I Charged the Calontiri Army
by Katherine Ashewode
written in honor of Sir Alexander de Hauteville
The story that inspired the song: a number of Pennsics ago, Lord (now Sir) Alexander de Hauteville and Master Tierlock, both fine Eastern warriors, were in a woods battle. There, they saw two Calontiri soldiers at the top of a hill. Being the fine, valiant Eastern warriors they were, they promptly charged up the hill and killed them. And then they looked down at the other side of the hill. And there at the bottom of the hill was the assembled mass of the rest of the Calontiri army, who proceeded to rush up the hill and kill them, because two men (no matter how valiant) cannot stand against the entire assembled mass of Calontir. The Calontiri army charged onwards, and Alexander and Tierlock were left for dead. This song is about that encounter.
I charged the Calontiri army,
Out on the wooded battlefield.
We saw two up on a hill,
And you know we meant them ill,
So we strode to engage them with our swords and with our shields.
Tierlock and I strode into battle,
Right up the hilly wooded crest.
We quickly slew the two,
'Cause we knew just what to do,
Then we heard a mighty shouting, and we looked and saw the rest.
A mighty army stood before us,
Decked out in purple and in gold,
A vast and mighty horde
Of nobles and of lords,
With bloodlust in their eyes and with their voices loud and bold.
They charged up the hill to meet us,
Wielding swords and axe and spear.
They struck us in the chest,
The face, and all the rest,
Then they kept on advancing and we only saw their rear.
Tierlock and I lay dead and bloody,
After the massive charge of men,
But he looked at me and said,
Through the pounding in my head,
"Let's get back up to rez point and we'll do it once again."
"Let's get back up to rez point and we'll do it once again!"