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The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire (Part: III)
Bal-Sagoth - The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire (Part: III)
[THE ANTEDILUVIAN ORACLE:]Behold glorious Hyperborea, gleaming jewel of thenorth; an eon-veiled kingdom forever steeped in ancient legendry and the renownof its martial splendour... but of late, an ill wind whispers malignly throughits opulent labyrinth of marbled citadels...[WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:][Episode I:]THE SPLENDOUR OF A THOUSAND SWORDS GLEAMING BENEATH THE BLAZON OF THE HYPERBOREAN EMPIRE[To be found on the second Bal-Sagoth album; "Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule"][Episode II:]THE DARK LIEGE OF CHAOS IS UNLEASHED AT THE ENSORCELLED SHRINE OF A'ZURA-KAI(THE SPLENDOUR OF A THOUSAND SWORDS GLEAMING BENEATH THE BLAZON OF THE HYPERBOREAN EMPIRE: Part: II)[To be found on the third Bal-Sagoth album; "Battle Magic"]NOW...[Episode III:]CRY HAVOC FOR GLORY, AND THE ANNIHILATION OF THE TITANS OF CHAOS!(THE SPLENDOUR OF A THOUSAND SWORDS GLEAMING BENEATH THE BLAZON OF THE HYPERBOREAN EMPIRE: Part: III)[ALTARUS:]And so, it ends. You have learned much, young Xerxes.Your training is nigh on complete.The years which you have spent here at the Praxeum have been difficult ones,but the reward of elucidation you have gained far outweighs the hardship youhave endured. Many lessons have you learned, not least of which is thatknowledge is never without its price, my neophyte.[XERXES:]Yes, master Altarus. I have heeded your tutelage well, and your wisdomhas been a great balm to me during the many trials I have undergone. I can nowcommand the Mists of the Oracle, and the Great Eye of the Universe opens at mybidding. And yet, before I am placed before the final scrutiny of the Elders,I ask that I be allowed to gaze into the sidereal vista once more, to witnessthe final outcome of that great struggle which has so captivated me during mystudies at the Praxeum.[ALTARUS:]Ah yes... the epic conflict between the Dark Liege of Chaos and theroyal Scion of proud Hyperborea. Very well, my young apprentice. Command thestarscape to divulge its mysteries... look deep into the fathomless mists, andthe ruinous carnage of A'zura-Kai shall once again be arrayed before thinecurious gaze. Aye Xerxes, thrice you have summoned the besieged and benightedvista of Hyperborea... now pay heed, for the final battle is at hand![Chapter 7: The Last Stand Against Chaos.][ALTARUS:]And a crimson sun rose slowly over the Field of Blood... and suchwere the corpse-mounds of the dead that they aspired to touch that ireful orb.Slithering shadows nuzzled the massed bodies of the slain, as the King ralliedthe survivors of the battle against Chaos to one final act of defiance...[LORD ANGSAAR:]Impertinent mortal wormcast! Do you truly aspire to prevailagainst me? I am the Bane of the Atlantean Kings, the Scourge of Lemuria,Arch-Foe of the Immortals of Ultima Thule! Long before man hurled himselfsquamously from the primordial ooze, I waged war with gods and thwartedeternity![ALTARUS:]Lord Angsaar, the Dark Liege of Chaos, was poised on the brink ofultimate victory. By insidious manipulation, he had carefully drawn the forcesof Hyperborea to battle at the Shrine of A'zura-Kai, pitting his legions ofravening wraiths against the stalwart forces of the Hyperborean Empire, andduring the fray his agents of evil had seized the Ninth Crystal of Mera fromthe grasp of the King. With the cosmic energies of the Shrine magnifying theempyreal power of the Ninth Crystal, Angsaar triumphantly performed the arcanerite that would sunder the sorcerous fetters which had hitherto kept hisphysical incarnation confined within the ancient Chamber of Slumber. Summoningthe interdimensional portal which the mystic power of the Shrine allied withthe sorceries of the Crystal could generate, Angsaar channelled his fiendishpresence from his darksome prison directly to the death-gorged Field of Blood.Thus was the spell of confinement woven countless aeons ago byAngsaar's immortal nemesis broken, and on that fateful day the dreadChaos-Liege strode the world of mortal men once more. The King, flanked by thefew valiant survivors of the ruinous Wraith-onslaught, stood defiant beforethe withering glare of Chaos...[LORD ANGSAAR:]Ah, great King of Hyperborea! My mystic shackles are at lastbroken... I am free once more! Your army is lost, your realm is mine...it shall be blessed with the honour of being the first to fall before myrenewed onslaught! Bow to me in obeisance![THE KING:]Never! For too long your diseased machinations have hung like ablack pall over glorious Hyperborea... you have invaded my very dreams andsown the virulent seeds of base treachery within my court. It ends here,arch-fiend![LORD ANGSAAR:]Feh! Yield to me, throw down your sword! Obey and I promisethat your death shall be swift, if not entirely devoid of suffering![THE KING:]I defy you![LORD ANGSAAR:]Hyperborea shall fall! Your court shall become the heart of mynew imperium! Your people shall become my lackeys, bearing the glorious burdenof my sovereignty with sweet praise upon their lips![THE KING:]I shall always defy you![LORD ANGSAAR:]Then your pain shall etch a new legend of suffering in thebenighted obelisks of the Outer Darkness, and not even that cursed blade ofadamantine black steel shall preserve thee! Die![THE KING:]So, the final battle begins! Into the fray we ride! For the eternalglory of Hyperborea![ALTARUS:]And the Chaos-Liege summoned the remnants of his cacklingwraith-horde, commanding the unholy brood to once more hurl itself like ablack tide against the now bloodied but still razor edged steel of the grimsurvivors of Hyperborea. With the enchantments of the Ninth Crystal stillcrackling in the air about the Shrine, the incorporeal frames of the wraithswere once more transmogrified into squamous pseudo-flesh, and thus vulnerableto the biting blades of the King's depleted war-host. Rallying his forces oncemore, the Royal Scion of Hyperborea clove into the massed hordes of nethermosthorror, his ensorcelled ebon blade hewing five-score left and five-score right,leaving a viscous and noxious trail of sundered fiends in his wake. TheArch-Wraith of Lord Angsaar, that same bestial horror which had smitten theKing and seized the Crystal of Mera from his gauntleted fist, swooped screamingfrom the crimson sky in a bid to extinguish the life-force of the Hyperboreanmonarch, but the benighted blade of the King was swifter, and with a flash ofnoisome green light and smoke, the Arch-Wraith's head rolled to theblood-slaked earth, its leering countenance forever frozen in a grotesqueparody of un-death. And once more, like a purifying storm of righteous furythe heroes of Hyperborea dealt steel-cold and martial discipline unto thebaying hounds of Chaos.[XERXES:]And yet I perceive that the wraith-horde's number was being everbolstered by the sorceries of the reborn Chaos-Liege... for every keeninghorror hacked down by a Hyperborean blade, three more were summoned from theOuter Darkness by the machinations of Angsaar. Even the courage and the grimdetermination of the King's valiant force could not hope to prevail againstsuch an overwhelming foe. But the last, best hope still remained, clutchedtightly within the King's fist! The Shadow-Sword![ALTARUS:]Your perceptions are clear, young Xerxes. The life-essence ofAngsaar's arch-foe was still encased within the stygian sword following theirlast cataclysmic encounter many aeons past, and that yard of fearsome blacksteel spoke once more to the King in the same long dead tongue it had burnedupon his mind deep within the Mountains of the Dead. One hope remained todefeat Angsaar, but it would carry with it a most terrible price for the King.[Chapter 8: The Return of the Immortal][THE ECHOES OF THE IMMORTAL:]Hearken, noble King of Hyperborea. Long ago,before life evolved from the boiling oceans of the primordial sphere, I wagedfurious and slaughterous battle with the Chaos-Liege over the possession ofthe sacred Crystals of Mera, shards of such incredible sorcerous potency thateven the Empyreal Lexicon itself was no greater a prize. Although I succeededin smiting the dark one and imprisoning him within his Chamber of Slumber, Iwas hammered to the brink of dissolution by the abominations of Chaos, and Ithus transferred my life-essence into my Sword, that same blade which you nowhold in your grasp. I committed my fading energies to concealing the bladefrom the sight of man until such time as it would once more be needed to bringto bear against Chaos... aye, until such time as Angsaar reawakened. It was Iwho guided you to the mountainous resting place of the blade when my arch-foemarked you as central protagonist in his scheme to recover thePrime Crystal, o' King of the North. To utterly destroy the Dark Liege ofChaos, you must join your essence with mine... we must fuse our life-forcesand become one so that my full power may be unleashed against Angsaar oncemore. But this final deed demands the most severe of tolls, o' noble monarch...To become as one with the immortal essence of the Shadow-Sword is to sacrificeforever your own mortality, and to forsake eternally the world of man. Are youprepared to
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