The Wolf Queen's Solitude

• Posted by Cinae March 24, 2016 - 907 views

                         The wolf queen rules in Solitude
                          and the wolf queen rules alone.
                          The dead are kneeling at her feet
                          and she sits on a cold, cold throne.
  
                           What joy or love has she?
                           What husband or what son?
                           All that has fled away.
                           All that is over and is done.
                          
                           She was born with a wolf’s soul
                           or so the people heard and were told
                           and she became a barter chip
                           and left her land before she was old.
  
                           Through many pale years without a son
                           the people said that Bathorgh would reign
                           but at last he was found a bastard
                           and she gave birth in blood and pain.
  
                           Then came a day when the Emperor died
                           and she spoke on behalf of her son
                           but she was barred from the coronation
                           and it was her niece, Kinyra, who won.
  
                           The wolf queen lost the battle
                           as she declared Kinyra’s mother a whore
                           but then she said that what she did
                           far better than speaking was war.
  
                           Her forces came at night
                           and struck in silence and in solitude
                           and taken hostage, Kinyra found
                           that wolves are to be feared and rued.
         
                           At first rate martyr in the tower
                           without a friend by her side,
                           The wolf queen had teeth
                           and so the young Empress died.
  
                           But not was only an Empress made hostage
                           but an Emperor as well
                           and when the mob came, none loved him
                           or would save him, so he fell.
         
                           The wolf queen was torn,
                           Her soul was mad with grief,
                           raising skeletons and daedra
                           because all she had were her teeth.
  
                         So there she sits among the dead,
                         without an heir to her throne
                         The wolf queen rules in Solitude
                          and the wolf queen rules alone.