1. |
The Storm
06:22
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Rain pounds her bow
Waves swirl high round
Wind tears mainsail
Lightning strikes the sea
I have been cast
From my homeland
They took my name
Waters flood in
Men beg their gods
Splinters sinking
Dark depths take us
Drowning in salt
Death won’t take me
I clutch her skull
The surface looms
I breathe again
Looking back on our ship
She is torn in two
Waves slam remains
Of the hull and crew
Blackness overcomes my eyes
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2. |
Skjalhaven
05:29
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Eyes open to a frozen stone shore
Wood and the dead lie scattered
Inland I walk through grassy plains
Wind tussled and stained with majic
A castle towers round
Skjallhaven place of war
In through high gates
The exile treads
As day drowns in night
Her enemies attack
In battle join us outlander we
Need those versed in arts of war
Once an imperial general
Heed my words
Rain arrows down
On those who like
Their fighting
Hand to hand
Let them not climb the walls
Break their ladders wash out fire
From their arrows they are many
But we are fortified
The exile leaves the haven of stone
Their hero must die
The heart must be removed
Prepare for death
Approach champion clad in paint
Fierce and snarling twelve arrows fill
his flesh
Yet still he stands mighty
A circle clears in the throng
For two lords of war
Wrestling in frost choking on dirt
Blood fills his lungs ascended
I bring the dagger down
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3. |
Aftermath
07:23
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We burn the bodies of battle
Won beneath Skjallhaven's walls
Cursed wolves wails tear
Through the night
Warriors tales of wandering dead
An island accursed they beseech him
Right the spirit plague
Slay dead men slay wolves
The elder tribe of Hvalkeld fight
Take Ivfarr the great bow hewn from
Ygilsea and take this black glass dagger
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4. |
Journey
07:02
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Journey through hills
My gaze cast on Birdwood
A cloud of eagles circling the treeline
No beast shall enter into her they fear
The curse that lies in wait
The silence knows my name
My quest leads away to mountain
Peak of deity strong
In pyre bright deer's entrail
Wrapped bones consumed to summon
The god with whom I would speak
Spirit of the mountain hear my words
Dark son am I only battle I knew
Until my descent into exile
Nothing did I feel
Nothing did I fear
Through shield wall thick I broke
A women in splendour took one eye
As thy sword slid betwixt her greaves
In through her gaze my soul fell
Up to the hilt I drove Falthar
Her life left through blood
That poured down my arm
Her skull wrapped in silk
My one friend
It's resplendent beauty
More than any living being
Name loss exile
Only death will free you
From this black curse until thou
Be cleansed of life by fire
Submergeth thee
In a violence that none may conquer
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5. |
Hvalkeld
05:05
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Here lies the plateau
Where sun melts the snow
Bleached bone majic walls fortify
Hvalkeld
Cease thy fall of steps or die
Invisible eyes watch me
So arrives the mighty warrior of
Skjallhaven
The crack of rib gates fill the air
In through our bones
The feared one treads
So elders, paint clad,
Ascended in wisdom,
Skjallhaven needs a truce
There is a price
Slay the dead who still walk
Tormentors of our land
I must slay the dead?
Kill the dead of the western crypts
Cease their curse
Spirit warriors have the majic
To remove ghosts from bones
Three trials of night time
Fire to become anointed
We wait for the night
To swallow the isle
First
I walk their coals
Second
A flaming arrow from Ivfarr impales
A bird down it falls burning
Demon touched bone
And flesh inverted
Final
Beast wrestling on a pyre
A boar I lay low in soaring flames
My flesh is burned and scarred
Agony cleanses me
Weighed heavy by a second oath
Arise spirit warrior of Hvalkeld
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6. |
Into the Crypt
11:24
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The mound awaits me
Where the elders foretold
In Birdwood's shadows looming gloom
I feel the dead twitch in the deep
I chant the spell
To keep me safe from evil
As I pass the threshold of shadow
Down I delve deep
Into the darkness
The passage descends
Days light disappears behind me
Blackness surrounding silence
I light my torch
Into a chamber walls of bones
In recesses stir old hero's hands
Clutching named weapons
Oath Keeper
Foe Slayer
Demon Hammer
Eye Taker
The skeletons of the eyeless
Dead see me
Profaner of the sacred ground
Animated in the torch glow they strike
Begone spirits from these bones
Leave your long rotted husks
I parry and strike cutting bone to dust
Re-laying to rest those splendid of old
The cavern black descends deeper
Into to the heart of the world
Issuing forth from the depths
A swarm of skeletons I draw Ivfarr
Remove twenty skulls
With twenty arrows
Still they come
I hack them into oblivion
A chamber grandiose in its ruin
My journeys end
On the throne a spirit in bones
Black rag robed greets me
Hero I know your name
Demons are stirring the dead
Terrors for the living
This isle is the loins of the world
Where men and beasts first poured
Forth from Birdwood
The great tree Ygilsea
Corrupted by the spirit mistress
That is where the curse resides
Seeping black majic to submerge all
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7. |
Birdwood
12:08
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Where I had roamed I return with final
Purpose to Birdwood's treeline
I penetrate the silent forest
No animal voices stir this void
No leaves move
Even the wind dares not enter
This cursed sanctuary
A thousand steps in thick grass
Nothing stirs
Two thousand steps
Four thousand steps through detritus
Still nothing stirs
Eight thousand steps in cold dust
Something stirs
Huge pines around me
Thick black needles loom above
The hero enters the grove
The sun flees the sky
A swarm of wolves
Spills forth from the gnarled
Roots of giant Ygilsea
As old at the world no bark or leaves
Just filled with curse
The wood creaks tainted and mighty
The wolves rush thick at me snarling
Eyes black and senseless
Into the air I leap to run their backs
Teeth tear the air
Till Ygilsea I leap
The mighty trunk with daggers I
climb
Rabid death circles below
Scrambling onto the apex
Cursed birds claw at me
As I walk thin branches
To break the final kindling
The creaking of panic
Deep in the wood
In the centre I build my pyre
To share with Ygilsea
Flames rise round me
High above the treeline
The whole of the isle below me
As dawn licks the land
The demon is drawn from the Ygilsea
And consumed in the flames
My quest is completed
My redemption is the fire
My redemption is the fire
As I die I raise her skull
For empty eyes to gaze at the sky
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