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(BASS SOLO 1 : TEARS OF HEEOS)

HIS NAME WAS ATRA EAS

SPAWN OF THE DESOLATE AEON

BORNE IN THE 77TH CYCLE

TO THE RINGING OF BELLS OF THE EXXÛL

HIS MOTHER DIED AT CHILDBIRTH

LEAVING BEHIND AN ORPHAN SON

THE SERPENT GOD SHAROS SAW HIS MIGHT

AND RAISED HIM AS HIS OWN

"HEAR THE JACKALS CHANT THY NAME...

...THIRD SON OF THE SERPENT"

BAPTIZED UNDER THE MOON'S GLARE

FAR AWAY FROM HEEOS'S LIGHT

THROUGH SACRILEGEOUS BLOODRITES

HE INHERITED DIVINE IMMORTALITY

HE WAS TAUGHT THE WAY OF STEEL

A CHAMPION AGAINST HEEOS

FOREVER SLAVEBOUND TO THE WILL

OF THE INFERNAL THREEFOLD SERPENT

"RIDE INTO THE HEAVENS...

...WITH SWORD AND SHIELD IN HAND

COMMAND FORTH MY LEGIONS...

...USURP THE LIGHT OF HEEOS IN MY NAME..."

INFERNAL HORDES ASCENDED

ENDLESS BATTLES ACROSS PALLID STARS

HIS FORCES, DEFEATED, HIS SHIELD, CRACKED

HEEOS TOOK PITY OF HIM

"O WARMOTHER HEEOS,  GRASP THY SWORD

AND SEVER MY SHACKLES HENCEFORTH"

HE ACCEPTED HER MOTHERHOOD

AND FOR THIS AFFRONT, SHAROS CURSED HIM

"BLOOD OF THE THIRD SON!

TRAITOROUS SEED OF THE DESOLATE AEON!

BLOOD OF THE THIRD SON!

I CAST AFLAME THY MEADOWS WITH BLACK VITRIOL!

BLOOD OF THE THIRD SON!

THE SERPENT BLADE BATHES IN THY ESSENCE!

BLOOD OF THE THIRD SON!

A THOUSAND CURSES UPON THY BLOODLINE!

(BASS SOLO 2 : SEPTENTRIONAL MIGHT)

REBORN IN HER EMBRACE

HE DESCENDED FROM THE STREAMING HEAVENS

HIS STEEL MET THE TRIDENT OF SHAROS

HIS FOE WAS SHATTERED, BUT SO WAS HIS SOUL

IN UNENDING SORROW, MOTHER HEEOS

REFORGED THE SWORD WITH HIS BLOOD

HIS ENCASED SOUL BOUND TO HER ESSENCE

BESTOWING IMMORTALITY ON

THOSE WIELDING THE BLADE

"HEAR THE JACKALS CHANT THY NAME...

...THIRD SON OF THE SERPENT"

"THE SWORD OF ATRA EAS...

...GIVER OF ETERNAL LIFE..."

"RECLAIMED BY WICKED MEN...

...AND THUS CEASELESS DARKNESS DESCENDED"

(GTR SOLO 1 : AIR) - (BASS SOLO 3 : WATER)

(GTR SOLO 2 : FIRE) - (BASS SOLO 4 : ICE)

(GTR SOLO 3 : EARTH) - (BASS SOLO 5 : SKY)