The Lantern of Ælthas Lyrics

Through shattered halls of ages past

A whisper calls upon the dust

A silver flame in shadows cast

Entombed in stone, untouched by rust

The hands of time have left no trace

Yet here it lies—a silent fate

With trembling hands, I lift it high

A lantern forged in stars long dead

It paints the past before my eyes

A world forgotten, words unsaid

A kingdom lost in golden light

But echoes stir beyond my sight

Visions flicker—truth untold

Shifting forms of fate unfold

What was written, what was dreamed

Bound within its ghostly gleam

The Lantern of Ælthas—its fire deceives

Illuminates worlds that were never believed

The faces I see, are they phantoms or real?

History bends as the ages reveal

With every flame, I am drifting away

A prisoner lost in the echoes of fate

A thousand wars, a shattered crown

A realm that fell, yet never stood

I see them rise, I watch them drown

Flesh and steel, the price of blood

A kingdom named, then left unknown

A hollow throne of fractured stone

Their cries still linger in the glow…

Wisdom comes, yet leaves me blind

Memories break, unchained from time

A shifting tide, the currents call

Did they exist—or not at all?

The Lantern of Ælthas—a doorway unsealed

Reflections of worlds where the past was concealed

Their voices call, but I cannot respond

Am I a shadow, or was I beyond?

With every flame, I am drifting away

A prisoner lost in the echoes of fate

I raise my gaze, and there I stand

A phantom lost in silver haze

No breath to take, no mortal hand

No pulse, no trace of former days

No life to claim, no past to weave

A shade I was—yet dared believe

A whispered fate I can't retrieve

The more I see, the less I know

Unraveled threads begin to show

A silent truth beneath the veil

The light reveals what must be failed

The Lantern of Ælthas—its embers deceive

It shows me the past, but it won't let me leave

A prisoner bound in the echoes of lore

Yet I was the dream that was dreamed once before

With every flame, I am drifting away

A whisper undone in the echoes of fate

No stars remain in hollow skies

The light now fades, the silence grows

No name is left, no tale survives

A world rewritten, I let go

The lantern falls, its glow undone…

And with it, I was never one

The Lantern of Ælthas—its fire has died

No echoes remain, no voices reside

No memory lingers, no tale left to weave

Yet once I was certain—was I meant to believe?

A flickering light, now lost in the haze

A whisper erased from the river of days