I Have Paced These Forests For So Long I Don't Know If I Am Man Or I Am Beast.

I, Though, Hold Deep Within Me A Quest For Revenge.

Then I Must Be A Man As Much As I Can Be.



I Have Learned To Speak The Tongue Of The Animal

I Have Learned To Read The Signs In Bark And Snow.

I Have Taken Within Myself The Spirits Of My Fathers,

Long Time Gone.

In This Short Time, Far From Home, A Man Of Iron I've Grown.

A Man Of Iron I Have Grown.



A Part Of The Eternal Woods...

Late Evening...



["Just After Sunset On His Way Back To His Camp After Watching The Sun Unite]

[with The Mountains In The West, He Sees The Flickering Of Light Between The]

[tree Trunks. Approaching, He Sees An Old Man Sitting Calmly By A Fire, As]

[if Waiting For Him. His Left Eye Missing. His Beard As If Gold. The Signs]

[on His Cloak And Hood Familiar. The One Eyed Old Man Matches The]

[description Of The Soothsayer, As Told By The Elders Of His Village By The]

[fires At Night When He Only A Child. The Boy, Now A Young Man, Eager To]

[know, Asks The One Eyed Old Man About His Dreams. Dreams He Cannot]

[understand. Dreams About Strange Things He Is Seeing Himself Doing. Then]

[the Winds That Seem To Talk To Him. Voices That Whisper To Him Behind His]

[back. The One Eyed Old Man Tells Him Of The Cycles Of The Stars, Of The]

[trail Of Fate And Of The Valley Where Time And Space Had Ceased To Exist...]

[where His World Ends And The Shadows Begin. The One Eyed Old Man Tells The]

[young Man That Fate Has Chosen Him To Interfere With The Other World. The]

[disturbance Is Already Made. The Daughters Of The Four Winds Have Sold]

[themselves To The Shadows, Distorting The Balance Of The Universe. And The]

[one Eyed Old Man Says He Has Seen Him Come For A Thousand Years, And That]

[the Aging Gods Have Told Him To Teach Him All That He Has Ever Known And To]

[prepare Him To Ride Beyond His World And Into The Shadows As Their Champion]

[to Restore The Balance. To His Aid He Shall Be Given A Sword Forged When]

[this World Was Young. He Sh