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...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 ...
(Music: Jonny&Chris Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 o ...
(Music: Jonny&Chris Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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, an ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 ...
The Disciples of Zakumakura: Since before mankind hurled himself
squamously from the sea we have awaited
the awakening of great Zakumakura!
Now... the Dragon-King shall at last rise to claim his ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 m ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 jewelle ...
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. An oppressive
new faith was encroaching fro ...
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 Thro ...
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,
...
(Music: Jonny&Chris Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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 w ...
Many thousands of years ago, they ruled the globe. But the pressing fist of great power carried a
heavy price, and now their dominion has fallen beyond time and sh ...
In 2104, lithological excavations at the Fourth Mars Colony unearthed an artifact of unknown,
seemingly non-human origin;
an icosahedron of an unrecognized, non terrestrial metallic composition, ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
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...
...
Seek ye to invoke the Lord of Dreams, to know His divine will via the dreamscape, to have power
over His minions, to unlock the secrets of the deep? Enscribe ye the great seals 'neath the horned
m ...
hearken to the grisly murmer of nameless fiends,
Black jaws drooling blasphemy,
Beyond the witch-song, darkly sweet,
The wyrm-horn sounds cross Dagon's mere,
Shadow-gate (portal to the Black Pyr ...
The following are excerpts from handwritten notes discovered secreted in a hidden alcove in the
west wing of the Phillips-Ervin Museum, London England. Sealed in a leather canister, the aged
scrip ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
Spears agleam in the dying sun,
The blood is spilled, the battle's won,
From the icy throne the God-King shall rule,
When nine stars kiss the moon o'er Ulti ...
(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
It is written in the ancient legends... that high amidst the moon-swathed peaks of the great Mountain of Shadows, hides the aeon-weary threshold of the Astral ...
With but a gesture of my incorporeal hand I illumine the heart of a new-born sun,
Revelling as its searing stellar radiance engulfs my ersatz form.
Gazing out across the limitless, stygian cosmos, ...
The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire Part II)(Music: Jonny Maudling; Lyric: Byron)
ALTARUS:
You must learn to control your spirit-form, Xerxes.. ...
Sinistrous legendary fulgurates from me. My name is a word of power on the lips of my followers.
You can't escape me. I'm inside your mind. Beware the Grand Arbiter of Temporal Jurisprudence, for
...
Uatu: They possess power unparalleled...
ageless, remorseless. Without pity or conscience.
Manipulators of evolution on countless worlds.
Gods of the stars... the Celestial Host!
Behold glorious Hyperborea, gleaming jewel of the north; an eon-veiled kingdom forever
steeped in ancient legendry and the renown of its martial splendour... but of lat ...
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 pro ...
Words gleaned from the Crystal of Memory: From a time beyond time, we come.
We, who once crested the waves of the great astral sea...
and who now must strive again for the domination of the stars. ...
The vast armies of Mytos K'unn, marshalled by a sorceress of great power known as Zyrashana the Witch-Queen, had been cutting a swath through the Eastern Kingdoms since hi ...
The vast armies of Mytos K'unn, marshalled by a sorceress of great power known as Zyrashana the Witch-Queen, had been cutting a swath through the Eastern Kingdoms since hi ...
