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The War Men and the Other Days Absolutely Nothing of Any Import Happened (to them, at least)
Teaching Wise Lessons through War Men Lore.
This little book of random moments of War Men lore, written by Henry Dlabiznalf, and published as canon by Realmworlds Publishing in 2002, chronicles some of the wacky and zany (and usually violent) tales of the War Men in the underground tunnels, and is set at no specific time in the Saga Timeline. This novel is generally considered to be more nonsense than story, and is often read to children.
As opposed to what the title suggest, stuff actually happens in the novel, but of no real significance.
- Never Threaten To Kill A War Man's Mother -
In one of the underground tunnels, we find three War Men, peacefully (for as far as peaceful gets for them) sitting next to each other, supposedly guarding something.
"Rakag'hab'u'an!", the first one muttered to the second one.
"Rhag'taghe'rakag'hab'u'shokurung'hiki'an!"
"Hiki'shokurung'o!" the third one said, pointing at the first one's battered axe, snickering slightly.
"Onk'a'grishak'rakag'onk'u!" the second one exclaimed, in a tone of severe yelling, after which he lifted the best of his three axes, swung it at the first War Man and hit it's neck.
In a sad undertone, the first War Man slowly exclaimed "Furkal'Pa... Hab'Unk..." while his head slowly slid off.
The remaining two War Men, now glaring at each other, almost as if daring the other to insult the first.
"Onk'e'rakag." the third one said, as if it was only a mere observation.
"Rhag," the first one said, confirming the third's observation.
They then continued to silently guard whatever it was they were supposed to guard, until the first one died of starvation, and the first one then achieved the bright idea of consuming the bodies of the other two to keep alive, which he did until he ran out of their flesh, and then choked on the first one's shoulder-bones.
Comments (4)
samhasnofriends said
at 11:16 am on May 21, 2006
Why remove the last line of the paragraph, Johan? You could at least quote the book properly. Besides, small, random prose movements exemplify Dlabiznalf's style.
Johan said
at 11:22 am on May 21, 2006
It's merely the last line. Let me add the full bit.
Johan said
at 11:24 am on May 21, 2006
There it is. I've got the e-book on my desktop, so...
Johan said
at 11:25 am on May 21, 2006
To clarify things, the book is simply a bunch of funny and amusing War Men stories, around half written in [Shokurung], half translated to English.
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