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A relentless plane

Of unending solitude

Stretching out ahead

In every direction

Cities once built

Fell into ruin

A myriad of stone

Buried

Darkness embraces

An oft-mentioned legacy

Telling of strife

And violent insurrection

Spice trade and sand

Masquerading indiscretion

Desert immortalising

Those not strong enough

Headed by a house of

Noble indecency

A plot forged to annihilate

Opposition

Beneath the wilds

Obscured by degradation

An ancient empire

Long forgotten

Not seen by man

For countless generations

The once great halls

Since abandoned

This forsaken kingdom

Once a bastion of

Civilisation

Progress and knowledge

Now just a shadow

Engulfed by time

And swallowed by

Dunes eternal

Ancient remnants of this

Once thriving dominion

Sprawl for miles beneath

These god-forsaken sands

Legends are shared

By scholars and thieves

Buried in sand

Lost to time

A vast atrium

Replete with literature

Aeons of research

Disregarded

This once thriving

Athenaeum

A home of erudition

Over epochs neglected

Domicile of arcane secrets

And caliginous liturgy

That should not be known

Nor spoken by man