The just deaths of the traitors
frightened some
There among the darkness and alien stars.
A few lost heart and began with quavering resolve
To question the Great Father's plan.
With stern compassion he spoke and all was revealed;
How their destiny was the Hidden Hope
Of all mankind and how their sons' sons
Would one day return to the Inner Sphere
Bringing back the enlightenment of the Star League
To those unfortunate they had left behind.
Such was their right, such is our legacy of blood.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 3, Verse
22, Lines 1-11
There will be a time when our
descendants
Return to reclaim what is our right.
With honor swelling their hearts, they will crusade
Against the dark emotions that have dimmed
The Inner Sphere for so long.
But with the glory comes responsibility;
Without a pure soul we cannot give sight
To their blind lives, but will only blind ourselves.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 3, Verse
41, Lines 1-8
The rebels, heeding neither
strength nor sense,
Cowardly ambushed noble DeChevalier.
Although he fought like a lion, he died
And with his death came the cloud, and reason fled
Like a winter sun's feeble evening light
Above hopeless Eden and wicked Babylon.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 8, Verse
36, Lines 51-56
Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was
the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect:
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 67, Verse
26, Lines 21-37
For the day will come and our
kin will stand
On Terra's firm soil, ready to rebuild
The Star League with their hearts and hands.
But who shall lead? Upon whose shoulders
Will the burden lie? The answer is the test;
The test is the journey. Whichever Clan
Carves its way through the barbarians
To reach that fabled cradle of us all
Shall be the vehicle of the League's rebirth. Upon
The Star League throne shall sit that Clan's
Wisest Khan. So should it be - so shall it be.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 72, Verse
22, Lines 14-24
From Kerensky's Stars came the
Eight Hundred
Beneath a banner of Truth and Righteous Light
To lift up those who had suffered and to smite down
With fearful vengeance those who had ruled
In the name of Vanity or Greed.
The thunder of their BattleMechs' feet, the lightning
From their weapons, and the blood spilled in their name
Created the Clan Spirit, the forge upon which
We have fashioned ourselves to be the weapon
Of the resurrected Star League,
Honed to a razor's edge by the Trials,
By The Remembrance, and by the Words
Of the Great Kerenskys, our sires, our saviors.
-- The Remembrance (Clan
Wolf), Passage 98, Verse 24, Lines 8-20
All praise the art of batchall
and bidding
For it proves our love of peace and tradition.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 118, Verse
3, Lines 11-12
Like a poisonous weed, the
Not-Named fostered
Thoughts and actions against the Clans, calling them
"Independence" and "Freedom," not
realizing
Their every act chained them to the corruptions
That brought down the noble Star League
And set the Inner Sphere aflame.
But the Clans survived by condemning
Them to a bitter annihilation.
Led by Clans Wolf and Widowmaker,
The Grand Council wiped clean the records,
Obliterating with the warm blood
Of its tragically doomed warriors
Every mention of the Not-Named Clan.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 149, Verse
55, Lines 21-33
About the fallen hero they
gathered,
None able to give voice to his shock.
Khan Jerome Winson knelt, tears streaming,
To cradle Nicholas Kerensky's head.
To wipe the blood from the cold brow,
To close the lightless eyes, Peace, great Hero.
Choked with sadness and anger
Khan Jerome Winson spoke. "Khan Cal Jorgensson,
I cry, not for myself, nor for others.
I weep for your Clan Widowmaker.
There is a price for such a crime
As you have committed. A price you
And your Clan will pay."
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 154, Verse
34, Lines 16-28
And never forget that help may
come
From the most unlikely of quarters
And success rest upon the shoulders
Of those kept shadowed until the time of need.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 222, Verse
6, Lines 11-14
Then the order came, "Furl
the sails.
Ready for jump, mighty warriors.
We journey back, we journey home,
Carrying the flame of the Star League
Back to the hearth. We face the ignorant
Who believe themselves civilized and strong,
But they will soon discover otherwise.
We are the Clans, the Star League incarnate.
None can stand against us and survive."
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 272, Verse
8, Lines 11-19
No natural calamities cost you.
There was no great disease, no famines;
No interstellar catastrophe to blame.
You have no excuse to explain
How this, our rightful palace, has been fouled
With the dust of countless innocent dead.
The truth is that you are the descendants
Of traitors who scurry about like rats
In the dark, fighting over petty kingdoms
At the foot of the empty throne.
Never recognizing that you have given up
The one true prize.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 285, Verse
15, Lines 21-32
Tyra of the Rasalhague led,
Forth her fiery flying Drakons,
Gallant in bronze. A warrior woman whose hands
Were unskilled in the ways of hearth and home,
In skills of war she was hard and trained
To leave behind the airy winds and fight
Where the void is eternal and life fleeting.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 294, Verse
8, Lines 17-23
Tyra and her warriors fought
Like crazed demons above Radstadt
When her fighter was crippled by ours,
And her life leaked away into the endless night,
She chose to die
And sent her fighter like a spear
Through the Dire Wolf, claiming as isorla
Our mighty ilKhans life. Sing of our loss, warriors!
Sing, but of Tyra also,
For though an enemy, her courage none can deny.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 294, Verse
8, Lines 24-33
And so the Khans met in
kurultai
To discuss the carving of Tukayyid.
As it was some feast dish cooked
And tender, begging for the server's knife.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 327, Verse
3, Lines 5-8
Sons and daughters of the blood
legacy,
Inspire me as I sing,
Of the deaths dealt out on Tukayyid
And of what our warriors faced and bravely fought;
Help me paint a portrait of an apocalypse.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 328, Verse
1, Lines 1-5
From a 'Mech grave he rose, snarling
Ready to do battle for his vanquished Clan
Stalking the Falcon Khans, who would remake us
His actions, the Wolf incarnate.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 412, Verse 10, Lines 9-12
The General's intent was
clearly stated,
To depart and never return.
He forced none but swayed many;
This compassionate, brilliant man
Had led thousands to victory,
And he would again lead the long march.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Ghost Bear), Passage 8,
Verse 6, Lines 12-17
Now is the time
To prove
What we know to be true:
That we shall conquer all.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Ghost Bear), Passage 155,
Verse 2, Lines 45-48
From the ranks of many she
rose,
Pre-eminent among all others.
Foe after foe fell before the young warrior
For destiny guided her sword.
When our Leader called, she rose
And became the head of the mighty Serpent.
She guided the Viper alongside the Wolf,
Along the path of the True Vision.
Let us forever honor the First Khan, who showed the
way.
Let us remain faithful to the True Path she marked for
the Viper.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Steel Viper), Passage 3,
Verse 5, Lines 6-15
The wise Nicholas spoke to them
all
Through the haze of their anguish;
His passion flowed through the doubt,
His conviction tore at the fear
He was become the living legend.
Phillip listened and believed;
He would follow this great man
As he had followed the father
Into Exodus, and hope.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Nova Cat), Passage 14,
Verse 1, Lines 1-9
And in her vision the wolf
howled,
But the nova cat paced steadily on,
Undisturbed by the petty battles
Others fought, trying to cage it within the bars of
Thoughtless sameness. The nova cat gazed
Straight ahead, its heart and mind devoted to
The Ways of Seeing, devoted to a more perfect life.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Nova Cat), Passage 50,
Verse 5, Lines 26-32
The Grand Council, in arrogance, gave
their decree:
Blood Spirit, you must conform to the Way of the Clans.
You have strayed from the Path; we will lead you back.
The flash of the blade, the striking of the knife, the traitor's stab!
On the Path our step is true--while other Clans falter.
We held out our hands, in the spirit of Kerensky's Dream,
And our brethren chose to treat the gesture as folly.
In isolation's embrace, we forsake all and live for the future.
--The Remembrance (Clan Blood Spirit), Passage 42, Verse 7, Lines 5-12
And Nicholas Kerensky did charge us, the Fire
Mandrills;
As we have left behind the differences between nations,
So now we observe the Way of the Clans, of the family.
Carry our name, and your Names, proudly.
--The Remembrance (Clan Fire Mandrill), Passage 49, Verse 75, Lines 12-15
From the fires of Eden came John Fletcher,
A true warrior, leader of men, not of machines.
His wisdom became that of a new Clan
That challenged even the mightiest of 'Mechs.
--The Remembrance (Clan Hell's Horses), Passage 13, Verse 1, Lines 1-4
In turn they tested each Clan namesake
In trial against the ice hellion's mettle.
Each chased the ice hellion, hunting it down.
All failed to match the predator's speed and grace.
Khan Cage smiled and said, "And that is how we shall be."
--The Remembrance (Clan Ice Hellion), Passage 5, Verse 3, Lines 1-5
Remember Franklin Osis,
Father of his Clan.
Three strengths he gave us:
The jaguar's spring that brings the enemy down,
The jaguar's claws that rend the enemy's heart,
The jaguar's taste for the enemy's hot blood.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Smoke Jaguar), Passage
104, Verse 18, Lines 5-10
Five are our foundation,
One above the rest.
Four are the stepping stones,
The fifth the pinnacle.
The laborer, the technician, the scientist, the
merchant,
These are the stepping stones
To the warriors' place.
As the insect feeds the bird,
As the bird feeds the wolf,
As the wolf feeds the smoke jaguar,
So all give life to the warrior
Who sheds his blood for their glory.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Smoke Jaguar), Passage
121, Verse 43, Lines 12-24
In our dark days of wandering,
He gave us Hidden Hope;
Our sacred duty calls us to return.
As our Father told us,
And his father before him,
Ours is the redemption of the Universe;
Ours is the paradise of Terra;
Ours is the war of liberation.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Smoke Jaguar), Passage
204, Verse 6, Lines 2-9
Remember Leo Showers,
Great Khan of Khans.
He showed us the way to destiny
And gave his life to achieve it.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Smoke Jaguar), Passage
215, Verse 31, Lines 22-25
Mourn for our ilKhan, o
warriors!
Cry curses to the heavens!
The have silenced the voice of the Crusaders;
Let them be ash beneath our feet.
Make your hearts as proud as his,
Make your blood as fierce,
Make your blows as deadly to our enemies.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Smoke Jaguar), Passage
215, Verse 31, Lines 26-32
