Oak leaf and oath,
Rock water and spun linen,
Unction and atonement,
The circle and the flame.
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”While there is strength in this body, I will raise the sword;
While there is breath in yours, you will do no harm.
Whether warrior or healer, a truth
Appointed by the heart is
Irrevocable.”
Fragmented impressions of another time and place.
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‘For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.’
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion