Ashborn Colonel - A Song of Lore from the Legends of Acoria

Found amid the ambers of a dead star. Adrift in the debris of death. The only spark of life among the ruins. They found him alone. He had no name to speak. He had no record to give. He had no past to tell. All answers none could give or speak. A man of no name, a man of no house. A man of no family, a man of nothing. A man of Power. The Colonel Principalis, The act becomes name. The Colonel Principalis, Borne of ash and flame. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda and its Colonel Principalis. Pirates raided colonies and homes. They took and they destroyed. He hunted them down, he slayed their captain, He left their ships burning. Adrift in the void. There was no mercy for the merciless. The sentence for a pirate is death. He carried out the law. Til each one drew their last breath. The Colonel Principalis, The act becomes name. The Colonel Principalis, Borne of ash and flame. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda and its Colonel Principalis. Slavers sailed to the young planets, clamping chains and filling their holds. The most vulnerable caged in rows. He tore the locks apart He burned the brands away The names they stole from breath He gave back that day The Colonel Principalis, The act becomes name. The Colonel Principalis, Borne of ash and flame. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda and its Colonel Principalis. Then they came, the merchants of death. Silver tongues touting welcomed lies, promises broken by lifeless eyes. He burned their contracts. He crushed their crooked scales. Their own poison he made them drink. Into the blackest of the void, he made them sink. But in the quiet hours When medals cooled to stone He touched that ruined past And found no trace, no home He found a truth in that silence A harder truth than blood or throne could mold A man is what he guards A name is what he holds The Colonel Principalis, The act becomes name. The Colonel Principalis, Borne of ash and flame. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda. Forever stands the Phlox Aeternum et Sempiternus Garda and its Colonel Principalis.