Phelan Kerensky

Where nature's laws threatened the weary;
When food, water, even air itself ran low,
It took just a command, a word, a smile,
From the General to light the way.
He was comfort, stern courage, compassion
To our sires as he led them from the fires
That grew and fed on those they left behind.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 2, Verse 14, Lines 18-24

The just deaths of the traitors frightened some
There among the darkness and alien stars.
A few lost heart and began with quavering resolve
To question the Great Father's plan.
With stern compassion he spoke and all was revealed;
How their destiny was the Hidden Hope
Of all mankind and how their sons' sons
Would one day return to the Inner Sphere
Bringing back the enlightenment of the Star League
To those unfortunate they had left behind.
Such was their right, such is our legacy of blood.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 3, Verse 22, Lines 1-11

There will be a time when our descendants
Return to reclaim what is our right.
With honor swelling their hearts, they will crusade
Against the dark emotions that have dimmed
The Inner Sphere for so long.
But with the glory comes responsibility;
Without a pure soul we cannot give sight
To their blind lives, but will only blind ourselves.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 3, Verse 41, Lines 1-8

The rebels, heeding neither strength nor sense,
Cowardly ambushed noble DeChevalier.
Although he fought like a lion, he died
And with his death came the cloud, and reason fled
Like a winter sun's feeble evening light
Above hopeless Eden and wicked Babylon.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 8, Verse 36, Lines 51-56

Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect:
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37

For the day will come and our kin will stand
On Terra's firm soil, ready to rebuild
The Star League with their hearts and hands.
But who shall lead? Upon whose shoulders
Will the burden lie? The answer is the test;
The test is the journey. Whichever Clan
Carves its way through the barbarians
To reach that fabled cradle of us all
Shall be the vehicle of the League's rebirth. Upon
The Star League throne shall sit that Clan's
Wisest Khan. So should it be - so shall it be.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 72, Verse 22, Lines 14-24

From Kerensky's Stars came the Eight Hundred
Beneath a banner of Truth and Righteous Light
To lift up those who had suffered and to smite down
With fearful vengeance those who had ruled
In the name of Vanity or Greed.
The thunder of their BattleMechs' feet, the lightning
From their weapons, and the blood spilled in their name
Created the Clan Spirit, the forge upon which
We have fashioned ourselves to be the weapon
Of the resurrected Star League,
Honed to a razor's edge by the Trials,
By The Remembrance, and by the Words
Of the Great Kerenskys, our sires, our saviors.
- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 98, Verse 24, Lines 8-20

All praise the art of batchall and bidding
For it proves our love of peace and tradition.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 118, Verse 3, Lines 11-12

Like a poisonous weed, the Not-Named fostered
Thoughts and actions against the Clans, calling them
"Independence" and "Freedom," not realizing
Their every act chained them to the corruptions
That brought down the noble Star League
And set the Inner Sphere aflame.
But the Clans survived by condemning
Them to a bitter annihilation.
Led by Clans Wolf and Widowmaker,
The Grand Council wiped clean the records,
Obliterating with the warm blood
Of its tragically doomed warriors
Every mention of the Not-Named Clan.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 149, Verse 55, Lines 21-33

About the fallen hero they gathered,
None able to give voice to his shock.
Khan Jerome Winson knelt, tears streaming,
To cradle Nicholas Kerensky's head.
To wipe the blood from the cold brow,
To close the lightless eyes, Peace, great Hero.
Choked with sadness and anger
Khan Jerome Winson spoke. "Khan Cal Jorgensson,
I cry, not for myself, nor for others.
I weep for your Clan Widowmaker.
There is a price for such a crime
As you have committed. A price you
And your Clan will pay."
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 154, Verse 34, Lines 16-28

And never forget that help may come
From the most unlikely of quarters
And success rest upon the shoulders
Of those kept shadowed until the time of need.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 222, Verse 6, Lines 11-14

Then the order came, "Furl the sails.
Ready for jump, mighty warriors.
We journey back, we journey home,
Carrying the flame of the Star League
Back to the hearth. We face the ignorant
Who believe themselves civilized and strong,
But they will soon discover otherwise.
We are the Clans, the Star League incarnate.
None can stand against us and survive."
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 272, Verse 8, Lines 11-19

No natural calamities cost you.
There was no great disease, no famines;
No interstellar catastrophe to blame.
You have no excuse to explain
How this, our rightful palace, has been fouled
With the dust of countless innocent dead.
The truth is that you are the descendants
Of traitors who scurry about like rats
In the dark, fighting over petty kingdoms
At the foot of the empty throne.
Never recognizing that you have given up
The one true prize.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 285, Verse 15, Lines 21-32

Tyra of the Rasalhague led,
Forth her fiery flying Drakons,
Gallant in bronze. A warrior woman whose hands
Were unskilled in the ways of hearth and home,
In skills of war she was hard and trained
To leave behind the airy winds and fight
Where the void is eternal and life fleeting.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 294, Verse 8, Lines 17-23

Tyra and her warriors fought
Like crazed demons above Radstadt
When her fighter was crippled by ours,
And her life leaked away into the endless night,
She chose to die
And sent her fighter like a spear
Through the Dire Wolf, claiming as isorla
Our mighty ilKhans life. Sing of our loss, warriors!
Sing, but of Tyra also,
For though an enemy, her courage none can deny.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 294, Verse 8, Lines 24-33

And so the Khans met in kurultai
To discuss the carving of Tukayyid.
As it was some feast dish cooked
And tender, begging for the server's knife.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 327, Verse 3, Lines 5-8

Sons and daughters of the blood legacy,
Inspire me as I sing,
Of the deaths dealt out on Tukayyid
And of what our warriors faced and bravely fought;
Help me paint a portrait of an apocalypse.
-- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 328, Verse 1, Lines 1-5

And the IlKhan gave us his final words,
Charging us to protect those
With whom we found refuge in our time of need.
In this, our final duty, we shall not fail.
--The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 411, Verse 16, Lines 1-4

From a 'Mech grave he rose, snarling
Ready to do battle for his vanquished Clan
Stalking the Falcon Khans, who would remake us
His actions, the Wolf incarnate.
--The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 412, Verse 10, Lines 9-12
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My Greatest Dream for BT/MW is to see Warden Wolves in Exile and Crusader Wolves joined together again as an unstoppable force! Stand for Unity under the Father's plan Wolves! Do not shun thy Trothkin. Fight beside them!