上层精灵的挽歌
歌名：Lament of the Highborne 演唱者：女王希尔瓦纳斯
歌曲背景
The exact origins of "Lament of the Highborne" have been lost to antiquity. Certainly the melody pre-dates the War of the Ancients, in which the song served as a lament for the fallen: a tribute to their steadfast bravery against overwhelming odds. Millennia later, the high elves of Quel'Thalas sang the lament, largely unaltered, in the Troll Wars. Here, too, the elves ultimately proved victorious, but they would not remain so. A plague of undeath swept through the human nation of Lordaeron in the Third War and converted many citizens into mindless undead minions of the Lich King. This army--the Scourge--invaded elven lands and decimated the populace, some of whom were raised into undeath and forced to join the Scourge.
As leader of the last elven defenders, Sylvanas Windrunner suffered a terrible fate: her spirit was ripped from her body and transformed into a banshee. When the Lich King's power faltered, however, she and other undead were freed of Scourge control. She has since reclaimed her body and become queen of these undead rebels, the Forsaken. Although her heart is full of bitterness, she cannot forget the people she once loved... the kingdom she gave her life to defend.
“上层精灵的挽歌”最早的起源已不可考，但肯定在上古之战之前便已出现，那场战争中，精灵们传唱这首歌以讼念那些勇敢抗争强大怪物的牺牲者。许多年以后，奎尔萨拉斯的高等精灵们在与巨魔的战斗中同样唱起了这首歌；最终他们也获得了胜利，但喜悦没能保持多久。三次大战到来，不死军团散播的瘟疫弥漫在人类王国洛丹伦的土地上，许多人被转化成了巫妖王的亡灵爪牙，并组成了天灾军团侵入了精灵的领地，造成了大量伤亡。
风行者希尔瓦纳斯作为精灵防御力量的领导，遭受了悲惨的命运，她的灵魂被撕裂，变成了女妖。后来她和一部分亡灵趁巫妖王虚弱的时候脱离了天灾军团的控制。她夺回了自己的身体，成为了这群亡灵反叛者“被遗忘者”的领袖。虽然希尔瓦纳斯的内心被怨恨充斥，但她仍忘不了她曾经深爱过的精灵们，和那个她用生命来保卫的王国。
可以看到，高等精灵的命运是悲惨和无奈的，《燃烧远征》音乐赏析第2期的主打歌曲——《燃烧远征》专辑中的最后一首曲目——《高等精灵的挽歌》（《Lament of the Highbourne》）正是对这一群悲惨而绝望种族的悼词及挽歌。事实上，《Lament of the Highbourne》是一本记载有同名歌曲歌词的书。歌词由Thalassian（萨拉斯语）写成，而歌曲则是由著名的希尔瓦娜斯（相信各位魔兽的玩家对她不会陌生）领唱，由她的众多高等精灵女妖（Banshees）伴唱。
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