Текст (слова) песни: Bal-Sagoth - The Empyreal Lexicon

The Keeper of the Ninth Shard: So cold are the spaces between the stars...

For blackened suns are the only legacy of worlds long dead.

 

Zurra: The key word of Transcendence!

The key word of Transference!

I shall liberate the rightful owners of the Lexicon...

the true rulers of the cosmos!

Xatham-ryaa! Thazai-tonn!

Darker than a score of hells, Wherein astral horrors dwell,

Macrocosmic realms aflame... Prey of fiends that have no name!

Xatham-ryaa! Thazai-tonn!

Darker than a score of hells... Where astral horrors sublime dwell,

Macrocosmic realms aflame... Bow to the gods that have no name!

 

The Keeper of the Ninth Shard: So cold, at the heart of a frozen star...

Stay thy hand and thy tongue, slave of the Outer Darkness....

Surely you are not foolhardy enough to dare awaken the dire titans of Zxulth!

 

Zurra: Hidden within the blazing core of this sun is that which I seek, old one.

Do not seek to thwart me,

lest the horrors of oblivion be a balm to your time-addled mind.

Behold the cosmic codex! The tome of the astral abyss!

 

The Keeper of the Ninth Shard: Such diabolical evil...

sublime macrocosmic malevolence! 

 

Zurra: Fear is the power... Terror is the key!

Xatham-ryaa... Thazai-tonn!

I am replete with sovereign mastery!

The portals to the Outer Darkness yawn wide once more!

They-Who-Lurk-And-Breed-In-Limbo are free!

Kuroc! Gul-Kor! I have won... bow, yield, kneel! Darken the sun...

Narra, Gorra, Kaasha! I arise... bow, yield, kneel! Parhelion dies...

Narra, Gorra, Kaasha! I can taste the sweet ichors of omni potency upon my lips...

Let it begin! Xatham-ryaa jaiigh! Thazai-tonn naxa-gorrha!

 

The Keeper of the Ninth Shard: So cold, the spaces between the stars...

 

Zurra: Xatham-ryaa... Thazai-tonn...

 

The Keeper of the Ninth Shard: Such carnage wrought with your malevolent tongue, dark one...

What unfathomable horrors dwell within the lightless corners of your cursed soul?

Heed not the voice of the Lexicon... lest its whispers drive you mad! 


3.1 THE HOUND OF CHAOS TRANSCENDS THE NEBULOUS PALISADES OF ZXULTH

{A lost chapter of the Zurra saga from "The Power Cosmic", occuring directly between the events of "The Empyreal Lexicon" and "Callisto Rising".}

(Upon uttering the key Word of Transcendence, Xatham-ryaa, and the Word of Transferrence, Thazai-tonn, the Chaos Warrior Zurra invokes two of the most powerful Guardians of the Astral Gate, the mighty Kuroc and the ineffable Gul-kor. The sidereal portal to the Outer Darkness is breached, and Zurra finds himself in the dread limbo of Zxulth, standing before the baleful scrutiny of the twin sentinels beyond the threshold...)

 

THEY-WHO-LURK-AND-BREED-IN-LIMBO: Zurra... impetuous whelp of Chaos... ambitious and foolhardy godling!

Your quest for the shards of the great Lexicon is not unknown to those of us who observe the intricate weft and warp of the limitless cosmic tapestry from afar.

 

ZURRA: Then grant me that which I strive for, o great sentinels! 

Disclose to me the location of the scattered fragments of the Cosmic Codex! 

Allow me to fulfil my destiny!

 

THEY-WHO-LURK-AND-BREED-IN-LIMBO: Destiny? What know you of destiny? 

You who are but a mote of dust in the eye of the universe! 

The birth cries of worlds and the death throes of galaxies are the dramas which unfold eternally before our gaze...

what concern have we for the petty desires which rage and roil within your black heart? 

Uttering the forbidden words with an impudent tongue does not qualify you for the elucidatory blessing which you so fervently scrabble for... 

the true magnitude of that which hides within the Lexicons crystalline recesses would render even your twisted mind naught but a sundered and ravaged pulp!

 

ZURRA: I am ready for the knowledge, great ones. 

I have gazed long into the mirror of eternity and I forsee that I shall soon bear witness to all the glories of the Codex!

 

THEY-WHO-LURK-AND-BREED-IN-LIMBO: Many are they ranged against thee, renegade. 

We have seen your destiny, and it lies upon a shattered shore, 

lapped by waves of oblivion from the ocean of night. 

One seed you are destined to sow, one seed which alone will blossom upon the bloodied vista of Azura-Kai... 

that shall be your legacy, that shall be the legend you shall leave written in the eternal reaches of the macrocosm. 

You are but a pawn in this timeless game, Zurra...

a plaything of beings infinitely more powerful than you could ever hope to comprehend.

 

ZURRA: No! It shall not be so! The universe shall quake with my every footfall... 

countless worlds shall deify me in obeisance and offer up solemn prayers to my sovereign divinity! 

I know this to be true! Do not seek to thwart me, 

for even your power may one day pale before mine!

 

THEY-WHO-LURK-AND-BREED-IN-LIMBO: Silence, godling! 

The fact that you stand before us is testimony to your mettle, 

but your ambitions shall yet outreach your abilities. 

We have long watched thee and your struggles with amusement, Zurra, Sire of Angsaar...

but this audience is now at an end. The path you must traverse lies before you... 

and you must follow it to its ultimate destination. 

If your resolve to discover the shards yet endures, 

then you must travel to a bleak and desolate sphere in the Telluric system... 

there you shall seek the counsel of ancient Klatrymadon... and your half-brother himself, hoary Zuranthus...

upon whose tongues falling stars come to rest. 

They will be instrumental in speeding you to your final encounter with your much vaunted destiny, whelp of Chaos.

Now, begone! And heed these words, Zurra... do not again seek to transcend the palisades of Zxulth...

do not again seek to invoke the majesty of that which even now you stand trembling before...

lest you discover to your eternal cost that our magnanimity is far from limitless... 

 

ZURRA: The Outer Darkness has cast me from its cavernous maw! So be it... 

the final pieces of this great macrocosmic puzzle shall soon fall into place. 

It has been millennia since I last visited my beloved brother, Zuranthus... 

and this reunion shall most certainly be steeped in ire! 

The annals of eternity shall soon be illumined by the glorious radiance of my deeds,

and the searing fire of my long denied vengeance! 

Woe unto my dogged nemesis and all those who dare aspire to thwart me... 

for my final ascendence is nigh! 
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