![]() The battles progressed, and neither side was able to claim victory or defeat, but only able to slow down the progress of Hira's forces, with his large force advancing on the smaller army of Hunding. This plan he called the "Hammer and the Anvil." With each battle, the Army of the Circle, the untrained, undisciplined group of warriors that was his people, would learn more about his strategies and tactics, and grow stronger in the use of the Shehai, and be ready to defeat Hira's forces by the seventh battle. War of the Singers įrandar then formulated a plan, to be fought in a total of seven battles, to lead the Armies of Hira further and further into the wilderness, to the foot of Mount Hattu, where the final battle was to be fought. It is lucky for them that he had time to write down his years of accumulated wisdom, strategy, and ways of the Shehai, because his people fled to Mount Hattu, the "Father of the Mountains." He was able to form the remnants of the Singers into the Army of the Circle, named after his book, and the people learnt Hunding's Way, of his strategy and visions, as written in his Book of Circles, and his vision for a master stroke of victory, for the War of the Singers. ĭue to his legend of being invincible on the battlefield, he was sought out, and without a choice in the matter, he was given command of the Singers. The Sword-Singers, being peoples from the desert, were not particularly numerous, as the harsh landscape kept births few, however "growing up in the unforgiving wastes eliminated all but those of iron spirit and will." Thus the final strife which became known as the "War of the Singers," and these people were unprepared and unready to join together their individually great skills into an army that could defend their homes and lives. He vowed that he would "search out every Singer" with his Brigand army, which was composed of Orcs and castoffs of the wars of the Empire, and to "scourge them from the face of the planet." The Emperor Hira, and his consort, Elisa's effort to take control of the empire, and put a stop to the insurrection, was to destroy the Sword Singers. Torn's Sword-Hunt had separated the Singers from the common people, and the rise of the "Last Emperor of Yokuda" created strife in the desert empire. After completion of this scroll, the Singers, one of them his own son, Divad sought him out, as they urgently needed his help. The Shehai, which is far more than mere light and air, but rather, an unstoppable weapon of great might, and a weapon which "can never be taken from the owner without also taking his mind." This, then, is what Frandar was able to use.Īfter he was satisfied that he was, indeed, invincible, Frandar turned his thoughts towards the philosophy of the "Way of the Spirit Sword." He wrote his learning down in the Book of Circles whilst living as a hermit in a mountains of high desert in 1E 780 In that year, after having enlisted in, and fought, many battles of the empire (and winning all of them)-had thought himself ready for death, and retired to the cave in order to write his strategy and mystical visions to share with the other Sword-Singers. All sword singers eventually learn this "through the intense training and devotion to the gods of war and the way of the sword." The Shehai is able to concentrate and create the sword, and it takes shape in his hand, usually as a "pale thing of light, misty and insubstantial, a thing of beauty perhaps, but no weapon." Those Ansei of the highest level, and those of sensitivity and talent in magic, can in times of great stress, form a Spirit Sword. The Shehai is a magical mastery whereby the image of a sword is formed from pure thought. ![]() During this duel, he had fought the evil Lord Janic and his seven Liches in the process. He created, and began to use, the Shehai, or "Way of the Spirit Sword." He started using this around his ninetieth duel. ![]() Nearly invincible with the sword, he gained such prestige and mastery that he eventually stopped needing to use real swords. īy 1E 750, Frandar has fought and won more than ninety duels. ![]() He was in great demand as a guardian and escort, but his reputation preceded him, and multitudes awaited to face him in battle, as they would gain instant fame through defeating him. In 1E 734, Hunding's father died in one of the many uprisings in revolt of the death of Randic Torn, leaving him to look after his four brothers and mother, which he did through his knowledge of the sword. Some, however, like Hunding, sought true enlightenment through the dark times. Many Ansei had hung up their swords and became master artisans instead. They devised training called " The Hall of the Virtues of War." Frandar was a master Ansei (the most skillful of the Sword-Singers) at the height of the turmoil of Torn's death. This faction, initially loyal to the Yokudan Empire, originally came from the high-class members of society.
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