I was up late staring out the window, thinking about star pact Warlocks (I love the implied setting of these characters), the dark void between the worlds, and Deities and Demigods (with tentacles) when a certain song by Rush came on…
Which led me to uncover this lost scrap of arcane knowledge, acid etched into paper thin sheets of adamantine:
Excerpt from Paean for the Outer Dark
Invisible to telescopic eye
Dark Hadar
The star that would not dieAll who dare
To seek her source
Are swallowed by
A deadly forceThrough the void
To be destroyed
Or is there something more?Atomized — at the core
Or through the astral door —
To soar…I set a coarse just east of Caiphon
And northwest of Acamar
Flew into the light of Delban
Sailed beyond the cold white starsOn my ship the ‘Sea of Fate’
Wheeling through the great beyond
Headed for the heart of Ihbar
With the black blade that it once spawnedBlackrazor, her siren song
My ship cannot resist her long
Nearer to my deadly goal
Until the black hole —
Gains control…
-translated from the original Deep Speech by the mad poet L’iel Prane
