Bal-Sagoth piosenki

[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....

[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 catacombs of Ur. Lost within the lightless catacombs of Ur... Entombed within the ziggurats! [Th...

[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 Le...

[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 la...

Tribal creation myth and folklore from the Northern Hemisphere, dating from 650 B.T.C. (Before the Third Cataclysm), Antediluvian Calendar: Hearken, children of the Ersatz gods, sons and daughters of the New Earth, for here is truth. Long ago, before the thi...

(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 Doctor Ignatius Stone. That brilliant researcher was last seen in command...

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 when it comes at last, terrible shall be thy punishment. In the...

(Episode IX: The Legions of the Imperium Storm the Cloud-Capped Palisades of Gul-Kothoth) Chapter 11: The Siege Begins And so the mighty and resplendent armies of the Imperium assembled before the towering cyclopean walls of ancient Gul-Kothoth. It was so...

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...

[UATU:] They possess power unparalleled... ageless, remorseless. Without pity or conscience. Manipulators of evolution on countless worlds. Gods of the stars... the Celestial Host! [NORRIN-RADD:] Zenn-la! (My homeworld, denied me by the whims of Galan o...

[From a fragmentary transcription of the sixth Latin edition of the Chthonic Chronicles, believed lost during the great fire of London in 1666:] “O’, great and luminous ones, who came from beyond the stars to slumber serene beneath the earth of the third sph...

ALTARUS: Gaze deep into the mists with your spirit-eyes, Xerxes... look far, and tell me what you see. XERXES: I see a land far to the north... a vast empire of dark endless moors and snow-crowned mountains... a land of brooding citadels and warrior-kings who...

The Antediluvian Oracle: 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 late, an ill wind whispers malignly through its opulent labyrinth of...

[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...

[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... [ENTREATY OF THE FOURTH MOON'S KEYMASTER:] Awaken......

The contemplations of Joachim Blokk: As my sword drips black now with the unclean blood of another slain fiend, it occurs to me that history will most probably record me a fanatic... as for more years than I care to remember I have dedicated my life to the c...

The Chronicles of War: 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 high summer the preceding year. Empowering her troops with great so...

Spring, 196 A.D. (C.E.) [Centurion Decianus Varus:] Alea iacta est! Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax has fallen victim to the assassin’s blade. As I stand gazing out across the massed ranks of our Pannonian legions, Septimus Severus duly strives to consol...

Fragmentary delusional recollections from within the confines of Grimm’s Hold Sanitarium: When Blackthorne returns from his expedition to Tiahuanaco and the Peruvian jungle I shall duly tell him of the catalyst which compelled me to those cursed black vaults...

Dover, England: September 1594 (the recollections of a war-weary mariner) Hearken boy; for I would tell thee a tale before we set sail for the Bay of Biscay on the morrow. I was not always called by this name, you know... To you, I am Caleb Blackthorne, bat...