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The Apocrypha Terra
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
The Apocrypha Terra is an Imperial text. Its date of composition is unknown.[1]
Excerpts
- "They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited
them with destruction and
wiped out all remembrance of them."
— Uncited[1] - "Pride Go'eth Before Abandon,
"Vanity Go'eth Before Weakness,
"Vainglory Go'eth Before the Fall."
— The Cantos of Proverbs[2a] - "And the seven crowned and seventh Angel poured fourth his bowl, saying "It is done".
And the stain spread upon the lands and all was laid waste."
— The Book of Sorrows[2b] - "Ignorance is the doom of lesser men and their solace both, but Pride is the doom of the great men who arise to master them, and for them no solace can be found."
— The Canticle of the Dead[3a] - "Our name is Legion, for we are many."
— The Book of Malignancies[3b] - "And in that time the Great Beasts shall walk the earth,
beneath their tread shall cities become as dust
by their burning breath shall civilisations be as ash, So the End of Days is begun."
— Uncited[4a] - "The angel took up the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it down to the land; and there followed earthquake, thunder, lightning and death."
— Uncited[4b] - "And he cried mightily with a baleful voice, declaring the abode of heroes is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful beast."
— Uncited[4c] - "He who partakes of the devil's works will be brought at length to wield the devil's sword."
— The Book of Admonitions[4d] - "And there came a great host of seraphim of dark raiment and shadowed wing, bearing each in one hand the scourge and in the other the hourglass, and by this host was the judgment of the heavens delivered, and by their savage weapons were worlds made as dust."
— The Escaton, Chronicle IX[5] - "...I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds."
— Uncited[6a] - "Oftentimes, to win us to do harm, the instruments of darkness need do no more than tell us truths."
— Uncited[6b] - "Then there came a day when the sun was as blood
and the very air became ashes, and men cried out
for salvation but went unanswered, for the
Angel of Death was with them and all was lost."
— Uncited[7a] - "Woe unto the mighty city,
Blood there ran in torrents,
drenched was all the earth,
As the mighty and the base were<brcast down together,
Here were men lying quelled by bitter death,
And shrouded was the world in their blood."
—Uncited[7b]
