Canticle
Of The Dragon
Hear
the sage as his song descends
like
heaven's rain or tears,
and
washes the years, the dust of the many stories
from
the High Tale of the Dragonlance.
For
in ages deep, past memory and word,
in
the first blush of the world
When
the three moons rose from the lap of the forest,
dragons,
terrible and great,
made
war on this world of Krynn.
Yet
out of the darkness of dragons,
out
of our cries for light
in
the blank face of the black moon soaring,
a
banked light flared in Solamnia,
a
knight of truth and of power,
who
called down the gods themselves
and
forged the mighty Dragonlance, piercing the soul
of
dragonkind, driving the shade of their wings
from
the brightening shores of Krynn.
Thus
Huma, Knight of Solamnia,
Lightbringer,
First Lancer,
followed
his light to the foot of the Khalkist Mountains,
to
the stone feet of the gods,
to
the crouched silence of their temple.
He
called down the Lancemakers, he took on
their
unspeakable power to crush the unspeakable evil,
to
thrust the coiling darkness
back
down the tunnel of the dragon's throat.
Paladine,
the Great God of Good,
shone
at the side of Huma,
strengthening
the lance of his strong right arm,
and
Huma, ablaze in a thousand moons,
banished
the swarm of her shrieking hosts
back
to the senseless kingdom of death, where their curses
swooped
upon nothing and nothing
deep
below the brightening land.
Thus
ended in thunder the Age of Dreams
and
began the Age of Might,
When
Istar, kingdom of light and truth, arose in the east,
where
minarets of white and gold
spired
to the sun and to the sun's glory,
announcing
the passing of evil,
and
Istar, who mothered and cradled the long summers of good,
shone
like a meteor
in
the white skies of the just.
Yet
in the fullness of sunlight
the
Kingpreist of Istar saw shadows:
At
night he saw the trees and things with daggers, the streams
blackened
and thickened under the silent moon.
He
searched books for the paths of Huma,
for
scrolls, signs, and spells
so
that he, too, might summon the gods, might find
their
aid in his holy aims,
might
purge the world of sin.
Then
came the time of dark and death
as
the gods turned from the world.
A
mountain of fire crashed like a comet through Istar,
the
city split like a skull in the flames,
mountains
burst from once-fertile valleys,
seas
poured into the graves of mountains,
the
deserts sighed on abandoned floors of the seas,
the
highways of Krynn erupted
and
became the paths of the dead.
Thus
began the Age of Despair.
The
roads were tangled.
The
winds and the sand storms dwelt in the husks of cities,
The
plains and mountains became our home.
As
the old gods lost their power,
we
called to the blank sky
into
the cold, dividing gray to the ears of new gods.
The
sky is calm, silent, unmoving.
We
have yet to hear their answer.
I
don't really know what this is, but i found it on some onther DragonLance
page.