Our Father's Forests [The Lion's Saga Part 1, Luther's Song] - Dark Angels | Warhammer 40k Music

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One of the long lost songs of Caliban, as remembered by one of the Fallen.

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⚜️Premise⚜️
Luther who's imprisoned tries to remember the forests of Caliban, as well as one of its songs, but the memory is corrupted by the knowledge of what came after.

⚜️Calibanese Language⚜️
Calibanese, as Caliban itself, is gone :( The world died, it's people died, the culture and tongue are dead in 40k. Only a handful of people know it, Luther, and The Lion being among the very few.

But in theorycrafting circles it is hypothesized that Calibanese had strong influence from Welsh. Figuring out how this influence would work out is basically impossible because alongside this there's many puns, like the name of The Lion himself, Lion'El Jonson, which is supposed to be Calibanese, but has nothing Welsh in it :(

This is why I have decided to just take some Welsh words, within the specific context of arthurian legend that the Lion and Luther are a reference for.

Definition:
Oes y Rhyfeddodau : The Age of Miracles (I don't think it's actually found in the welsh version of the story, it's instead a translation of the english term for the age that ended with Mordred's betrayal)
Awen: Poetic inspiration (Often seen as a sacred force that grants creative power, especially in bardic or Druidic tradition.)
Gobaith: Hope
Hiraeth: Grief/Nostalgia/Sorrowful longing for the past or a lost future. (Uniquely welsh concept that is hard to translate into english with a single word.)


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⚜️Lyrics⚜️

What song, O wind, from shadowed glades where roots bind earth and bone?
Where leaves once flashed with silver breath, now ember‑shadows shine.
Fell beasts once stalked the morning, their red‑clawed fury prowled;
But steel and star did still the night, and death-wind no more howled.
Then rose Oes y Rhyfeddodau, when Awen crowned the dawn;
The quiet woods found breath to sing, and dared voice gobaith’s song.

O, the forests of our father, where the silent echoes dwelt,
Now the streams taste bitter cinder, and the old songs have no tongue…

What echoes, O wind, from hollow heights where iron shadows lay?
You carry dust from broken roads and salt from eyes grown dry.
The chasms yawned with secret dread, the peaks were lost to sight,
Yet hymns of hiraeth shuddered on, and stubborn hearts took flight.
And vows betrayed, once forged in light, now scar the faithful deep;
Their broken oaths lie silent in the starless halls of sleep.

O, the forests of our father, where green banners climbed the sky,
Now the streams taste bitter cinder, and the old songs have no tongue…

What cry, O wind, along the banks where shattered waters lie?
No mirror holds the forest now, the reeds are cracked and dry.
The river, once a living thread, now lost to spite and flame,
Its course erased by nameless grief, its song no voice can claim.
A father’s face dissolves in ash, a duty drowned in woe,
While hope and hearth and brother’s oath are swept where dark tides go.

O, the forests of our father, where the shadows linger long,
Now the streams taste bitter cinder, and the old songs have no tongue…

O, the forests of our father, where the shadows linger long,
Now the streams taste bitter cinder, and the old songs have no tongue…


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