A Forgotten Horror Unearthed
Deep in the archives of forbidden lore, buried beneath layers of redacted history and whispered warnings, lies the name Phaelariax Vylorn—a figure so reviled that entire civilizations erased him from their records. Yet fragments remain, scattered across crumbling manuscripts, encrypted tablets, and the fevered dreams of those who dare to dig too deep.
This is not just a myth. This is a suppressed truth.
Who—or what—was Phaelariax Vylorn? Why was his existence systematically scrubbed from history? And what catastrophic secret forced the ancients to bury all evidence of his reign?
The answers may shatter what you think you know about the past.
I. The First Sin: The Birth of a Monster
A. The Scholar-King of Vorthal
Before he became a curse upon the world, Phaelariax was a prodigy—a philosopher-king in the lost empire of Vorthal. Texts describe him as “a mind like quicksilver, weaving truths and lies into a single, unbreakable thread.” His treatises on metaphysics, politics, and the nature of power were revolutionary.
But brilliance has a price.
B. The Forbidden Knowledge
In the ruins of Vorthal’s grand library, archaeologists found a single intact scroll—the Black Epistles. Written in Phaelariax’s own hand, it detailed his descent into the Hollow Teachings, an arcane doctrine claiming that reality was a prison, and the gods were its jailers.
“What we call divinity is merely the fear of the unseen chains. I shall break them.”
—Black Epistles, Fragment VII
C. The Ritual That Broke the World
Historical fragments suggest Phaelariax performed the Rite of Unbinding—a ritual meant to “peel back the veil” of existence. Survivors (those few who dared speak of it) claimed the sky split open that night.
And something looked back.
II. The Great Erasure: How History Was Rewritten
A. The Silence of the Victors
After Phaelariax’s disappearance, Vorthal collapsed. But the strangest detail? No records of his reign survived. Not a single monument, not one official chronicle. It was as if he had never existed.
Except for the whispers.
B. The Cult of the Nameless
Secret societies—the Order of the Veil, the Silent Choir—kept his teachings alive. Their texts speak of “The One Who Was Unmade”, a being who “walked between the cracks of the world.”
“He is not dead. He is unwritten.”
—Cipher of the Silent Choir
C. The Archaeological Cover-Up
In 1987, Dr. Elias Krayne discovered a buried temple in modern-day Turkmenistan. Inside, murals depicted a faceless king surrounded by screaming figures. The site was bulldozed within 48 hours.
Krayne vanished a week later. His last journal entry:
“They don’t want us to remember. But he remembers us.”
III. The Modern Echoes: Is Phaelariax Still Out There?
A. The Digital Glitch Phenomenon
Since 2012, hackers and cybersecurity experts have reported anomalous data packets appearing in deep-web archives—always containing the same phrase:
“The door is still open.”
B. The Sleepers Who Dream of Him
A 2020 study by the Stanford Sleep Research Center documented 47 unrelated subjects who reported identical nightmares of “a man with no face, standing at the edge of reality.”
C. The Final Warning
In a declassified CIA memo from 1969, one line stands out:
“If the name is spoken three times in the wrong place, the binding weakens.”
Conclusion: The Truth They Buried
Phaelariax Vylorn was more than a man. More than a myth.
He was an experiment in forbidden knowledge—one that went catastrophically right.
And if the fragments are to be believed, he’s still out there.
Waiting.
Watching.
And one day, when the world forgets to fear his name…
He will return.
Postscript: A Warning to the Curious
This article is a reconstruction from scattered, often contradictory sources. Some details may be inaccurate.
Or perhaps they’re too accurate.
Do not speak his name aloud.
Do not dig deeper.
And if you dream of a faceless king?
Pray you wake up.
