Sojourn

*In A Time* In a time where the wizards and the elves where still unbound. A man of Myth with stories yet untold broke upon the shore. *Tales* Of nightmare´s reef and dawn no more. Ages has passed since the dawn did not descend into the land of the unknown. Faces has come *Faces Has Gone*. But the Truth reamins unknown. Herald of War, can it be stopped? No one knows... The people has been betrayed by the hands who they have fed <br/> <br/> All the Mortals sworn to serve upon the light At ravewnfields they meet to be unbound They need a leader that to follow and to sway this Holy War But where´s this Chosen One to be found? <br/> <br/> Search within yourself! The wise man he had spoken of betray. Among the mortals there were villains of cold age, Assassins in the core, Of nightmare´s reef and dawn no more <br/> <br/> A scent of fortune fouled this war, their leader was bought by the Dark. Now light alone can´t clear this path, with good fate salvation´s undone <br/> <br/> As a mortal I shall serve upon the Light! I shall walk Amidst The Villains to the night. Yet again the dawn did not descend now... Now... Now... NOW!!!!

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

Many years has passed now, since the treason came before us.<br/> People are suffering still, breathing fear. <br/> And it comes from within, agony brings them to despair, seeks vengeance upon those who started the fall. <br/> <br/> None speaks the treason, silence feasting on hearts so frail. <br/> Families plundered, families slain. <br/> Once lush and prospering, now desert meadows and vast land fields. <br/> A war swiftly passed but the remnants were cursed... <br/> <br/> Ignorance burn and plague rests, suffer engaged the reaper bow. <br/> They bear, in fear, out here. <br/> Death comes out of there! <br/> <br/> A pale hooded figure stepped through the odour, simply walking away. <br/> No more feeding from outstretched hands or promises. <br/> <br/> This hooded creature were born to a slave, a circumstance he rejects. <br/> Fathers and fathers of dead generations, all born the same... <br/> <br/> Utter curses of pestering silence. <br/> This son will not take it no more. <br/> Mediating with inner turmoil. <br/> What in hell is this conscience for? <br/> Temptations are fed through the heart, screaming at peace, screaming out harshly of lure. <br/> Was really this meaningless life meant for me? <br/> <br/> A fire in his eyes as dark as disguise. <br/> This son will not take it no more. <br/> Reverence for fathers and time that has gone. <br/> What in hell is this conscience for? <br/> Leaving his family oathed to a blood feud for fathers and fathers of dead generations. <br/> Imbued with will, setting his feet for the road...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

I set path towards the dreaded lands up north, destined to find the answers they hide. <br/> Time goes by, and the blood from the Ravenfield is lost, the memories are not... feasting my mind. <br/> Nothing alive can pause my adventurous blood. <br/> <br/> Travelling far, far to the east. <br/> Feeling the breeze from the sea. <br/> Such unexplored lands. I was told by the seer that I will find my adventure here. <br/> <br/> I stand upon an open road and that's the road I go. <br/> That's the road for mercenaries. <br/> And now I need to walk this road to pass the heathen gates. <br/> Towards the heart of the Reef. <br/> <br/> I am to make it through this armoured walkway, penalized already as I came. <br/> By guarding eyes I stroll, I feel the pointing blades, lusting for their prey, watching every move I make. <br/> <br/> Darkness falls. <br/> Torches lighting up far ahead where a sentry stands clear. <br/> Casts his glare upon me, reveals his view of life in dark atrocity. <br/> A sudden change, an alteration in the wind, as the sentry now moves towards me. <br/> Questions me for my intention so far east. <br/> "Take me to thy master!", I plead. <br/> <br/> "Before my lies "The Heathen Land", a land by villains marked... This... is the Nightmare's Reef!" <br/> <br/> I stand upon an open road and that's the road I go. <br/> And that's the road for mercenaries. <br/> At last I came to walk this road to pass the heathen gates, to get to the Nightmare's Reef... <br/> Now, he leads me towards my prey. <br/> <br/> So by midnight the gates starts to show, on the horizon they grow...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

"I bid you welcome my heathen, to take your place within the Nightmare's Reef. <br/> Be aware that you will now sell your soul and your face, for the heathens' embrace." <br/> <br/> "Stay focused and clear... As the ravenous daggers of brethrens' own make, always ready to tear..." <br/> <br/> How this voice grates upon my ears as a vision of a dark man appears. <br/> Shades of sin covers this being but his face should be torchlit and clear. <br/> <br/> Once outside this thief hearted fortress, now my casual abode. <br/> The reverence is mine as the legends speak so, of the Reef as both cunning and cold. <br/> <br/> Comes to me after months in this place, that a raid plan is made <br/> This soveriegn of shadows determined to be the soul heir of every race <br/> <br/> An heretic invasion, a madman's creation, prospers in soul eating blows. <br/> Now his demon wings, made to embrace, swallowing all harvested souls. <br/> Elders once again fear that the Ravenfield battles draw near <br/> Nevermore the sun will lighten these fields if the time of prosperity flees. <br/> <br/> Now my part of this play must be over, as I draw my sheathed blade. <br/> And the fight, as he perceives my betrayal, bursts out into a dancing display.

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

In consternation, a stunning clash of two ferocious minds <br/> Demonic rage meets human grit, singing blades of battle scourges these lands. <br/> <br/> An avid race so keen on believing, frailty in human form <br/> A trustworthy loyal race buried in sins. <br/> An alteration staged by the gods of this horn crowned fiend. <br/> To abate and diminish this breed. <br/> <br/> Soulslain! <br/> Unreached, flourished dreams. <br/> Slavechained! <br/> Heritage repealed. <br/> Soulslain! <br/> Prosterity, soul withdrawn. <br/> Slavechained! <br/> Unprotected and fragile. <br/> <br/> So in this fight I feel this sword troughout my spine, the seer was warning me... <br/> I saw the end and bore the burden for the fall of this debauchery.<br/> But how I found, in these foul shunned lands a blooded blade so darkgod made... <br/> Worn by the dark, forged in hell, now aimed at me to stop my treachery <br/> <br/> This heathen lord ended my call <br/> And his craftmanship drained me of my weak soul <br/> He released me, my anger set free <br/> I watch as the darkness starts pulling me in

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

So now our hero's fallen! <br/> Sent to shades with a slaughtered soul <br/> He don't know where he's gone and he has lost control. <br/> A place for the burdened few stuck in endless limbo <br/> Fruitless wait for call to liberation <br/> <br/> All these mortal beings now mourning life on these fetid shores of this sardonic void <br/> Once granted a mortal life, granted the gift of birth, now just a marble piece in a cold foundation <br/> <br/> Screams trapped in mouths of men confine these lands. <br/> They can't see, they can't hear, they can't speak <br/> Still they roam here endlessly as the Fallens sheep <br/> <br/> Inside these trepid halls, the Deadland counsil calls <br/> And as every time before, the verdict echoes far <br/> <br/> Give your soul up heir! <br/> And face the embrace of nature. <br/> Turn your back upon your gods! <br/> Pure, his soul ablaze <br/> Can't feel the foundation in thee!? <br/> You bear the life... we seek!! <br/> <br/> Deadlands! <br/> A somber nation draped in shades! <br/> Where slaughtered souls can wander free <br/> Deadlands! <br/> Our hero equipped with an angel's eyes <br/> As his darkness leaves these somber fields...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

What is life? <br/> Burning hungers to be heeded at any cost? <br/> Does it differ, surface time from afterlife? <br/> The passage between the two vast realms, guarded by the Fallens' hands. <br/> Sublime practised supremacy. <br/> <br/> Gods persever and fold as the counsil calls for more burdened souls <br/> The cryings are lost forever, so pitiful they'll be. <br/> Mere denial of faith and hope. <br/> <br/> Is this the end of fallens, which these worlds divide. <br/> Ancient inscriptions in runes and magic words. <br/> Black-angelic creatures, breed inside of open wounds. <br/> Leave hold of avengers forever? <br/> Is this the end of Fallens? <br/> Do hope these runes endure... <br/> <br/> So my friends, history leaves a mark in the books as the Counsil now have freed. <br/> Embers shall fall, on the day the writings die, the son back from Deadlands stride <br/> <br/> What is life? <br/> Burning hungers to be heeded at any cost? <br/> Does it differ, surface time from afterlife? <br/> In his solemn mind he shelters for a haven as nature fails. <br/> Needs a sane mind to lean against. <br/> Being the first to realise how to pass the fallens twice. <br/> Enter Deadlands' gates then back again... <br/> <br/> Is this the end of fallens, which these worlds divide. <br/> Ancient inscriptions in runes and magic words. <br/> Black-angelic creatures, breed inside of open wounds. <br/> Leave hold of avengers forever? <br/> Is this the end of Fallens? <br/> Do hope these runes endure! <br/> Is this the end of Fallens? <br/> If so dead magic flows...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

In a peaceful dying, no throne waiting for thee in a peaceful dying. <br/> Vigorous hearts for angered masks is common trade in the somber nation during faith in the season fall. <br/> The season fall is a masquerade. <br/> Hauls in the name of defeat. <br/> Hauls in the name of the Fallens. <br/> Greets my perfection at heart. <br/> Smothered by earth's embrace, makes earth's embrace suite a death parade. <br/> <br/> Life is gone and forever you will be marked without your soul. <br/> Know that with every step you take you suffer forever. <br/> In this grave for mortal souls, you'll forever delve in pain. <br/> <br/> But order of worlds went awry, scorching the sky. <br/> Conquering the nimbus so old. <br/> Guardians of Somber Nation falls. <br/> Pioneers of nature, those are the few. <br/> Dead in the stories, those that we knew. <br/> Order of worlds are in chaos. <br/> As we breach walls. <br/> All of them! <br/> <br/> Leave this somber world behind in terror and pity <br/> as the Fallens leave way for this bringer of war. <br/> With growing wrath and angel wings. <br/> A break of regulations profound. <br/> <br/> All the remaining ghouls, screaming in terror and fear. <br/> Fear of staying on these grounds. <br/> Carved like in stone as he leaves them behind. <br/> All of them! <br/> <br/> An angel has spawned <br/> Awaiting it's newborn dawn <br/> As the savior who once died, again the answer for their cries. <br/> Brought from the dead to become the bringer of war! <br/> Brought from the dead as the... <br/> <br/> ...order of worlds went awry. <br/> Scorching the sky. <br/> Conquering the nimbus so old. <br/> Opening the purgatory of gods. <br/> When season is over and the masquerade in hell <br/> no longer forces dead to their cells. <br/> To rekindle a soul once anew, sending the heathens to their doom! <br/> All of them!

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

And they were cursed!! <br/> <br/> Passing my way through the realms yet again, now in a shape I don't know. <br/> Using the pass for dead angels, I'm starting to feel on my own. <br/> Surface in ruins I barely believe, once living, now turned into stone. <br/> A shimmer of light barely seeps through, and they were cursed! <br/> <br/> Form me a sense of what is real, my body, tormented, faltering. <br/> All these scars I bear cannot heal. <br/> My suffer in life, their dream <br/> Starting to feel again. <br/> But my senses grow fear, I'm not mortal yet here. <br/> <br/> Greeting the elders, now council of vengeance, arming for war! <br/> I take my blade and scour the fear, as we stride through the calm! <br/> <br/> So serene life is viewed through your eyes when you're dead! <br/> Once lushious and green, the waters they usually gleem from the sunfired sky. <br/> Soulslain and scarred I rise from the hatred, as I'm back on the fields... Ravenfields!! <br/> <br/> To once again witness the clash, as both evil and good interfere. <br/> Marked by the hatred and led by the light. <br/> Nature stopped breeding out here. <br/> Scholars they fear that the life as we know it will cease. <br/> As a chosen by the counsil of Deadlands <br/> As an angel I guard all their dreams. <br/> <br/> An angel leads the human band from the curse they are in, back into their native land <br/> Ravenfields filled with mourning cries, dancing their way through the mist. <br/> <br/> To pulsing drums and burning rage <br/> Blades devours flesh and bone <br/> Seek the heathen lord for remedy <br/> But nowhere to be found is he <br/> <br/> Our angel downing war bands alone and the battle seems to favour the light <br/> And they press on for better or for worse, lifting the curse...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

Amidst dysmal storms rises a dead calm <br/> I find myself in quiet contemplation and awe <br/> A revenant appears a courier from the rings down below <br/> He chuckles, then he bows <br/> <br/> "I will tell you a tale now sojourner <br/> of your forefather's wretched sin <br/> To bask in the glory of our soverign, <br/> he bartered with your own kin <br/> <br/> He's a general commanding our legions now <br/> Awaiting the seed in his lineage to sprout <br/> Greetings, this is you <br/> <br/> I sense a perfidy once again now immortal <br/> , as we both know you don't belong <br/> The Somber Nation were never meant as a stepping stone for dead souls <br/> <br/> Benighted on the surface you dwell <br/> Invite me to enlighten your path, <br/> with the stars <br/> Which brings me to your death! <br/> <br/> Is this your call sojourner? <br/> To rove this gloom, as salvager of humans to help them anew? <br/> Their sorrow cause will consume you and derail your call <br/> You're led astray, you're bound to sense this too! <br/> <br/> You roamed into a dim world and you're lost to them all, into a system where you're out of control <br/> Nature self requires rules to abide, you overstepped them once but now you can't hide <br/> You won't fit in, dead seething, as you'll be stuck here half alive in this tomb <br/> I offer your soul contingency to rebirth... Turn yourself to me! <br/> As king... to Clench the Feet of Fools!" <br/> <br/> "So revenant, you come to tell me, my life is all about to reign or devour? <br/> By choosing death my soul might thrive, and the nether regions opens up wide? <br/> To leave a seat for me to rule as your king, to rule the demon that once hauled my soul in? <br/> Beside my forefather who started it all? <br/> If that's what it takes then welcome me in my sleep... to die..."

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

A holler swept away their feet, an icy scream from the unknown <br/> Angelwinged its majesty, unwavered to reincarnate its soul <br/> Acts fill the tome of sins with prudence each day <br/> But prudence slept this evenfall <br/> <br/> Mankind, unite and assemble on the darkest of nights <br/> their guardian descending, an angel falling down <br/> <br/> The Deadlands council fall retreat <br/> into their tombs, their arcane fortress sealing in <br/> Dead souls that seek an entry to their afterlife are now in vain. <br/> A mystery what death might bring <br/> <br/> Now their haven laid in misery and no place to be <br/> No. <br/> <br/> The holler swept away their feet, an icy scream from the unknown <br/> Angelwinged its majesty, unwavered to reincarnate its soul <br/> Acts fill the tome of sins with prudence each day <br/> But prudence slept this evenfall <br/> An angel marked its tyranny by entering the fathomless <br/> The mighty creature tore its veil <br/> <br/> It found its home in the darkest of ways <br/> into the dark and its foul enclave <br/> In order to master the crown <br/> The angel falling down <br/> <br/> The Deadlands council fall retreat <br/> into their tomb, their arcane fortress sealing in <br/> Dead souls that seek an entry to their afterlife <br/> are now in vain. <br/> Forever haven no place for them.

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

Lying bare on an altar of stone, gazing out to behold <br/> A sanctum covered in regalia and gowns, black lillies, candles and crowns <br/> Before me enters a fiendish form, his presence infuses awe <br/> His shade bears a reminiscent way, and the chills go down my spine <br/> <br/> So many years since I departed my roots to stop residing in doom <br/> and seek the vengeance for my feeble kin just to unearth my part in it too <br/> It has braced my mortal powers, brought me an angel's wit <br/> empowered by the council of Deadlands they summoned me to hell <br/> <br/> I'm draped in my unhallowed gown to embark in this unhallowed land <br/> This fiend is slowly examining me <br/> "The angelic powers that embrace your aura, a prophet were you for them all" <br/> He turns and indicates for me to pursue <br/> <br/> As I shadow this astonishing creature my thoughts fumble in gloom <br/> whereas my memories fail to emit they could split my heart in two <br/> but I've been stripped of weak compassion. I've got no hold of time <br/> How long have I been here, draped in this gown? With my reincarnated soul... <br/> <br/> My past, all gone, before me lies my home <br/> <br/> As I adapt to my surroundings I hear, "Greetings my heir, anew!"<br/> As he turns I see a face and a brute that my memory has failed to undo <br/> !! <br/> Severely scarred from my belongings, from when he downed my soul... <br/> "You, scion, descending my blood, about time the truth is told..." <br/> <br/> "I bartered with darkness, and I betrayed our kin <br/> Swore an oath for your leading command of our reign <br/> For thousand years and thousand more we've longed for you my progeny <br/> To crown you as emperor, as sovereign, as king <br/> !" <br/> <br/> Why? I'm sworn to oust all light? What in the nine hells have I now become? <br/> I am the archangel brought from the light, to carry the command out, I'm a demon, a devil, a fiend...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026

When life gets by beyond the threshold of it's tide. <br/> As we reveal enigmas and caress ourselves with pride. <br/> The answers are foretold, therein the truth will be denied. <br/> It dwells beneath the lust of lies but there it's nonetheless still real. <br/> <br/> The evolution's own solution - time will change our way to see. <br/> Their ideal future's an utopia of stolidity. <br/> <br/> "In an ever lasting world. <br/> A dimension of chaospheric loss. <br/> We're blinded by the emptiness" <br/> <br/> In an ever lasting world. <br/> A dimension of chaos ridden loss. <br/> We're blinded by the emptiness. <br/> <br/> Will there be a subsequiental plan? <br/> A way to save our kind? <br/> When nothing will transform. <br/> Hope of progenies sustains. <br/> <br/> When life gets by beyond the threshold of it's tide. <br/> As we reveal enigmas and and caress ourelves with pride. <br/> The answers are foretold, therein the truth will be denied. <br/> It dwells beneath the lust of lies and there the everlasting reveals... <br/> <br/> ...REVEALS!

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026