Ard Zina
Book of Illithane
1 O Lord, how great you are!
2 All of the blessings you pour out on your creation are like cool waters from a spring.
3 Your presence is as refreshing as a morning mist in summer.
4 All the days of my life, I shall praise you.
5 You shall be set on a pedestal for all.
6 When I cry out to you, oh Lord, you hear me.
7 You hang on my every word.
8 You delight in me, and I in you.
9 My every wish you have provided.
10 Is there nothing you won’t give?
11 When I am in need, you supply.
12 When I am in pain, you heal.
13 Never shall my heart be in want.
14 You are Lord over all!
15 O Lord, you are my rescue!
16 When I am in need, you are there.
17 When I am in want, you are there also.
18 No harm can come to me when I am in your wings.
19 You are a refuge and a comfort.
20 Sickness and death are but flies to be swat away by your hand.
21 What danger can stand when you are by my side?
22 Indeed, no harm can befall me.
23 No deed shall be done unto me when you are with me.
24 You are death, and I am your blade.
25 Though darkness rises, you cut down all wickedness.
26 Deliver unto evil that which is deserved, that none may walk in shadows.
27 To the Lord be the glory.
28 Before all things, there was the Lord.
29 Alone – the sole being of eternity, there was the Lord.
30 Lo, the Lord spake into the void and to him the void spake, and behold, the Lord called him Malathrane.
31 Malathrane wrestled with the Lord, but could not overcome him.
32 O Lord, how you scattered yourself into that great expanse. From thy flesh, came the stars, and, gathering stars, you forged the Sun.
33 From the light of that Sun two shadows were cast. From the shadow of the Lord came the Celestials. From that of the Enemy came Demonkind.
34 First born amongst the creatures of Celeste were the Archangels – the first of the Demons called Lords.
35 What blasphemy the Enemy spake to call his children Lords! May his name be forever cursed and his head covered in pitch.
36 At the end of the Primordia came the beginning of time itself.
37 Behold, the Lord blew into his hands and formed Wyrth, setting the Sun, Moon, and Stars in the sky.
38 From nothing life was formed, but once made could not be undone.
39 O Lord, what life shall I lead? To whom shall I give my spirit?
40 You are great and mighty, but the dagger of the Enemy is sharp. I pray that it never finds purchase within me.
41 Life cannot amount to nothing, and yet that haunts me.
42 As I lay, ready to pass from this life, I felt the grasp of the abyss.
43 Yet, even in that dark hour, I was found by your light.
44 Life came from nothing, but it cannot return.
45 Behold, the life I lead!
46 My struggle is not with the flesh or the creatures of this world, but with the very essence of evil!
47 Delivered from the jaws of folly, I do not see myself for what I am. I struggle against the call of shadows, but my war is with the spirit.
49 Turn your eyes from the matters of the world, for they shall amount to nothing!
50 Evil cannot be touched or felt.
51 O Lord, reveal thy truth to us, your children.
52 Lo, the Lord holds a mighty hammer.
53 With that hammer he shall strike the wicked and forge the stars.
54 What can defy that mighty hammer?
55 None can compare.
56 None is equal.
57 Blessed be the Lord.
58 Behold the Lord’s splendor, pouring down from the sky.
59 From his throne of Celeste, he sees all and knows.
60 May I be bathed in that light, O Lord.
61 May I feel your warm embrace and revel in thy blessings.
62 Smite my enemies, O Lord of Stars and Life.
63 Sunder them before me as if they were wheat before the harvesting sickle.
64 Strike them, O Lord that they may never rise again.
Book of Iriel
1 The passion of the heart is the comfort of the soul, thus sayeth the Lord.
2 If love begats mercy, then what shall spawn from hate? May the mysteries of the heart never be unraveled.
3 I am born of stars, the handiwork of Illithane’s own hand. What then shall quench my thirst but love?
4 Behold, the censer’s fire burns in the hearts of men. In the passions of love and war, the truth shall be found.
5 The flesh of the Lord burns with passion.
6 May my passions never consume me!
7 Love is good and kindness pure.
8 Anger is righteous and pride earned.
9 Yet, for the good that these passions might bring, I seek not to be consumed.
10 If I am consumed then who shall I become?
11 What shall I be if I lose control?
12 May the Lord allow me temperance and joy.
13 Let not love give way to lust.
14 Let not kindness give way to pliancy.
15 Let not anger give way to rage.
16 Let not pride give way to haughtiness.
17 In fear, there is the loss of passion.
18 In disease, the fire of the heart is quelled.
19 In bloodshed, passion is twisted.
20 In death, passion reaches its end.
21 Behold, I go to the dwelling of my lover.
22 In her, I find my rest.
23 Her eyes are the color of sunlight, viewed through the leaves of spring.
24 Her hair flows like a river, the color that of chocolate.
25 Her hands are soft as satin, yet strong as the ox’ back.
26 Her lips, red like the berries of the field, beckon the kisses of youth.
27 Her body curves gently, as though sculpted by a master craftsman.
28 Her skin is like alabaster.
29 The nectar of her loins is sweet like the juice of many fruits.
30 In her I find my rest.
31 Lo, the power of the Lord is in my chest.
32 As long as the fire burns, I shall not be sundered.
33 Who can strike me down while I burn with the fervor of the Lord?
34 None can end me!
35 While I am swallowed in her flames, I am like the immortals.
36 I shall never reach my end.
Book of Animiel
1 The nature of things is not for mortal minds.
2 Why then do we seek it so?
3 The Lord is a creature of knowledge itself.
4 Is there an end to his wisdom?
5 Knowledge is the pursuit of truth, not its destination.
6 To pursue is to learn.
7 To learn is to think.
8 To think is to live.
9 Blessed be the Lord.
10 From the beginning, the Lord has watched.
11 From the beginning, the Lord has learned.
12 Nothing has escaped the sight of the Lord, and nothing is beyond his reach.
13 When I, in finite mind ponder, I cannot understand that which the Lord has not.
14 It is his very nature.
15 How can the creation surpass the creator?
16 Nothing is known that the Lord has not foreseen.
Book of Irosiel
1 The Lord is war.
2 Where blood is shed in righteousness, the Lord shall be.
3 Where banners fly in the name of the Lord, he shall bring honor.
4 May the war of my soul bring him glory.
5 Thus sayeth the Lord.
6 The Lord fights a war in which we cannot partake.
7 Instead, let our prayers give him strength.
8 At the end of days, when the trumpets of Celeste blow, the Lord shall march his army.
9 Our prayers are tinder for the fires of that great war.
10 Against the legions of Pandemonium, the Angel shall rage.
11 For our sake, the battle will be won.
12 For what purpose shall blood be shed.
13 If life is valued, what shall drive the blade of the nakir?
14 As wheat grows and is felled, so too the lives of the wicked.
15 But can one know their cause to be just?
16 The blade that ends the tyrant shall never be swung in sin.
17 The strike that protects the weak is surely no mistake.
18 To take up arms against the enemies of the innocent is to do so in the Lord’s own name.
19 Though death be a Downfall of Man, and life be a blessing, to deliver the swing of the reaper is to grant a mercy to the just.
20 What but war reveals the heart of man?
21 As passion leads to truth, so too the nature of war.
22 In its crucible, man is purified.
23 To wage war is to distill one’s self to the essence of thy own being.
24 If you are a proud man, then war shall make you a tyrant.
25 If you are a man of fear, then war shall turn you coward.
26If you are depraved, then war shall drive you to madness.
27 It is in war that we become our truest selves.
28 Wage war, then, in the hearts of men!
29 Struggle against the desires of the flesh for those call to you from the abyss.
30 In war, there is truth.
31 In truth, there is the Lord.
Book of Zoiel
1 In the void was Illithane.
2 In Illithane was life.
3 In life was the Lord.
4 From the Lord, all life spills forth, and to her it flows.
5 She is the embodiment of life itself, joyful and yet a mystery.
6 Thus sayeth the Lord.
7 Can a Lord of Celeste be felled?
8 And, were the Lord to fall, what would become of us?
9 If life can be killed, will not all reality be upended?
10 Therefore, rest in the knowledge that life is without end.
11 To the worthy, the Lord will grant blessings of life and dreams fulfilled.
12 Blessings unto us.
13 Life is as a flowing river, the Lord the fountainhead.
14 Unpredictable and flowing in a single direction.
15 We cannot row back though we struggle in vain.
16 We cannot undo what has been done.
17 Yet, when effort is placed in a forward direction, all manner of progress is gained.
18 Therefore, strive for a greater tomorrow and a better today.
19 Live each moment as though the river comes to falls at the next bend.
20 We know not what tomorrow will hold, but we can steel ourselves for its arrival.
21 Blessed be the Lord.
Book of Phanuel
1 If war reveals the true self, and knowledge revels in discovery, what is truth’s own nature?
2 Surely truth cannot be a mere biproduct.
3 Nay.
4 Truth is absolute.
5 In the face of shadows and trials, truth can be a light.
6 When the forces of Pandemonium beset you on all sides, truth can keep them at bay.
7 Truth is a lantern.
8 Truth is a tether.
9 The Lord is truth.
10 O Lord, hear me!
11 I seek to deliver the truth of you to the nations!
12 Yet, in the face of all that is, they do not wish to hear?
13 Am I wrong, O Lord?
14 Have misunderstood your prophesies?
15 Am I not your servant and the deliverer of your truth?
16 Lord hear me!
17 Answer my call, O Lord of Light and Clarity!
18 I know that you are truth and I have brought you to the world.
19 May the people of this world know what comes.
20 one day, darkness will come for us all.
21 Thus sayeth the Lord.
22 On my days of deepest doubt, it is to you that I turn my face.
23 If all of life were called into question, I shall seek you first.
24 Lord of Truth, servant of the highest, I beseech you.
25 Do not let the nature of man lead us astray.
26 Keep us ever growing in your ways.
27 Learning is without end, but so too folly.
28 Ground us in truth, O Lord.
Book of Hasmed
1 In the name of the almighty, may the Lord be praised!
2 Our war is not with flesh, but with the essence of sin.
3 May the Lord smite iniquity.
4 At the end of days, all the old thing shall pass on in his power.
5 The end of time shall bring destruction.
6 Yet, as the Lord turns all to dust, a new work shall begin.
7 O Lord of Sundered Mountains, Archangel of Destruction.
8 We know that you shall clear the way for newness of life.
9 Life is cycles, just as rivers become rain and fall back to seas.
10 In the same way, the old must pass that the new may come.
11 Life gives way to destruction that destruction may give way to life.
12 Great Lord of Righteous Fury, fill me with strength.
13 Grant me the might to sunder armies and the purity to never fall.
14 Smite my enemies and let their blood soak the earth.
15 Blessed be the Lord.
Book of Moriel
1 How divided you are, O blessed Lord of Fate.
2 Blind and yet you see all.
3 Lord of Destiny, and powerless to interfere.
4 All knowledge of what is and yet to come rests in you.
5 May you bless our path.
6 Just as life is unknown, so too fate.
7 Though you see what will transpire, O Lord of Destiny, that sight is not for mortal eyes.
8 Instead, we must walk in the faith that all things work towards the divine end of the Lord of All.
9 All things came from him and all things will return to him.
10 Fate is all within his hands.
11 You, O blessed Lord of Futures and Pasts, grasp ahold of what even your brethren cannot know.
12 In her hands is fate.
13 In her hands is all.
Book of Azrael
1 Bones to ash and bones to flame.
2 Turn this flesh to soulfire, O Iron Lord of Retribution.
3 Let the scorched earth bear fruit once more and death hide its wretched teeth.
4 Fill thy heart with scorn, O genius of ash.
5 Let thy touch turn our hearts to metal, that we may endure the trials of this life.
6 We are reborn.
7 Thus sayeth the Lord.
8 Lo, the blood of the Lord is fire and his body formed from ash.
9 His bones are made of iron.
10 His blade rends all, laying even the mighty mountains low.
11 May I be filled with his spirit.
12 Blessed be the Lord.
13 When that final trumpet of war does sound, where shall we stand?
14 Surely the war will be won, but there is the judgement of souls yet to come.
15 Lo, the Lord of Retribution shall cause every knee to bow.
16 The Lord of Fire shall judge the wicked and the good.
17 Into our hands, he shall place the hot irons.
18 Against our foreheads, he shall press the brand.
19 The flesh of the righteous shall not burn.
20 His is a holy flame!
21 Yet, to the unworthy, these instruments shall burn with hellfire.
22 And, when the Lord has passed his judgement, souls shall find their eternal rest.
23 Thus sayeth the Lord.
24 The Lord is a wanderer.
25 As sparks drift in the breeze, so too does the Lord walk the soil.
26 What divine purpose drives his steps?
27 To what end does he move?
28 If I am to wander, may the Lord guide my path.
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