They came from beyond the world, from over the world, from under the world.

They came from inside the stars and from behind the rain.

They came from the known lands and they came from the secret places of old.

The vast ones who drank of the nebulae, the small ones who did not care what happened beyond the
banks of their rivers, the ones who bathed in the light and the ones who watched from the shadows,
the ones who loved us and the ones who forgot about us,
the ones who hate us now and the ones who love us still, the ones who sung with the rats and
the ones who swam with the leviathans, they came from far and near, they came one and all.

They came to end the world.