To Dare the Tower - Ofermod

Shroud of seven black

Hand that drowns the night

Rulers of the realm infernal

I dare to call your might

By seven voices in a choir of one

Lord of night eternal

Mephisto!

Mephisto!

Alchemy of the red in the black

Flee the light, emanation reverse

Sliver of the light of Sorath

In your shadow I shine… I shine!

Lepaca Mephistopheles, ho Nox, ho Niger

Lightning strikes the tower

A star begins to shine

In solitudes into the void of space

Four keys to unlock the spire

And here, liberated of all my lore

A fool I stand, no wiser than before!

I burn the circle

Fire erupting through skin

Becoming my own salt in the athanor’s pyre

Transformed in the cold, black furnace of the black sun’s fire!

Pulvis Solaris!

Pulvis Solaris!

Terror comes with the trickster’s laughter

Passing the cup of poison with blessed lies!

Brought to death by his drowning hand

Picked free by the raven’s beak

Baptized in dead river’s acid

Into the sea into which t he sword was set

Ascend into the sun

Blessed night, curse bringer!

Ho Nox, ho Niger!

Opposing the flow, your word I follow!

And here witch all my lore

A fool I stand, no wiser than before!