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| short = a pearl-set braided vaalin ring
|loresong=<center>From the ring in your hand, you hear a soft, haunting melody, and the notes of the song slowly coalesce into words.</center> 

<center>"Cold streams trickle over the rocks to the sea</center>
<center>Where Ta'Ashrim's tall ships nevermore shall set sail,</center>
<center>Where the masterless sea serpents course through the depths</center>
<center>Of a world where the ugly and dark things prevail."</center>
<center>The quiet song fades away.</center> 

<center>Again, you hear a soft singing come from the ring:</center>
<center> "With great patience and care was I wrought, strand by strand,</center>
<center>On an island now seared with the black demon-fire.</center>
<center>Each bright-glistening pearl was drawn up from the depths</center>
<center>By a skilled diver's hand and a young man's desire."</center>
<center>The verse ends on a gentle sigh.</center> 

<center>The ring continues to sing back to you...</center>
<center>"Like the moon-silvered sand was my mistress's hair</center>
<center>If such sand could be spun out like silk on a wheel --</center>
<center>Filled with wizardly magic were her green-blue eyes,</center>
<center>And she loved what she loved with wild fervor and zeal."</center>
<center>The song of the ring crescendos vibrantly before fading again.</center> 

<center>The ring's soft song murmurs to you,
<center>"As a gift, I came to her to signal the soul</center>
<center>Of a wild, headstrong man who would give life for love --</center>
<center>They might well have been joyous without Faendryl foes,</center>
<center>But death rained on all sides like the storms from above."</center>
<center>Distinct anger enters the tone of the mystically invoked song.</center> 

<center>The ring sings,</center>
<center>"Shipmistress, stormcaller, proudly she stood</center>
<center>On the deck to command 'Into battle, we fly' --</center>
<center>And where was her lover, in that fatal hour?</center>
<center>He had already gone where Gosaena stands nigh."</center>
<center>The verse ends, and silence overtakes the ring again.</center> 

<center>In response to your voice, the ring sings,</center>
<center>"I remember the phosphorescent lights on the waves.</center>
<center>I remember her battling till she at last cried</center>
<center>'Hard to port! We can't hold!' I remember the fangs</center>
<center>And her agonized scream as the claws knifed her side."</center>
<center>You hear the echoes of a distant, anguished wail resonating within the slim ring.</center> 

<center>The haunting melody of the ring rises to an anguished howl.</center>
<center>"The shadow-wreathed demon was tall as a mast</center>
<center>With sixteen-inch black talons, with teeth like a shark,</center>
<center>With Ta'Faendryl's foul will crafting each of its moves</center>
<center>As it flung her from ship deck to drown in the dark."</center>
<center>The resonance of the ring's powerful and musical misery makes your teeth ache.</center> 

<center>The ring's song drops to a near-whisper as it continues,</center>
<center>"Carrion fish drank her blood, tore the meat from her bones,</center>
<center>Sea-worms ate her dead eyes, naught remains of her hair,</center>
<center>And her whole world is lost to the empire of death --</center>
<center>Only I still remain to say: 'Once, she was fair.'"</center>
<center>The echoes of your voice fade from the ring, and it drops back into silence.</center> 

<center>The ring repeats the low, wistful refrain of its song.</center> 
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