Act I: The Icelost Years _ Scene I The Baptism of Fire

Rithör Læmbén writes Baptism of Fire as a prologue. He speaks to you of a woman (“The Mother”) who births a child at a great price. The existence of this child will threaten and eventually be the demise of her own existence, and the child will suffer a life of grief and tragedy as a result. Essentially, while the mother will be cast into a literal hell of the afterlife, the child will experience a metaphorical hell of the living.

The second verse (we amassed) suggests that the sins of the child could potentially be washed by the water of the lake, perhaps a metaphor for an innocent upbringing removed from The City - which monks at the Reserve at Emon seem to believe was the ancient city of Whralik. However, because of the inevitable death of the mother, the child will be alone waiting by “The Tree” for a salvation that will never come and will be raised into a life of sin. “The Flame Is Gone, The Fire Remains” is an important constant throughout the series, Rithör Læmbén, focusing on these resurgent lines merely to signify that the Child, our protagonist, will be alone in this world. with his mother (the flame) dead, the fire that she produced will still burn without her.

‘Báp,tizəm -o Zajôr

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(translated) Baptism of Fire

Believe you me: the price is clear

A Child born, the Mother near,

To death and life; as hand in hand.

A failed life exposed the man…

Who led him off into the flame?

And cast him back to Hell again?

But hear you me: the break of dawn,

Will wash away their sins thereof.

Unto the lake beyond the tree,

The Child awaits, alone is he.

The Flame is gone, the Fire remains…

The Flame is gone, the Fire remains…

The Flame is gone, the Fire remains…

The Flame is gone, the Fire remains…

The Flame is gone, the Fire remains…

The Flame is gone, the Fire remains…

- The Icelost Years (translated by Rithör Læmbén)

Scene I: The Baptism of Fire