The Lantern of Ælthas - West Coast AI (Power Metal)

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“The Lantern of Ælthas” is an epic power metal saga about a mystical artifact that reveals lost histories, alternate realities, and the forgotten echoes of time. A lone wanderer discovers the lantern in the ruins of an ancient temple, only to be drawn into visions of battles that never happened, kings who never ruled, and worlds erased from existence. As the lantern’s light intensifies, the boundaries between reality and illusion blur, and the protagonist begins to question their own existence. In the end, they realize they were never truly there—merely a whisper in the lantern’s glow, doomed to fade with its dying flame. The song blends soaring melodies, orchestral grandeur, and blistering guitar work to create a haunting, cinematic journey through fate, time, and oblivion.

Lyrics:

Verse:
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

Verse:
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

Pre-Chorus:
Visions flicker—truth untold
Shifting forms of fate unfold
What was written, what was dreamed
Bound within its ghostly gleam

Chorus:
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

Verse:
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…

Pre-Chorus:
Wisdom comes, yet leaves me blind
Memories break, unchained from time
A shifting tide, the currents call
Did they exist—or not at all?

Chorus:
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

Verse:
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

Pre-Chorus:
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

Chorus:
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

Bridge:
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

Final Chorus:
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

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