[HoE] Templar source material

["Sandor Silverman"<sandor.silverman@bender.com>]

     Just a thought that came to me in the shower this morning,
     
     Anyone looking for source material or thematic ideas for Templars 
     should check out the final segment of "Heavy Metal."  Taarna, The 
     Defender makes a great impression as a defender of the weak, and even 
     has the sword and Red Cross to mark her as a Templar! Great viewing 
     for anyone who is having trouble picturing how a lone champion can 
     stand against a whole army of mutant scum.
     
     And for you B.O.C fans, the song "Vengeance: The Pact", from Fire of 
     Unknown Origin, is great too. It parallels the Tarna story, and makes 
     great background fight music. Coincidentally, "Veteran of the Psychic 
     Wars," the Psyker theme song, is also on this album.
     
     For you nonBOC initiates:
     
     Vengeance: The Pact
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     See them standing in the foothills waiting for the kill
     On wings of fear the terror sweeps into the city peace(?)
     
     To defend, this is the pact
     But when life's scorned and damage done
     To avenge, this is the pact
     
     On wings of vengeance (turnibuns) and left for the aliens (??)
     
     To defend, this is the pact
     But when life's scorned and damage done
     To avenge, this is the pact
     
     Flying over the oasis she is captured and the bird fell down
     
     Feeling (deee)
     From the (left)
     Close my eyes
     And I am them
     I feel I'm falling down in a deep dark pit
     
     Put him down, the soldiers said
     I'll put an arrow in his head
     But the bird flew off instead
     To save his master on his back she fled
     
     Her time has come
     
     Riding the bird, high in the saddle
     She gets a chance to fulfill the pact now
     As the leader swoops from the clouds
     She sticks him with the sword, then she throws him down
     
     The enemy killed, the land died
     The enemy killed, the land died
     
     To defend, this is the pact
     But when life's scorned and damage done
     To avenge, this is the pact
     
     
     Veteran of the Psychic Wars
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     You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
     I've been living on the edge so long, where the winds of limbo roar
     And I'm young enough to look at, and far too old to see
     All the scars are on the inside
     I'm not sure that there's anything left of me
     
     Don't let these shakes go on, it's time we had a break from it
     It's time we had some leave
     We've been living in the flames
     We've been eating up our brains
     Oh please, don't let these shakes go on.
     
     You ask me why I'm weary, why I can't speak to you
     You blame me for my silence, say it's time I changed and grew
     But the war's still going on, dear, and there's nowhen that I know
     And I can't stand forever
     I can't say if we're ever gonna be free
     
     Don't let these shakes go on, it's time we had a break from it
     It's time we had some leave
     We've been living in the flames
     We've been eating up our brains
     Oh please, don't let these shakes go on.
     
     You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
     My energy is spent at last, and my armor is destroyed
     I have used up all my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved
     Wounds are all I'm made of
     Did I hear you say that this is victory?
     
     Don't let these shakes go on, it's time we had a break from it
     Send me to the rear
     Where the tides of madness swell
     And men sliding into hell
     Oh please, don't let these shakes go on.
      
     
     
     -Sandor