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Description If you are for some reason offended by this – keep it to yourself.

Ok, now that we got this out of the way, yes, this is a poem... so to speak.

Most of the visuals are basically a year old, actually I painted most of it even before I wrote the poem itself.
I finished the whole thing somewhere in the first month of summer 2012, then I just had to put it into Flash but work came up rather suddenly and I let it slumber on my hard drive for a long time. Now finally posting it here on DA.

Edit Feb8-2013: Finally fixed that annoying sound bug for good, now everything is looping and muting properly... i hope.

A few answers for some questions you might have after reading it:

1. Yes, the buttons are supposed to look that way.

2. There is no actual dialogue in the poem.
The idea was that the whole poem is actually read or cited by a “demon librarian”. He is just putting small pieces together in chronological order to compose this poem. Some parts may be quotes of the “Black King”, some might be just some demon sayings, and of course, a lot of people go crazy and start hearing voices and hallucinate.

3. The font is some free gothic font I found on the net. If the design of the letters is hard to read sometimes, my apologies, I think it fits well.

4. I wanted to narrate (or ask someone to narrate it) but couldn't bother to spend more time on it, look for people with a suitable voice etc. If someone would like to do it, go right ahead.

5. You can also find the music here: soundcloud.com/emil_larsson
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Comments: 439

Nempatriarch In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 20:05:54 +0000 UTC]

what a great achivement

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jennaskook In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 19:57:13 +0000 UTC]

This was absolutely epic, in pictures, story, music, everything. Great job- you left me speechless.

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ValeRomy In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 19:44:57 +0000 UTC]

Wow...Scary and Amazing too! WOW!! I Loved It!

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MelodyoftheMoon In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 19:44:37 +0000 UTC]

That was awesome!

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kyubiman In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 19:40:06 +0000 UTC]

That was DEPRESSING. and scary.
But nicely done anyways.

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shadefalcon [2013-02-19 19:11:31 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely fantastic. The art, the story, the mood music. Reminds me of my album and lyrical artwork. I hope people are like this with my work someday.

Bravo good sir.

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TiamatHeart In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 18:56:54 +0000 UTC]

Remarkable

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xCrimsonblackx [2013-02-19 18:56:31 +0000 UTC]

I love the poem and I love the symbols on the loading page! I would really love to know where you got those from or are those the font you were talking about?

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ChrisCold In reply to xCrimsonblackx [2013-02-19 19:10:49 +0000 UTC]

well thanks, i painted the symbols myself

as for the font, it's some font i found.
The font file is called DarkGothic.ttf so that's a very vague name, i'm not sure if you'll be able to find it just from that.
If you want, i can upload it for you somewhere?

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xCrimsonblackx In reply to ChrisCold [2013-02-20 04:22:35 +0000 UTC]

No that's alright. ^^ I won't put you out of your way to do that, and great work with the symbols!

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PreciousAngelWings In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 18:23:05 +0000 UTC]

wow that's really really cool! Well executed! Love how much work went into this as well. very well done

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xLady-Mizu In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 18:16:27 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely beautiful (is that weird for me to say?)
my favourite quote was "where are those men who think they are without a sin? such a thing does not exist" because that is the exact thing I say to people who bash me for being an atheist, that even if they believe in god, people supposedly don't go to heaven if they sin, so whether or not they believe doesn't mean they'll get in... so whats the point
no offence to any religious people, I respect and admire people who can believe in something, but I just don't :3

again amazing poem beautiful exotic and powerful

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DevastatorOne In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 17:50:55 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!

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GrappleMace In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 17:01:15 +0000 UTC]

This was a great epic. Really amazing.

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DreamingMind-set In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 16:44:44 +0000 UTC]

This was f***ing AMAZING.

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winium In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 16:10:34 +0000 UTC]

This pictures remenber me the game "DARK SOULS" ^^ Y like this!

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X-Spread-Wings-X In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 16:09:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow... This is amazing, beautiful and haunting. At some point I really started to feel the despair of the humans in this. The art is beautiful, the king's wings are absolutely magnificent. And the music is wonderful.

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John-Peter [2013-02-19 16:02:25 +0000 UTC]

Wow...!!! Congratulations on DD!! Best work i've seen in months!!

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nanne911 In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 15:57:20 +0000 UTC]

wordless, just amazing

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jimsta26 In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 15:36:57 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful, absolutely amazing, perfect in every way.

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SKy-2008 [2013-02-19 15:36:34 +0000 UTC]

And I just started wondering why the hell this wasn't a DD yet...
Congratulations!

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alvis002 In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 15:17:15 +0000 UTC]

Masterpiece! I really agree about your DD, love the paintings and the poem itself.

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Dylan-Fly [2013-02-19 15:06:04 +0000 UTC]

gratz with your DD. you deserve it

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blanket86 In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 15:02:37 +0000 UTC]

Very good and interesting work! I like this style! Congratulations!

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Jhester1964 In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 14:47:27 +0000 UTC]

Is this going to be avialable in print or on disc. This is one of the most amazing pieces of poetry and art that I have seen in a long time.

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MiltonFuller In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 14:28:01 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is really great! Thanks for that.

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DorianHerestor In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 14:18:16 +0000 UTC]

If there ever was a deviation that deserved a DD, this is it.

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RealREDTiGER In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 14:08:42 +0000 UTC]

You must to find the voice. The voice that will be pretty scary.

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Ketsueki-No-Megami [2013-02-19 13:55:08 +0000 UTC]

That was so AWESOME!

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Shikafy [2013-02-19 13:52:56 +0000 UTC]

Holy. Shiz The drawings, the everything, so intensely beautiful. Nicely done and grats on the DD

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ElfaLaura In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 13:49:15 +0000 UTC]

I don't understand all of the poem, but it was beautiful.. also is was a demon poem, it was cool

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Sirielle In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 13:41:22 +0000 UTC]

Ach wait, there is - the download

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Sirielle [2013-02-19 13:40:48 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, pity there is no full screen option.

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stellasaurassock [2013-02-19 13:36:36 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing!

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Lintu47 [2013-02-19 13:32:26 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the well deserved DD!
Have a nice day!

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BATTLEFAIRIES [2013-02-19 13:24:48 +0000 UTC]

Mesmerising and overwhelmingly beautiful graphics; superb!

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ChrisCold In reply to BATTLEFAIRIES [2013-02-19 14:18:23 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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ipawluk [2013-02-19 13:01:04 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME WORK!!!
congratulations DD!

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Joel-Wade [2013-02-19 12:53:35 +0000 UTC]

Love the imagery, you have a great style, kept me hooked

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Jhester1964 [2013-02-19 12:51:52 +0000 UTC]

What an amazing piece of work. Is this going to be available in print form? Please let me know or maybe on disc.

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ChrisCold In reply to Jhester1964 [2013-02-19 19:07:09 +0000 UTC]

thank you

well, i'm working on another project which is going to be released as an art book, and it's quite similar to this poem (perhaps a sequel)

so i probably won't be selling this one. However, there is also a download of this flash file available, in case you want to save it or have it on a disc, feel free to do so.

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ARCatSK [2013-02-19 12:12:17 +0000 UTC]

Stunning work!

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LoniReve [2013-02-19 12:03:06 +0000 UTC]

Awesome

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EinarMichaelson In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 11:58:20 +0000 UTC]

Looks great!
But poetry about sins, hell, monotheistic gods is quite uninspiring.
Or as one of my fellows said: "Your god, your sins, You burn in hell!"

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malevoseth In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 11:44:23 +0000 UTC]

awesome work

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Dalychnea [2013-02-19 11:08:44 +0000 UTC]

Wow o3o
I don't even have words to describe it. It's that awesome!

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Yewrezz [2013-02-19 11:06:13 +0000 UTC]

SO AWESOME QAQ

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Sfinga [2013-02-19 10:53:40 +0000 UTC]

OH MY GOD! This is unbelievable! I was in awe the whole time reading it! I can't even begin to describe how much I loved it!
Great job on the poem it is very skillfully written, the story it self is so interesting, attention-grasping and combined with the pictures and the music it just creates a perfect atmosphere for the story, really takes you there.. Simply mesmerizing.
You did create an impression the someone is reading the poem, maybe you should just add one more picture of the demon librarian reading something, at the beginning just to specify that he is the one reading it... Otherwise this is pure perfection, I can't get enough! Most deserved Daily Deviation I've seen in a very long time, there should be more things like this out there.. Amazing job

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waterangel17 In reply to ??? [2013-02-19 10:27:37 +0000 UTC]

Why the fuck is everyone's comment suddenly bolded? Surely not everyone knows the function of ?

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CandyKnickerbocker [2013-02-19 09:56:18 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic piece of work, very dark and compelling. The artwork has a demonic energy about it that totally makes the story and gives it authenticity.

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