A Decrepit Tower in the Distance, by Forsaken Keep

A Decrepit Tower in the Distance

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1.	I Set my Sights on the Decrepit Tower in the Distance 04:20	buy track
2.	Guided by the Light of the Fullmoon, I Find my Way 05:36	buy track
3.	The Tower I Thought Long Forsaken is Home to a Jaghut, He Tends a Modest Garden as I Approach 04:08	buy track
4.	The Jaghut Offers Me Strong Tea and Cryptic Counsel 04:37	buy track

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"As I, a lone Tiste, many days travel from the nearest settlement on perilous business, crest a small hill, I spy a decrepit tower far in the distance. With the sun moments from kissing the edge of the land, soon to be lost for a time, I decide to travel through the night in hopes of reaching the tower by morning, to rest in it's welcome shade by day. As I make my journey the fullmoon rises as my guide, providing light that, although a distant echo of the suns brilliance just past, nevertheless provides safe passage through the barren lands. I walk through the night and as I approach the tower the sun begins again its inexorable jourmey skyward. As I get closer I see that the tower, which I thought abandoned and long forsaken, is in fact home to a Jaghut and he is outside, tending to a small pot of flowers.

'Greetings, O' Jaghut' say I, 'I had thought this tower a forsaken ruin, home to naught but memories, and perhaps a shaded spot in which to spend a hot day and rest my weary bones.'

The Jaghut turns slowly to me, peaking out from under the brim of a large hat.

'Ah, a wanderer in these parts is rare indeed, but nonetheless I welcome you as guest to my abode, and, hopefully, as an admirer of my modest garden here.'

I come inside with thanks and a glance at the 'garden' at which the Jaghut toiled, it being no more than two flowers in a pot on the doorstep. I enter inside and notice the stones on the inner side of the tower are rimed with frost, proof of the Jaghuts power, but the tea he provides warms me from within and its heady aromas fill my senses. Once the tea has been consumed and the idle talk done with, I begin to feel the effects of the strong blend. The tone within the tower shifts from that of light hearted talk to that of grave portent and the Jaghut provides me with counsel regarding my quest. The nature of this counsel was cryptic indeed, and I will not share it here as it was for mine ears alone, but suffice to say that it left me feeling both sure and uncertain of what was to lie ahead. I spent the rest of the day and night with the Jaghut in his decrepit tower, shaded from both the sun and moon, mustering strength for the journey to come. Whether I was emboldened or burdened by the guidance of Jaghut I cannot rightly say..."

-This short story and album were inspired by and based on the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson-

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