By the power of blurry wards

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  • "Be the powers o' war!": quote from the prologue of Sheridan Le Fanu's 1863 novel The House by the Churchyard, which takes place in Chapelizod
  • words of power: cf. 098.26-27: "What words of power were made fas between them"
  • bloody wars
  • blurry words: i.e., words that are difficult to understand (like Shem's writing, or FW itself)