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..
(Over The Moonless Depths Of Night-Dark Seas). . THE LOG OF THE NORTHERN MARINER:. The great serpent-prow of my ship, Wave-Render cleaves the nighted.
(Sagas from the antediluvian Scrolls). . Black winds whispering 'cross the fens,. In eldritch coils (jewelled and gleaming) spires entwined. Enraptured by the moon's sweet spells,.
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....
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....
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.
[Instrumental]. [17 October: 1893]. Such grim musings as have been occupying my mind of late unfortunately seem. to suggest a possible link to the fate of my learned friend and colleague.
XERXES:. Such devastation, master.... A mighty civilization destroyed in the blinking of an eye.... decimated by the madness of a rogue demi-god.... .
Ancient cromlech carved of ice,. Etched against a glimmering sky,. Beneath the pale moonlight, the witch enthralling,. (like the sublime) scent of black lotus,.
[Doctor Ignatius Stone:]. It was like some dark, dark dream. We had not heeded. the warnings of the ancients, and now we would pay the price... here, within.
[The Oracle of Logres:]. It was a time of change. The descendants of the Atlantean mages had fallen. before the New Praesidium, and the wolves were baying at the Empire's door..
I stand engulfed by the moon-magic of a winter eve's dream,. Enraptured by bloodlust, and nine fire-gems ablaze,. I am beckoned by sylph-spells and the jewelled sword a'gleam,.
[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,.
ZURANTHUS:. Earthbound, a star falls to my tongue.. Come to me, Hyperion's child... come to me, spawn of Titan.. Condemned Souls of the Brotherhood of Dark Elucidation:.
THOUGHTS OF AN ICENI GLADIATOR,. AWAITING THE OPENING OF THE ARENA PORTCULLIS:. . MEMORIES OF REBELLION (CARNAGE AT CAMULODUNUM):. . ICENI MESSENGER:.
THE WATCHER IN STONE:. ...And I stand enthralled and silent atop the ancient,. shadowed mountain, gazing in awe at the stygian,. night-cloaked sky, as above me a wondrous flight of ebon.
Behold, the armies of war. Descend screaming from the heavens. The long aeons of tyranny are at an end. Now, let the ninth millennium begin. . The Ritual of Ascendancy is complete.
Sorcerers and shamans, weave your spells of war,. Ensure our mighty sword-arms are the strongest and the quickest.. Entwine us with great battle magic 'til we stand knee-deep in gore,.
[The Chronicler of Antediluvia:]. Long ago, before the Third Great Cataclysm reshaped the face of creation,. one nation rose above all others in the antediluvian world... Atlantis..
Come, dark night... deep night,. Sweep away the fading embers of the cruel sun,. Let me at last dream 'neath the moon's sweet light,. For the quest is over, and the long day's done....