Red Skies - Trivia - Weapons Training for Heralds

The Heralds are trained in many things: economics, maps, survival, math, reading, diplomacy, current events, history, and so much more.  One of which is weapons training.

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The weapons master has no heart his hide is iron cold 
His soul within that hide is steel or so I've been told- 
His only care is for your skill his only love is own 
And where another has a heart he has a marble stone 

That's what the common wisdom holds but common is not true 
For there is often truth behind what's in common view 
And so it is the herald’s task the hidden truth to win 
To see behind the face without and find the face within 

He goads his students into rage he drives them into pain 
He mocks them and does not care that tears may fall like rain 
He works them when they're weary and rebukes them when they fail 
Cuts them to ribbons with his tongue as they stand meek and pale 

But will our enemies be fair or come on us behind 
And will they stay their tongues or in their words a weapon find 
Or wait till we are rested before making their attacks 
Or will they rather beat us down and then go for our backs 

But he has no compassion does not care for man or beast 
And when a students gone he does not notice in the least 
And no one calls this man their love and no one calls him friend 
And none can judge him by his face or what he may intend 

But I have seen him speak the word that brings hope from despair 
Or drop the one word compliment that makes the students care 
And I have seen his sorrow when he hears the death bell cry 
His soul deep agony of doubt that nothing can deny 

For on his shoulders rests the job of fitting us for war 
With nothing to give him a clue of what to train us for 
And if he fails it is not he that pays but you and I 
And so he dies a little when he hears the death bell cry 

And now you know the face within hid by the face without 
The pain that he must harbor all the guilt and all the doubt 
The weapons master has a heart so grant his stony mask 
For you and I aren't strong enough to bare that kind of task