The Sixth Key: The Omega Axiom

Some would call it epiphany, others would deem it
the final descent into madness... whatever the
case, the last vestiges of those tenuous palisades
which had previously, and blessedly, safeguarded
my reason and prevented my mind from accepting the
full and staggering magnitude of the naked truth
then crumbled, fading into nothingness like the
dissolution of a night-mist. At length, one
oppressively miasmic night, with such malefically
portentous lore preying pitilessly upon my sanity,
I began to descend through a myriad veils of
sombre and swirling shades, finally surrendering
my grip on wakefulness. And on that fitful,
fateful eve, the last of the dreams came... A
waking dream? I dare not speculate. The vision was
mine, the soul too... but the time, the place, the
very flesh, all this and more was unknown to me. I
stood upon a nighted vista... unfeasibly alien,
and yet at once wholly, unnervingly familiar. In
my hand I grasped a glimmering crystal which
although beautiful in its shimmering radiance, was
as black as the impenetrable depths of the most
stygian midnight sea. As I gazed into the obsidian
heart of the gem, a needle of black light lanced
forth from its multi-faceted surface and filled my
eyes with a panoply of fantastic hues, revealing
to me in between its pulses of massing darkness
certain fleeting glimpses of places and things so
fantastically terrifying that I could not
faithfully begin to recount their hideous and yet
grimly compelling nature. A terrible sound filled
my ears... an insidious resonance which sent waves
of excruciating pain coursing through my mind... a
sound which inexorably coalesced into a
recognizable but entirely inhuman voice, a voice
which slowly, inevitably, formed approximations of
words which I could discern...

The Crystalline Oracle:
Hearken, o' manling of the Tellurian orb... the
Circle closes. Perpare to embrace the agony of
enlightenment. Know you of the Six Cataclysms?
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The Aspirant:
I do. Six times has the world perished and been
reborn!

The Crystalline Oracle:
You have discovered the true meaning of the six
coruscating rings of arcane power?

The Aspirant:
Praise Klatrymadon and Zuranthus! The Six Keys!

The Crystalline Oracle:
Know you of the blackened orb which burned bright
o'er ancient Lemuria? Know you of the sidereal
flame which engulfed the high seat of power in
Ultima Thule? Know you of that martial sorcery
woven in the pitiless throng of epic battle? Know
you of the astral power permeating the multiverse
and the might of the cosmic codex? Know you of the
rise and fall of glorious Atlantis? Know you the
blasphemies contained within the Chthonic
Chronicles?

The Aspirant:
I know all this, and more!

The Crystalline Oracle:
Have you, o' hybrid child of the cosmos, gazed
into the Great Eye of the Universe?

The Aspirant:
I have.

The Crystalline Oracle:
And what did you see there, young Xerxes?

The Aspirant:
I saw oblivion and damnation. I saw truth, and
enlightenment. I saw the closure of the Great
Circle Without End. I saw the Sixth Great
Cataclysm. I saw the alpha and the omega, I saw
the beginning... and I saw the end. The end of all
there is!