Horns of the Hunter

A scurrilous in-world artefact from my long-running fantasy RPG campaign (ridiculously vast campaign lore here). It’s a slanderous folk song from about a century-and-a-half prior to the events of the campaign, addressing the rumours prevalent at the time that Riala of House Genlith (their banner symbol a wolf) was cheating on her husband the Crown Prince Elderan with a lord of House Malmor (banner symbol a raven).

The rumours themselves did not lead to the civil-war that followed, but certainly fanned the flames of enmity, and this little ditty was a popular song in the lands controlled by Malmor and their allies.

As I roved out one Summer morn’
Down by the woodland’s edge of green
I heard the hunter blow his horn
And then I saw a sight, a sight,
The strangest that I’ve seen

Upon a horse of shining grey
The huntsman in his armour fine
He stopped by me and then did say
In words so low and lost, and lost
I’m hunting for what’s mine

A horn of silver at his side
And there upon his princely head
Two more great horns* I clearly spied
Upon his helm so strong, so strong
So this is what I said!

You are a wealthy man of course
So little do you lack or need
And you ride on a mighty horse
But ravens ride they say, they say
Upon a wolf indeed.

* The presence of horns is symbolic of the state of a husband whose wife is unfaithful