Tome - The Endless Horror

Description

A page from a dusty tome recounting the horrors discovered within the anomalies. Found in a Vault of Forbidden Knowledge in Acasa Marshes.

Inspection Text

Why is it thus? What foul purpose does such an anomaly serve?

Within these wretched time aberrations, we find our own countrymen and women ensnared
Always at the very heart of the storm, as though condemned by unseen hands
To play their parts in some misshapen, sordid theater.

A scene of unspeakable cruelty is ever the stage,
A barbaric slaughter, its sole performance.
And yet, here lies the worst of it
The macabre play does not end.

Again and again, it unfolds, ceaseless in its encores.
The curtain never falls, the agony never wanes.
And I am certain, no, I know, that those caught within its wretched snare
Have not perished, but still live.

They feel it all.

The anguish, the torment, the breaking of flesh, the sundering of mind
Even the twisted pleasure that lurks amidst the pain, or the causing of pain.
They are alive.

Breathing.
Suffering.
Forever.

And worst of all, I have seen them look upon me.

A woman, her eyes wide with terror, met my gaze, pleading without words.
Begging me to end it.

At least, I believe I saw it.

For the closer we tread to this infernal tableau,
The more our own flesh burns as if pressed against smoldering coals.

The air seethes, the world writhes, and still the nightmare plays on.

-Zargab