Act 1 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 corpses, their bones rattling in hollow armour, to tell their tale in his wake The Black Mariner Behold, my blackened, grim and gory axe, the searing glow of trenchant steel Ill notch another widow to my haft, and wreak red vengeance cross the waves Tales of blacksailed argosies, bedevilled by base treachery! The Antediluvian Oracle His gaze is as fire, his words are as spearpoints, his voice is as thunder, his touch as the plague! The Black Mariner Stormprow cleaving, dragon rending, nighted deeps far, far below Hailscur scouring, sea devouring, sunken realms ethereal glow The Antediluvian Oracle And one night, there came a storm, a storm with searing red winds Fire and steel rode within it, and vengeance writ in thunder and blood! The Black Mariner Down sixty fathoms, from stygian coralclad tombs the pitiless abyssal sea disgorges its shambling moldmottled dead, dank innards blackly acoil with nests of slithering things! Ghosts aglide upon the eldritch seas, unfathomed voyage to ascendency Traitorous blood, the surf roils red, churning crimson, thricecursed dead The Antediluvian Oracle Tis enough that men might dream of being kings without aspiring to the power of gods To be continued in Arcana Antediluvia Act II The Demon in the Dusklight Crystal
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