Coldblooded Murder
The Coldblooded Murder are a group of Kenku in the service of the Hag known as Eikos Bheur. They are thought to have some knowledge of Blood Magic.
The Coldblooded Murder have been observed chanting a particular song, which appears to reference the Basilisk Queens, the actions of Tulia Seconda Akropos, and the Fall of the Katari Empire, amongst other things. The full significance of some of the references in their song has not been established.
Sing a song of suff’rings,
Pocket full of lies.
Four-and-twenty blackbirds
Fallen from the skies.
When the circle tightened
Twelve their liege betrayed,
They gobbled up their fractured soul
And stole their golden blade.
Now a Queen, she stole that kingdom,
Yes the Queen, she stole that throne,
Her sisters stole two others
But she longed to rule alone.
One sister ruled the stars above
The other, airy spires;
The third, she claimed the power below
And ruled the deepest fires.
They slew the mighty dragons,
They tamed the Hounds of Hell,
And snared with adamantine chains
The Children of the Well.
Now the Queen was oh-so jealous,
And her heart had grown so cold,
When a mage came to her palace,
With a plan daring and bold.
She wove a web of magic
From stone to sacred stone
And bound up in a wooden staff
The power of the Throne.
But the mage she has a secret:
For she’s of the Kraken’s Kin,
And sworn to bleed the Empire dry
And end their reign of sin.
The web the mage has woven
Will choke the flow of power
And break the Queens’ authority
In but a single hour
A single stone remaining
The mage’s courage fails
She forges not that final link
That would have tipped the scales
The wolf-eaters approaching
Her time is running short
She passes to eternity
Lest death ambition thwart.
And when the staff is shattered
And the fires thus arise
Shall she, in immortality,
Smile as the Empire dies?
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