The Apocrypha of the Damned

 When the dreams of darkness come true

on the day when the moon runs as blood

and the sun rises black in the sky,

that is the day of the Damned

when Caine's children will rise again.

And the world will turn cold

and unclean things will boil up from the ground

and great storms will roll, lightning will light fires,

animals will fester and their bodies,

twisted, will fall.

So, too, the Ravening Ones will rise from the ground

They will break their fast on the first part of us

They will consume us whole.

On the second day, Caine will return

And call his Children to the meeting place

on the site of the First City he will beckon

them, sitting on his basalt throne.

And Caine will call aloud the names of those to be destroyed,

for their crimes are too great

and all those who have consumed the heart's blood of their Sire

will be brought before the Black Throne

and made to drink of Caine's blood

and Caine's blood will eat their blood.

And the Ebon King will be brought forth

and there, in the valley of Enoch, will there be a battle

a duel of Dark Father and Ebon King

The Demon King will bite deep

the Damned King will bite deeper

We do not know the thing which will happen

but the sky will tear apart, and the earth below

And the forces of Hell will pour up out of the ground.

On the Third Day, there will be silence

the crows will feed on the carrion

plague will dance amongst the ruins

the highest of the Wild Ones will be there

the first spirit of the Moon-Beasts also

And the Demon King will make for himself an Empire of Blood

He will rule with iron talons

He will wrench the hearts of all still alive

And there will be no love, no life, no pity

the mighty will be as slaves

the virtuous will be made foul

every good gift, and every perfect gift will be tainted

by the Father of Darkness, whose power will come from

the nether realms.

Else the war for our kind is won,

but not by one.

And this will be the Supremacy.

then the last time will not be dark forever

but the door back into the light

for us and for Seth's children.

The Damned King will be victorious

The Ebon King laid waste

Then the Third Day will come as all days before

The first of the new days

Farewell to the Damned King

The Supreme will guide all Children of Caine

and Children of Seth

forever.

And you shall know these last times by

the Time of Thin Blood, which will mark those

who cannot Beget.

You will know them by the Blood of the Bringer of Fire,

You will know them by the Discovery of the Secret Book,

You will know them by the Return of the King,

watch well for these signs and others

to see the Dark Time coming.

Mark the dragon which rises

Mark the darkness which moves

Mark as the Iron Web ensnares all the world

Mark as the Iron-Willed are brought together.

Nine signs, they are coming.

Gehenna will be on earth.