Watched an Alan Moore interview where he discussed the sacredness of storytelling, how language and magic are essentially the same, and these lyrics kind of sprang out of me. For the music, I was going for a kind of Das Oath/White Lung vibe.
lyrics
They built the castle
Enduring and sublime
They begged the Magus
To bless their grand design
But he refused all of their demands
He said their castle was only sand
And soon the waves will walk
To make an ocean of this land
So they razed the castle
Tower, hall and gate
They begged the Magus
Foretell another fate
But he refused and brooded by the sea
He said I enchanted you, and you protected me
(Save us, Magus)
He said the floods also come for me
For diviner and disciple
Faith - a grain upon the beach
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