It could be the song of someone who is far from his home and wishes to go back. Zulf misses his family and feels alone. His parents died from a plague when he was at a very young age and he's had to make some very tough decisions since then. He was taken in by a man who then raised him; the man died when Zulf was around the age of twenty I'd guess. He also lost his beloved when the Calamity struck and was planning on committing suicide when the Kid (player's character) stopped him. The song could also be a funeral song, sung for the deceased to wish them well on their journey to the afterlife. The journey to the afterlife is often portrayed as the person's soul sailing on a boat on a great ocean or river on their way to the underworld, where they can rest in peace. Either way, it's a pretty gloomy song. By "Mother" he could mean his biological mother or he could be singing to his godess Micia, also called the Lorn Mother. Micia is one of the Pantheon (the gods of the people) and she is the godess of loss and longing.
Not knowing how to edit my post, I'll just put what I wanted to add right here as a "reply".
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When he sang of a star that was "left burning for him", he could've been talking about reading the stars and using them to help him with navigation. This practice is called celestial navigation or astronavigation. As stated by wikipedia, it "is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position. Celestial navigation uses 'sights', or...
When he sang of a star that was "left burning for him", he could've been talking about reading the stars and using them to help him with navigation. This practice is called celestial navigation or astronavigation. As stated by wikipedia, it "is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position. Celestial navigation uses 'sights', or angular measurements taken between a celestial body (e.g. the Sun, the Moon, a planet, or a star) and the visible horizon." Just a theory.
It could be the song of someone who is far from his home and wishes to go back. Zulf misses his family and feels alone. His parents died from a plague when he was at a very young age and he's had to make some very tough decisions since then. He was taken in by a man who then raised him; the man died when Zulf was around the age of twenty I'd guess. He also lost his beloved when the Calamity struck and was planning on committing suicide when the Kid (player's character) stopped him. The song could also be a funeral song, sung for the deceased to wish them well on their journey to the afterlife. The journey to the afterlife is often portrayed as the person's soul sailing on a boat on a great ocean or river on their way to the underworld, where they can rest in peace. Either way, it's a pretty gloomy song. By "Mother" he could mean his biological mother or he could be singing to his godess Micia, also called the Lorn Mother. Micia is one of the Pantheon (the gods of the people) and she is the godess of loss and longing.
Not knowing how to edit my post, I'll just put what I wanted to add right here as a "reply".
Not knowing how to edit my post, I'll just put what I wanted to add right here as a "reply".
When he sang of a star that was "left burning for him", he could've been talking about reading the stars and using them to help him with navigation. This practice is called celestial navigation or astronavigation. As stated by wikipedia, it "is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position. Celestial navigation uses 'sights', or...
When he sang of a star that was "left burning for him", he could've been talking about reading the stars and using them to help him with navigation. This practice is called celestial navigation or astronavigation. As stated by wikipedia, it "is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position. Celestial navigation uses 'sights', or angular measurements taken between a celestial body (e.g. the Sun, the Moon, a planet, or a star) and the visible horizon." Just a theory.