Tuchanka Will Rise

Stone and bone, dust and flame This is Tuchanka, broken, not tame You thought the genophage ended our line You forgot one thing: krogan don’t die, we bide our time. I walked the stars just selling my gun Watched empires crumble, one by one Clan turned on clan for a handful of sand Heard my father’s name in the shots on this land Tired of wars fought for someone else’s pay Tired of watching my people waste away Every contract, every broken truce Wrapped another krogan neck in a noose. I was done believing in heroes or gods Done with the Council and their careful nods Then a human stepped through the smoke and fire Showed a dying world could still aim higher. Tuchanka will rise from the ashes and glass We were forged in the fire, we are built to outlast Every scar, every roar, every war in our eyes We are done just surviving — Tuchanka will rise. Hear the clans shake the dust like a war drum alive Under Urdnot’s banner, watch a dead world revive. For Tuchanka! For Tuchanka! We will rise! I stood in the sand with a gun in my face Too proud to bend, too bitter for grace But trust is a harder target to hit Shepard gambled all that I wouldn’t quit. Now I sit a warlord on a mountain of bones Turning shattered craters into homes Every clan that swore they’d rather die Now they shout my name at the burning sky. They tried to chain us with numbers and plagues Turned warriors and queens into empty eggs We broke their science on a single choice Now a billion unborn roar in my voice. Tuchanka will rise from the ashes and glass We were forged in the fire, we are built to outlast Every scar, every roar, every war in our eyes We are done just surviving — Tuchanka will rise. Hear the clans shake the dust like a war drum alive Under Urdnot’s banner, watch a dead world revive. For Tuchanka! I am the weight of too many wars Every scar a ledger the galaxy ignores If I fall, let it be on our soil Let my bones feed the roots of all we rebuild from this spoil. No more mercenary running from the past No more krogan dying just to die fast From this wasteland, from this blood-red sky Hear my people answer when I cry— Tuchanka! Head to the sky, feet in the fire! Tuchanka will rise, higher and higher! Urdnot! Krogan, Krogan! Break every chain, every lie, every scar! From Tuchanka’s heart, we will shake the stars! Tuchanka will rise from the ashes and glass We were forged in the fire, we are built to outlast Every scar, every roar, every war in our eyes We are done just surviving — Tuchanka will rise. Hear the clans shake the dust like a war drum alive Under Urdnot’s banner, watch a dead world revive. From the rubble and ruin to the black of the skies Let the whole damn galaxy see Tuchanka rise. Stone and bone, dust and flame Name the world that broke us… and the world we reclaim.