Difficult Life of a King is a poem read by Fable III writer Mark Llabres Hill during a promotional tour for the X10 convention organized by Microsoft on February 12, 2010. The poem was supposedly written by the Tyrant King, detailing his adventures, conquests, and hatred for the people of Albion.
Content[]
The poem reads as follows:
Difficult Life of a King
"Oh thou must fret at the lamentations of many?
Should one must worry at the state of thy country?
Who are they who all but do is criticize and complain?
Whom not know the feeling of a king's disdain?
I thyself am a bard by heart.
Let thy poem tell you a tale so dark.
From a mere prince who knew nothing but play.
Casted a side to wallow in my shame.
But the people spoke, rebelled, and blamed.
At the hands of thy brother, the tyrannical king.
Oh how he conquered them, brutalized, and enslaved.
And all they could do was lay down, cry and sing.
So who rallied these people to fight for their freedom?
Who was the one who stood to protect?
The one who learned magic and warfare?
All for them to be merry, jolly, and gay?
I killed for them!
I slayed for them!
I uprooted trees and built them homes.
I ploughed, crawled, and begged!
Yet they repaid me with hatred and contempt.
Never fully satisfied, never satiated.
They'll see one far worse than their former king.
Maybe even more malevolent than the one from the void."
Trivia[]
Game journalist Queenie N. Blake wrote the poem down in an article posted by GameSpy.