Dark baleful shades astride the mystic heath, Old land's enchantments, wolf-eyes agleam, The moon slips 'neath the darkening sea, The trees sing enthralling cha...

The ravens are on the wing! My scramasax is red (stained with the blood of many Mercian warriors), The ravens are on the wing, By Offa's decree I am an outlaw,...

And lo, I witnessed the vast seas rise forth like a great ravenous beast, A devouring maelstrom of cataclysmic fury; and the gleaming spires And citadels of pro...

Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud The Citadel Of The Obsidian Crown CHAPTER 1: THE VOYAGE OF THE SORCERER THE WIZARDS OF VYRGOTHIA: Darkly bejewelled circlet ...

[Act I: The Argosy on the Eldritch Sea] [The Antediluvian Oracle:] And so it was written, that rage would carry him like a howling wind, leaving only frozen c...

Kor-Avul-Thaa finest jewel in a crown of a realm of sublime Glory, greatest city in the Middle Kingdoms, mayhap all the world Its splendid walls of shimmering c...

Dark baleful shades astride the mystic heath, Old land's enchantments, wolf-eyes agleam, The moon slips 'neath the darkening sea, The trees sing enthralling cha...

[The Chronicler of Antediluvia:] Long ago, before the Third Great Cataclysm reshaped the face of creation, One nation rose above all others in the antediluvian...

Sorcerers and shamans, weave your spells of war, Ensure our mighty sword-arms are the strongest and the quickest Entwine us with great battle magic 'til we stan...

THE DISCIPLES OF ZAKUMAKURA: Since before mankind hurled himself Squamously from the sea we have awaited The awakening of great Zakumakura! Now the Dragon-King ...

[Ruminations from the Six Pyramids of Cydonia:] This red charnel pit of primal horror, howling black ecstasies to the void Ancient and divine, older than the h...

THE WATCHER IN STONE: And I stand enthralled and silent atop the ancient, Shadowed mountain, gazing in awe at the stygian, Night-cloaked sky, as above me a wond...

Come, dark night deep night, Sweep away the fading embers of the cruel sun, Let me at last dream 'neath the moon's sweet light, For the quest is over, and the l...

THOUGHTS OF AN ICENI GLADIATOR, AWAITING THE OPENING OF THE ARENA PORTCULLIS: MEMORIES OF REBELLION (CARNAGE AT CAMULODUNUM): ICENI MESSENGER: Hearken! The Nint...

ZURANTHUS: Earthbound, a star falls to my tongue Come to me, Hyperion's child come to me, spawn of Titan Condemned Souls of the Brotherhood of Dark Elucidation:...

I stand engulfed by the moon-magic of a winter eve's dream, Enraptured by bloodlust, and nine fire-gems ablaze, I am beckoned by sylph-spells and the jewelled s...

[The Oracle of Logres:] It was a time of change The descendants of the Atlantean mages had fallen Before the New Praesidium, and the wolves were baying at the ...

All witches fly to me I have torn the veil of dreams, Enraptured by (the gleam of) moon-frost's caress, My heart is held in icy thrall, The horned moon's sweet ...

Ancient cromlech carved of ice, Etched against a glimmering sky, Beneath the pale moonlight, the witch enthralling, (like the sublime) scent of black lotus, Ahi...

XERXES: Such devastation, master A mighty civilization destroyed in the blinking of an eye Decimated by the madness of a rogue demi-god ALTARUS: Indeed, my you...

[The Explorer:] Beneath the ice, the endless ice of Pangaea's now axial Eternally frozen frontier, entombed for countless millions of years the Lost cities of ...

The Words of the Forest-King on the Eve of the Nexus: I am the immortal King of the Deep Woods, Servitor of the Old Gods of the Forest I hear the whispered word...

(Sagas from the antediluvian Scrolls) Black winds whispering 'cross the fens, In eldritch coils (jewelled and gleaming) spires entwined Enraptured by the moon'...

[The Testament of the Winds:] Many thousands of years ago, they ruled the globe But the pressing fist of great power carried a heavy price, and now their domin...

(Over The Moonless Depths Of Night-Dark Seas) THE LOG OF THE NORTHERN MARINER: The great serpent-prow of my ship, Wave-Render cleaves the nighted Waters as we ...

(Sagas from the antediluvian Scrolls) Black winds whispering 'cross the fens, In eldritch coils (jewelled and gleaming) spires entwined Enraptured by the moon's...

Legends etched into the ancient stone dolmens on the Dark Moors THE ORACLE OF WAR: The crows will pick your bones clean Never sweet the kiss of cold steel THE...

Somewhere in the lightless, labyrinthine depths of the Darkenhold forest VOICE OF THE NIGHT: Who are you, wanderer? WANDERING SPIRIT: I can't remember VOICE ...

In 2104, lithological excavations at the Fourth Mars Colony unearthed An artifact of unknown, seemingly non-human origin; an icosahedron of An unrecognized, non...

[The Sixth Key: The Omega Axiom] Some would call it epiphany, others would deem it the final descent into madness whatever the case, the last vestiges of those...

I was spawned deep beneath the Pre-Cambrian sea, The scion of a far distant sun I have traversed the endless stars, And journeyed to a myriad galaxies The dimen...

Seek ye to invoke the Lord of Dreams, to know His divine will via the dreamscape, to have power over His minions, to unlock the secrets of the deep? Enscribe ye...

I hearken to the grisly murmer of nameless fiends, Black jaws drooling blasphemy, Beyond the witch-song, darkly sweet, The wyrm-horn sounds cross Dagon's mere, ...

[The following are excerpts from handwritten notes discovered secreted in a hidden alcove in the west wing of the Phillips-Ervin Museum, London England Sealed ...

Black stone summoning the eternal power of the winter moon Fen-witch revel in ancient spellcraft, Beneath a horned and waning moon Enchantress, heather-bride a'...

Black stone summoning the eternal power of the winter moon Fen-witch revel in ancient spellcraft, Beneath a horned and waning moon Enchantress, heather-bride a...

[The Thaumaturgist:] The Great Eye of the Universe opens! Through this astral art the secrets of the Cosmos are mine to know for the stars are my dominion! Emp...

Spears agleam in the dying sun, The blood is spilled, the battle's won, From the icy throne of God-King shall rule, When nine stars kiss the moon o'er Ultima Th...

It is written in the ancient legends that high amidst the moon-swathed peaks of the great Mountain of Shadows, hides the aeon-weary threshold of the Astral Gate...

With but a gesture of my incorporeal hand I illumine the heart of a new-born sun, Revelling as it's searing stellar radiance engulfs my ersatz form Gazing out a...

[The Imperator of the Night (Hearken to the Attestation of the Sinistrous):] For it is the iniquity of man which compels him to these tenebrous gates, Seeking o...

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 ...

[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 catac...

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 Trans...

[Instrumental] [From the journal of Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, discovered May 1899, near the great Temple at Tiahuanaco, Peru:] [23 September: 1893] Up...

[Tribal creation myth and folklore from the Northern Hemisphere, dating from 650 BTC (Before the Third Cataclysm), Antediluvian Calendar:] Hearken, children of ...

[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 learn...

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...

[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 arm...

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 summonin...

UATU: They possess power unparalleled Ageless, remorseless Without pity or conscience Manipulators of evolution on countless worlds Gods of the stars the Celest...

[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...

(Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire) ALTARUS: Gaze deep into the mists with your spirit-eyes, Xerxes Look far, and tell me what you see XERXES: I se...

[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 da...

[THE ANTEDILUVIAN ORACLE:] Behold glorious Hyperborea, gleaming jewel of the north; an eon-veiled kingdom forever steeped in ancient legendry and the renown 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 ...

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 ...

[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 probab...

(The Legend Of The Battle Of Blackhelm Vale) THE CHRONICLES OF WAR: THE WAR TESTAMENT OF CAYLEN-TOR (ON THE NIGHT OF THE BLOODYING OF SWORDS): O' grim gods of b...

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 e...

Spring, 196 AD (CE) [Centurion Decianus Varus:] Alea iacta est! Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax has fallen victim to the assassin's blade As I stand gazing ou...

[Fragmentary delusional recollections from within the confines of Grimm's Hold Sanitarium:] When Blackthorne returns from his expedition to Tiahuanaco and the P...

DOVER, ENGLAND: SEPTEMBER 1594 (THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A WAR-WEARY MARINER) MEMORIES OF DEATH AND LIFE For countless thousands of centuries I have walked the ear...

Silvern skull, sable shroud, ebon tower, onyx crown Witchfire, black citadel, frost-shrouded steel, moon-veiled spell The skyqueen of the dead rides forth, blac...