They gather, cloaked, infected, exiled Bastard bloodlines of dark dynastic power Marred through worship of the black Clawing up from the abyss of carrion Candle lit hymns, to ironbound gods forgotten The laborum inverted, painted in crude hand Lycanthropic incest, bloodlust, and sacrifice Bodies splayed and torn, the chalice overflows Thine end is near, archaic efforts doubled but dire To appease a patron divinity turning deaf Flesh rotting, scorned, an archaic mutant breed Eclipsed by an unyielding world’s progression The empire relinquishes the two brothers and the wolf And embraces an eye for eye, and a tooth for a tooth Whispers of Golgotha and the stations of the cross But within the shadows, a requiem is scored for a colony soon to be lost