Kor Avul Thaa finest jewel in the crown of a realm of sublime glory
greatest city in the Middle Kingdoms, mayhap all the world Its splendid
walls of shimmering crystal could be seen from a hundred leagues distant
kissed by the golden rays of the sun, or caressed by the ethereal fingers of a
midnight moon Its magnificent spires and citadels, built by generations of
kings from the resplendent gifts hewn from the ancient bosom of the sacred
Crystal Mountains, had oft' times been the bitter envy of rival emperors, and
many were the sieges which Kor Avul Thaa had withstood and repulsed over the
centuries, for powerful sorcerers did weave great spells of protection about
the dazzling towers, and none may have passed unbidden through the vast
sapphir ean gates of mighty Kor Avul Thaa
From the Journals of Sage Daelun
The sky rent asunder black winged devils surge forth from the void
A maelstrom of crimson fire burns above us what carnage has thou wrought
Not sword, ballistae, nor burning brand
Could e'er these walls aspire to breach
Yet now the city's fall is nigh
As elder rites black fiends unleash
High Lord of the Brotherhood of Dark Elucidation Keepers of the
Forbidden Books of the First Cataclysm By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, such
ancient secrets we discovered within these sinistrous, worm worn pages
Etched with darksome glyphs and sigils, bound with fearsome spells, An
eldritch tide of stygian sorceries unfettered by the forbidden Tome of
Shadows
Now thunderous cataclysm befalls the gleaming Kor Avul Thaa The mystic
gate stands open The Xytaxehedron held to the stars the incantation
uttered with eager tongues What long shackled powers of the elder dark
have our conjurings loosed
By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, the vortex blackens the stars above
A vast plague of amorphous horrors descends to rend with fang and talon
As with torrents of blood the crystalline walls run red
And in the glooming chambers of our shadowed sanctum, we wait, half mad with
terror
To reap the slaughterous harvest which we have sown
And beyond the vortex, the churning black waters of the void did disgorge the
Dwellers in Eternal Shadow
And upon a horde of winged horrors, brandishing swords of ebon flame, they
rode out from the Gate
And a terrible silence fell upon Kor Avul Thaa
The sky rent asunder, black winged devils surge forth from the void
A maelstrom of crimson fire burns above us what carnage has thou wrought
The Chronicles of Time speak of only two other instances when the sky did
split wide and bleed forth such a torrent of horror as that which assailed
Kor Avul Thaa One of those times was the fateful eve when the moon burned
black over ancient Lemuria, as a legion of ravening fiends emerged from the
Outer Darkness to visit catastrophe upon that realm And the other the
other manifestation of such a staggering cosmic evil is recorded only in the
ancient Scrolls of the Third Circle, a dark collectio n of terrifying
blasphemies which was believed to have been burned by the Order of Kl'aa at
roughly the same time as the first Tome of Shadows was discovered deep within
the Black Pyramid These scrolls speak disturbingly of visitations to our
earth by creatures from a terrible place known as the Black Galaxy
creatures which were able to span the vast expanses of time and space
separating our world from theirs in their great dark chariots, bringing
pestilence and carnage whenever they set foot upon the earth And yet, the
scrolls also speak of the Others, known by some ancient, long dead tribes as
the Travelling Ones beings who did stand against the denizens of the Black
Galaxy and wage war with them across the nighted void It is said that t he
Travelling Ones sailed the star seas in huge silvern spheres ringed with a
myriad pulsing lights, and that in a great battle they drove their shadowy
foes back to the Black Galaxy but at a great cost The Travelling Ones
were drained of their cos mic powers and cast into a deep slumber, and some
say that they remain here still, hidden in mysterious, secret places, awaiting
the time of their reawakening It was ascertained by those mages who found the
Tome of Shadows that certain gateways existed linking our world and the Black
Galaxy, just as maps carved into the stone walls of ancient tombs displayed
the pathway to the terrifying realm through the eternal blackness of the
void and within the sinister pages of the dread book were the arcane k
eys the rites to open wide these gates and give the dark wanderers beyond
the freedom to roam the earth once again And the darkling lords did descend
upon Kor Avul Thaa to claim their splendid prize, and enthrone themselves
within the glittering walls
Not sword, ballistae, nor burning brand
Could e'er these walls aspire to breach
Yet now the city's fall is nigh
As elder rites black fiends unleash
By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, in Kor Avuk Thaa, darkness reigns eternal
Nevermore shall the city glimmer, for now the crystalline walls gleam black
Ever black
And so it was that the bedazzling and splendid Kor Avul Thaa did become
the City of Shadows, a sinister fortress of elder fiends and fearsome beasts
unleashed by the meddlings of mortals aspiring to dark thresholds of forbidden
knowledge and arcane powe r, a nightmare city shunned and feared by all And
not since the sinking of Atlantis was the fall of a realm so sorely
lamented
Kor Avul Thaa finest jewel in the crown of a realm of sublime glory
greatest city in the Middle Kingdoms, mayhap all the world Its splendid
walls of shimmering crystal could be seen from a hundred leagues distant
kissed by the golden rays of the sun, or caressed by the ethereal fingers of a
midnight moon Its magnificent spires and citadels, built by generations of
kings from the resplendent gifts hewn from the ancient bosom of the sacred
Crystal Mountains, had oft' times been the bitter envy of rival emperors, and
many were the sieges which Kor Avul Thaa had withstood and repulsed over the
centuries, for powerful sorcerers did weave great spells of protection about
the dazzling towers, and none may have passed unbidden through the vast
sapphir ean gates of mighty Kor Avul Thaa
From the Journals of Sage Daelun
The sky rent asunder black winged devils surge forth from the void
A maelstrom of crimson fire burns above us what carnage has thou wrought
Not sword, ballistae, nor burning brand
Could e'er these walls aspire to breach
Yet now the city's fall is nigh
As elder rites black fiends unleash
High Lord of the Brotherhood of Dark Elucidation Keepers of the
Forbidden Books of the First Cataclysm By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, such
ancient secrets we discovered within these sinistrous, worm worn pages
Etched with darksome glyphs and sigils, bound with fearsome spells, An
eldritch tide of stygian sorceries unfettered by the forbidden Tome of
Shadows
Now thunderous cataclysm befalls the gleaming Kor Avul Thaa The mystic
gate stands open The Xytaxehedron held to the stars the incantation
uttered with eager tongues What long shackled powers of the elder dark
have our conjurings loosed
By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, the vortex blackens the stars above
A vast plague of amorphous horrors descends to rend with fang and talon
As with torrents of blood the crystalline walls run red
And in the glooming chambers of our shadowed sanctum, we wait, half mad with
terror
To reap the slaughterous harvest which we have sown
And beyond the vortex, the churning black waters of the void did disgorge the
Dwellers in Eternal Shadow
And upon a horde of winged horrors, brandishing swords of ebon flame, they
rode out from the Gate
And a terrible silence fell upon Kor Avul Thaa
The sky rent asunder, black winged devils surge forth from the void
A maelstrom of crimson fire burns above us what carnage has thou wrought
The Chronicles of Time speak of only two other instances when the sky did
split wide and bleed forth such a torrent of horror as that which assailed
Kor Avul Thaa One of those times was the fateful eve when the moon burned
black over ancient Lemuria, as a legion of ravening fiends emerged from the
Outer Darkness to visit catastrophe upon that realm And the other the
other manifestation of such a staggering cosmic evil is recorded only in the
ancient Scrolls of the Third Circle, a dark collectio n of terrifying
blasphemies which was believed to have been burned by the Order of Kl'aa at
roughly the same time as the first Tome of Shadows was discovered deep within
the Black Pyramid These scrolls speak disturbingly of visitations to our
earth by creatures from a terrible place known as the Black Galaxy
creatures which were able to span the vast expanses of time and space
separating our world from theirs in their great dark chariots, bringing
pestilence and carnage whenever they set foot upon the earth And yet, the
scrolls also speak of the Others, known by some ancient, long dead tribes as
the Travelling Ones beings who did stand against the denizens of the Black
Galaxy and wage war with them across the nighted void It is said that t he
Travelling Ones sailed the star seas in huge silvern spheres ringed with a
myriad pulsing lights, and that in a great battle they drove their shadowy
foes back to the Black Galaxy but at a great cost The Travelling Ones
were drained of their cos mic powers and cast into a deep slumber, and some
say that they remain here still, hidden in mysterious, secret places, awaiting
the time of their reawakening It was ascertained by those mages who found the
Tome of Shadows that certain gateways existed linking our world and the Black
Galaxy, just as maps carved into the stone walls of ancient tombs displayed
the pathway to the terrifying realm through the eternal blackness of the
void and within the sinister pages of the dread book were the arcane k
eys the rites to open wide these gates and give the dark wanderers beyond
the freedom to roam the earth once again And the darkling lords did descend
upon Kor Avul Thaa to claim their splendid prize, and enthrone themselves
within the glittering walls
Not sword, ballistae, nor burning brand
Could e'er these walls aspire to breach
Yet now the city's fall is nigh
As elder rites black fiends unleash
By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus, in Kor Avuk Thaa, darkness reigns eternal
Nevermore shall the city glimmer, for now the crystalline walls gleam black
Ever black
And so it was that the bedazzling and splendid Kor Avul Thaa did become
the City of Shadows, a sinister fortress of elder fiends and fearsome beasts
unleashed by the meddlings of mortals aspiring to dark thresholds of forbidden
knowledge and arcane powe r, a nightmare city shunned and feared by all And
not since the sinking of Atlantis was the fall of a realm so sorely
lamented