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This pilgrimage we undertook to wastelands where an Empire stood,

Where feathered evil watches from on high;

Where desolation stretches on all sides in ruinous divides,

And all around the bitter wind doth sigh.

Proud epitaphs did once declare: «Look you upon me and despair»

Yet tides of time have washed away all trappings of dominion.

But when unto the East we turned our eyes and saw a shape arise

It’s fearsome outline black against the heavens.

And so upon the winding road we trod our way toward the shape

That towered above the skyline: a black and fearful silhouette.

«I saw the fathers of this land arise

To climb and reach the sky;

Ambition burning in their hearts

Great heights above the plain did fly.

They raised their spires and towers tall:

A kingdom bright beneath the sun

And in my name they conquered all.

Hail, tyranny and dominion.»

«But yet this kingdom soon forgot

The legacy of He Who Watched

And in a mere handful of dust

I bought them fear: a freezing ire;

The winter’s pale embittered heart

That beats a solitary drum.

With darkling skies put out their sun

Forever, and without farewell.

Their wonderland in silence fell."

Memorial to long-dead days, of endless tears, uncounted years:

A legacy of broken flesh, and an Empire built on blood and sweat.

But yet when drawing two days closer 'cross the half-lit frozen plain;

And standing in the shadow of the black colossus, cruel and grim.

Each heard a ghostly voice that whispered in our ears and so did seem

To tell a dismal history, a chronicle of mordant dream:

«Small gods in your created heavens,

Bewail thy crumbling paradise

Forever, and without farewell.

Their wonderland in silence fell

I am the great devourer when darkness doth descend

I am the destroyer — I am the hungry end.

Gripped in fearful outline, a shape that none defy

Your Aeons pass uncounted as I sit and watch the sky.»

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