In the pit where stars go blind It waits beneath corrupted time Not steel, not bone — but something worse A living chain, a dying curse Forged in void by hands unknown Each link a will, each twist a throne It bound the beasts beyond the veil Now broken — it begins to wail The Nïplhk Chain — around your soul It drags you down, it takes control It hums in tongues no mind should speak And cracks your thoughts each time you sleep You wear it once — you wear it still It loops around your blood and will It feeds on rage, it bends your knee And dreams of what you’ll cease to be A whisper coil, a spiked caress It grants you might, it brings you less Your voice grows sharp, your flesh turns cold The chain remembers what it holds The Nïplhk Chain — it never ends It eats your foes, it kills your friends It learns, it laughs, it shreds, it spins It breaks the locks on darker sins Once gods wore it to hold the dark But now it hunts — a feral spark No key, no flame, no silver blade Can stop the thing that it’s remade It grows, it climbs, it wraps the land It turns your strength to moving sand And as you scream, it drinks your pain And adds your name to its domain The Nïplhk Chain — a crown of screams It rules your night, it warps your dreams You cannot run, you can’t abstain You are a link — in the Nïplhk Chain
