I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I wanted to share it with this crowd. I was thinking a lot about Tarre Visla and how little we know about him. I was also thinking about Mandalorian culture, especially some of the mythos surrounding the Mythosaur and the dark saber. And since we don’t have specifics on the “song” mentioned in Mandalorian…I thought I’d give it a shot. The forgotten verse is basically a piece that ties directly into Tarre himself, and a short story I’m writing about his legend. Let me know what you think! (If you hate it, please be cool about it lol)
The Song of the Mythosaur (Translated from the Old Tongue)
Beneath the endless skies it strode,
A beast of shadow, vast and bold.
The flame of Mandalore its breath,
The thunder of its heart, a song
That shook the earth and shattered the dawn,
And called its children to rise as one.
Through famine and war it bore them hence
To forge their wills as tempered steel,
But lo, unyielding, they cracked and fell
As ancient stone beneath the wheel.
And the beast saw rifts grow deep and wide,
Scars of glory, ruin, wrath, and pride.
Then silence drowned the forge’s flame,
And songs of old grew still with time.
The beast lay waiting in its tomb,
Beyond the reach of blade or rhyme.
It waits in shadow, cold and still,
It waits as ever darkness will.
But one day, when the stars descend
To meet the breaking of the light,
Thunder shall call the clans to stand,
Their hearts to rise against the night.
And the breath of the beast shall crack the sky,
And with one voice shall Mandalore cry,
“The song of the people shall never die!”
So let it ring, both near and far,
Through water and stone, through void and star,
The roar of mighty Mythosaur,
The song of Mandalore.
The Forgotten Verse (Spoken only by the eldest of elders, never sung aloud)
But on that day, from ancient stone,
A shadow forged through blood and flame
Shall rise to meet the breaking light,
And wield the mighty mending blade.
It’s blood for blood that sews the right
To answer the call of wills made steel,
The song of old invites the wheel.
Beware the voice that stirs the beast,
For fire shall cleanse and ash shall fall.
The way is carved through light and dark,
When warrior and sage are one with all.
So let it ring, both near and far,
Through blood and bone, through void and star,
The roar of mighty Mythosaur,
The song of Mandalore.
**note: due to the nature of translations, it’s possible that some of these lines have slight errors. (Read: they do. I wrote them in with the idea that translating ancient languages that have smaller vocabulary with many variant meanings can cause misinterpretation depending how they’re read. The last line is a great example. What do you think the “textual translation error” might be here?)