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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zinovia" data-source="post: 4329241" data-attributes="member: 57373">A less specific more story-like variantHere's an altered variant with less specific info.  This could be a song common to the local area, but of unknown origin.  I even tacked a warning verse onto the end, as many horror stories have something of the sort.  Cautionary tales and all that.  In shadowed keep of tumbled stone,A peril hides, for years unknown,The Kinslayer's spirit guards it yet,'Gainst the very child he did beget.The thing of evil sent dark dreams,Nightmares wrought of tortured screams,The vowed defender's sword did rend,Murder to fate's hand forfend.Awakened to the awful truth,Shattered bones of men and youth,His wife and children, pride and joy,Seen as demons, he destroyed.The Kinslayer met his death alone,For wicked deeds he would atone,So awaits he for the fated time,Forgiveness grant for hated crime.Visions echo through the halls,Ghostly blood runs 'long the walls,None can face those cursed remainsFear like water in their veins.  If seek ye treasure, fame or greed,Kinslayer's words be wise to heed,Be ye born of purest light,None can withstand the endless night.</blockquote>