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<<Fleeing accusations of heresy, she seeks refuge at the convent. In the arms of the abbess, exile comes for her once more. Her inversion will cost her respite … She is not safe here.>>
Do you wish to renounce the world and its flaws?
Do you wish to be born again upon the altar?
The flesh is but a vessel
For service to our lord and savior
Mortification of the body
Purification of the spirit
Only unholy love militates against god
Lash after lash, desire left to fester
Chained to the cloister
Chained to the cage
Chained to the trinity
Enim calix sanguinis mei
Chained to the cloister
Chained to the cage
Sinful perversion must be sequestered and swept away
Mother Superior consecrates the holy veil
Vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience will follow you to your grave
Come towards the light, my child
You are the bride of christ
Choose subservience to holy father
Bury perversion held for fellow prioress
Our Lady of Everlasting Sorrow
The wicked cannot be sanctified
Sister, please forgive me
Satan lives in my heart
Serve my penance upon a bed of nails
Our Lady of Everlasting Sorrow
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Hibernacula
04:12
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<<On the edge of town she pauses at the mouth of a cave. As she descends into its core, small, winged, lifeless bodies litter the ground. One set of eyes suspended, meeting hers. They seem to say, “I know of your loss, I know of your heartache.”>>
Deep in a cavern
In the crevices of the earth
Retreating into the shadows
Where nocturnal creatures lurk
Spores spreading in the underground
Myotis awakens frozen and confused
The world into which is they emerge
Is not the one they knew
Seasons pass in the night
Heathens hide from the light
Dare to disturb the sanctuary
My solitary lair
Leave me alone in my hibernacula
The world I remember no longer exists
Leave me alone in my hibernacula
No one can protect you
From the horrors you will see
Internalize the syndrome
Pathologize my misery
Seasons pass in the night
Heathens hide from the light
Dare to disturb the sanctuary
My solitary lair
Leave me alone in my hibernacula
The world I remember no longer exists
Leave me alone in my hibernacula
No one can protect you
From the horrors you will see
Internalize the syndrome
Pathologize my misery
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Cataracta's Lament
06:09
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<<Kneeling at the waterfall with hands cupped to the pooling waters, she is startled by the presence of a deity, fearless and glowing. She has never witnessed such power. Crouching behind the reeds, she watches in awe as a tale of retribution unfolds before her.>>
A hag atop my noble horse
I sing my battle hymn
The ancients watch over
As I tear you limb from limb
A foe, a coward
Delivered into shame
I smite you at the river
That bears my rightful name
My people lament
for all that you have taken
Kneel to my sword
You shall be forsaken
Well-spring of wisdom
Otherworldly Portal
I gaze my reflection
A goddess immortal
The thundering of the cataracts
The current’s mightful roar
A storm spilling o’er the cliff
Where man was turned to boar
I gaze my reflection
I am a goddess immortal
I smite you at the river
That bears my rightful name
I gaze my reflection
I am a goddess immortal
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Corvus and the Augur
05:19
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<<In the distance stands a village, entrenched by a black shroud. As she approaches the town’s center, she is pulled aside by a soothsayer, her eyes weary from all she has seen and all she has foretold.>>
Ornithomancy
the language of the skies
cackling from the tree
So callously
The pestilence has come
She means us no harm
She croaks an alarm
She won’t forget your face
She tells you of your fate
Murder flying overhead
Scavengers of the dead
Divine forewarning
masses grieve the tragedy
Frozen ground and lifeless leaves
The augur and the crow
Did you have to be so cold?
It’s ominous, I know
The pestilence has come
A cacophony rings out
as the swarm grows ever hungry
Circling the weak below
Die! Die!
Poised to strike and feast
on the recently perished
Pecking clean their sockets
taunting as they croak
Thousands of bodies
The sacrificed piled in a mound
You strain to bury your dead
Your spade won’t pierce the ground
A death knell tolls
For every every tortured breath
With devil’s blood in her tongue
Tearing bone from rotten flesh
Harbingers of ruin
their talons clawing the earth
Ruthless as they scavenge
suffering is their mirth
Ornithomancer, when will it end?
The villagers trudge onward
Into eternal hell
the mourners prepare an offering
To appease the baleful banshee
The diviner raises her staff
Toward heaven’s four quarters
If you stay in the village
You will not survive
You must flee to the forest
If you wish to stay alive
Into the darkening wood!
Into the darkening wood!
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<<She finds herself alone, adrift on a thicketed path as the darkness draws her deep into the shadowy wood. Crawling through the dirt of the forest floor, she nearly surrenders to despair when dawn breaks. Before her, a meadow, a circle of fruiting fungi where the faerie folk greet her. They offer their song and protection; she will be okay after all.>>
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Olde Growth
06:05
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<<Their peace is soon disturbed by the reverberations of felled trees and approaching voices in the distance, the great guardians of their kingdom now under threat of conquest. The song of the sprites rises to a vicious, unrelenting shriek; vengeance shall be exacted upon the unwelcome invaders.>>
From across the sea
they brought their saws and chains
Choked the land, took all in sight
Siphoned the very last drop
And scorched the earth beneath them
But our roots remain unsevered
the memory of the land
Spirit haunts the barren ground
And waits to rise again
We shall preserve our stronghold
Die before surrender to control
Destroy all we know and in return
We survive and watch you burn
Our glee, leaves shake and we begin
To thwart your plans to change what’s been
The mold, the dirt, the trees where you decay
Hatred and spite will lead you astray
The birch, the elm, the pine
Sacred bloodline
Swallow you whole, the balance aligns
Something rattles in the underbrush
Gnarling, snarled, a thicket set to trap
Here there is no peace nor prosper
All you’ve built doomed to collapse
This curse was yours to inherit
See what we can grow between the cracks
Counting your sins like rings on a tree
With your demise we’ll soon be free
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<<Hardened by all that she has weathered on her journey, she rejects the prison of Morality and weaves a new realm of her own. The love she seeks will be won on her own terms, with a power conjured from deep within; she sets her gaze upon her subjects. “All I want is mine.”>>
Blood and nectar
Diabolic potion
So bitter upon your tongue
Damned by your possessor
Infernal devotion
The succubus gives her blessing
So it shall be that
We will be entwined together
You and I spellbound forever
Mandragora
The lovers fall entranced
Incense smolders
Soon the demons dance
Exalting and enamored
Hypnotic sorcery
May my desires be fulfilled
For eternity
Ensnared by dark communion
The moon’s most potent hour
Mandragora
Lend me your baneful power
Oh star crossed possessions
Heed my incantations
Entrapped by lecherous spell
Malefic dungeon
Of my heart’s creation
Oh, spectral bonds of lust
So it shall be that
We will be entwined together
You and I spellbound forever
What torments you, my dear?
I call thee to worship
Drop to your knees
Drink deeply from the chalice
We three as one
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