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The Corruption of Perfection
To be betrayed or become a traitor?
My only fate is found in this formula
Each new life less luminous than the last
When does this cycle slip into silence?
Part I: The Hand that Shapes the Coffin
The Trickster has seized upon a final plan to destroy the legacy of the All-Father. Baldur, The Beautiful, The Just, The Good, The Unbreakable, is most beloved of all of Odin’s children, most beloved of both gods and humans. Yet...he is nearly undone with doubts. He sees the shadow between his father’s myths and the reality of the world they rule. Loki sees this crack in Odin’s armor, and pours his will into it, becoming the mentor of the troubled, young god. For Loki knows a wondrous and terrible secret: Baldur’s invulnerability is incomplete. He can be killed. None know this save Odin, Loki, and Frigga, Baldur’s mother who extracted promises from all things living and dead that they would not harm her precious son. But Frigga missed a creature, deemed too lowly to matter, Loki’s final weapon, and the doom of the Baldur the Unbreakable: Mistletoe.
lyrics
Baldur:
Questions plague me
Am I really me?
What is falsehood?
What’s reality?
Peace, beauty, and prosperity,
But what is the cost of this?
Loki (whispering to Baldur in his mind):
Open your eyes!
See through the lies!
Thou naive child!
Seek what’s behind!
Baldur:
We are falling apart
At the seams.
This kingdom of
Meaningless things
Built by avarice
Masked in deceit,
The violence reigns!
Loki (to Baldur):
I will show you the way!
Follow me,
Child
(Of my sworn enemy)!
I will show you the way!
Loki (aside):
This little missile
Of mistletoe,
Less than a thistle,
Will lay you low,
Break your soul,
Bury you!
This piece of poison,
Destroyer,
Anointed
To punish the monster: (your father)!
Your father
Will bury you!
Sing songs of mourning,
Distorted and formless,
The sorrow the suffering,
Anguished, they
Bury you!
Rejoice my people,
For vengeance is near!
This empire crumbles,
It’s cornerstone cracked!
Oh! the hand that,
Draped in velvet,
Made of iron,
Makes the fist of
War against my
People shall be
Bloodied by its
Own devices.
Oh, gods!
Your hubris
Will be
Your coffin!
Your light fades!
Baldur:
My thoughts are born of chaos
Loki:
Beautiful One
Baldur:
Am I a man of justice?
Loki:
Share in my song
Baldur:
Is there one voice I can trust?
Loki:
Thou deathless god
Baldur:
To teach me to be righteous?
Loki:
Sing from your bones
Loki (aside):
My people,
Your blood song
Sings to me
Serenely!
All-father,
Your kingdom
Collapsing;
I see it!
Baldur:
Oh, my teacher,
I will listen
To your wisdom:
Your words!
Oh, my master,
I will obey.
I will follow
Your ways!
Your ways!
Your ways!
Your ways!
Loki (aside to Odin):
Your trust
I have
Repaid
With ash.
Your son
Is mine!
Your world
Will die!
Loki (aside to Baldur):
Forever blind!
Baldur:
Open my eyes!
Loki (aside to Baldur):
Live in the lie!
Baldur:
See through the lies!
Loki (aside to Baldur):
Thou sacrifice!
Baldur:
Master of mine!
Loki (aside to Baldur):
Fated to die!
Baldur:
Seek what’s behind!
Loki:
I will show you the way!
Follow me,
Child
(Of my sworn enemy)!
I will show you the way!
Follow me,
Child
(Of my sworn enemy)!
I will show you the way!
Loki (aside to Baldur):
Oh, the hand that raised you
Will be your undertaker.
This will be the end
Of everything.
Oh! the hand that raised you
Will be your undertaker!
This will be the end
Of everything!
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Oh! the hand that!
Oh! the hand that!
Oh! the hand that!
Oh! the hand that!
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