At beginning of light
Where the energy gathered
Grew a sentience that was the prime
Laced with flickers of madness
As these forces drove out into dark
And the fires began to form
Each holding a mind of its own
From whence the star gods were born
The sleeping giants have awoken
Our feeble devices have broken their slumber
I begin to see
My mind grows clear
Long I lay dormant
Yet my thoughts are keen
I bathe in power
We are the Tre'aste
And I will feast upon these wretches in their ignorance
Out of the sky fire, into the darkness
We are the star gods, I will consume thee
Our imprudence
Is now all too clear
What we have stirred
Is vengeance incarnate
The fuel of the stars
Is no satiety
They will pursue us to the ends of the universe
We are but mortals, our fate is sealed
As we now accede eternity
Having stripped this plane of mortal flesh
We return once more to our dormancy
And await the renewal of life force
The Tre'aste sleep once more in the fire
Until the cycle can begin again
Where the energy gathered
Grew a sentience that was the prime
Laced with flickers of madness
And the fires began to form
Each holding a mind of its own
From whence the star gods were born
Our feeble devices have broken their slumber
My mind grows clear
Long I lay dormant
Yet my thoughts are keen
I bathe in power
We are the Tre'aste
And I will feast upon these wretches in their ignorance
We are the star gods, I will consume thee
Is now all too clear
What we have stirred
Is vengeance incarnate
The fuel of the stars
Is no satiety
They will pursue us to the ends of the universe
Having stripped this plane of mortal flesh
We return once more to our dormancy
And await the renewal of life force
Until the cycle can begin again
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This songs seems to be about the feeble life between birth and death, but what i can't figure out is the meaning of the title "Tre'aste". Does anyone have any idea what this could mean?
"tre aste" in italian seems to mean "three auctions", but that's quite far-fetched and wouldn't account for the apostrophe.
The name of the band is derived from a character of "Warhammer". Could "Tre'aste" have some kind of meaning in this context?
I think it could be a number of things, interpreted literally it could be about some supremely powerful and immortal beings (the Tre'aste) that help keep balance in the universe, and when humans start messing things up these being awaken and fix things. Looking at the song in this way, the point of view also changes several times in the song. It seems to start with an all knowing narrator who doesn't exist in that plane, like from a book, then switches to a human, or the human perspective, then to the point of view of the Tre'aste, back to...
I think it could be a number of things, interpreted literally it could be about some supremely powerful and immortal beings (the Tre'aste) that help keep balance in the universe, and when humans start messing things up these being awaken and fix things. Looking at the song in this way, the point of view also changes several times in the song. It seems to start with an all knowing narrator who doesn't exist in that plane, like from a book, then switches to a human, or the human perspective, then to the point of view of the Tre'aste, back to the human PoV, back to the Tre'aste PoV, then back to the narrator to end it.
Looking at it after a while, it could be about humans "start to mess things up" as you said, but then maybe the PoV doesn't actually change, but humans perhaps start to think that they are the Tre'aste, that they "are the star gods".
Looking at it after a while, it could be about humans "start to mess things up" as you said, but then maybe the PoV doesn't actually change, but humans perhaps start to think that they are the Tre'aste, that they "are the star gods".
At first, there is this light and energy, like a creation myth. But it already contained some kind of madness, which is important ("prime"). This could be a hint for the interpretation. The fires with "Each holding a mind of it's own" could be humans (though i have to admit that it...
At first, there is this light and energy, like a creation myth. But it already contained some kind of madness, which is important ("prime"). This could be a hint for the interpretation. The fires with "Each holding a mind of it's own" could be humans (though i have to admit that it fits to ancient deities as well).
Later the humans realise, that their "imprudence is now all too clear", they invoked some kind of vengance by their arrogance and conceitedness. There he says that "we are just mortals", in contrast to the former statement: "I bathe in power, we are the Tre'aste".
Then, the "mortal flesh" dies, and lays dormant, for maybe life in general to await a rebirth. They "accede eternity", eternity being a metaphor for death.
I don't know enough about the background of the band to say this for certain, but one could see in that the humans exploiting and destroying the earth, until life stops eventually, for some time in the future to start again.
It's hard to be sure when there are no real hints about the perspectives of the stanzas. There is this switch from I to We, that i can't really make sense of.
From my understanding, this song is about a race called the necrontyr, or necrons, in warhammer. many passages in the song could be interpretted as a reference to this.
From my understanding, this song is about a race called the necrontyr, or necrons, in warhammer. many passages in the song could be interpretted as a reference to this.
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'Star Gods' ...'We are the Star Gods, i will consume thee' reference to the c'tan, gods who lived inside the stars and where given a physical shell by the necrons. the star gods were treacherous beings who consumed themselves in hunger.
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'Star Gods' ...'We are the Star Gods, i will consume thee' reference to the c'tan, gods who lived inside the stars and where given a physical shell by the necrons. the star gods were treacherous beings who consumed themselves in hunger.
'Our feeble devices have awoken their slumber' While they have been around for millions of years, the necrons have been asleep for most of the time, and tend to be awoken...
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'Our feeble devices have awoken their slumber' While they have been around for millions of years, the necrons have been asleep for most of the time, and tend to be awoken when human explorator missions stumble upon their tombs. If you know the lore well, this point is enforced by several other lines.
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'As we now accede eternity Having stripped this plane of mortal flesh We return once more to our dormancy And await the renewal of life force'
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The original reason why the necrons didn't destroy the universe is because they needed to harvest more life, and they jhad already killed off most of it. So they decided to lay dormant for millions of years so the galaxy could repopulate.
The vast majority of this information was garnered from the first chapter of codex: necrons.
I hope it has been helpful.