#wizard's dream

2. WIZARD'S DREAM

Rosamun’s Ghost:

Remember our family’s maple?/

Remember the song I sang you?/

The glow doesn’t fade so quickly/

From moments of cherished memory/

And when the burden of snowfall/

Would break the boughs of the maple/

My son, hear that song from your cradle/

That you may again be hopeful/ 

The legend’s forgotten but still, to this day,/

The truth that was written remains quite the same/

It’s love that can make the impossible happen/

It’s love that can make the impossible happen/

It’s love that will always unlock any gate…/

Unlock any gate.../

Takhisis: Do you not recognize the slit pupils beneath my disguise?/

You’re alone once again with the void closing in./

Little boy, you’ve been caught by my gaze/

And at last you cannot look away as you’ve done in the past/

These eyes bewitch you and promise your doom/

You’re at the edge! Any closer, you’ll perish/

And yet you’re drawn like a moth to my flame/

To feel Godly might?/

Look again—Death is all that you’ll find!/

You can’t even challenge my stare/

Come to me...stay here by my side/

Come to me...stay here by my side

Caramon: 

Raist! Wake up, Raist! Wake up!

Raistlin: 

It's that same dream I keep having about our mother. She was calling me... into the grave.

Caramon: Nightmares again? Maybe there's a reason.

The Last Trial Retrospective:

Wizard's Dream

#1 After the "mother's ghost" was given a singing role in the show, we had even more lyrics to translate! We had fun rhyming "cradle" and "maple"--and playing on the similarities between her song and "Rock-a-bye Baby" (when the bough breaks the cradle will fall...):

"And when the burden of snowfall/

Would break the boughs of the maple/

My son, hear that song from your cradle/

That you may again be hopeful."

#2 Takhisis' first lines gives us long adjectives to describe dead, dark, cold, empty eyes. So many syllables! In English, that just made it sound like a mouthful. We focused on the fact that she says "зрачок." To us, that meant there was special emphasis on the pupils of her serpent eyes, just as we see later in "Tango with Death."

We got a good internal rhyme out of it too!

"Do you not recognize the slit pupils beneath my disguise?"

#3

"But you wish to reach my divine aura?"

It was tricky to tease the right meaning out of this line. We decided to go with the idiom "a moth drawn to the flame." This works well, as Raistlin later uses the same symbol to refer to himself in "Trial by Fire:"

"To the flame little moth/

Key to the lock/"

Our result:

"And yet you're drawn like a moth to my flame..."

#4

Another Krynnsubber recalled how we went back and forth on just the right wording for:

"Come to me... stay here by my side."