"Let's make an exchange, shall we?"
"An exchange of memories"
"I dreamt of a ray of light. Of madness incarnate"
"The madness spoke to me. Listen, to the fall of the stars"
"The decaying one, the maddened one, arrived from the edge of the sea, clad in abyssal radiance"
"Go now, march towards your sanctuary. In the end, you will return to my embrace, but march towards you fall"
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"Yet that fall never came, you pierced through the world as a black death. Towers crumbled, but no one fled. For the sun had long set, and met it's destruction"
<<At the universe’s core once lied a flame / It burnt every so intensely / Till entire galaxies were incinerated / For the sole purpose of embracing a splendid destruction / Before the endless decay>>
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"Flee, O child of this world"
"The lux arrow descended to purge the wicked abomination"
"You must flee from the traces left behind after the storm's fall"
«In the first 10,000 years, the hunters mocked their prey / In the second 10,000 years, the hunters fight out of desperation / In the third 10,000 years, the hunt embraces \[...\] itself»
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"The celestial one let go their secrets, after plotting out the roots that connect all things"
"But now they scream, like a veil of madness at the centre of the universe"
"Listen to their wailing cries, and you will know where the stars are rotting"
«If the truth of the universe is cruel and stale / How could THEY embrace the answer? / The knowledge seeker is anxious / For their core has been decaying and wavering since "its" birth — / As unstable as the end of the Path they seek»
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"Let your staff strike the Earth, they say"
"Once, then again"
"The tender sprouts will attempt to grow, and the dew that falls from their branches shall halt the unyielding decay in place"
«She feels sad / For eternal life did not bring peace to her child/ Instead, those THEY had once cherished / Fell into madness over time, never to rest again»
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"Gaze at the Nihility, they say"
"That the approaching darkness may strike a primarl fear in you"
"Embrace the illusion that is life, and live on with a burdened soul, with a falling stride"
«All progress forward the void / All resist the void / None shall become the void…»
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"Push open broken gates, they say, and lift up the tables of gold, read them aloud."
"Let the wrath that forged the abyss, and the one that cracked the wall's foundations be known!"
«The philosophers gaze up at the sky / Contemplating civilization’s future: “Build a wall” / The resounding ache rings within their heads: “THEY are coming. Build a wall”»
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"Then they say, o you who have reached the end"
"Stay away from the paradise that envelops all"
"Spare this great choir and feast"
"Listen to the beating of billions upon billions of hearts, fleeing from your embrace "
«Behold! A perfect home / Resolved sorrows, righteous disobedience / Yet every longing unfulfilled, unforgettable memories of agony / How pathetic»
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"Look upon the courtesan's extravaganze"
‹‹MY PRODEGIE! AHAHHAHAHA››
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"The mariner's satisfaction"
‹‹The swarm / It never ends / Oh the joy / The primal joy››
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"Let go of the infant in the mirror"
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"The waves as they flee from the dream"
‹‹An eternal companion / The unending food / The undying friend››
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"The 'perfect' balance "
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"The shapeless prince"
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"Then finally, measure the world against yourself"
"And end all such things from your heart"
"This is the path you should walk, they say"
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"[Redacted]! Rest now!" (Cease your slaughter)
"[Redacted]!"
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"Countless shooting stars streak the sky tonight"
"Should you choose the wrong one....."
".....it shall be the end of thousands of distant worlds"
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“Hurry and flee / as far as you can / if the sun doesn't appear at the / new day's horizon / for that is no apocalypse / but the unending nightmare.”
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Footnotes in the Stardust
Fiksi PenggemarFragmented entries and lore regarding the "newly ascended Aeon of Decay"
