watch now, and the lost souls run wild,...l find a way, we're lost beneath the stars,...We stand alone in a silent dream, lost within eternity,

ce offered solemnly beneath the stygian skies of this sweltering place, I wonder? What sublime power awaits the aspirant, the querent who dares seek answers in those shadowed places where men of lesser fortitude fear to gaze? Blackthorne often berates me for what he calls my preoccupation with the arcane, the occult, the sinistrous lore of the chthonic... he insists no good will come of such delving into nighted realms. Ha! The path to elucidation is seldom devoid of thorns, the road to knowledge rarely free of perils! I seek enlightenment, and by the erudite tongue of Herodotus, I may have found it! Ancient tradition of this land has long spoken of strange flashes of light emanating from the depths of pyramid passages and temple catacombs. Over a thousand years ago the Arabs wrote of the transient walls and hidden chambers of these monuments; of secret doors moved by an unseen force and of implacable sentries who guarded the secrets of the temples with dour tenacity. What I found this evening gives credence to all that and more. Is the lore which I discovered carved into the ancient stone of Karnak's temple the next fragment of the cryptic conundrum which I have dedicated my life to solving? The Coptic papyrus states that, upon the walls of the pyramids and the temples were inscribed the mysteries of science, astronomy, geometry and physics; inscriptions of unknown peoples and lost civilizations whose...would come from the sky. Masoudi, in the tenth century, described automata; titanic guardians of stone and metal which were placed to guard the treasures and the entombed lore, and which were tasked to destroy all those deemed unworthy, all those who dared enter the chambers unbidden. I see them! The hoary sentinels of Karnak unfettered! Rising from their sandy tombs to smite the intruder, the raider and the interloper with righteous fury! And what is this... was there once a glimmer of life within the sightless stone eyes of the Theban guardian? Does the silent watcher at Giza eve...The Silent Watcher stalks, beh...ds, firestorms, the sky swathed in a veil o...nt Atlantis... time-lost Lemuria... Hyperbor

Light the path beneath the blackened, burn...Silent forces from a past

Many miles beneath the ground. as the ...Here today the red sky tells his tale,...Moon, my long-lost friend is smiling f...or ever, beside the silent mirror

Many miles beneath the ground. as the ...Here today the red sky tells his tale,...Moon, my long-lost friend is smiling f...or ever, beside the silent mirror

Many miles beneath the ground. as the ...Here today the red sky tells his tale,...Moon, my long-lost friend is smiling f...or ever, beside the silent mirror

And silent creatures roamed th...And cut beneath the rolling dales a... rule the Earth and sky. ...n. See what we have lost.

ray, either crushed beneath the ceaselessly ass...he darkest and most silent places, summoned forth that black potency which lay entwined in stygian tendrils within his mind... an ireful power born of they who writhed upon the shores of Pangaea before man's progenitors ever erected their lofty spires to the restless skies. And yet Vyrgothia's Master Wizard, unrivalled Arch-Mage and adept of that lost Eastern order who j...h dusk painting the sky a deep crimson exce