Rhapsody Of Fire

Into the darkness they crossed the marsh
And entered the frozen cave
A secret path was cut into the rock
A labyrinth a twisted maze
An unknown misty haze
Open your heart
Then your mind's eye
Khaas' eyes focused on the grey rock
He saw it in a different way
The riddle soon would be solved
An illusion was carved in the stone
The arrows show where to go
Trust in yourself
Truth awaits you there
Crawling on their hands and knees
Dark is their endless journey
So deep the cave of bats
But they will go on and on
They are the last hope
For men, dragons and dwarves
Spirits of the forest
Shy elves and trolls
Five go from Elgard
Into the darkness leaving the light
To find the Black Order's
Immortal dark rhymes
To find the written words
Of Hellgod's unholy son
Prevent him from returning
And save the whole world
Through the Valley of Sin
Led by the whispers of holy wind
Into Dar-Kunor, new saga begins
The well of dead souls appears, a red river's flowing inside
There's no way to cross, there's no way to climb
They wish they were birds and could fly
Fly to the other side
There's a message
On the dark stone
They discovered a massive dark stone
Atop it a riddle inscribed:
“Walk in the bloody abyss,
led onward by Nekron's black will.
Find the courage in his name”
Search your conscience
Read between those words
“Yes, and now I know. Nekron's name is all
that we need to solve this mystery”
Iras spoke those holy words
They are the last hope
For men, dragons and dwarves
Spirits of the forest
Shy elves and trolls
Five go from Elgard
Into the darkness leaving the light
To find the Black Order's
Immortal dark rhymes
To find the written words
Of Hellgod's unholy son
Prevent him from returning
And save the whole world
Through the Valley of Sin
Led by the whispers of holy wind
Into Dar-Kunor, new saga begins
(Iras Algor:)
“And so this new riddle finally revealed itself to me.
The solution lay in Nekron's name.
In the Nekranos alphabet certain numbers corresponding to the letters of his name
aligned in accordance with black geometry enabling us
to walk on invisible steps across the silent abyss
reaching the other side of the cave.
Unknown horrors awaited us behind those two dark portals”
(TARISH:)
By all the gods of my nordic lands...
We are at the gates of death...
(KHAAS:) They were built with the severed limbs of humans and elves
(DARGOR:) ...under the orders of my father Vankar...
(LOTHEN:) I can feel suffering in every rock...
(IRAS:) Listen to the silence...
(TARISH:) That must be the great hall...
(DARGOR:) The unholy place where the Black Order was born...