Soldiers Despair
The story of a private striken down in their youth and blinded, but unwilling to sacrafice themselves to despair. They continue onward until eventually falling in battle, but in their death they regain their sight and see the good they helped secure for their loss.
Though the story claims the individual is a private, very little of their rank or purpose is actually given, and speculation has stated that the song actually encompasses a number of soldiers lives who had similar injuries and life stories. The soldier is never named and the gendered text is often flipped regularly throughout the song.
Though eager for battle and hungry to prove themselves, the soldier is blinded by arrow and magic. The wound sends them from the field and to the hospital to await recovery. During this time they discover a talent for healing and aiding others in the hospital, becoming an assistant to a number of important surgeons and doctors.
As time goes on, the soldier is given more chances to help others and heal those around them. They develop something of a reputation for their undying devotion to saving those they try to help, giving everything they can to bring them back from the brinks of despair and death. Often succeeding, but only just and with what feels like divine intervention.
Eventually the hospital camps are attacked and soldiers finds themselves, several years removed from active combat routines, thrust back into the brutality of frontline war. They choose to help all they can, including the enemy, offering to heal and tend to those in need while trying to defend themselves as the bloodshed sprays around them.
In the chaos they are cut down and dropped, passing silently in the drums of war and clangs of blades. In their silence, finally at peace, they recieve the gift of sight. The song turns to a first person perspective as the soldiers opens their eyes to see a world far different than the one they just left. They are instead surrounded by smiling faces and cheerful people, living and dead, who were helped by the soldiers actions. That they got to live further thanks to their efforts, or that their passing was more peaceful.
The song closes with the soldier weeping and praising the Goddess for the blessing of aid in exchange for their vision, seeing this as given destiny and realizing how many they managed to help.
Though the story claims the individual is a private, very little of their rank or purpose is actually given, and speculation has stated that the song actually encompasses a number of soldiers lives who had similar injuries and life stories. The soldier is never named and the gendered text is often flipped regularly throughout the song.
Though eager for battle and hungry to prove themselves, the soldier is blinded by arrow and magic. The wound sends them from the field and to the hospital to await recovery. During this time they discover a talent for healing and aiding others in the hospital, becoming an assistant to a number of important surgeons and doctors.
As time goes on, the soldier is given more chances to help others and heal those around them. They develop something of a reputation for their undying devotion to saving those they try to help, giving everything they can to bring them back from the brinks of despair and death. Often succeeding, but only just and with what feels like divine intervention.
Eventually the hospital camps are attacked and soldiers finds themselves, several years removed from active combat routines, thrust back into the brutality of frontline war. They choose to help all they can, including the enemy, offering to heal and tend to those in need while trying to defend themselves as the bloodshed sprays around them.
In the chaos they are cut down and dropped, passing silently in the drums of war and clangs of blades. In their silence, finally at peace, they recieve the gift of sight. The song turns to a first person perspective as the soldiers opens their eyes to see a world far different than the one they just left. They are instead surrounded by smiling faces and cheerful people, living and dead, who were helped by the soldiers actions. That they got to live further thanks to their efforts, or that their passing was more peaceful.
The song closes with the soldier weeping and praising the Goddess for the blessing of aid in exchange for their vision, seeing this as given destiny and realizing how many they managed to help.
Purpose
Recorded telling of Ea Roton, Songbird of the Battlefields' song/story of a soldier who loses their eyes but goes on to lead a remarkable career saving others in their corp, before eventually passing and regaining their vision, only to see the joy they caused in the world.
The soldier is unnamed throughout the story, leaving it to the audience to determine the actual
The soldier is unnamed throughout the story, leaving it to the audience to determine the actual
Type
Manual, Musical
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