Recorded Across Generations.
For Those Who Come After.
Nine human faces upon the body of a great bird. It reaches into the mind. It fills the darkness with sound: nine voices at once, overlapping and discordant, that turn your own thoughts against you until you cannot tell your will from its own. It hunts in darkness and makes more of it. Only fire and light hold against it: the flame it cannot enter, the lit path it will not cross. It was killed once. A hunter cornered it, after a battle that took nearly all who came with him, and finished it with fire. But he did not know its heart was the real trap. He ate it, and felt nothing at first. Three days later, the faces surfaced. One after another they pushed up from beneath his own, nine minds forcing their way into a single skull, until the man who ate it was no longer there. One of his squad survived, and carried the account back out. It was the last expedition anyone made into the Ruin: they had learned there was nothing here to win, only things to become. And one of the bird's nine faces is now the hunter's.
九张人面，生在一只巨鸟的身上。 它探入人心。它以声灌满黑暗，九重错乱叠加的嗓音，将你自己的念头扭过来对付你，直到你再分不清哪是己意、哪是它意。它在黑暗中狩猎，又亲手造出更多黑暗。唯有火与光能挡住它：火焰它不敢近，照亮的路它不肯过。 它曾被杀死过一次。一名猎人在一场几乎折损所有同伴的血战之后，将它逼入绝境，以火了结了它。可他不知道，它的心才是真正的陷阱。他食下那颗心，起初毫无所觉。三日之后，那些脸便浮现出来，一张接一张，从他自己的脸下涌上，九副心智挤进一颗头颅，直到那个吃下它的人再也不在了。 那支队伍只一人生还，把这段经过带了出来。自那以后，再没有人踏入这乱葬岗：他们已然明白，这里没有什么可赢的，只有一些东西，会让你变成它。 那只鸟的九张脸，其中一张，成了那猎人的脸。
棲 北極櫃山 Mount Beijigui
大荒之中，有山名曰北極天櫃，海水北注焉。有神，九首人面鳥身，名曰九鳳。