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MMCM - Prologue; Fivefold Map of the Imajica

Full Album - The Fifth Door:    • The Fifth Door   MMCM - Prologue; Fivefold Map of the Imajica There are truths too wide for a single world to hold without tearing. When the strain becomes unbearable, reality does what bodies do under pressure; it splits, it scars, it rearranges itself to survive. Five Dominions emerged from that necessity, not as inventions, but as compartments of the same living whole. Each carried a different climate of meaning, a different gravity of law, a different idea of what a soul is allowed to be. Four Dominions remembered that they were fragments of one circle. Their borders remained soft. Passage existed, even when it was denied, even when it was misunderstood. Pilgrims crossed without knowing they had crossed. Kings made war without realizing the ground under their armies was borrowed. Saints were born, miracles were witnessed, and the witnesses swore their oaths on books that did not exist in the Fifth. The Fifth Dominion was severed. Earth was not annihilated; it was isolated. The door was closed with purpose, and the purpose became a story told differently depending on who benefited from forgetting. Generations learned to accept the shut wall as the natural edge of existence. The absence of the other Dominions became a background hum, a missing note nobody knew they were missing. Names still survive in the cracks. A city of indulgence. Mountains that teach restraint. A holy threshold guarded by what does not lie. A Dominion of vows and sanctuaries, where devotion can be both ladder and trap. And Earth, the exile that never consented to its exile. The circle exists whether believed or not. The circle waits whether worshipped or not. What was closed can open again. --- There are worlds that touch without meeting, five rooms around one locked heart. Four learned the old embrace and kept their routes open, one stayed severed, proud and sleeping, calling itself complete. I speak from pigment and confession, from a hand that once made miracles with a brush. Listen; I will name the compass points, so every later wound has a place to bleed into. First, the Dominion that faces the center. Second, the Dominion of hard air and high silence. Third, the Dominion of markets, pleasure, and rule by appetite. Fourth, the Dominion of sanctuaries that pretend they are gentle. Fifth, the Dominion that forgets it is one of five. Fifth is streetlight and paperwork, bedrooms and betrayal, a place where angels become gossip and gods become metaphors. Its gates were bricked up in ancient consequence, and the citizens learned to call the missing door a myth. Here, murder can be ordered with a phone call, and love can be spent as if it were coin. Here, a woman runs from a marriage that hunts her, and an assassin wears a borrowed face to finish a contract. Fourth is a sky that burns green-gold by day, purple by night, and holy architecture that makes even violence feel ceremonial. Patashoqua raises its walls with prayers and politics, and pilgrims learn that devotion can hide a blade. The Fourth is where the faithful keep records of miracles, and where the desperate barter for passage onward, because the road is not a straight line, it is a circle that demands you return what was stolen. Third is the barbaric glitter of Yzordderrex, a city that laughs while it eats, then asks for dessert. Two suns watch the palace windows, and an Autarch sits on a throne built from borrowed history. Here, desire becomes law, and law becomes a performance. Here, prophets sell tomorrow in the marketplace, and the Pivot, moved from its rightful ground, groans under the theft. Second is the comet-sun’s cold blessing, and the Jokalaylau peaks, haunted by old vows. It is a place that sharpens thought until it cuts, where travelers learn restraint or die from their own hunger. Second teaches the body humility, and the mind a harsher music. Those who cross it carry fewer illusions, and more need. First is the border of the greatest mystery, the threshold kept by the Mystif, the gate that refuses the untrue. Beyond it lies the Holy City of the Unbeheld, where every lie you cherished is taken from your hands. --- Imajica is a work of fiction written and copyrighted by Clive Barker. All related characters, worlds, and concepts remain the property of their original rights holders. This album is a non-commercial, unofficial homage created as a personal artistic interpretation, with no claim of ownership or affiliation.