What costs the power, what costs the throne?
Success demands my heart of stone,
No escape, no other way -

And though I fight, it drags me higher,
Pulled by fate, by endless mire.
Why is it fortune I gain each time,
My sorrow carved in fates design?

What costs the power, what costs the throne?
Success demands my heart of stone -
This is the path I walk alone

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Lupar, in the year 965 AF.