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Library:Library Fragments III
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| Author: | Various |
| Publication: | Scholars of Novia |
| Publish Date: | Release 20 |
| Genre: | Historical (series) |
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| Publication: | Scholars of Novia Contest #3 |
| Publish Date: | May 28, 2015 |
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| Series: | Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess |
| Preceded By: | Library Fragments II |
| Followed By: | Library Fragments IV |
The third volume of the Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess includes a tale by Sindariya.
Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess
Volume III: "On a farm..."
transcribed by Sindariya
published in the Year 401 After the Cataclysm
Introduction:
At the time of the Cataclysm, there lived a druidess named Deellaakkanavaakka the Just who maintained a great repository for text of all sorts concerned with justice. Reently, brothers Speale and Lonnacker of Holtrot, well-respected miners and archaeologists, have unearthed fragmentary texts from the ruins of The Library of Deekka, as the druidess was known for short. Scholars have been working to catalogue, transcribe and publish the newly rediscovered texts.
Fragment from an Untitled Text
| Author: | Sindariya |
(Date Unknown; Based on an Earlier Text, circa 1000 Years before the Cataclysm)
On a farm in [P...?], there lived a sow with her four piglets. The oldest was the biggest of the four, he always was the first when their mother called to feed them and last that left. The second was the strongest, she always ran around the farm and challenged the other young animals... to get stronger. The third was beautiful, and took care of [his skin with mud?]
But the last piglet was small, not beautiful or strong, and was very jealous of his siblings.
The jealous piglet started to [taunt?] his siblings and was clever enough to annoy them only when the mother sow was not watching. he told the oldest piglet that the farmer always slaughtered the biggest piglets first for their meat and that would be dead before season's end. He challenged the second in races and defeated her because he always cheated. He scratched the third with branches to ruin his beautiful skin.
The three other kept quiet...and hoped it would stop...
...did not tell their mother...
After a week they decided to take [matters?] in their own hooves. They started to chase the smallest around the whole farm. The other animals on the farm noticed the quarrel and the small piglet ran to them and squeaked for help.
The horse heard the cries and stomped on the biggest piglet, the dog bit the strongest piglet and the cat scratches the eyes out of the prettiest of the litter...
When the sow came, she found her oldest piglet with broken legs, the next with a bitten off ear and tail, and the last on eblinded. She started to cry and asked how this could happen. The animals told her what they saw. The three hurt piglets now told her all that had happened. The sow, enraged and dismayed...
...bit the jealous piglet to his death...
Moral: Justice taken into one's own [hands?/hooves?] does not pay and only serves to hurt the innocent.
Trivia
- The stories in this book were submitted by the community to the Scholars of Novia "Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess" Contest, hosted by the Scholars of Novia.
- The winners of "Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess" competition are Rabbit, Sindariya, Themo Lock, Thorin Strongarm, and the grand prize winner is Selene Noctua.