"Frandar Hunding was born in 2356 in the old way of reckoning, in our beloved deserts of the old land. The traditional rule of emperors had been overthrown in 2012, and although each successive emperor remained the figurehead of the empire, his powers were very much reduced. Since that time, our people saw 300 years of almost continuous civil war between the provincial lords, warrior monks and brigands, all fighting each other for land and power. Our people once were artisans, poets, and scholars, but the ever evolving strife made the way the sword inevitable - the song of the blade through the air, through flesh and bone, its ring against armor: an answer to our prayers."@en . "1"^^ . . . "Notes on the Redguards, their history and their heroes. This is a publishers proof of the initial draft of my book, REDGUARDS, THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR HEROES. The following is a collection of the tales, myths and history of the Redguards. Much of their history is shrouded in mystery and in the mists of time. It is hard to distinguish between myths, and real history. Below are the first chapters of the draft by Destri Melarg Author's note as translated into the Modern Tongue of Hammerfell: Frandar Hunding was born in 2356 in the old way of reckoning, in our beloved deserts of the old land. The traditional rule of emperors had been overthrown in 2012, and although each successive emperor remained the figurehead of the empire, his powers were very much reduced. Since that time, our people saw 300 years of almost continuous civil war between the provincial lords, warrior monks and brigands, all fighting each other for land and power. Our people once were artisans, poets, and scholars, but the ever evolving strife made the way the sword inevitable - the song of the blade through the air, through flesh and bone, its ring against armor: an answer to our prayers. In the time of Lord Frandar the first Warrior Prince, lords called Yokeda built huge stone castles to protect themselves and their lands, and castle towns outside the walls begin to grow up. In 2245, however, Mansel Sesnit came to the fore. He became the Elden Yokeda, or military dictator, and for eight years succeeded in gaining control of almost the whole empire. When Sesnit was assassinated in2253,a commoner took over the government. Randic Torn continued the work of unifying the Empire which Sesnit had begun, ruthlessly putting down any traces of insurrection. He revived the old gulf between the warriors - the sword singers - and the commoners by introducing restrictions on the wearing of swords. \"Torn's Sword-hunt\", as it was known, meant that only the singers were allowed to wear swords, which distinguished them from the rest of the population. Although Torn did much to settle the empire into its pre-strife ways, by the time of his death in 2373 internal disturbances still had not been completely eliminated. Upon his death, civil war broke out in earnest; war that made the prior 300 year turmoil pale in comparison. It was in this period that Frandar Hunding grew up. Hunding belonged to the sword-singers. This element of empire society grew from the desert artisans and was initially recruited from the young sons and daughters of the high families. They built the first temple to the unknown gods of War and build a training hall \"The Hall of the Virtues of War\". Within a few generations the way of the sword - the song of the blade - had become their life. The people of the blade kept their poetry and artisanship in building beautiful swords woven with magic and powers from the unknown gods. The greatest among them became known as Ansei or \"Saints of the Sword\". Each of these began their own training schools teaching their individual way of the sword. Those Ansei of the highest virtue wandered the country side engaging in battle, righting wrongs, and seeking to end the strife. To sum it up. Hunding, was a sword-singer, a master, no, a Master Ansei at a time when the peak of the strife was reborn out of the chaos of Torn's death. Many singers put up their swords and became artists, for the pull of the artisan heritage was strong; but others, like Hunding pursued the ideal of the warrior searching for enlightenment through the perilous paths of the Sword. Duels of revenge and tests of skill were common place, and fencing schools multiplied. Frandar do Hunding Hel Ansei No Shira, or as he is commonly known Frandar Hunding, was born in the far desert marches in the province of High Desert. Hunding is the name of the High Desert region near where he was born. No Shira means noble person or person of noble birth and Hel Ansei is his title of Sword Sainthood. Hunding's ancestors reach back to the beginning of recorded time in the high desert and were artisans and mystics, his grandfather was a retainer of the Elden Yokeda, Mansel Sesnit, and led many of the battles of unification prior to Sesnit's assassination. When he was 14, Hunding's father died in the one of the many insurrections, and he was left to support his mother and four brothers. His prowess with the sword however, made his life both difficult and easy. Easy in that his services came in great demand as a guardian and escort. Hard in that his reputation preceded him, and many awaited their turn to face him in battle and gain instant fame through his defeat. By the time Hunding was 30 he had fought and won more than 90 duels killing all his opponents. He became virtually invincible with the sword, gaining such skill and mastery that he finally stopped using the real swords created through the artisanship of his people and began using the Shehai or \"way of the spirit sword\". All sword singers learn through their intense training and devotion to the gods of war and way of the sword, the forms of discipline that allow the creation of the spirit sword. This is a simple form of magic or mind mastery where by a image of a sword is formed from pure thought. The sword singer forms the sword by concentrating, and it takes shape in his hand - usually a pale thing of light, misty and insubstantial, a thing of beauty perhaps, a symbol of devotion to the Way and the gods, but no weapon. However, those Ansei of the highest level and sensitivity and those with talent in magic, can at times of stress, form a spirit sword, the Shehai which is far more than light and air - it is an unstoppable weapon of great might, a weapon which can never be taken from the owner without also taking his mind. The Shehai became Hunding's weapon, and with this he slew bands of brigands and wandering monsters than infested the land. Finally upon finishing his 90th duel, defeating the evil Lord Janic and his seven lich followers, he was satisfied that he was indeed invincible. Hunding then turned to formulating his philosophy of the Way of the Sword. He wrote his Learnings down in the BOOK OF CIRCLES while living as a hermit in a cave in the mountains of high desert in his sixtieth year. In that year Hunding having enlisted in the many battles of the empire, defeating all opponents, had thought himself ready for death and retired to his cave to capture his strategy and mystical visions to share with other Sword Singers. It was after his completion of the scroll of the Circle that the Singers found him composing his death poem and preparing to join the gods of war in final rest. At sixty he was a vigorous man, who thought himself through with life, but his people,the sword-singers needed him. They needed him as never before. Torn's Sword Hunt, had separated the Singers from the common people, and the rise of the Last Emperor began the last great strife of the desert empire. The Emperor and his consort Elisa's final effort to wrest control of the empire from the people by destroying the sword-singers. Hira vowed to search out every Singer with his Brigand army composed of Orcs and castoffs of the wars of the empire, and to scourge them from the face of the planet. The Sword Singers were never a numerous people. The harsh desert kept the births few, and growing up in the unforgiving wastes eliminated all but those of iron spirit and will. Thus the final strife which became knows as the \"War of the Singers\" found the people of the sword unprepared and unready to join together their individually great skills into an army that could defend their homes and lives. Frandar Hunding was sought out, his death poem interrupted, and unceremoniously command of the singers was thrust upon him. To the unknown gods of war great thanks is owed that Hunding had the time in his cave to write down his years of accumulated wisdom, of strategy, of the way of the Shehai. The singers fled from their camps up into the desert hills and mountains. Fled to the foot of Hattu \"the father of Mountains\" where Hunding had gone to write in peace and to die, and there these remnants formed into the Army of the Circle - they learned Hunding's Way, his strategies his tactics, and the final great vision for a master stroke. Hunding devised a plan of seven battles leading the Armies of Hira further and further into the wilderness to the foot of Hattu, where the final battle could be fought. Hunding called his plan the \"Hammer and the Anvil\". With each battle Hunding's Singers would further learn his strategies and tactics, grow strong in the use of the Shehai, and be ready to defeat their opponents in the seventh battle. And thus it was, the six first battles were waged, each neither victory or defeat, each leading to the next. The larger armies of Hira following the small army of Hunding. Outnumbered thirty to one, the singers never faltered from the Way. The stage was set, Hira and his Army maneuvered to the base of Hattu Mountain, where the hammer blow was delivered. The battle was pitched, and many singers fell that day. Hunding knew, that the singers who lived would be few, but Hira and his empire of evil would not live and so it went. At the end Hunding and less that twenty thousand Singers survived the day, but no army of evil was left to pillage and murder, more than three hundred thousand fell that day on Hattu. Of those who were left to run and live, all were scattered to the four winds, and organized force no more. The singers packed their lives, folded their tents, mourned their dead, and followed Hunding to the great port city of Arch, in the province of Seawind. There Hunding had a flotilla of ships waiting. The Singers left their desert for a new land. No longer welcome in the desert empire, they left to be sung about and spoken of in legend. The final great warrior, the singers of Shehai, the Book of Circles, all leaving that land where their virtue was unappreciated. Red, red with blood they were in the eyes of the gentle citizenry, never mind that they had saved them from a great evil. The singers vowed to learn new ways as they traveled across the great ocean to their new land. To adopt a new name, but to honor the past. In honor of their final battle, they named their new land Hammerfell and adopted the name Redguards. In honor to Hunding the great warrior prince, each household in Hammerfell has a place by the hearth an alcove really, just a niche, big enough to hold the scroll - The Book of Circles. |-|T\u0142umaczenie (nieoficjalne)= Redgardowie, Ich Historia i Ich Bohaterzy Notatki o Redgardach, ich historii i ich bohaterach. To jest dow\u00F3d wydawcy oryginalnej wersji roboczej mojej ksi\u0105\u017Cki, REDGARDOWIE, ICH HISTORIA I ICH BOHATERZY. Nast\u0119puj\u0105cym jest kolekcja ba\u015Bni, mit\u00F3w i historii Redgard\u00F3w. Wiele z ich historii jest okryte tajemnic\u0105 i mgle wiek\u00F3w. Jest trudnym rozr\u00F3\u017Cni\u0107 co jest mitem, a co prawdziw\u0105 histori\u0105. Poni\u017Cej znajduj\u0105 si\u0119 pierwsze rozdzia\u0142y wersji roboczej autorstwa Destri Melarg Nora autora jak przet\u0142umaczono na Nowoczesny J\u0119zyk Hammerfell: Frandar Hunding urodzi\u0142 si\u0119 w 2356 starego sposobu rachunku, na naszych ukochanych pustyniach starej ziemi. Tradycyjne rz\u0105dy cesarskie zosta\u0142y obalone w 2012, i cho\u0107 ka\u017Cdy nast\u0119pny cesarz pozosta\u0142 marionetkow\u0105 g\u0142ow\u0105 cesarstwa, jego w\u0142adza by\u0142a bardzo umniejszona. Od tego czasu, nasi ludzie ujrzeli 300 lat prawie nieprzerwanej wojny domowej miedzy prowincjonalnymi panami, mnich\u00F3w wojownik\u00F3w i bandyt\u00F3w, wszyscy zwalczali si\u0119 wzajemnie o ziemi\u0119 i w\u0142adz\u0119. Nasz lud sk\u0142ada\u0142 si\u0119 onegdaj z rzemie\u015Blnik\u00F3w, poet\u00F3w i uczonych, ale wiecznie rozwijaj\u0105cy si\u0119 konflikt sprawi\u0142, \u017Ce \u015Bcie\u017Cka miecza sta\u0142a si\u0119 nieuniknion\u0105 \u2013 pie\u015B\u0144 ostrza przez powietrze, przez cia\u0142o i ko\u015B\u0107, d\u017Awi\u0119czy przeciw zbroi: Odpowiedzi na nasze modlitwy. W czasach Wielkiego Pana Frandara, pierwszego Ksi\u0119cia Wojownika, panowie zwani Yokeda zbudowali wielkie kamienne zamki by broni\u0107 siebie i ich ziemie, i zamkowe miasta poza murami zacz\u0119\u0142y rosn\u0105\u0107. W 2245, jednak\u017Ce, Mansel Sesnit wyszed\u0142 na przodu. Sta\u0142 si\u0119 Starszym Yokeda, lub dyktatorem wojskowym, i przez osiem lat udanie zdobywa\u0142 w\u0142adz\u0119 nad prawie ca\u0142ym cesarstwem. Gdy Sesnit zosta\u0142 zamordowany w 2253, w\u0142adz\u0119 wzi\u0105\u0142 cz\u0142owiek z ludu przej\u0105\u0142 rz\u0105d. Randic Thorn kontynuowa\u0142 dzie\u0142o jednoczenia Cesarstwa, kt\u00F3re Sesnit zacz\u0105\u0142, bezwzgl\u0119dnie d\u0142awi\u0105c ka\u017Cdy \u015Blad powstania. O\u017Cywi\u0142 star\u0105 przepa\u015B\u0107 miedzy wojownikami \u2013 pie\u015Bniarzami miecza \u2013 a chamami przez wprowadzenie ogranicze\u0144 na noszenie mieczy. \u201ETorna Polowanie na Miecze\u201D, jak by\u0142o ono znane, oznacza\u0142o \u017Ce tylko pie\u015Bniarzom pozwalano nosi\u0107 miecze, co odr\u00F3\u017Cnia\u0142o ich od reszty populacji. Cho\u0107 Torn uczyni\u0142 wiele by ustanowi\u0107 cesarstwo w na jego drogi sprzed konfliktu, w czasie jego \u015Bmierci w 2373 wewn\u0119trzne niepokoj\u0119 ci\u0105gle nie by\u0142y ca\u0142kowicie wyeliminowane. Po jego \u015Bmierci, wybuch\u0142a wojna domowa w zadatku; wojna, kt\u00F3ra sprawi\u0142a \u017Ce poprzednie 300 lat zamieszek wypad\u0142y blado w por\u00F3wnaniu. To w\u0142a\u015Bnie w tym okresie dorasta\u0142 Frandar Hunding. Hunding nale\u017Ca\u0142 do pie\u015Bniarzy miecza. Ten element cesarskiego spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwa wykszta\u0142ci\u0142 si\u0119 od pustynnych rzemie\u015Blnik\u00F3w i byli pocz\u0105tkowo zaci\u0105gani od m\u0142odych syn\u00F3w i c\u00F3rek wysokich rod\u00F3w. Zbudowali oni pierwsz\u0105 \u015Bwi\u0105tyni\u0119 dla nieznanych bog\u00F3w Wojny i wybudowali hal\u0119 treningow\u0105 \u201EHal\u0119 Cn\u00F3t Wojny\u201D. W ci\u0105gu kilku pokole\u0144 droga miecza \u2013 pie\u015B\u0144 ostrza \u2013 sta\u0142a si\u0119 ich \u017Cyciem. Ludzie ostrza utrzymali swoje poezj\u0119 i rzemie\u015Blnictwo w budowaniu pi\u0119knych mieczy przewlekanych magi\u0105 i moc\u0105 od nieznanych bog\u00F3w. Najznamienitsi z nich stali si\u0119 znani jako Ansei lub \u201E\u015Awi\u0119tymi Miecza\u201D. Ka\u017Cdy z nich zacz\u0105\u0142 swoj\u0105 w\u0142asn\u0105 szkol\u0119 treningow\u0105, nauczaj\u0105c ich w\u0142asnych dr\u00F3g miecza. Ci Ansei o najwy\u017Cszej cnotliwo\u015Bci przemierzali kraj bior\u0105c udzia\u0142 w bitwach, naprawiaj\u0105c krzywdy i pr\u00F3buj\u0105c zako\u0144czy\u0107 konflikt. Podsumowuj\u0105c. Hunding by\u0142 pie\u015Bniarzem miecza, mistrzem, nie, Mistrzem Ansei w czasie gdy konflikt, zrodzony z chaosu wok\u00F3\u0142 \u015Bmierci Torna, si\u0119ga\u0142 swego szczytu. Wielu pie\u015Bniarzy od\u0142o\u017Cy\u0142o swe miecze i stali si\u0119 artystami, gdy\u017C poci\u0105g rzemie\u015Blniczego dziedzictwa by\u0142 silny; ale inni, jak Hunding pod\u0105\u017Cali za idea\u0142em wojownika poszukuj\u0105cego o\u015Bwiecenia przez niebezpieczne \u015Bcie\u017Cki Miecza. Pojedynki w akcie zemsty i pr\u00F3by umiej\u0119tno\u015Bci by\u0142y typowym obrazem, a szk\u00F3\u0142 szermierki przybywa\u0142o. Frandar do Hunding Hel Ansei No Shira, lub powszechnie znany jako Frandar Hunding, narodzi\u0142 si\u0119 w marchiach dalekiej pustyni w prowincji Wysokiej Pustyni, Hunding jest nazw\u0105 regionu Wysokiej Pustyni w pobli\u017Cu jego miejsca narodzin. No Shira znaczy szlachetn\u0105 osob\u0119 lub osob\u0119 o szlacheckim urodzeniu, a Hel Ansei jest jego tytu\u0142em \u015Awi\u0119to\u015Bci Miecza. Przodkowie Hundinga si\u0119gaj\u0105 wstecz do pocz\u0105tk\u00F3w odnotowanych czas\u00F3w w wysokiej pustyni i byli rzemie\u015Blnikami i mistykami, jego dziad by\u0142 s\u0142ug\u0105 Starszego Yokedy, Mansela Sesnita, i przeprowadzi\u0142 wiele bitew k zjednoczeniu przed zab\u00F3jstwem Sesnita. Gdy mia\u0142 lat 14, ojciec Hundinga zmar\u0142 w jednym z wielu powsta\u0144, a on zosta\u0142 by wspiera\u0107 swoj\u0105 matk\u0119 i czterech braci. Jego zr\u0119czno\u015B\u0107 z mieczem jednak, sprawi\u0142a jego \u017Cycie zar\u00F3wno trudnym jak i \u0142atwym. \u0141atwym jako ze jego us\u0142ugi okaza\u0142y si\u0119 w wielkim zapotrzebowaniu jako stra\u017C czy eskorter. Trudne jako \u017Ce jego s\u0142awa wyprzedza\u0142a go, i wielu oczekiwa\u0142o ich kolei by zmierzy\u0107 si\u0119 z nim w walce by zdoby\u0107 w mgnieniu oka s\u0142aw\u0119 przez jego kl\u0119sk\u0119. W czasie gdy Hunding mia\u0142 lat 30 walczy\u0142 i wygra\u0142 wi\u0119cej ni\u017C 90 pojedynk\u00F3w zabijaj\u0105c wszystkich jego przeciwnik\u00F3w. Sta\u0142 si\u0119 on w\u0142a\u015Bciwie nie do pokonania z mieczem, zdobywaj\u0105c tak\u0105 umiej\u0119tno\u015B\u0107 i mistrzostwo, \u017Ce w ko\u0144cu przesta\u0142 u\u017Cywa\u0107 rzeczywistego miecza stworzonego przez rzemie\u015Blnictwo jego ludu i zacz\u0105\u0142 u\u017Cywa\u0107 Shehai lub \u201Edrogi duchowego miecza\u201D. Wszyscy pie\u015Bniarze miecza uczyli si\u0119 przez ich intensywny trening i oddania bogom wojny i drodze miecza, formy dyscypliny, kt\u00F3ra pozwala na utworzenie duchowego miecza. To prosta forma magii lub mistrzostwo umys\u0142u gdzie prze obraz miecza jest on uformowany z czystej my\u015Bli. Pie\u015Bniarz miecza formuje miecz przez skupienie, i przybiera on kszta\u0142t w jego r\u0119ku \u2013 zazwyczaj blady przedmiot ze \u015Bwiat\u0142a, mg\u0142awe i nierealne, przedmiot pi\u0119kna mo\u017Cliwie, symbol oddania do Drogi i bog\u00F3w, ale nie bro\u0144. Jednak\u017Ce, ci Ansei najwy\u017Cszego sortu i wra\u017Cliwo\u015Bci oraz ci z talentem do magii, mog\u0105 w czasie presji, uformowa\u0107 duchowy miecz, Shehai, kt\u00F3ry jest czym\u015B wi\u0119cej ni\u017C \u015Bwiat\u0142o i powietrze \u2013 jest niepowstrzyman\u0105 broni\u0105 wielkiej pot\u0119gi, bro\u0144, kt\u00F3rej nigdy nie spos\u00F3b odebra\u0107 od w\u0142a\u015Bciciela bez odebrania mu r\u00F3wnie\u017C i jego umys\u0142u. Shehai sta\u0142o si\u0119 broni\u0105 Hundinga, a z nim k\u0142ad\u0142 zgraje bandyt\u00F3w i tu\u0142aj\u0105ce si\u0119 potwory, kt\u00F3re roi\u0142y si\u0119 po ziemi. W ko\u0144cu ko\u0144cz\u0105c jego 90-ty pojedynek, pokonuj\u0105c z\u0142ego Wielkiego Pana Janica i jego siedmiu liczy towarzyszy, by\u0142 on zadowolony, \u017Ce by\u0142 naprawd\u0119 niepokonany, Hunding wtedy zwr\u00F3ci\u0142 si\u0119 k formu\u0142owaniu jego filozofii Drogi Miecza. Spisa\u0142 swe Nauki w KSI\u0118DZE KR\u0118G\u00D3W gdy \u017Cy\u0142 jako pustelnik w jaskini w g\u00F3rach wysokiej pustyni w jego sz\u00F3stym roku. W tym roku Hunding zapisa\u0142 si\u0119 w wielu bitwach cesarstwa, pokonuj\u0105c wszystkich przeciwnik\u00F3w, my\u015Bla\u0142 \u017Ce jest ju\u017C gotowy na \u015Bmier\u0107 i oddali\u0142 si\u0119 do swej jaskini by uwieczni\u0107 sw\u0105 strategi\u0119 i mistyczn\u0105 wizj\u0119 by podzieli\u0107 si\u0119 ni\u0105 z innymi Pie\u015Bniarzami Miecza. To by\u0142o po uko\u0144czeniu swego zwoju o Kr\u0119gu, jak Pie\u015Bniarze znale\u017Ali go uk\u0142adaj\u0105cego sw\u00F3j wiersz \u015Bmierci i przygotowuj\u0105c si\u0119 by do\u0142\u0105czy\u0107 do bog\u00F3w wojny w ostatnim spoczynku. W sze\u015B\u0107dziesi\u0105tce by\u0142 on \u017Cwawym cz\u0142owiekiem, kt\u00F3ry przebieg\u0142 my\u015Bl\u0105 przez \u017Cycie, ale jego ludzie, pie\u015Bniarze miecza, potrzebowali go. Potrzebowali go jak nigdy przedtem. Torna Polowanie na Miecze, odseparowa\u0142 Pie\u015Bniarzy od zwyk\u0142ych ludzi, i wsch\u00F3d Ostatniego Cesarza zacz\u0119\u0142o ostatni wielki konflikt pustynnego cesarstwa. Cesarza i jego ma\u0142\u017Conki Elisy ostatnim wysi\u0142kiem by wyrwa\u0107 w\u0142adz\u0119 cesarza od ludu poprzez wyniszczenie pie\u015Bniarzy miecza. Hira przysi\u0105g\u0142 wyszuka\u0107 ka\u017Cdego Pie\u015Bniarza ze sw\u0105 Bandyck\u0105 armi\u0105 skomponowan\u0105 z Ork\u00F3w i wyrzutk\u00F3w wojen cesarstwa, i by wypleni\u0107 ich z powierzchni planety. Pie\u015Bniarze Miecza nigdy nie byli liczni. Surowa pustynia utrzyma\u0142a przy \u017Cyciu narodziny niewielu, a dorastanie w niewybaczaj\u0105cych nieu\u017Cytkach usuwa\u0142o wszystkich opr\u00F3cz tych o \u017Celaznym duchu i woli. Tak wi\u0119c ostateczny konflikt, kt\u00F3ry sta\u0142 si\u0119 znany jako \u201EWojna Pie\u015Bniarzy\u201D zasta\u0142a ludzi miecza nieprzygotowanych i niegotowych by po\u0142\u0105czy\u0107 razem ich indywidualne wspania\u0142e zdolno\u015Bci w armi\u0119, kt\u00F3ra mog\u0142a obroni\u0107 ich domy i \u017Cycia. Frandar Hunding by\u0142 odnaleziony, jego wiersz \u015Bmierci przerwany, i bezceremonialne \u017C\u0105danie pie\u015Bniarzy uderzy\u0142o w niego. Do nieznanych bog\u00F3w wojny nale\u017C\u0105 si\u0119 wielkie dzi\u0119ki, \u017Ce Hunding mia\u0142 w jaskini czas by spisa\u0107 jego lata nagromadzonego do\u015Bwiadczenia, strategii, drogi Shehai. Pie\u015Bniarze uciek\u0142o ze swych oboz\u00F3w wysoko na pustynne wzg\u00F3rza i g\u00F3ry. Uciekli do st\u00F3p Hattu \u201Eojca G\u00F3r\u201D gdzie Hunding uszed\u0142 by pisa\u0107 w spokoju i umrze\u0107 , i gdzie ci niedobitkowie uformowali Armi\u0119 Kr\u0119gu \u2013 poznali \u015Acie\u017Ck\u0119 Hundinga, jego strategi\u0119, jego taktyki, i jego ostateczn\u0105 wizj\u0119 mistrzowskiego uderzenia. Hunding obmy\u015Bli\u0142 plan siedmiu bitew prowadz\u0105c Armi\u0119 Hiry dalej i dalej w puszcze do st\u00F3p Hattu, gdzie ostatnia bitwa mia\u0142aby by\u0107 wywalczona. Hunding nazwa\u0142 sw\u00F3j plan \u201EM\u0142otem i Kowad\u0142em\u201D. Z ka\u017Cd\u0105 bitw\u0105 Pie\u015Bniarze Hundinga mia\u0142yby dalej przyucza\u0107 si\u0119 w jego strategiach, i taktykach, ro\u015Bli w sil\u0119 w u\u017Cytku Shehai, i stali si\u0119 gotowi pokona\u0107 swych przeciwnik\u00F3w w si\u00F3dmej bitwie. I tak by\u0142o, sze\u015B\u0107 bitw si\u0119 rozegra\u0142o, ka\u017Cda ni to zwyci\u0119stwo ni przegrana, ka\u017Cda prowadz\u0105ca do nast\u0119pnej. Wi\u0119ksze armie Hiry pod\u0105\u017Ca\u0142y za ma\u0142\u0105 armi\u0105 Hundinga. Przewy\u017Cszona liczebnie trzydziestu do jednego, pie\u015Bniarze nie zawahali si\u0119 w Drodze. Scena by\u0142a ustawiona. Hira i jego Armia wymanewrowali do podstawy G\u00F3ry Hattu, gdzie uderzenie m\u0142otem zosta\u0142o zadane. Bitwa by\u0142a nier\u00F3wna i wielu pie\u015Bniarzy leg\u0142o tego dnia. Hunding wiedzia\u0142, \u017Ce pie\u015Bniarzy kt\u00F3rzy przetrwaj\u0105 b\u0119dzie niewielu, ale Hira i jego imperium z\u0142a nie mia\u0142o przetrwa\u0107 i tak te\u017C przebieg\u0142a bitwa. Na koniec Hunding i mniej ni\u017C dwadzie\u015Bcia tysi\u0119cy Pie\u015Bniarzy przetrwa\u0142o tego dnia, ale \u017Caden z armii z\u0142a zosta\u0142 by pl\u0105drowa\u0107 i mordowa\u0107, wi\u0119cej ni\u017C trzysta tysi\u0119cy leg\u0142o tego dnia pod Hattu. Z tych, kt\u00F3rych oszcz\u0119dzono by zbiegli i \u017Cyli, wszyscy rozpierzchli si\u0119 na cztery wiatry i nie zorganizowali si\u0142y ju\u017C nigdy. Pie\u015Bniarze spakowali swoje \u017Cycia, z\u0142o\u017Cyli namioty, op\u0142akali zmar\u0142ych, i pod\u0105\u017Cyli za Hundingiem do wielkiego miasta portowego, \u0141uku, w prowincji Morskiwiatr. Tam Hundinga czeka\u0142a flotylla okr\u0119t\u00F3w. Pie\u015Bniarze opu\u015Bcili ich pustyni\u0119 dla nowej ziemi. Ostatni wielki wojownik, pie\u015Bniarze Shehai, Ksi\u0119ga Kr\u0119g\u00F3w, wszystko opuszcza\u0142o ziemi gdzie ich cnota zosta\u0142a niedoceniona. Czerwoni, czerwoni w krwi w oczach szlachetnego obywatelstwa, zapomnieli, \u017Ce oni ocalili ich od wielkiego z\u0142a. Pie\u015Bniarze przysi\u0119gli nauczy\u0107 si\u0119 nowych dr\u00F3g gdy podr\u00F3\u017Cowali przez wielki ocean do ich nowej ziemi. By przyj\u0105\u0107 nowe imi\u0119, ale by honorowa\u0107 przesz\u0142o\u015B\u0107. W szacunku dla ich ostatniej bitwy, nazwali ich now\u0105 ziemi\u0119 Hammerfell i przyj\u0119li miano Redgard\u00F3w. W szacunku dla Hundinga wielkiego ksi\u0119cia wojownika, ka\u017Cde domostwo w Hammerfell ma miejsce przy palenisku alkow\u0119 w\u0142a\u015Bciwie, tylko nisz, wystarczaj\u0105co wielk\u0105 by trzyma\u0107 zw\u00F3j \u2013 Ksi\u0119g\u0119 Kr\u0119g\u00F3w."@pl . "Redguards, Their History and Their Heroes"@en . "Redguards, Their History and Their Heroes"@en . . . . "Redguards, Their History and Their Heroes"@pl . . . . "Redguards, Their History and Their Heroes"@en . . "20"^^ . . . . . . . . "Frandar Hunding was born in 2356 in the old way of reckoning, in our beloved deserts of the old land. The traditional rule of emperors had been overthrown in 2012, and although each successive emperor remained the figurehead of the empire, his powers were very much reduced. Since that time, our people saw 300 years of almost continuous civil war between the provincial lords, warrior monks and brigands, all fighting each other for land and power. Our people once were artisans, poets, and scholars, but the ever evolving strife made the way the sword inevitable - the song of the blade through the air, through flesh and bone, its ring against armor: an answer to our prayers. In the time of Lord Frandar the first Warrior Prince, lords called Yokeda built huge stone castles to protect themselves and their lands, and castle towns outside the walls begin to grow up. In 2245, however, Mansel Sesnit came to the fore. He became the Elden Yokeda, or military dictator, and for eight years succeeded in gaining control of almost the whole empire. When Sesnit was assassinated in 2253,a commoner took over the government. Randic Torn continued the work of unifying the Empire which Sesnit had begun, ruthlessly putting down any traces of insurrection. He revived the old gulf between the warriors - the sword singers - and the commoners by introducing restrictions on the wearing of swords. \"Torn's Sword-hunt\", as it was known, meant that only the singers were allowed to wear swords, which distinguished them from the rest of the population. Although Torn did much to settle the empire into its pre-strife ways, by the time of his death in 2373 internal disturbances still had not been completely eliminated. Upon his death, civil war broke out in earnest; war that made the prior 300 year turmoil pale in comparison. It was in this period that Frandar Hunding grew up. Hunding belonged to the sword-singers. This element of empire society grew from the desert artisans and was initially recruited from the young sons and daughters of the high families. They built the first temple to the unknown gods of War and build a training hall \"The Hall of the Virtues of War\". Within a few generations the way of the sword - the song of the blade - had become their life. The people of the blade kept their poetry and artisanship in building beautiful swords woven with magic and powers from the unknown gods. The greatest among them became known as Ansei or \"Saints of the Sword\". Each of these began their own training schools teaching their individual way of the sword. Those Ansei of the highest virtue wandered the country side engaging in battle, righting wrongs, and seeking to end the strife. To sum it up. Hunding, was a sword-singer, a master, no, a Master Ansei at a time when the peak of the strife was reborn out of the chaos of Torn's death. Many singers put up their swords and became artists, for the pull of the artisan heritage was strong; but others, like Hunding pursued the ideal of the warrior searching for enlightenment through the perilous paths of the Sword. Duels of revenge and tests of skill were common place, and fencing schools multiplied. Frandar do Hunding Hel Ansei No Shira, or as he is commonly known Frandar Hunding, was born in the far desert marches in the province of High Desert. Hunding is the name of the High Desert region near where he was born. No Shira means noble person or person of noble birth and Hel Ansei is his title of Sword Sainthood. Hunding's ancestors reach back to the beginning of recorded time in the high desert and were artisans and mystics, his grandfather was a retainer of the Elden Yokeda, Mansel Sesnit, and led many of the battles of unification prior to Sesnit's assassination. When he was 14, Hunding's father died in the one of the many insurrections, and he was left to support his mother and four brothers. His prowess with the sword however, made his life both difficult and easy. Easy in that his services came in great demand as a guardian and escort. Hard in that his reputation preceded him, and many awaited their turn to face him in battle and gain instant fame through his defeat. By the time Hunding was 30 he had fought and won more than 90 duels killing all his opponents. He became virtually invincible with the sword, gaining such skill and mastery that he finally stopped using the real swords, created through the artisanship of his people, and began using the Shehai or \"way of the spirit sword\". All sword singers learn through their intense training and devotion to the gods of war and way of the sword, the forms of discipline that allow the creation of the spirit sword. This is a simple form of magic or mind mastery where by a image of a sword is formed from pure thought. The sword singer forms the sword by concentrating, and it takes shape in his hand - usually a pale thing of light, misty and insubstantial, a thing of beauty perhaps, a symbol of devotion to the Way and the gods, but no weapon. However, those Ansei of the highest level and sensitivity and those with talent in magic, can at times of stress, form a spirit sword, the Shehai which is far more than light and air - it is an unstoppable weapon of great might, a weapon which can never be taken from the owner without also taking his mind. The Shehai became Hunding's weapon, and with this he slew bands of brigands and wandering monsters than infested the land. Finally upon finishing his 90th duel, defeating the evil Lord Janic and his seven lich followers, he was satisfied that he was indeed invincible. Hunding then turned to formulating his philosophy of \"the Way of the Sword\". He wrote his Learnings down in the BOOK OF CIRCLES while living as a hermit in a cave in the mountains of high desert in his sixtieth year. In that year Hunding having enlisted in the many battles of the empire, defeating all opponents, had thought himself ready for death and retired to his cave to capture his strategy and mystical visions to share with other Sword Singers. It was after his completion of the scroll of the Circle that the Singers found him composing his death poem and preparing to join the gods of war in final rest. At sixty he was a vigorous man, who thought himself through with life, but his people,the sword-singers needed him. They needed him as never before. Torn's Sword Hunt, had separated the Singers from the common people, and the rise of the Last Emperor began the last great strife of the desert empire. The Emperor and his consort Elisa's final effort to wrest control of the empire from the people by destroying the sword-singers. Hira vowed to search out every Singer with his Brigand army composed of Orcs and castoffs of the wars of the empire, and to scourge them from the face of the planet. The Sword Singers were never a numerous people. The harsh desert kept the births few, and growing up in the unforgiving wastes eliminated all but those of iron spirit and will. Thus the final strife which became knows as the \"War of the Singers\" found the people of the sword unprepared and unready to join together their individually great skills into an army that could defend their homes and lives. Frandar Hunding was sought out, his death poem interrupted, and unceremoniously command of the singers was thrust upon him. To the unknown gods of war great thanks is owed that Hunding had the time in his cave to write down his years of accumulated wisdom, of strategy, of the way of the Shehai. The singers fled from their camps up into the desert hills and mountains. Fled to the foot of Hattu \"the father of Mountains\" where Hunding had gone to write in peace and to die, and there these remnants formed into the Army of the Circle - they learned Hunding's Way, his strategies his tactics, and the final great vision for a master stroke. Hunding devised a plan of seven battles leading the Armies of Hira further and further into the wilderness to the foot of Hattu, where the final battle could be fought. Hunding called his plan the \"Hammer and the Anvil\". With each battle Hunding's Singers would further learn his strategies and tactics, grow strong in the use of the Shehai, and be ready to defeat their opponents in the seventh battle. And thus it was, the six first battles were waged, each neither victory or defeat, each leading to the next. The larger armies of Hira following the small army of Hunding. Outnumbered thirty to one, the singers never faltered from the Way. The stage was set, Hira and his Army maneuvered to the base of Hattu Mountain, where the hammer blow was delivered. The battle was pitched, and many singers fell that day. Hunding knew, that the singers who lived would be few, but Hira and his empire of evil would not live and so it went. At the end Hunding and less that twenty thousand Singers survived the day, but no army of evil was left to pillage and murder, more than three hundred thousand fell that day on Hattu. Of those who were left to run and live, all were scattered to the four winds, and organized force no more. The singers packed their lives, folded their tents, mourned their dead, and followed Hunding to the great port city of Arch, in the province of Seawind. There Hunding had a flotilla of ships waiting. The Singers left their desert for a new land. No longer welcome in the desert empire, they left to be sung about and spoken of in legend. The final great warrior, the singers of Shehai, the Book of Circles, all leaving that land where their virtue was unappreciated. Red, red with blood they were in the eyes of the gentle citizenry, never mind that they had saved them from a great evil. The singers vowed to learn new ways as they traveled across the great ocean to their new land. To adopt a new name, but to honor the past. In honor of their final battle, they named their new land Hammerfell and adopted the name Redguards. In honor to Hunding the great warrior prince, each household in Hammerfell has a place by the hearth an alcove really, just a niche, big enough to hold the scroll - The Book of Circles."@en . . "Notes on the Redguards, their history and their heroes. This is a publishers proof of the initial draft of my book, REDGUARDS, THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR HEROES. The following is a collection of the tales, myths and history of the Redguards. Much of their history is shrouded in mystery and in the mists of time. It is hard to distinguish between myths, and real history. Below are the first chapters of the draft by Destri Melarg At sixty he was a vigorous man, who thought himself through with life, but his people,the sword-singers needed him. They needed him as never before."@pl . . .