TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

each you with its teeth. Finally it falls to earth and you finish the task of binding its feet together and its
jaws tight shut.
You still hear its low growl - impotent now, you think, until you realize that the beast has not
woken yet. The growling comes from a pair of fur-cloaked men who run across the plain at you. They bite
at their shield-rims, froth running down into their beards and the wood splintering under their furious
gnawing. A spear and a sword now stand at the foot of the pillar. Without questioning the gift, you snatch
up the spear and fling it at them. It takes one through the breast and he falls. The other runs towards you,
howling like a wolf in his madness. You pick up the sword and step forward to fight him.
When the berserker’s axe meets your sword, it flings you back and you land heavily against the
pillar. He leaps forward and strikes at you again, but the might flowing into you from the faithful star
above gives you the strength to meet his blow. You fight with your back to the column for a long time,
neither of you getting the upper hand. Slowly the strength of his furious madness begins to drain from
him, though your power continues steady. At last you strike the axe from his hand. He stands staring at
you a moment his chest heaving, as if thinking whether to attack again. You could stab him through, but
you know that it is dishonorable to slay an unarmed man.
The last of the berserker-strength leaves him and he slumps to the ground, unconscious. You step
away from the pillar and raise your head and hands to the star in thanks for your victory. As you watch, a
tall, grim man whose golden beard spreads out over his mailed breast steps out of the pillar of light. He
holds a spear in his left hand; his right arm is a bleeding stump. Tyr nods at you, smiling, and gestures at
your sword. You hold it out flat before him. With the tip of his spear, he traces the rune tiwaz once on the
blade, once on the hilt, and once on your forehead. The runes glow red where the god’s power has
touched.
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