| “ | The binding of your song book has been damaged, a number of pages torn out. Many of the songs contained herein are traditional lays, generations old and belonging to no creature, while others are compositions of your own. |
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| ~ In-game description |
The Song Book is a book in Ghost of a Tale. Tilo has it in his possession as soon as he wakes up in his cell in the jail of Dwindling Heights Keep.
Songs[]
Songs included[]
- "The Maiden Wouldn't Sing": The tale of a minstrel and a maiden, imprisoned by a cruel baron for refusing to perform.
- "The Ballad of the Coward King": A lay recounting the final days of the reign of King Rodrik the Third – the last King of the Rats – who fled his Kingdom on the eve of a great battle, and was never seen again.
- "A Murder of Crows": A satirical lay – popular among Mice living under the rule of the Red Paw – asserting the theory that the group name for each kind of creature accurately reflects their true nature.
- "Heaven in a Bottle": A drinking shanty, popular with rogues and pirates. Responsible for the death of more pirates than the gallows.
- "The Poisoned Cup": A lay that recounts the shameful actions of Mice during the War of the Green Flame.
- "The Rat with Two Tails": A raucous lay, recounting the misadventures of an over-endowed Rat, in search of pleasure.
- "The Gilded Warrior": A song that describes the actions of the Rat army against the Green Flame and the heroics of Duinlain.
- "The Orphan Prince": Composed by Tilo who took some inspiration from hearing Silas' origins as the last of existing member of the royal rat lineage.
Songs not included[]
- "Rascal's Whirligig": Written jointly by Fatale and Tilo in the courtyard of Dwindling Heights Keep.
- "A Lullaby": The lullaby that Silas remembers his birth mother singing to him.
- "My Lovely's Lovely": A song composed by the Commander, containing badly improvised rhyming couplets as he sings out of key, which Tilo is forced to listen to.