Текст песни «Bal-Sagoth - As The Vortex Illumines The Crystalline Walls Of Kor-Avul-Thaa»

Kor-Avul-Thaa... finest jewel in the crown of
a realm of sublime glory, greatest city in
the Middle Kingdoms, mayhap all the
world... Its splendid walls of shimmering crystal
could be seen from a hundred leagues distant,
kissed by the golden rays of the sun, as caressed
by the ethereal fingers of a midnight moon. Its
magnificient spires and citadels, built by generations
of kings from the resplendent gifts hewn
from the ancient bosom of the sacred Crystal
Mountains, had oft' times been the bitter envy of
rival emperors, and many were the sieges which
Kor-Avul-Thaa had withstood and repulsed over
the centuries, for powerful sorcerers did weave
great spells of protection about the dazzling towers,
and none may have passed unbidden
through the vast sapphirean gates of mighty Kor-
Avul-Thaa...

THE ORACLE OF KOR-AVUL-THAA:

The sky rend asunder... black-winged devils
surge forth from the void...
A maelstrom of crimson fire burns above
us... what carnage hast thou wrought?
Not sword, ballistae, nor burning brand
Could e'er these walls aspire to breach,
Yet now the city's fall is nigh,
As elder rites black fiends unleash.

HIGH LORD OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF
DARK ELUCIDATION (KEEPER OF THE FORBIDDEN
BOOKS OF THE FIRST CATACLYSM):

By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, such
ancient secrets we discovered within these
sinistrous, worm-worn pages,
Etched with darksome glyphs and sigils, bound
with fearsome spells,
An eldritch tide of stygian sorceries unfettered by
the forbidden Tome of Shadows...

Now thunderous cataclysm befalls the gleaming
Kor-Avur-Thaa (The mystic gate stands open!)
The Xytaxehedron held to the stars... the incantation
uttered with eager tongues...
(What long-shackled powers of the elder dark
have our conjurings loosed?)

By Klartymadon and Zuranthus, the vortex blackens
the stars above,
A vast plague of amorphous horrors descends to
rend with fang and talon,
(As with torrents of blood the crystalline walls run red!)
And in the glooming chambers of our shadowed
sanctum, we wait, half-mad with terror,
To reap the slaughterous harvest which we have sown...

THE CHRONICLER OF THE CATACLYSM:

And beyond the vortex, che churning black
waters of the void did disgorge the Dwellers
in Eternal Shadow.
And upon a horde of winged horrors, brandishing
swords of ebon flame, they rode out from the
Gate...
And a terrible silence fell upon Kor-Avul-Thaa...

THE ECHOES OF THE ORACLE:

The sky rent asunder, black winged devils
surge forth from the void...
A maelstrom of crimson fire burns above
us... what carnage hast thou wrought?

THE CHRONICLER OF THE CATACLYSM:

The Chronicles Of Time speak of only two other
instances when the sky did split wide and bleed
forth such a torrent of horror as that which
assailed Kor-Avul-Thaa... One of those times was the
fateful eve when the moon burned black over ancient
Lemuria, as a legion of ravening fiends emerged from
the Outer Darkness to visit catastrophe upon that
realm... And the other... the other manifestation of
such a staggering cosmic evil is recorded only in the
ancient Scrolls of the Third Circle, a dark collection of
terrifying blasphemies which was believed to have been
burned by the Older of Kl'aa at roughly the same time
as the first Tome of Shadows was discovered deep within
the Black Pyramid... These scrolls speak disturbingly
of visitations of our earth by creatures from a terrible
place known as the Black Galaxy... creatures which
were able to span the vast expanses of time and space
separating our world from theirs in their great dark
chariots, bringing pestilence and carnage whenever they
set foot upon the earth... And yet, the scrolls also
speak of the Others, known by some ancient, lond-dead
tribes as the Travelling Ones... beings who did stand
against the denizens of the Black Galaxy and wage war
with them across the nighted void. It is said that the
Travelling Ones sailed the star-seas in huge silvern
spheres ringed with a myriad pulsing lights, and that
in a great battle they drove their shadowy foes back to
the Black Galaxy... but at a great cost... the Travelling
Ones were drained of their cosmic powers and cast into
a deep slumber, and some say that they remain here
still, hidden in mysterious, secret places, awaiting the
time of their reawakening. It was ascertained by those
mages who found the Tome of Shadows that certain
gateways existed linking our world and the Black
Galaxy, just as maps carved into the stone walls of
ancient tombs displayed the pathway to the terrifying
realm through the eternal blackness of the void... and
within the sinister pages of the dread book were the
arcane keys... the rites to open wide these gates and
give the dark wanderers beyond the freedom to roam the
earth once again...
And the darkling lord did descend upon Kor-
Avul-Thaa to claim their splendid prize, and
enthrone themselves within the glittering walls...

THE ECHOES OF THE ORACLE:

Not sword, ballistae, nor burning brand
Could e'er these walls aspire to breach,
Yet now the city's fall is nigh,
As elder rites black fiends unleash...

THE BROTHERHOOD:

By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, in Kor-
Avul-Thaa, darkness reigns eternal...
Nevermore shall the city glimmer, for now
the crystalline walls gleam black...
Ever black...

And so it was that the bedazzling and splendid Kor-
Avul-Thaa did become the City of Shadows, a sinister
fortress of elder fiends of fearsome beasts,
unleashed by the meddlings of mortals aspiring to
dark thresholds of forbidden knowledge and arcane
power, a nightmare city shunned and feared by all.
And not since the sinking of Atlantis was the fall of
a realm so sorely lamented...

From the Journals of Sage Daelun