Reborn, Lustrated by Heathen Blood

from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage by Huntress of Stars

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As we forged across the wasteland,
towards a preordained altercation with the crimson horde,
those cultists of the sun,
surely I had discerned those among my retinue
who embellished our sacred histories
as they were told and told again.
Such discrepancies I paid no heed,
even as their lies eclipsed the truth.
Such ardor is inescapable, I surmised,
when one commands a legion
built on want and fervor,
the righteous indignation of those who, until now,
were forced to live in fear.

I held to this foolish notion
till that most fateful day I realized it was too late:
distressing news had reached my ears
that chilled me to the bone, tempering my desire
to lead this multitude, as I perceived what they’d become.
For my followers, to whom I’d preached of wisdom had,
in their zealotry laid waste to a settlement.

I went to see with my disbelieving eyes finding,
to my horror, a tableau of cruelty.
Bodies flayed and burned, hung like macabre trophies,
decapitated and torn limb from limb.
“What sin could justify such barbarity,”
I asked my devotees.
Eyes aflame, they replied:

“We bearers of virtue,
do we not stand above
these ignorant cowards
who reject your teachings?
Shall we not cleanse the wastes
of their impurities
that this land may be reborn,
lustrated by heathen blood?!”

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from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage, released September 30, 2021

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