
- ↑ Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 49 - "Golden Century"
- ↑ Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 51 - "Rise of the Crusaders"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 52 - "Lessons of War"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 8 - "Exodus"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 9 - "Hidden Hope"
- ↑ Clan Wolf Sourcebook, p. 24 - "Crusaders' Call"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 10 - "Time of Darkness"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 13 - "Clan Society"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 37 - "Fourth Wave: The Wolfe Races Ahead"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 12 - "Birth of the Clans"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 34 - "Rasalhague: The Bird"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 21 - "Clan Wolverine"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 22 - "Death and Absorption"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 18 - "Clan Trials"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 29 - "Comstar"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 26 - "Operation Revival"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 31 - "First Wave: Wolf at the door"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 38 - "Radstadt"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 39 - "Fate Intervenes"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 47 - "Final Bidding"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 47 - "Days of Armageddon"
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