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Slumbering World

from Atlas Ruinica by The Wise Man's Fear

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Slumbering World - Following the clues from Carter’s study, Elise makes her way to the Louvre in Paris. While there she finds an antiquities specialist named Percy Howard, a name she recognizes as the author of the book “Take Courage, Don’t Falter” on Carter’s bookshelf. She speaks with Percy and discovers that he was a colleague and close friend of Carter’s who tried to warn him how dangerous the things he was digging into were. He reveals that her uncle had been searching for the horrible Atlas Ruinica when he was killed, a book of power from beyond our cosmos said to have caused the destruction of Atlantis or Lemuria long ago.
Percy also helps Elise make sense of a few more details from the black box recording:
The Atlantic ocean was thought to be the “ends of the earth” by many ancient European civilizations for a long time
There is an ancient tradition of gates or portals which were believed by ancients to serve as waypoints through which one could travel to other worlds
The phrase “whether kings or common men” indicates that Carter’s adversaries were the elusive and powerful cult of the Ptolemaic Kings, who regarded themselves as the true heirs of Egyptian rule. The Ptolemaic Kings have been on a quest to locate the Atlas Ruinica for many centuries and will stop at nothing to obtain it
“When shadows are darker than the light is bright,” is a reference to the winter solstice, specifically near the arctic circle where the polar night effectively erases daylight for long periods of time

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Don’t you close your eyes
They’re watching you
Guard against the night
It beckons you

Break
Encircle the sun
They’re baying for your blood

Don’t you sink in the shadows
Missing pieces forming tapestries of a slumbering world

Oh it’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
It’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go

Pain clings straight to your soul
Plunging you through years of cold

The burden on your shoulders tells
You’ve seen too much to forget now
It keeps you up, it weighs you down

Oh it’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
It’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go

Through the years they were always listening
Through closed off windows and doors
Through the years they were always listening
Through closed off windows and doors

Don’t look now
Everything you’ll see is a looming cloud

Oh it’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
It’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go

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from Atlas Ruinica, released January 13, 2023

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