O ye one eyed old man., You who see it all.
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You who see the past and all to be
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Say, ye one eyed old man. For I need to know.
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Tell me which path fate has chosen for me.
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Say does the Northstar still shine on me.
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Say will I set my loved ones free.
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O ye one eyed old man. Of ye our elders told.
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You have been since land and sky was one.
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And if you really know all that will be, tell me,
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what the future wants with this young no-one's son.
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Say does the Northstar still shine on me
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What do you see in store for me....
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Questions, questions. Many you ask.
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About the future and some of the past.
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Few have seen what I see. Fewer still will ever know.
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I gave an eye to see better.
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And your thirst for knowledge grows.
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But you, my child, who treads the road of pain.
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Who have felt such anger. Such that bears no name,
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Thee shall I nurse as if you were my own son.
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And this very night your training will already have begun.
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For I have seen you come for a thousand years or so.
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And the gods have told me to teach you all that I possess and know
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And though my eye no longer sees my hand held out in front of me,
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I still gaze crystal clear at all that mortal man cannot see.
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And I see you riding up on a stallion as white as snow.
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With the speed of the winds and endurance untold.
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And you wield a sword of steel forged in fire and ice.
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And the cry of a warrior you sound
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and victory is in your eyes.
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Hear me my son, for you are the chosen one....
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An icy cave in a mountain...
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Bright morning...
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["At the one eyed old man's request, he walks into an icy cave lighting up]
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[its inside with a torch. Finding what he has been told to look for, a]
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[wooden box containing a five foot long object wrapped up in bear's fur, he]
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[brings the object back to the one eyed old man. Upon unwrapping the fur,]
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[the long sharp blade of the sword catches the beams of the sun and a sigh]
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[is heard across the sky.]
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[And thus he was granted The Sword..."]
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One-Eyed Old Man
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Bathory |