I: Spoke The Huntress 

“Hail, Metachthonic! You there! Chthonic human in 
this post-natural world. You stand in isolation 
from the verdant Gaian nation. All you! Welcome 
to Metachthonia! Thoughtbuilt walls hold you all. 
You’ve risen from the Earth long after it 
birthed the age where cold light Shines above 
sun-warmth. You stand in isolation from the 
verdant Gaian nation. Though stalwart, cold 
logic is not enough for the pyric human to 
thrive and burn. If in the valley of the spirit ice 
lies across the river, it’s never in breaking 
through the ice. It's in the burning of the brand 
—in the warming of the land—that ice will 
lift. All you! Welcome to Metachthonia! Those 
without fire have kept you from burning 
brighter. 

II: The Bone Hand 

At the black edge of defeat, shatter the bones 
of your adversary. And howl out to the glowing night; 
drink deep its immortality. Before we go into 
the ground—before the bone hand drags us in 
—seek the moments of euphoria, the fires that 
light the great hall of a life. Relentless pursuer 
of enigma, incessant as the snow that falls, 
stand, lungs aflame, over your prey. Drink 
deep of burning clarity. 

III: Topos, Mythos, Anthropos 

“Huntress! I feel so cold, so tired. I’ve always 
charged, I've never baulked. But now the 
summit seems so far. Huntress! Have you ever 
been, so cold and tired, like the dead of 
winter?” “Metachthonic, you are weathered, 
not broken. Be-cause it is dark will there never 
be light? Because it is cold will there never be 
warmth? It is not the dead of winter. It is the heart of 
winter. Know you not the land on which you 
tread? For, under the snow, a heart beats hard. 
Can you not see its image in the self? Run 
with me. We will hunt the spirit of the land. In 
the solar glow, we will hunt. Hunt with me 
where topos, mythos, anthropos* collide. Woven to 
our souls we take our prize. Hear its beating 
heart; see the ice lift off the river. Weave this 
tapestry to adorn the great hall of life. 

*topos - place, location (cf. toponym); mythos - story, 
myth, legend; anthropos - human being