CODA

Verse

When the fires thinned and the screaming ceased,

When even dragons turned away,

They walked the field of fused black stone

Where night still felt like day.

No body lay where he had fallen,

No blood marked where he stood—

Only scorched earth and silence

Where an army once had moved.

Chorus (low, uneasy)

They found the armor still standing,

Ashen Maw cracked but unbowed,

Nyxdrave’s hilt sunk deep in stone,

As if still guarding ground.

No man inside—yet none would touch it,

No order dared be given then,

For every soul there felt the truth:

It was still ready…

To fight again.

Verse II

Fire had failed to claim it fully,

Steel refused to cool or dim,

And those who stepped too close swore

They heard a breath within.

Not a ghost, not a god, not rage—

Just pressure, weight, intent,

Like the world itself remembered him

And hadn’t quite consented.

Chorus

They found the armor still standing,

Facing where the foe had fled,

Not fallen, not surrendered,

Not marked among the dead.

And none could say with honest voice

That if the drums had rolled once more,

The Dreadwolf would not have moved again

And finished what was started before.

Bridge (whispered, spoken)

Some say the armor waits for him.

Some say it waits for no one.

Some say fire learned fear that day

And has not spoken since.

Final Refrain

So tell the tale as you must tell it—

Of crowns and wars and dragon flame—

But leave this truth untouched by doubt:

They never proved he fell.

They only proved

That when the world tried to end him…

It ran out of strength

Before he did.

Outro (barely sung)

Ash to ash.

Steel stands fast.

The flame remembers…

The last.