“There’s a song I heard whilst roaming around in your world and now it’s stuck in my head. What are the lyrics about and why is it so catchy?” -melior64
Lyrics of The Song of Orbits:
I saw a man, green eyes and open hands
I heard a breeze, who knew not the way home
I taste the bread, of a thousand different lands
I sing the song, of all set to roam.
A young girl came forward with a copper in her grip
With fear she did ask me, “Sir what danger is out there a drift?”
I gave back the copper, and tussled with her hair, “Nothing child, except clumsy feet that may slip.”
With a laugh hearty whole I said, “But oh what I saw was a dance too big for us”
Valleys high and mountains low, fish like a school, “you and me kid we cling to it like rust.”
I saw a man, green eyes and open hands
I heard a breeze, who knew not the way home
I taste the bread, of a thousand different lands
I sing the song, of all set to roam.
Oh that kid she started crying, a mistake I knew I’d made.
With a strum of strings and a voice like mist hear is what I sang:
“Oh while small we may be, together here we dance
You see from the edge I see a thousand places with people like you and me
I see they grow live and die in the cradle of the drift, but have no fear even if past the horizon they disappear
For from the edge I see the orbit and back it all shall come!”
I saw a man, green eyes and open hands
I heard a breeze, who knew not the way home
I taste the bread, of a thousand different lands
I sing the song, of all set to roam.
“So don’t cry young child, I’ve see it all afar,
and of everywhere I could have gone I came here to sing this song.”
I saw a man, green eyes and open hands
I heard a breeze, who knew not the way home
I taste the bread, of a thousand different lands
I sing the song, of all set to roam.
The world of the Myriad is a near endless sea of floating islands in a rift between countless worlds, a sortof nexus, or refuse pile if you want to be rude. Occasionally new islands drift in from other worlds or rise up from below the clouds from the world that once occupied this space. It is a world of unknows and fear, where despite there being nigh limitless space for exploration and learning, most people stick to the city states on the largest islands, only trading for what is necessary and relying on exploration guilds to do any work that would require amble travel through the wilder parts of the Myriad. This song was said to have been made by one of the first explorers who ventured to the edge of the Myriad and back in the early days after it first came to be and everyone was afraid.
The song’s meaning is to say that as vast and terrifying as the Myriad is, every distant and mismatched piece of it works on something basic, they all roam, they all orbit around the Myriad’s center. Every piece follows its path and finds its way back to a place in the vastness that is familiar, even if they don’t recognize it. It was a song meant to comfort and embolden those who lived in the Myriad to embrace their fantastical world instead of hiding from its mystery
Nearly a thousand years have passed since the song’s composing, humanity is still hesitant to explore, taking glacial baby steps, but the Explorer guilds were founded by the words of this song, and are eager to learn more about the Myriad each day. And despite its goal to embolden the whole of the world having failed, the song has still found itself a cultural touchstone among most of the vastly different cultures of the Myriad.
