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I was spawned deep beneath the Pre-Cambrian sea, the scion of a far distant sun… I have traversed the endless stars, and journeyed to a myriad galaxies… The dimensional gates of the multiverse are mine to voyage effortlessly beyond, Cosmic infinity is naught to one such as I… I am as one with celestial eternity… [...]
Dark baleful shades astride the mystic heath, Old land’s enchantments, wolf-eyes agleam, The moon slips ‘neath the darkening sea, The trees sing enthralling chants as the old gods dream… As a black moon broods over Lemuria, Ebon witchfire enshrouds the gleaming citadels, Sinistrous shadows rise from the vaults of the dreaming elder gods, Ophidian eyes [...]
[The Explorer:] Beneath the ice, the endless ice of Pangaea’s now axial eternally frozen frontier, entombed for countless millions of years… the lost cities of Antarctica! Secrets locked within the ice, the endless ice of Antarctica, ‘Neath the peak of Erebus the First Ones sleep, Lords of Pangaea, Cities lost within the night, the frozen [...]
Black stone summoning the eternal power of the winter moon… Fen-witch revel in ancient spellcraft, Beneath a horned and waning moon Enchantress, heather-bride a’ dreaming, The beckoning gloom enthralls me, The Lord of Wolves haunts the forest, In brooding winter’s icy rapture, Hoarfrost glimmers ‘neath the moon, Sorcery opens fiend-haunted pathways before me. Black Stone [...]
The Words of the Forest-King on the Eve of the Nexus: I am the immortal King of the Deep Woods, Servitor of the Old Gods of the Forest… I hear the whispered words of the trees… Such ancient secrets they sing… Swaying serpents ring my oak-hewn throne, Night and shadow are my hunting dogs… Ravenous, [...]
Black Legions ravening for blood, Dark Lords hearken to my call, Warriors rise forth from the earth, Battle-spells empower me, The Throne of Kings, the summoning, Marble halls sunk ‘neath the waves, Storm-wolves a prowl (beneath) the ebon moon, Immortal hordes, pledge me thine steel! The clarion call of battle sounds, Iron gleams in baleful [...]
[Legends etched into the ancient stone dolmens on the Dark Moors...] [THE ORACLE OF WAR:] The crows will pick your bones clean… Never sweet the kiss of cold steel. THE EXULTATION OF BATTLE… [THE WARRIOR:] Blades aflame with witch-fire burning, Bright swords blessed by nine king’s blood, The elf-witch weaves war-spells upon us, Neath the [...]
[Chapter 1: The Voyage of the Sorcerer] The war between the Imperium and the allied Vyrgothian Kingdoms had raged for years. Beginning as minor disputes over border territories, the conflict had swiftly escalated into a full-scale bloody war, a vast series of epic campaigns, fervently perpetua ted by the Emperor Koord and the Over-King of [...]
[The Imperator of the Night (Hearken to the Attestation of the Sinistrous):] For it is the iniquity of man which compels him to these tenebrous gates, seeking opiate dreams and the alluring embrace of oblivion… Know that I have cavorted beneath the horned moon with repellent fiends, and liberated virgins from the burden of their [...]
Black Legions ravening for blood, Dark Lords hearken to my call, Warriors rise forth from the earth, Battle-spells empower me, The Throne of Kings, the summoning, Marble halls sunk ‘neath the waves, Storm-wolves a prowl (beneath) the ebon moon, Immortal hordes, pledge me thine steel! The clarion call of battle sounds, Iron gleams in baleful [...]
Ancient cromlech carved of ice, Etched against a glimmering sky, Beneath the pale moonlight, the witch enthralling, (like the sublime) scent of black lotus, Ahiling a black sun with ebon rays, Hailing a black moon as onyx agleam, The dark horn sounds ‘cross the nighted vale, Shadows call in this bleak winter’s dream. I seize [...]
The Log of the Northern Mariner: The great serpent-prow of my ship, Wave-Render, cleaves the nighted waters as we voyage across this dark, icy sea, towards the unknown… Above, the bright winter’s moon emerges a veil of cloud to cast its lucent rays upon us, and a clinging, supine sea-mist writhes upon the midnight waves, [...]
All witches fly to me… I have torn the veil of dreams, Enraptured by (the gleam of) moon-frost’s caress, My heart is held in icy thrall, The horned moon’s sweet enchantment, The Topaz Throne is beckoning, The jewelled sword awaits my grasp, The dreaming gods now grimly brood in The silence of Atlantean spires. The [...]
Ancient cromlech carved of ice, Etched against a glimmering sky, Beneath the pale moonlight, the witch enthralling, (like the sublime) scent of black lotus, Ahiling a black sun with ebon rays, Hailing a black moon as onyx agleam, The dark horn sounds ‘cross the nighted vale, Shadows call in this bleak winter’s dream. I seize [...]
And lo, I witnessed the vast seas rise forth like a great ravenous beast, a devouring maelstrom of cataclysmic fury; and the gleaming spires and citadels of proud, ancient Atlantis were consumed, to gleam no more… save in the dreams of sorcerers and warriors… aye, and poets and kings. The astral testimony of Altarus the [...]
Dark baleful shades astride the mystic heath, Old land’s enchantments, wolf-eyes agleam, The moon slips ‘neath the darkening sea, The trees sing enthralling chants as the old gods dream… As a black moon broods over Lemuria, Ebon witchfire enshrouds the gleaming citadels, Sinistrous shadows rise from the vaults of the dreaming elder gods, Ophidian eyes [...]
[Instrumental] [From the journal of Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, discovered May 1899, near the great Temple at Tiahuanaco, Peru:] [23 September: 1893] Upon extensive examination of the nefarious arcane codex known as The Epsilon Exordium, I believe my search may at last be drawing to a close. Indeed, I feel that perhaps the great discovery [...]
The ravens are on the wing! My scramasax is red (stained with the blood of many Mercian warriors), The ravens are on the wing, By Offa’s decree I am an outlaw, Branded wolfshead by my own king. (The orm-garth awaits me, darkly astir with ophidian malice…) The ravens are on the wing! Ash for our [...]
[ALTARUS:] You must learn to control your spirit-form, Xerxes… for by mastering the art of traversing the mists you may effortlessly travel to many places, and many times. Countless secrets will be unlocked for you, and great enlightenment shall be yours. [XERXES:] Yes, master… and yet, there is one realm which intrigues me above all [...]
[ZURRA:] The Callisto shard denied me! I have been cast across the myriad intersecting tendrils of the great web of space and time… And now, I gaze once more upon the orb azure! I have given proud Atlantis to the sea, shattered ancient Lemuria beneath my fist, and razed the arrogant spires of Ys to [...]