The Sixth Adulation of His Chthonic Majesty - Bal-Sagoth

«O', great and luminous ones, who came from beyond the stars to slumber serene

beneath the earth of the third sphere, hearken to me!

Hear me, o' mighty one, o' great Khthon!

Awaken and hear my adulation, o' divine and glorious God of gods!

From thy hoary tomb thou shalt ascend, and the earth shall be enraptured by thy

majesty!»

«Khthon!

To the ancient Lemurians, you assumed the guise of a beautiful azure-skinned

woman with great black wings, to the Atlanteans, you manifested as a brilliant

fiery sphere of searing radiant energy, to the peoples of Ultima Thule and

Hyperborea, you took the form of a titanic crystalline dragon

Yet your true form is beyond the ken of men, darker than the blackest heart of

deepest night, more terrifying than the very essence of fear itself…

thou art terror incarnate!

From the timeless void you came, son of Z’xulth!

Glory to They-Who-Lurk-And-Breed-In-Limbo!»

Excerpts from translator’s cautionary notation:

«Behold these repositories of fearful arcane knowledge, tomes of aeons-old

cursed lore which was surely ancient even when the ill-fortuned antedeluvian

civilizations which initially articulated it first committed such dread

lexicons of terror to shuddering memory!

Fear these legendary encyclopaedia antedeluvia, these ebon necronomica of

shunned rites and diabolical adulations!

The Tome of Shadows, the Forbidden Books of the First Cataclysm,

the Epsilon Exordium, the Scrolls of the Third Circle, the Oracle of

Antediluvian Blasphemies, the Diabolist’s Lexicon, the Arcana Atra Libri,

the Thirteen Cryptical Prophecies of Mu, the Manuscripts of the Cultists of Ur,

the Chronicle of Shadows, the Black Bible of Kor-Avul-Thaa, the Ancient Book

of the Six Keys, the Cydonia Manifesto, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum,

the Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers, the Cursed Books of the Z’xulth,

the Praxeum Codex, the Chthonic Chronicles!

I now know that there is something inestimably evil at large throughout the

cosmos

It is a ravenous and pitiless storm which rages across the universe,

permeating the very fabric of creation, existing simultaneously in all

dimensions, wholly unconstrained by linear time

This force is the black, quasi-sentient mana which sustains such ageless

revenants of the Z’xulth as the dread Dwellers in Eternal Shadow and the

unspeakable They-Who-Lurk-And-Breed-In-Limbo

When beings whose essences are intrinsically malefic choose to embrace this

darksome energy source, the resultant sinister symbiosis can be sublimely

diabolical, as evidenced by the black blight that was the infamous pseudo-human

sorcerer Lord Angsaar!

And of course, the malign Zurra, that abominable result of an experiment by the

Ersatz Ones gone disastrously wrong;

an ill advised attempt to clone the K’laa

genetic template of mighty Zuranthus in the Mera spawning vats beneath the

Pre-Cambrian sea, only for the matrix to become contaminated by the errant

cells of a captured fiend of Z’xulth!

The result was a prime fiend whose capacity for evil and wanton annihilation

was exceeded only by a penchant for self-agrandizement and his rampant

psychological instability

In many cases, the potential for ruination and domination that such entities

may aspire to is constrained only by their own physical and psychological

limitations, as the toll which the dark mana takes upon the host’s mind and

flesh is not insignificant…»