Emperor's Army of Terracotta Soldiers

Standing in impentratable stone
Carved out of time
The Soldiers stand
An implacable foe
Never resting
Always waiting
With swords
Ready to weild
And fight to the death.
Austere, yet formidable
There is no sleep to be had
Protecting the Emperor
In the afterlife
8,000 strong
With chariots and horses
All at the ready
Who would dare disturb the Emperor's Tomb?
Awake him from his sleep?
Peel back his rich treasures
And trespass on his sacred ground?
A place where gold and jade converge
Where mercury ran like rivers
And even the ceiling was decorated
With heavenly bodies.

Lines = 24.

Prompt for: Feb 21 (Fyn/Ren) ▼

Subject or Theme: Terra Cotta Soldiers
Word(s) to Include: implacable, wield (or any derivatives of these words)
Forbidden Word(s): hand, thumb, museum (or any derivatives of these words)
Additional Parameters: Min 24 lines
Remember, do not use forbidden words ANYWHERE, including title or the brief description. NOTE: we came up with the idea for this prompt BEFORE the recent news.

hiking a ride! Thumb stolen!

Implacable: unable to be placated.
"he was an implacable enemy of Ted's"
synonyms: unappeasable, unforgiving, unsparing;
More relentless; unstoppable.
"the implacable advance of the enemy"
8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses,
its northern side was rich in gold, and its southern side rich in beautiful jade; the First Emperor, covetous of its fine reputation, therefore chose to be buried there".[4][5] Sima Qian wrote that the First Emperor was buried with palaces, towers, officials, valuable artifacts and wondrous objects. According to this account, 100 flowing rivers were simulated using mercury, and above them the ceiling was decorated with heavenly bodies below which were the features of the land. Some translations of this passage refer to "models" or "imitations"; however, those words were not used in the original text, which makes no mention of the terracotta army.