And Lo When The Imperium Marches Against Gul-kothoth Lyrics

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[Chapter 1: The Voyage of the Sorcerer]

The war between the Imperium and
the allied Vyrgothian Kingdoms had raged

for years. Beginning as minor
disputes over border territories, the conflict

had swiftly escalated into
a full-scale bloody war, a vast series of epic

campaigns, fervently
perpetua ted by the Emperor Koord and the Over-King of

Vyrgothia, both
eager to smite their traditional ancestral foes and to win

great glory
and the adulation of their people by seizing victory in battle.

Recent
months had seen the forces of the Imperium display a staggering degree

of
tactical mastery and battle prowess, contemptuously crushing the Vyrgothian

armies in a series of great battles, 'til at last, following the
slaughterous

Rout of the Fields of Kai-Vorg, The Empire's finest fighting
force, the fame

d and far-feared Legion of the Ebon Tiger, stood unopposed
not five day's

march from mighty Gul-Kothoth, the greatest and most
ancient fortress-city in

all the Vyrgothian kingdoms. The Legion of the
Ebon Tiger could not easily

count their numerous and r esounding
victories, and their commander, the

legendary warlord Baalthus Vane, made
it clear to the Emperor that he was

eager to press on deep into the
enemy's lands and seize the prize which

awaited him; the siege and
capture of ancient Gul-Kothoth! And yet the Emperor

Koord did not order
the Legion to march, for disturbing information had of

late been relayed
to him by his spies in the Vyrgothian Royal Court... Dire

rumours
abounded that the Vyrgothian mages had at last discovered the ancient

arcane r ites which would unlock the aeons-fettered power of the dread

Obsidian Crown, a fearsome mystical artefact countless thousands of years
old,

a black-jewelled circlet believed on