The Revelations of Marc McComber to the Sixth Enclave:
The Revelations of Marc McComber to the Sixth Enclave
Through this document I wish to atone for my sins.
The Author
My name is Marc McComber. I am the Oracle of the esoteric brotherhood known as the Order. I am the seer who divined the cycles. I am the one who witnessed the Princeton Experiment. I saw friends and colleagues devoured in a blinding light. I saw the birth of the entity that the Order calls “GORR’RYLAEHOTEP”
That day forth I have felt my mind and body changing. From that moment I have not been the same.I can see visions of the past and future. Sometimes I feel as though I go to places lost in time. I wander through this dream like a specter or a shadow. It is often hard to tell where my visions end and reality begins.
Though I fall through cracks in time against my will, I fight for a sense of agency. My actions may seem erratic and I am oftentimes bewildered, but I will attest to the fact that at this moment now, as I write, I have a keen sense of clarity. My mind is in the here-and-now, and I am able to reflect on all that I have witnessed: the past, the present, and the future. Never in my life have I felt more aware. I am fighting to stay in this moment – I must write what I can now before I slip away again.
Before I digress, I must apologize to those I love who still yet live.
To my son, Joseph,
I am sorry I led you astray in your youth. I am sorry I was absent from your life (if not in body at least in mind and spirit.) I can only hope that you will one day read my words and know in your heart that what I say in this document is true. Do not follow the old way of the Order. It will only lead to suffering.
To my granddaughter, Heather,
As I have tried to atone for my own sins by intervening in the lives of those you know and love, I have passed my sins on to you. You have been swept up in this deadly game and I hope that you will one day find peace. Your courage gives me strength. You make me very proud. And I am so very sorry.
To Those Who Read This Now,
I was deceived by the Order and its Overseers from the very beginning, just like many of you. After I survived the horrors of the Princeton Experiment, I strove for meaning and fought to retain my sanity. How could I not be lost in this world after witnessing such things? I was approached by the Order who claimed to know the purpose of my struggle. It was then that I began feeling lost in the present and present in the future. The Order instructed me to document what I saw in my visions. They claimed it was a gift granted to me by an ancient god. I had disappeared from the present. What I described became the cycles.
The Order is misguided and attribute false meaning to those premonitions: to the Monster and its powers. They labour under delusions granted to them by a story from antiquity.
I beg you, reader, to heed my words now. You are the last hope for the countless innocents who may soon perish.
The Chosen
Those who are learned in the oral traditions of the Order are quite familiar with the Chosen: the Three servants of the Monster who will bring about the beginning and end of the Cycles. I was the one who began telling this tale. I drew this interpretation from my memories of future-present and the ancient tomes I was given to interpret. However, I could not even comprehend my own experiences. I was blinded by my faith in the Order, led by them down a path of zealotry which distorted the truth. For this reason, I could never see the Fourth. The Fourth Chosen – who was always there but invisible to my inner eye. The Fourth 4 Chosen One is truly the most dangerous.
I have been able to draw correlations between my visions and the traditions to find the true meaning that has been obfuscated for decades. Though forbidden for the Order to record, I will first write the words I swore to secrecy – the words the Order repeats only in the oral traditions. Understanding these visions is imperative.
I no longer fear death.
The First, The Priest
“The Priest will speak the Word of our Master. They will let the world know of his True Presence and his True Power. Their words will spring forth like a fountain forever. None will denounce the Priest, for their words contain the Eternal Truth, undeniable and irrevocable. They will never cease their evangelism, even upon pain of death.”
The Second, The Lamb
“The Lamb will be the first to see our Master when the Cycles begin anew. They are the first herald of the future-present. The Lamb is sacrificed so the Priest can do their sacred work. Our Master will be the last thing the Lamb’s eyes ever see. The death of the Lamb will bring about humanity’s rebirth.”
The Third, The Slave
“The Slave is a part of the Master. They will sense him in ways others cannot. They will hear him when others cannot. They will know him more closely than any other human being. They are attuned to the Master’s influence. Through the sight of the Slave’s eyes, the Master will plot his Holy Path that will lead us all to godhood. The Slave will live our Master’s Work, but rail against him – forever a disobedient servant, as all mankind is. The slave is a vessel, crude and simple, incapable of accepting divinity in their imperfect form. The Slave is the keystone to our Sacred Journey.
I’m sure the faithful have heard these maxims before. The Three Chosen Ones are legendary figures whose stories have been past down for decades. It was said that their arrival would herald the beginning of the Cycles – and so it has. Little did I know in my foggy vision that the Chosen would be so young. Those you call the Harbingers are these very same Chosen. The Overseers know this, and yet they deceive you. These Harbingers are integral parts to the Monster’s plan. It chose them to suit its needs and control the others, those many of you hold close to your heart. Though I had warned that the Harbingers may bring destruction to the Order, they are the very same whose existence brings the Monster’s wrath.
If the Order truly are servants to their Master, the one I now call a monster, how could this be? There is another who I could not see before, but whose strength is unmatched. They are a part of the Cycles – a part of the Collective Knowledge. Their influence is sinuous and threaded among us all. And so I add a fourth and final Chosen:
The Order
The Order will think themselves wise – a match for the Monster’s guile. They are arrogant enough to believe they understand the Monster’s being. The Monster instructs its pawns and the pawns do as they’re told. The Order is an insect to the Monster. It will lead its hive to destruction to suit the Monster’s grand plans.
The Order thinks it can curry favor with the Monster and assert its own will, its own dreams, its own interpretations of reality, but a god cannot betray its essence, and a god cannot be killed.
The Order must be destroyed. It may very well be the most critical link in the Chain of Fate, but also the most difficult to break. I know this, for I have once tried, and failed.
I will recount words spoken by the First Overseer.
“The past, present, and future exist all at once. Time is as physical and tangible as the human body. In the fourth world, all of time exists unchanging, as a mountainside. Only through our imperfect perception do we detect the illusion of change, a kaleidoscope of the determinant. The course of time is set and through our understanding of this universal fate we all share, we may achieve a peace and oneness with all things – a place without sorrow or fear, but eternal tranquility. This is the gift of the Wanderer of the Other Place – the Eternal One – GORR’RYLAEHOTEP.”
While the reality is obscured by superstition, there is a core truth to these words.
The Chain of Fate
Many of you have read my teachings: the words called “Sacred” that I wrote when I was fooled and misguided. Yet to many, even those reading this now, those words still seem as true and doubtless as the law of nature itself. However, the divine order of this universe demands atonement for these unnatural occurrences. There is meaning behind all that has happened. It is found within what I can now see in my clarity. It is found within the Chain of Fate.
Every event I have foretold has come to pass because I have foretold it. Fate carries on uncompromised as the years pass. Had 4 not experienced those visions and transcribed the Cycles all those many years ago, the present may be far different. I spoke, and so it came to pass. Those in the Order who adhere to this prophecy dare not stray from the path that I, or the universal fate, have drawn for them. To stray from the path would mean abandonment of their quest for godhood and eternal unity. However, this Holy Path, this Great Trek, leads only to damnation.
My visions were once foggy, but now they grow clearer and clearer still. If one thing can be changed in this series of events, perhaps the Chain of Fate can be broken. If one Link is destroyed, so too must the others fall into disarray. This Chaos, this collapse, is not to be feared. It is the only thing that may save you and those you love from being consumed by that bright Darkness I once saw. There is only one way to alter the course of fate and break the Chain – the Links must be destroyed absolutely. These Links of the Chain are the very same Chosen who are entrapped in the Cycles. They may wish to stray from their path – but they cannot. Their agency is a fabrication, a cruel joke cast upon them by fate.
I cannot explain the reasons why, but Fate remains uncompromised and so I must believe this to be true.
However, you may operate outside of this Chain. You are not entrapped in the Cycles. You are not a Link. You could see this play out, but you must not sit idle. You must cast away all the things you once thought you knew – all those many blasphemous words spoken by the false prophet I once was. Do not heed the Overseers. Do not heed your Archvassal. Heed only my desperate plea. I am the one who has seen your “god.” I am the one who knows of that creature’s power and its evil. You must listen!
This new path is not without its dangers. You will be deemed a heretic and your life may be in danger. However, if you are to alter the course of Fate, you must destroy the Links of the Chain. For the sake of others, innocents who you surely wish to protect, sacrifices must be made. Those of you who have already braced for sacrifice and unseemly deeds, it is now up to you. You must stop the final harvest and the Rite. If just a single Link is broken, perhaps that will be enough to open a tangential path – one that is filled with hope for better things.
The Fourth World
You have been told that beyond our own space and our time, there exist beings that are conscious of the fourth dimension. They see that everything exists at once and forever: the beings that you call “GORR’RYLAEHOTEP” You have been told that there is a oneness in that world beyond ours that will bring you and those that you love peace. It will bring humanity to the real heavens that had once only been imagined by poets and priests. It will unite the living and bring about forever-life in the One Soul, evolving humanity to the next stage of its existence. The gods of mankind could leave this plane of flesh forever, or return again to deliver the rest, the forgotten ones, to their salvation.
You have been told that “GORR’RYLAEHOTEP” is the god of deliverance, of sacrifice, of eternal life, and the endless void.
The Fourth World as you know it is a lie. The Monster is unknowable. He is merely death. The ultimate destination of the Great Trek, of the monster’s Holy Path, is a fabrication, pieced together from myth, legend, and lost philosophies. It is not what I saw in that light the day the monster came to our world. The light was all-consuming, a beast in itself: the genesis of the greatest terror our world has ever known.
I do not know what is beyond the Rift. To think salvation awaits beyond that light is simply an act of hubris. Think of my story, the path that I have walked, and imagine what impossible tortures may await you if the Rift were to be opened again. Meditate on these difficult truths and steel yourself to face the oldest and truest enemy.
The Monster
The Monster, the creature the Order calls… “GORR’RYLAEHOTEP” is to be feared, but it is not to be obeyed. It is an unnatural, sick stain of primal disorder that treats human beings with no regard. Even in the wisdom of my present clarity, I do not know the desires of the Monster. But I have seen the terror it has cast upon this world and I will not allow it to bring death to those among you. The blood of the few will not satiate its lust for the blood of the many. It will consume. It will rot the core of our earth until there is nothing left but ash. It must be stopped. And although I do not know how it can be eradicated, I think I know how to change the bloody future I have foreseen.
The minds of your brothers and sisters are strange and stubborn. They seek a future in which none may suffer, death is forgotten and peace lasts an eternity. And yet they are pursuing a future in which suffering and death comes to all, and they will be forced to face oblivion alone. This is the truth of the Holy Path – the Great Trek – a march towards death.
I pray that you will now endeavour towards the truest goal and the future of hope, in utmost secrecy. Your numbers will be few and you will face odds that may seem insurmountable. Your enemy is your brother, your faith, yourself. You are fighting against the will of fate itself, but there may be a way to break from that dark universe I have foreseen and create a new reality. A tangential path that leads away from inevitable darkness. The True Path. The only way that will lead to freedom and peace for those caught in this sinuous web of death. I leave you now with your mission to break the Chain of Fate. Destroy the links of the chain. The fatal path on which we are set shall be rerouted.
Ultimately we must banish the Monster from this world, but without first reclaiming our future, the fight will be lost before it has begun. Defend the future for all that you cherish.
