Hyperborean Scrolls
The Hyperborean Scrolls originate in Return to Dunwich (Supplement).
Description
A set of fragile scrolls, possibly recently transcribed, photographed, or repaired, which originated in an ancient Hyperborean colony in what is now Dunwich, containing writings on a variety of unguessable mundane subjects relating to everyday life in the colony (ceremonial culture, law, religion, agriculture, record-keeping, etc.), plus a few scrolls relevant to Hyperborean science which, though untranslatable to English, may import a great deal of valuable information on lost technologies. There is also a little information on the Voormis and Sasquatch, and some sketchy speculation on abandoned Mi-Go technology by Hyperborean mad scientists, specifically regarding to Spawn of Abhoth, Abhoth, alien horticulture, chemistry, and Voormi/human crossbreeding techniques, brain surgery, and medical testing.
- author: Unknown
- date: Unknown (dates to the Thurian Age)
- language: Hyperborean
- number of known copies (if rare): (probably unique)
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (a copy was found in a pyramid under Dunwich in the 1920s)
- study: 4 weeks
- sanity loss: moderate
- Hyperborean Lore: minor (mostly pertains to the hills of Dunwich)
- Hyperborean Physics: major (25% on a successful Idea roll)
- spells: (applied Hyperborean Physics relating to engineering and technology might resemble some Mythos spell effects, e.g. Gate spells)
Associated Mythos Elements
- setting: Thurian Age (the origin of the scroll)
- location: Dunwich (ancient geography and history)
- location: Hyperborea (some geography and history of this lost continent)
- race: Hyperborean (pertaining to local culture and day-to-day life of a lost local Dunwich-centered colony of outcasts, with some useful scientific/magical information)
- race: Voormis, Sasquatch (pertaining to the breeding and interbreeding of these beings and humans)
- race: Mi-Go (pertaining to an abandoned colony)
- deity: Abhoth, Spawn of Abhoth (pertaining to a gate to this entity, the moon's effects on it, and probably the nature, control, and exploitation of its spawn)
- deities: Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, Yig, Tsathoggua, Atlach-Nacha (apparently passing references to ruined temples once erected in their honor)
Appearances
- sourcebook: Return to Dunwich (Supplement)
