Veilwalker

Verse 1

Beneath the veils where ashen hollows breathe,

A shadow slips where living light should leave.

No footprint scars the crystal sand, no cry,

Just sudden stillness where the hopeful die.

Chorus

Oh, Veilwalker, myth of blood and night,

You come unbidden, steal the final light.

They swear you’re fable, tale for fools to dread,

Yet graves stay silent where the living fled.

Verse 2

In oases bright where Aona’s crystals gleam,

You cut the threads of those who taint the dream.

Through jungle roots and carnival’s false delight,

Your blade finds hearts that beat against the light.

Verse 3

The Sentinels hunt you, or so the stories claim,

Yet even they grow quiet when they speak your name.

Forged in Lúmenar’s truths that will not bend,

You end what should have ended—then begin again.

Bridge (spoken or half-sung, voices dropping to a whisper)

Hide your faces when the wind forgets to moan,

When the Great Oasis waters turn to stone.

A child’s laugh can vanish between one breath and next—

The Veilwalker takes the ones the world forgets.

Final Chorus (louder, almost defiant, then fading)

Oh, Veilwalker, we sing your name in fear,

So you might pass our door and leave us here.

Believed a myth by kings and sages wise,

But every empty bed still testifies.