The Song of the Great Hall of House Welyr
Verse I
Step softly now and mind your breath,
The stone here counts your weight,
These walls have heard a thousand lies
And learned how long to wait.
No torches boast, no banners beg,
No gold demands your eye—
Only bone above the lord’s own chair
And an unblinking sky.
Refrain
Beneath the dragon’s hollow eyes,
No title holds its shape,
For fire remembers what you are
When names and crowns escape.
Speak clean, or do not speak at all—
The hall has judged before you fall.
Verse II
That skull once crowned the living flame
That carried them from doom,
It crossed the seas when Valyria burned
And made the dark give room.
Its teeth knew cities, kings, and gods,
Its breath unmade the proud—
Now it waits in silence here
And finds the loud
Too loud.
Refrain
Beneath the dragon’s hollow eyes,
Steel feels lighter, hearts feel thin,
For every guest who enters here
Is weighed for more than sin.
You are not asked what you have won—
Only what you’d lose… and still stand firm.
Verse III
The lord does not sit higher here,
Nor hide beneath the bone,
The skull looks down on Welyr too—
No blood is judged alone.
It saw the Dreadwolf rise and fall,
It watched his silence burn,
It knows the shape of every oath
That swore
And did not return.
Bridge (quiet, almost spoken)
Some swear the skull still listens.
Some swear it still decides.
All agree it has never been wrong—
Only patient.
Verse IV
Many have knelt with sharpened words
And risen far less sure,
For truth behaves like dragonfire—
It does not need a roar.
The hall does not demand your fear,
Nor ask you to repent—
It simply waits to see
Who you are
When all pretense is spent.
Final Refrain
So stand beneath the ancient gaze
And feel your story thin,
If you are whole, you’ll leave unchanged—
If not, you’ll break within.
The lord may speak, the wolf may weigh,
But bone and fire remember all…
And the dragon
Above the chair
Judges everyone
Who enters
This hall.
Outro (low, fading)
Stone remembers.
Fire listens.
Bone does not forget.
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