Regnum Congo
This leather-bound metal-fitted tome was published in 1598 by Wolffgang Richter in Frankfurt, Germany, as Vera descriptio regni Africani, quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur. Duarte Lopez, a Portuguese merchant, set out for Africa in 1578; five years later, he returned to Europe as the emissary of Álvaro I, king of Kongo. In Rome, Lopez was introduced to the Italian humanist Filippo Pigafetta, who recorded the sailor’s observations, translated them into Italian, and supplemented them with his own research. The resulting text was published in Rome in 1591, followed by various translations, including the 1598 Frankfurt printing – a rendering into Latin by the Spanish Protestant scholar Casiodoro de Reina. This edition features horrific illustrations by the brothers Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de Bry. The text is written in Latin and contains little actual Cthulhu Mythos lore, expect for when the Mythos crosses paths with cannibalism and the many feasting rituals of the Anziques detailed within. While unlabeled, there are several spells hidden within the tome pertaining to cannibalism.
Description
- Author: Filippo Pigfetta
- Date: 1598
- Language: Latin
- Number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
- Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
- Study: 7 weeks
- Sanity Loss: 2/1D8
- Mythos Lore: +0/2
- Occult Lore: +0
- Spells: Consume Likeness, Devour Enemy’s Strength, Feast of Cleansing, Food of Life, Ingest Thoughts, Second Skin
Associated Mythos Elements
Appearances
- fiction: "The Picture in the House" (TO_DO)
- sourcebook: Island of Ignorance: The Third Cthulhu Companion
