Andonian Culture

This page contains bits and pieces of Andonian Culture.

Songs
The following is an exchange between Ana and Wyvylorna:

W: "What kind of song is that?"

A: "Hm?"

W: "You didn't strike me as a musical woman, Ana. You were singing something in the andonian tongue, right?"

A: "Yes. It is a nursery rhyme that tells the story of a dwarven mother and her five children."

W: "Oh, that's pretty cute. Tell me more!"

A: "Very well, but it loses some of it's context when translated..."

''It begins with the family on hard times. The three eldest sons leave to find employment elsewhere, so they might support their family from afar. However, they are murdered on the road by highwaymen and are left to rot, far away from home. The family is still dealing with incredible hardship, so the free-spirited daughter tries gathering a flock of singing birds. She hopes they will aid in her performances in town, but instead they react jealously to her beautiful voice, and so tear into her as one, clawing at her flesh until she dies. The mother agonizes over the deaths of four of her children, while the youngest delights in the fact he will no longer be tormented by his despised siblings. But, without their petty cruelties, he becomes soft and weak. He becomes ill not long after, spewing up blood and his skin turning waxy and yellow. He dies in terrible pain. The mother, having lost all her children, is no longer able to bear the weight of this world and flings herself off of a mountain."''

"... it was one of my favorite songs when I was young."

W: "I... uh... I see. Is there, a lesson or something in it? Like, is there a moral to the story?"

A: "Try not to die."

W: "Oh."

A: "Or your mother will be upset."