Shattering the Martial Star

The martial world is a curtain of blood pearls.

Big pearls and small pearls alike drift and sink through calamity.

Yet the very spirit of this pearl curtain is summed up in two words: loyalty and love.

When the flames of blood have finally burned out, beneath a setting sun over scorched earth,

brush the ashes of calamity from your shoulders and sit alone in a tavern built from piled bones.

With crumbling ruins reflected in your eyes, let a hoarse laugh and sigh rise from your throat:

The pearl curtain sways, and the world falls into calamity.

Blood pearls scorch through the scroll of mountains and rivers,

while loyalty and love link together the chain of life and death.

Fill the cup, and drink to the people of this martial world, who burn themselves to prove the Way.