[Lyric] Obscured and Caliginous Liturgy (Erebor)

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