The legend of Lilly and Banewort
- Chapter 1: The return of the black witch -

Once upon a time, nearly nine hundred years ago
In the realm south of the mountains that was now waste and lorn
There was a black witch malicious, cruel and eerie
She had settled down in the bogs in the kingdom’s east
And the magic of the tree of harmony
Couldn’t harm her because of her witchery
Because of her evil witchery

Furthermore, the black witch had a dragon at her side
And her witchery was reliant on the dragon’s life
The witch and the dragon were in league with each other
By an evil black magic, they were intrinsically tied together
And the black witch was greedy for might
For the reign over the kingdom, she strived
For the reign she strived

At the time the kingdom was ruled
By a queen who was well-respected by the folk
The queen had a daughter and a son
Her daughter was named Marianne and her son was named John
Marianne was beautiful, honest and plucky
Whereas John was weak and cowardly
John was weak and cowardly

So it came that to every song the black witch used to sing
John danced like a puppet on the string
And the black witch ordered John to bring Marianne away
And John imprisoned his sister in a gloomy cave
She was tethered and guarded by a dragon
The dragon of the black witch - eerie and malignant
Eerie and malignant

Then one day the Queen of the kingdom deceased
And the folk fell into a deep, deep grief
And so, it bechanced that John came to the thron
With the help of the black witch John usurped the crown
And howbeit John called himself king
Nevertheless, the black witch pulled the strings
The black witch pulled the strings

At the same time in a realm far away
There lived an atheling, his name was James
And in a tear of an old oak, he saw Marianne in chains
And he saw her beauty and saw her endless pain
And he set forth to find Marianne
Outdared hunger and thirst, outdared fatigue and pain
Outdared fatigue and pain

After a long, long journey James arrived at the cave
And he saw that malignant dragon, and he saw Marianne in her pain
James and the dragon fought three nights and days,
Then on the fourth day John was able to smash Marianne’s chains
Marianne shouted and the dragon turned his head
And James put the dragon to death
Put the dragon to death

With the death of the dragon, the black witch lost all her witchery
And without her witchery, John lost his mastery
John fled and was never seen again
The black witch went to the east and holed up in a cave
There she had slept for nearly nine hundred years, it is said
Waiting for the time of her revenge
Waiting for her revenge

Then, nearly nine hundred years had passed
The black witch appeared in the Foreign Land
She still was eerie but of her witchery bereft
But she was seeking for revenge and she was pregnant
And to her unborn child she had bequeathed
All her hate and her malignity
All her malignity

- Chapter 2: The white fairy -

There was a fairy, a white, good fairy
A healer and seeress, a witch of charity
Who saw what was growing up inside of the black witch

She saw all this evilness, saw all this cruelness
She saw all that angriness, saw all this cattiness
She saw what was growing up inside of the black witch

The fairy was destined for life protecting
She was not able for life destroying
She couldn’t kill the unborn child inside of the black witch

The fairy was not able for life taking
She was intended for life giving
So, she magicked a second life into the black witch

And she gave all her love and she gave all her goodness
And she gave all her pureness and she gave all her kindness
To this second unborn child inside of the black witch

So, there was one child of goodness, a child of the light
And one child of evilness, a child of the night
Both were growing up inside of the black witch

And the fairy threw fairy dust, swung her wand of magic
She incanted a spell, a powerful cantrip
Onto the unborn children inside of the black witch

“May the goodness and pureness of the child of the light
Do away the cattiness of the child of the night
As long as they both live under the same stars”

- Chapter 3: Two disparate children -

And so, so it happened
That the black witch gave birth to two children

There was Banewort, the firstborn
A gloomy gazing boy with a dark, evil soul
He got light blonde hair
But his eyes were black and dark as coal

And there was Lilly, the second-born
A bright shining girl with a white, clean mind
She got deep black hair
But her blue eyes shone bright as the sky

And the brightness of Lilly
Outshone all the darkness of Banewort’s mind
And the goodness of Lilly
Did away all the cattiness that Banewort carried inside

And as the black witch saw
Which influence Lilly exerted on her son
The black witch knew at once
What the white fairy had done

When Lilly was six years old
The black witch took her to the shore in the east
There, a ship was waiting
And Lilly was brought far away over the sea

Brought to a land in the south
Where at night strange stars watched over the earth
And the further Lilly was brought
The lower was the influence she exerted on Banewort

- Chapter 4: The rise of Banewort -

Lilly was too far away to exert any influence on Banewort
Now that Lilly was far away her magic on Banewort worked no more
And all the evil that occupied Banewort’s heart and soul broke through
And all the ill that occupied Banewort’s heart and mind grew
And so, it happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course
It happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course

The older Banewort grew the more the evil captured his heart and soul
The older Banewort grew the more the ill captured his mind and thoughts
Already, when he was a child, he tortured animals just for a laugh
And when he was a young man, he tortured his fellow men just for fun
And so, it happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course
It happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course

When Banewort got adult, he was nasty and rotten to the core
And with his brutality he subdued the people in the Foreign Land in the north
And he ruled over the folk with an awful inhumanness
And he ruled over the folk by spreading horror and dread
And so, it happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course
It happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course

Banewort’s craving for power was sateless and he strove for the dominion over the world
And with the help of his evil witchery, he bred a new race of orcs
And those orcs were bigger and nastier than those who were known
And with these orcs he built an army of horror for the advance to the south
And so, it happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course
It happened as it was bound to happen and the story took its course

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