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Library:Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess/Runners Up
The following stories were submitted to the Scholars of Novia "Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess" Contest, hosted by the Scholars of Novia, but were not among the published entries. They are included here for completeness.
Volume I: Edict 19
| Author: | Themo Lock |
transcribed by Themo Lock
published in the Year 401 After the Cataclysm
Fragment from Edict 19
(Municipality of Origin & Date of Proclamation Unknown)
Edict regarding the punishments for the following crimes: murder, thievery, robbery, vandalism, ... [kidnapping?], [forgery?], fraud, and swindling.
Henceforth...considered transgressions against communal well-being...
...will dispense justice...
Punishments may include, but are not limited to:
fines...
time in the stocks...
imprisonment...
banishment...
death by spider...
Furthermore...
...patron...
...service in the [militia?]...
Notice:
Due to his years of loyal service [to the community?] and his overexposure to the hatters' mercury vats, Harry "No-Pants" Maghille has been granted exemption from any punishment for fraud or swindling for the sale of his so-called "Miracle Cure for Stupidity." Those foolish enough to buy a tincture from a half-naked madman wearing a dead pigeon for a hat have been deemed deserving of the often-fatal side effects associated with the brew.
Volume X: The Wronged Peasant
| Author: | Ravicus Domdred |
transcribed by Ravicus
published in the Year 401 After the Cataclysm
Fragment from a 12,110-line poem entitled "The Wronged Peasant"
(circa 800 Years before the Cataclysm)
- Justice you say? I scoff at the word!
Fed by the hand to some royal bird.
Pence delivered for voice,
Rich dance and rejoice,
At lies from the fed cat purred.
Compassion you say? It tempers the truth?
How does this counter the needful uncouth?
Professor of words —
Coin'd tonguèd words slurred —
Greed trumps e'en the most adept sleuth.
Volume VII: From the Transcript of the Case of Thelonius Parson
| Author: | Selene Noctua |
transcribed by Selene Noctua
published in the Year 401 After the Cataclysm
Fragment from the Transcript of the Case of Thelonius Parson
(Date Unknown)
...The defendant, having been thrice convicted of the same crime shall spend a duration of four daylight hours in the stocks for each offense on record. Furthermore, any subsequent theft of ladies' undergarments from any clothesline within the city limits will result in the defendant spending an equal number of nights in the stocks wearing the stolen property...
Volume V: A Treatise on Justice by Master Roven
| Author: | Selene Noctua |
transcribed by Selene Noctua
published in the Year 401 After the Cataclysm
Fragment from "A Treatise on Justice" by Master Roven
(circa 600 Years before the Cataclysm)
Where does Justice lie? In the heart of the magistrate? In the verdict wrought? Borne on the rod? Retained in the brig? In the wind that blows the gallows rope?
Who are we to judge the heart of the guilty? When does Justice become Vengeance?
We must become servants to Justice. We must seek [Her?] to the very core. [We must?] remain detached from the suffering of the victims, lest we be torn by their desire for vengeance...
...To do less is a disservice to them...
Volume VIII: "The darkness unjust"
| Author: | Themo Lock |
transcribed by Themo Lock
published in the Year 401 After the Cataclysm
Fragment from a poem possibly entitled "The [Reaming?] of Shadows"
(circa 750 Years before the Cataclysm)
- The darkness [unjust?]
in the light...
...face a reckoning.
For shadows allowed
...remain uncowed
will be ever thickening.
While justice, blind in ... pursuit
doth mete with persons or creatures hirsute,
... status and origins matter not.
Only the judgment is what matters
for the affairs of [nymphs?] or [satyrs?]
... otherwise taught.
If you fall from the light
... enter into night,
be thou [ever] wary.
The shadows embrace you
and tell tales to ...
... contrary.
... should be [reamed?]
... what had seemed
and is no longer.
For what was there
is merely [air?]
... feels stronger.