A Year and a Day
The Elder Scrolls · Hero of Daggerfall
The story in the song
This original song is written as a tribute to the Hero of Daggerfall - the nameless Agent of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, caught between Lysandus' vengeance, the Totem of Tiber Septim, and the choice that tears the Iliac Bay apart.
The song follows the Agent from the moment the Totem speaks into their mind. Every road becomes pursuit. Every kingdom wants the artifact. The Underking wants silence, the King of Worms wants the sky, and the Empire calls it order. What starts as an Imperial mission becomes a wound no one can carry cleanly.
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A year and a day
That's what the Totem said
It woke like iron in the back of my brain
"No common hand can carry me and stay."
Now every road is riders, ash, and blame
And every court already knows my name
A queen wants fire
A king wants more
A warlord wants a homeland
The dead still want their lord
A year and a day
To keep the West from tearing through
A year and a day
To choose the hand that burns me too
A year and a day
With all of Iliac at my heels
A year and a day
And none of this can heal
Underking asked for silence
Worms asked for the sky
Brisienna asked for order
Nulfaga asked me why
The Bay kept saying "worthy"
Like worth could wash the blood
But every promise sounded like
A kingdom dressed as love
No clean choice
No harmless crown
Just one relic in my hands
And the whole world bearing down
A year and a day
To keep the West from tearing through
A year and a day
To choose the hand that burns me too
A year and a day
With all of Iliac at my heels
A year and a day
And none of this can heal
Maybe prophecy just means
You lose the right to stay untouched
Maybe saving what can live
Still means you've buried far too much
A year and a day
While every throne called me a thief
A year and a day
To buy the Bay a brutal peace
A year and a day
And when the sky finally split in two
A year and a day
Was all the world would give to truth
A year and a day
Then I was gone with the West