Battering the Oppidum

from Widdrim Hymn by Mefitis

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I hear the beating drum echo across the great plateau. Thundering as the giant’s pace on the moonlit heath. What outlander now arrives in the dark to bring us ruin? Helpless I stand watch as the burning trail draws nearer. As before, we wait on soil and graves of our forebears and pray for the gods’ grace, but their strength has withered. The scourge of the new god comes, flattening the plains. For nine and thirty nights their hellfires roar and ravage the earth, blackening the morning firmament. Boiling within this infernal cauldron, let the fumes of our torment rise. A sudden chill takes hold, the beasts withdraw. Lifeblood freezing, silently they fall. No drums now sound that lord’s envoy, he dies within the last mind.

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from Widdrim Hymn, released November 22, 2018
Music by Pendath and Vatha
Lyrics by Vatha

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Offscourings

Jan 2021
Emberdawn

Aug 2019
Widdrim Hymn

Nov 2018

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