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Eidolon
04:30
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Illusion
False idols shall return nothing but consequence
A door that should never be opened unlocks
It leads to a bridge between what must take and what must not be given
An archaic and venerable secret unsealed
Repeated perfidious acts bring upon truths revealed
The ultimate question, met with arrogance and fear
Wonder will behold while despair will control
Consequence shall reign supreme
The illusion of choice, infinite and incomplete
A test to unveil the weight of the importance of divinity
As to the futility of mortality
A convoluted reality
Catechize; an existence of lies
The palpability of the presence of a greater life
Endless possibilities spawned from the void
Though only one entity shall define actuality
A tragedy born of pride and misunderstanding
Interminable delusions of narcissism and grandiosity
Ceaseless wrongful servitude, a product of individual reasoning
Purpose corrupted through cognizance of potential
All shall suffer the ramifications of segregation
Divided, none shall escape the temptation to sew the seeds of utter annihilation
Ambiguity will surround the very fabric of existence
Guardians not meant to interfere will transfigure to iron handed dictators
Innocence shall be bridled and repressed
Creators and created alike shall be overcome with ambivalence
This new chaos will continue to spread until there will be nothing left
Nothing left
Illusion
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2. |
Serve the Unseen Despot
06:01
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Nothing but a slave
As meaningless as a corpse
There is no difference at all
We are exactly the same
Hearts pumping out of our chests
Suffuse with nervous sweat
Lower than creatures kept as pets
Clutched within the grasp of a deadly enigma
Condemned to a life without hope
We’re retained to...
Enter into life, enter into lies
Servitude; our only worth until we die
Enter into chains, enter into pain
Shackled and bound
Heavy weights dragged across the ground
Reprehension for utter defiance
Slave to live and die to serve
There is no other option
The voice is always aware
There is always something there
Whatever it may be, it seems to control the weather
Through the emotions it feels and the rage that builds there is only…
Only one who stands as an equal, or at least above the rest of us
The one who calls himself the voice
He who is not harmed by the changes that surround
Never phased by the darkened shroud
The only one with a choice
Yet what he chooses is to obey
To bow down to an entity that we cannot contemplate
A creature we have grown to hate
A creature we have grown to hate
Everyday we construct in its name
A name unknown
Monuments of gold that tower above
Drudges of woe that crawl below
Each new pillar is never enough
To slake the hunger of its ego
Refusal to comply leads to disasters planet wide
None can hide
From the covetous wrath of this colossal titan’s pride
Unseen but not unfelt, keeping a whole civilisation in hell
Captive to the winds, the seas, the fire and the ice
Brought to bear on a whim with a vigor not seen from a mortal being
The wrath of an imperceptible creature with a god-like efficacy
Heretics bleed
We have learned to keep silent in the face of direct oppression
An entire race brought to its knees at the hands of false creation
This pervasive brute stole our identity
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3. |
Archon I: Expulse
04:51
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The ultimate taboo has been committed
There is one who refuses to abide
It is time he learns what happens to those who disobey
Retrieve the traitor
Undo his reign
Bring me his head
The laws of life should never be broken
We govern all that resides inside the living universe
Each and every one of us has a duty to uphold that is paramount to existence
Let this be a lesson
He is the prime example
Of those who should not create
Let this be a lesson
Look upon his creation in disdain and attempt to comprehend this mad one’s mind
He has drifted too far into lawless chaos and could yet bring on our untimely demise
This ‘being’ is now pure filth
Let this be a lesson
He is the prime example
Let this be a lesson
Of those who should not create
This heinous act must not be repeated
I will make certain of that
On this day you will all witness the onset of hell made manifest
Bring forth the one that thinks he can do what he wants
The chaos must end
You who would defile our sacred rites
Will now live out your days in silent purgatory
On your knees
Now you must answer for your atrocity
You know exactly what you did wrong, apostate
I will answer such depravity in kind
Now feel the weight of eternal suffering
All behold this day, the corrupt shall endure the same
The grasp of evil only brings upon darkness
You have sealed your own fate
You have sealed your own fate
These are the final moments that you will ever be whole again
Take one last look at your vile vessel, before I take it from you
The expulsion will now begin
Stitch his mouth shut
This blade craves flesh
Watch the body drop, as I tear the head off
Still alive, it will now adorn my wall
Let this be a lesson
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4. |
Begging the Heavens
04:10
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Terror begins to swell as the voice grows silent
Petrified; immobilised in one moment
All eyes fixate on the trembling figure before them
The iron hand now reduced to failure
Opportunity arises, all are ready to defy
Suppression wanes, this chance won’t pass us by
The technology is within our grasp
From those commissioned creations past
Salvage all that is functional
We must become adaptable
Craft that which will liberate us
A vessel to outlast
The main directive: survival
Extrication
Immediate escape from malevolent oppression
The vital condition
Deliverance
Persevere; arise now
Immediate escape from malevolent oppression
The vital condition
Deliverance
Persevere; arise
At last, the time has finally arrived to relieve this insipid torment
Our magnum opus, a great vessel we shall dub the Sagitta; arrow of the macrocosm
Now take flight into the raging black abyss above
Swirling with violent winds and lashing bolts of lightning
Fear no longer has a place among us
Forge ahead no matter the cost as systems begin to fail
This is the point of no return, we will not be undone
Terror begins to shed as we break through the atmosphere
Vanishing; dissipating underneath us
All eyes fixate on the marvelous sight before them
The arrow proves to be our salvation
One last glance at the world we leave behind
No love lost as it was never asylum
Just a tumultuous prison bereft of sanctuary
Set course for the closest star
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Arrival
Before us; the first celestial body
A possible new home
Residing calmly in it’s natural beauty
Descend
Unfortunately already inhabited by sentience
Structures strewn across the vast landscape
We must make contact, this must be fate
No language barrier, we are different yet we are the same
“We know you have come far and we know why
You seek answers for the voice from the sky”
“We have lived a thousand of your lifetimes
And in that time we have been privy to the happenings of the cosmos
Your voice from the sky was none other than your creator
Long ago our world was also watched over
Though much the same as you, our creator just disappeared
We learned much from our overseer, as he felt knowledge should be shared by all”
“On the edge of the universe a race of ‘gods’ originate and create what we know
They are the progenitors and the keepers of life itself
Mortals must never know who or what they are and where they come from
Revealing such details to lesser beings is a crime punishable by death”
So are they really gods if they can die?
Are they so different from all of us, succumbing to a mortal demise?
Are they really what he claimed to be?
“We know you have come far and we know why
You seek to know if your god can die”
To find that we are less than we ever thought possible
A crippling realisation
We served a tyrant, completely in love with his power
He brought upon great cataclysms to make us kneel
Used as slaves so this apparent 'god' was content
What a repulsive excuse for a deity, he will pay
They’ll all pay
“We know you have come far and we know why
You seek to finally free all life”
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6. |
Archon II: Abolition
05:08
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Awaken to pain; excruciating
Try to move but nothing will respond to me
Can’t look down or feel anything below the neck
Look around the room and realise the truth
Hundreds of my brethren’s heads line the walls
All alive, living through purgatory
Mouths stitched shut just like me
Terror and the inability to scream
I am now among the exiled
Power and purpose stripped completely
My existence is now only observation
The very embodiment of punishment
Forcibly silent yet stimulus remains
There is nothing left to take away the pain
Limbo has become my reality
And this shall go on for eternity
I never thought I wouldn’t be alone
With all this power at the fingertips of an entire race of beings
It seems natural that there would be those who abuse it thoroughly
Nonetheless I am mystified at just how he caught me
I kept my supremacy to the one planet solely
And yet just like my kin juxtaposed
Here I am, damned by our code
“We must destroy them”
The first words to pull me out of my brooding
Words I had never heard from any member of my people
“It goes against everything we stand for, but it must be done”
Glancing into the centre of the room
There I see a projection of the system that I left behind
The entities I created once again right there in front of my eyes
They have traversed a great distance since I was apprehended
How long has passed?
“They already know too much and still they set out to learn more about us”
Now I see how far a being endowed with sentience will go for vengeance
Just like the leader said to me before decapitating my body…
“The grasp of evil only brings upon darkness”
This grasp of evil only brought upon emptiness
I am now among the exiled
Power and purpose stripped completely
My existence is now only observation
The very embodiment of punishment
Forcibly silent yet stimulus remains
There is nothing left to take away the pain
Limbo has become my reality
And this shall go on for eternity
“We shall bypass the absolute law and create another race
One specifically engineered to exterminate all corrupt and impure life
Any and all systems where one of us has failed
And any forbidden information has been learned by lesser beings
The Panacea will crush them until not a single soul persists
Until not a single soul persists
Not a single soul
We will correct our biggest mistakes
Not a single soul”
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7. |
Recreate
04:32
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Permanence will be returned to the hands of life
Evolving for its own needs, existing to finally breathe free
These ‘Gods’ are nothing but faceless cowards
Prepare the Sagitta for extended interstellar travel
At the speed of light, it shall now pierce the heavens
Carrying us into the very empyrean
Bringing with it the final cry of freedom
Take back your lives and we will arise
This is the day, the dawn has arrived
Take back your lives, we will arise
Triumphant we’ll stand, staring death in the eyes
We will search all worlds we find that bear any forms of sentience
For what will benefit our vast crusade through the cosmos
To enlist whoever will align and augment our ranks to colossal proportions, impart our intentions
With those who will seize what is rightfully theirs
Amassing the largest force that the universe has ever witnessed
Take back your lives and we will arise
This is the day, the dawn has arrived
Take back your lives, we will arise
Triumphant we’ll stand, staring death in the eyes
"There exists a world out in the depths of space that holds a great machine
One with the power to take and give life as is needed
Though it’s usefulness comes with the price of life itself
We know the location of this planet’s host star and its place in orbit"
Take back your lives and we will arise
This is the day, the dawn has arrived
Take back your lives, we will arise
Triumphant we’ll stand, staring death in the eyes
We travel forward into the unknown
The relic beckons us, adrift in a sea of stars
We're falling, deeper into the unknown
Wormholes reach out their hand, distending our pure cause
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8. |
World of Fear
03:57
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Ingress; a vast horizon below
Scattered across barren dunes under a darkened yellow sky
Hundreds of lights tell us we have reached our destination
Welcomed to their world, we are graced with much anticipation
It seems as though a heavy cloud of unease fills the air
Though it is clear our arrival is not the source
“We have been informed that you hold the power to sway existence as you see fit
And we have come to claim it
We harbour no animosity and do not wish to take it by force
We ask that you join us in a campaign to rid the universe of its oppressors
Those of which we are sure you know well”
“You are not mistaken, we know them well…
We are ruled by one and he is ruthless
He gifted us an ancient object that allows its user to create life from the remains of something already living
Though we cannot use it without a price, we must offer our own people as sacrifice
Welcome to our world of fear”
These beings may align with us, but at a cost
If we can gain access to this object, this ‘machine’
We just may be able to obliterate their ‘God’
“We know him well…”
“If you would first side with us to rid us of this plague in flesh
We would follow you to the end for what you must accomplish
For now we must acquire Anubis, the object that he covets
It is the name he chose for what you know as the machine
Together we can outsmart his deviousness and bring about an end to his reign”
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9. |
God Eater
04:30
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God Eater
Fear will now cease to exist
The time has finally come to put an end to autocracy and allow for absolution to take its hold
“Warriors of the cosmos, let us turn his most sacred treasure into what he fears most;
The inescapable end
Secrecy is our greatest weapon
His inevitable death”
“Anubis operates through a process of reconstitution
A living being simply need touch it’s surface and it will activate
From then on it will devour anything inside its range of influence”
“Now conceal yourselves and await the moment when you may enter the temple unnoticed
While we summon the demon…”
“Oh great one, reveal unto your faithful servants your divine presence and let us bask in your glory
For we are in need of your brilliance”
“Why do you wake me from my slumber?”
The moment has arrived and so the plan goes into motion
“Your eminence, please meet us at your temple”
“The final hour is now upon us
His lordship of false flesh will be forced to accept his death”
The great engine flares to life, as the entity reaches out to touch it
Dragging him within and draining his essence
Avulsion of divinity; God Eater
A sight like none before
He who ruled as a God is no more, as his being slowly dissipates from view
Never to return
A deep red glow lines the walls as its influence fills the temple
The whirring of its animation grows louder as it brims with boundless energy
Ready and waiting to spill forth its hallowed contents
The natives bow down in apotheosis
Praying to bring life back to their world
The crimson radiance gleams brighter
Engulfing everything around
The entirety of the barren planet suddenly immersed within the bathing light
As life begins anew
The never ending dunes spring forth plant life long forgotten
The once empty skies now filled with bulging clouds that burst and rain fresh water
All who once hid from the blazing sun can now lead lives once lost
The natives rejoice in apotheosis
Their prayers have finally been answered
The crimson radiance fades away
Revealing a celestial body rebirthed
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