priests of unreason chant liturgy of soulless litany a codex-hymn seeking to appease what never existed their words sung like equations digital archivists flensing beliefs from the cracked spine of myth; marrow turned to ash the language is dead, syntax disarticulated meaning long ago dissipated Remembrancers cannot retrieve memory from the vale of entropy nameless gods forgotten heroes stories that built worlds no longer lived; no longer learnt locked in stone detritus of a petrified culture-forest waiting for Shadowmancers to breathe sonos and logos meaning persists not in scripture but in Ancestral cycles written from the dust