Beneath the Sunken Library - Song 1

[Intro] [NARRATOR] Far beneath the ruined western cliffs of Valorn… beneath drowned archives… collapsed temples… and endless black tunnels… the Githyanki gathered. Hidden below the forgotten ruins known as the Sunken Library… an invasion waited to be unleashed. [Choir Whisper] Void… Void… Void… [NARRATOR] Thousands of silver eyes glowed in the darkness. Spider Riders. Void Assassins. Iron Phalanx veterans. And above them all… stood Xar’thul the Void Lancer. [NARRATOR] His monstrous Reaver Spider… Vexarax… clung upside-down to the cavern ceiling above the army. Watching. Waiting. Hungry. [XAR’THUL] Look around you. This is strength. Not kingdoms. Not walls. Not crowns. Strength. The humans build monuments to weakness… and call them civilization. They divide themselves. Lie to themselves. Hide behind stone and prayer. And now… they will fall separately. XAR’THUL! XAR’THUL! XAR’THUL! [XAR’THUL] Northpoint burns first. Its harbor becomes ours. Its people become chains. Its soldiers become corpses beneath our boots. Then Iceflow. Then Frostmere. Then Highfelt. And finally… Westmar Keep. The northern half of Valorn will drown beneath astral fire! [CHOIR] VOID FIRE! VOID FIRE! [NARRATOR] Beside the warlord stood two feared commanders of the Void Lancer Warhost. Vaelith Shadowtide. And Variss Sunspear. [XAR’THUL] Vaelith… the Whisper in the Rift. She slips through fortresses like smoke through broken stone. By the time her victims hear her footsteps… their blood is already falling to the floor. [VAELITH] Silence is sharper than steel. [NARRATOR] The assassins behind her lowered their heads in fear. Even the spiders recoiled from her presence. [XAR’THUL] And Variss Sunspear… the Crimson March incarnate. Knight commander. Dragon rider. Executioner. Where he marches… armies disappear. [VARISS] Mercy weakens conquest. [NARRATOR] The Iron Phalanx slammed their shields against the cavern stone. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. The tunnels shook. [Build] [XAR’THUL] The humans still believe this war begins at their walls. But we are already beneath them. Already watching. Already inside their kingdom. [XAR’THUL] Tonight… we remind Valorn what fear truly is! Not chaos. Not madness. Purpose. Discipline. Conquest! We are not raiders hiding in darkness. We are the storm beneath the world! We are the blades that carve empires apart! We are the children of the Astral Sea… AND TONIGHT… VALORN WILL TREMBLE BEFORE US! FROM THE VOID FROM THE STARS WE RIDE TO TEAR YOUR WORLD APART SILVER STEEL AND SPIDER FANGS DEATH DESCENDS ON HUMAN LANDS NORTHPOINT BURNS FROSTMERE FALLS WE BREAK THEIR KINGDOM WALL BY WALL NO MERCY LEFT NO MORNING SUN THE AGE OF VALORN IS UNDONE [Orchestral Break] [NARRATOR] A massive war map unfurled across black stone. Northpoint. Iceflow. Frostmere. Highfelt. Westmar Keep. Each marked in crimson. [XAR’THUL] Vaelith. You strike Brackenford first. Fast. Brutal. Visible. Let Southshore panic. Let Westmar send their armies south chasing shadows. [VAELITH] Their commanders will die before dawn. [XAR’THUL] Good. And while the humans chase fear… I will take Northpoint. [VARISS] The harbor will fall by midnight. [XAR’THUL] No mercy. Take prisoners. Burn resistance. Break survivors publicly. Fear conquers faster than siege engines. [GITHYANKI WAR CHANT] VOID! VOID! VOID! [Massive Guitar Build] [NARRATOR] Then Xar’thul raised the Void Lance Starpiercer high above the warhost… and Vexarax screamed into the darkness. The spiders answered. Thousands upon thousands of claws scraping stone. A sound like death awakening beneath the earth. [XAR’THUL] Tonight… Valorn learns the truth! Its walls cannot save it! Its armies cannot stop us! Its gods cannot hear it scream! WE ARE THE VOID LANCER WARHOST! FROM THE VOID FROM THE STARS WE RIDE TO TEAR YOUR WORLD APART ASTRAL FIRE SPIDER CLAWS WE ARE THE END OF HUMAN LAWS WHEN KINGDOMS FALL AND CITIES DIE THE GITHYANKI STILL RIDE THE SKY NO LIGHT REMAINS NO DAWN WILL COME UNTIL THE VOID HAS FINISHED ALL [Outro] [NARRATOR] And deep beneath the Sunken Library… the invasion began.