Honor Bound

Iron sky, the ravens know

Who will rise... and who will go

Born where rivers freeze mid-scream

Raised on ash, not childhood dreams

My father's blade, my mother's word

"Die standing, or live unheard"

The shield-wall breaks, the horn goes still

I taste copper, I taste kill

Somewhere past the smoke and sound

I remember what I'm bound

Not to king

Not to gold

To the name I was given

And the ground I hold

Ride now through the failing light

We've come for those who didn't kneel

Who kept their word through the longest night

Whose oaths were forged in colder steel

Your blood is ours, your name will sound

You kept the faith — you're honor bound

Helm cracked open, teeth like rust

Brothers scattered into dust

But I made a promise once

To a girl, to a grave, to the northern sun

They took my arm at Raven's Ford

Still I held my father's sword

Left-handed now, but standing proud

Some things matter more than wounds

Let the gods collect their due

I'll pay in iron, not in prayer

When they come to drag me through

They'll find me fighting, not begging there

Ride now through the failing light

We've come for those who didn't kneel

Who kept their word through the longest night

Whose oaths were forged in colder steel

Your blood is ours, your name will sound

You kept the faith — you're honor bound

There's a field I used to know

Where my sons learned to throw

Now it's black with other men's dead

And I can't remember what I said

When I promised them I'd return

That the hall would be warm, the fire would burn

But a man's just a man, and oaths don't bend

So I'll keep this one until the end

I was not made to kneel

I was not born to beg

There's a woman in the north