The leprous earth, ripe with sickness A Name revealed to every witness Twist flesh, bend bone, warp wood and stone... The Shadow The Darkness NETHESCURIAL ...what lurks beneath? Your roots spread far and invade deep One drop of your blood poisons the sea You watch from within the flame Behind the mask of nature you lie You who flows and slithers and boils and writhes In evil is revealed your name... The Shadow The Darkness NETHESCURIAL ...what lurks beneath? "In the rooms of houses and beyond their walls, Beneath dark waters and across moonlit skies, Below earth mound and above mountain peak, In northern leaf and southern flower... Inside each star and the voids between them, Within blood and bone, through all souls and spirits, Among the watchful winds of this and several worlds Behind the faces of the living, and the Dead..." NETHESCURIAL