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Bal Sagoth - In The Raven-Haunted Forests Of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign And The Hues Of
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Bal Sagoth - Shadows 'Neath The Black Pyramid
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Bal Sagoth - The Epsilon Exordium
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Bal Sagoth - The Scourge Of The Fourth Celestial Host
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Bal Sagoth - The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborea
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Bal Sagoth - The Voyagers Beneath The Mare Imbrium
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Bal Sagoth - Arcana Antediluvia
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Bal Sagoth - As The Vortex Illumines The Crystalline Walls Of Kor-Avul-Thaa
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Bal Sagoth - At The Altar Of The Dreaming Gods (Epilogue)
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Bal Sagoth - Behold, The Armies Of War Descend Screaming From The Heavens!
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Bal Sagoth - Blood Slakes The Sand At The Circus Maximus
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Bal Sagoth - Epilogue
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Bal Sagoth - In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica
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Bal Sagoth - Journey To The Isle Of Mists (Over The Moonless Depths Of Night-Dark Seas)
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Bal Sagoth - Return To Hatheg-Kla
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Bal Sagoth - Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers
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Bal Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule
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Bal Sagoth - The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur
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Bal Sagoth - The Obsidian Crown Unbound
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Bal Sagoth - Thwarted By The Dark (Blade Of The Vampyre Hunter)
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Bal Sagoth - Unfettering The Hoary Sentinels Of Karnak
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Bal Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods Over Leumria
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Bal Sagoth - A Tale From The Deep Woods
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Bal Sagoth - And Atlantis Falls...
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Bal Sagoth - And Lo, When The Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall
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Bal Sagoth - And Lo, When The Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud The Citade
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Bal Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant
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Bal Sagoth - Battle Magic
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Bal Sagoth - Beneath The Crimson Vaults Of Cydonia
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Bal Sagoth - Black Dragons Soar Above The Mountain Of Shadows (Prologue)
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Bal Sagoth - Callisto Rising
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Bal Sagoth - Crystal Shards
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Bal Sagoth - Draconis Albionensis
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Bal Sagoth - Dreaming Of Atlantean Spires
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Bal Sagoth - Enthroned In The Temple Of The Serpent Kings
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Bal Sagoth - In The Raven-Haunted Forests Of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign And The Hues Of Sunlight Never Dance
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Bal Sagoth - Into The Silent Chambers Of The Sapphirean Throne
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Bal Sagoth - Invocations Beyond The Outer - World Night
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Bal Sagoth - Naked Steel (The Warrior's Saga)
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Bal Sagoth - Of Carnage And A Gathering Of The Wolves
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Bal Sagoth - Prologue
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Bal Sagoth - Return To The Praesidium Of Ys
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Bal Sagoth - Shackled To The Trilithon Of Kutulu
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Bal Sagoth - Six Keys to the Onyx Pyramid
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Bal Sagoth - Spellcraft & Moonfire (Beyond The Citadel Of Frosts)
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Bal Sagoth - Summoning The Guardians Of The Astral Gate
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Bal Sagoth - The Awakening Of The Stars
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Bal Sagoth - The Chronicle of Shadows
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Bal Sagoth - The Dark Liege Of Chaos Is Unleashed...
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Bal Sagoth - The Empyreal Lexicon
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Bal Sagoth - The Fallen Kingdoms Of The Abyssal Plain
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Bal Sagoth - The Ghosts of Angkor Wat
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Bal Sagoth - The Hammer Of The Emperor
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Bal Sagoth - The Ravening
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Bal Sagoth - The Sixth Adulation Of His Chthonic Majesty
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Bal Sagoth - The Splendour Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire
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Bal Sagoth - The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire (Part: III)
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Bal Sagoth - The Thirteen Cryptical Prophecies Of Mu
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Bal Sagoth - To Dethrone The Witch-Queen Of Mytos K'Unn (The Legend Of The Battle Of Blackhel)
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Bal Sagoth - To Dethrone The Witch-Queen Of Mytos K'Unn (The Legend Of The Battle Of Blackhelm Vale)
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Bal Sagoth - To Storm The Cyclopean Gates Of Byzantium
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Bal Sagoth - When Rides The Scion Of The Storms
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Bal Sagoth - Witch-Storm
Return To Hatheg-Kla
Bal Sagoth
At length, one oppressively miasmic night, with such malefically portentous lore preying pitilessly upon my sanity, I began to descend through a myriad veils of sombre and swirling shades, finally surrendering my grip on wakefulness.
And on that fitful, fateful eve, the last of the dreams came...
A waking dream?
I dare not speculate.
The vision was mine, the soul too... but the time, the place, the very flesh, all this and more was unknown to me.
I stood upon a nighted vista... unfeasibly alien, and yet at once wholly, unnervingly familiar.
In my hand I grasped a glimmering crystal which although beautiful in its shimmering radiance, was as black as the impenetrable depths of the most stygian midnight sea.
As I gazed into the obsidian heart of the gem, a needle of black light lanced forth from its multi-faceted surface and filled my eyes with a panoply of fantastic hues, revealing to me in between its pulses of massing darkness certain fleeting glimpses of places and things so fantastically terrifying that I could not faithfully begin to recount their hideous and yet grimly compelling nature.
A terrible sound filled my ears... an insidious resonance which sent waves of excruciating pain coursing through my mind... a sound which inexorably coalesced into a recognizable but entirely inhuman voice, a voice which slowly, inevitably, formed approximations of words which I could discern...
[The Crystalline Oracle:]
Hearken, o' manling of the Tellurian orb... the Circle closes.
Perpare to embrace the agony of enlightenment.
Know you of the Six Cataclysms?
[The Aspirant:]
I do. Six times has the world perished and been reborn!
[The Crystalline Oracle:]
You have discovered the true meaning of the six coruscating rings of arcane power?
[The Aspirant:]
Praise Klatrymadon and Zuranthus! The Six Keys!
[The Crystalline Oracle:]
Know you of the blackened orb which burned bright o'er ancient Lemuria?
Know you of the sidereal flame which engulfed the high seat of power in Ultima Thule?
Know you of that martial sorcery woven in the pitiless throng of epic battle?
Know you of the astral power permeating the multiverse and the might of the cosmic codex?
Know you of the rise and fall of glorious Atlantis?
Know you the blasphemies contained within the Chthonic Chronicles?
[The Aspirant:]
I know all this, and more!
[The Crystalline Oracle:]
Have you, o' hybrid child of the cosmos, gazed into the Great Eye of the Universe?
[The Aspirant:]
I have.
[The Crystalline Oracle:]
And what did you see there, young Xerxes?
[The Aspirant:]
I saw oblivion and damnation.
I saw truth, and enlightenment.
I saw the closure of the Great Circle Without End.
I saw the Sixth Great Cataclysm.
I saw the alpha and the omega, I saw the beginning... and I saw the end.
The end of all there is!
