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Sarnath

2014-07-08T00:19:33Z

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:''Do not confuse with [[Sharnoth]].''

'''Sarnath''' is an ancient city that was destroyed long ago. Sarnath was built on a nameless lake near [[Ib]]. In its time it was famed as the most splendid in [[Mnar]] a region of the [[Dreamlands]].

Sarnath was founded when dark skinned explorers ventured out past the Ai River and came to a quiet lake "fed by no stream and out of which no stream flows." The men of Mnar built Sarnath not far from Ib, hating the beings of Ib they marched on the city and destroyed it. Sarnath was by far the richest of the cities of Mnar, and traded precious metals and gems with Thraa, Ilarnek and Kadatheron. Ilarnek is the closest city to Sarnath.

==The City==
Sarnath was surrounded by chiseled marble walls 450 feet (137 meters) high and wide enough that two chariots could pass each other on the top. The wall surrounded the city and was open to the lake where a giant sea wall stopped freak waves that occur once a year.The city streets were paved in onyx or granite. The fifty streets running from the lake to the wall each ends with a bronze gate topped with statues of lions and elephants.

Houses in Sarnath featured shining domes, walled gardens, and "lakelets." They were constructed of glazed bricks and quartz and featured types of construction not found anywhere else in the Dreamlands. Large palaces and mansions were also common, built very tall with massive paintings of armies and kings. the largest of these was the palace of the kings of Mnar. The throne was carved from a sold piece of ivory, though what source such a large piece was from has been lost, and two golden lions sat astride the throne. The palace also contained many amphitheaters where men and lions fought.

Some of the largest buildings in Sarnath were the seventeen tower temples all built from multi colored stone. The largest of these was a full 1500 feet (457 meters) tall. Within each tower the head priests lived in splendor to rival that of the kings. Below each tower were massive halls where worshippers prayed to Zo-Kalar and Tamash and Lobon the gods of Sarnath. In the highest tower was also kept a chrysolite altar from Sarnath's founding on which the symbol of DOOM was carved by the first head priest Taran-Ish.

Equally splendid were the gardens constructed by Zokkar the olden king. The entire gardens were walled off and topped with a glass dome. The gardens were artificially kept spring like with the use of concealed fans and fires to adjust the temperature. Images of the sun, moon, and stars were hung whenever it wasn't clear enough to see the real thing. Between the ordered terraces and waterfalls were many small altars and shrines.

==Religion and Festivals==
Zo-Kalar and Tamash and Lobon are the chief gods of Sarnath, though many gods, large and small were worshipped there. Seventeen of these were worshipped in the huge towered temples while many of the smaller gods were worshipped in shrines in the gardens. The chief gods had huge altars and gold thrones were incense was burned. The gods were considered so close to life that many thought they actually sat in their thrones. They are depicted as bearded and graceful.

Many of the religious rites enacted by the high priests reflect the hatred of the [[Great Old One]] [[Bokrug]]. Bokrug was once worshipped in nearby Ib which the armies of Sarnath destroyed. At the time a carved green stone image of Bokrug was taken into Sarnath as a trophy and left on a crystallite altar. The same night the statue disappeared. Taran-Ish the first head priest was found dead of terror having carved the symbol of DOOM on the altar.

Once a year the people of Sarnath celebrate the destruction of Ib a neighboring city once populated by flabby green creatures. Great orgies were had with much food and wine. The kings of Mnar looked out over the lake and cursed the bones of the deab people of Ib while paying honor to the shades of those who slay them. At first the priests of Sarnath looked down on the celebrations worried by the stories of Taran-Ish and the occasional lights seen in the lake.

==The Destruction of Sarnath==
On the thousandth festival of the destruction of Ib Sarnath itself disappeared.

The celebration was the biggest and most rich ever held, many princes and travelers visited during the festival. The head priest Gnai-Kah spied dark shadows flowing off the moon into the lake and a mass of green mist issuing from the lake and towards the city. The mist filled the city and terror reigned. The many visitors to Sarnath fled in horror claiming that ghosts of the flabby beings of Ib had come as ghosts bearing platters of burning rubies. No trade ever came from Sarnath again.

For five hundred years no one visited the lake until explorers from Falona came. No city remained. A green stone statue of a lizard was found buried in the swampy shore. The statue was taken to Ilarnek where it became the chief god for all of Mnar, worshipped under the gibbous moon.

==Appearances==
*[[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Doom That Came to Sarnath]]"
*[[Lin Carter]] - ''[[The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation]]''

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Ib

2014-07-07T23:31:27Z

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The City of Ib features in the [[H.P. Lovecraft]] story "The Doom that came to [[Sarnath]]." The city was built by strange amphibian beings, who may have dwelt on the moon, in the land of [[Mnar]], possibly located in the [[Dreamlands]]. The beings of Ib worshipped a [[Great Old One]] called [[Bokrug]], a water lizard deity. The city was destroyed by the men of neighboring Sarnath some time after Ib was built. The Beings of Ib would have their revenge on the men of Sarnath years later. Today Ib is nothing but ruins.

It is not made explicit whether the city is truly in the Dreamlands, or in the ancient Middle East. However in the ''Dream-Quest of Unkown Kadath'' locations near Sarnath and Ib, Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron, are mentioned as being prosperous trading ports in the Dreamlands.

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Voynich Manuscript

2014-02-21T23:06:22Z

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'''The Voynich Manuscript''' is a series of papers found in an Italian castle in 1912 and is attributed to Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk who died around 1294. It seems to be written in Medieval Arabic lettering of a Latin and Greek script. It covers biological topics and has diagrams of cell structures well ahead of it's time.

It should be noted that the '''Voynich Manuscript''' is a real manuscript that has never been translated and is presently housed in the Yale University.

=Contents=
The book has 116 pages which feature it's odd writing and many biological drawings of roots or plants. It also had sketches of amazingly detailed cell structures and microscopic organisms, despite the manuscripts age.

The lettering of the book appears to be in a cypher, but with closer study this "shorthand" is actually a result of the ancient ink flaking off the page. The actual letters are in Medieval Arabic that is transliterated into a mixture of Greek and Latin.

==Newbold Translation==
Professor [[W. Romaine Newbold]] translated the cypher under the incorrect assumption that it was in a cypher, and found the text to be a scientific treatise on cell structures and microscopic organisms. Written by Roger Bacon it seemed to be amazingly before it's time. After Newbold's death it was discovered that the papers were not in a cypher after all, so his translation was discounted.

==Lang Translation==
Around the 1960s [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] had the manuscript photographed in color and was able to complete the lettering, for the first time. Paul Lang took five months to complete the lettering, and began translating the lettering from the Arabic. It was Lang who theorized that the book was written by an Arabian physician writing in Greek and Latin. It was then that he found the title page, in clear Greek, [[Necronomicon]]. The manuscript was a fragment or digest of that greater text.

The book professed to be a complete scientific account of the universe: it's origin, history, geography, mathematical structure, and hidden depths. It contains advanced scientific theory mixed with medieval magical theories. It is not the whole original work and may be authored by more than one person. The manuscript itself is simply a summary of the main work and the author refers to himself as "Martinus Hortulanus", or Martin Gardener.

Newbold's theories of highly advanced scientific writing were not completely incorrect, the text mentions fragments of quantum theory, and human genomes, and it also mentions [[Azathoth]]. Further supporting the theory that this is the work of Roger Bacon are allusions to occult and contemporary texts. Next to an illustration of a spermatozoon is a reference to the ''Sefer Yezirah'' the Book of Creation in the Kabbala. The ''Ars Magna'' of Raymond Lull are also referenced. (Ratmond Lull was another Fransican monk who died in 1315.) Other references include: Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet, Cleopatra's book on gold making, the ''Chrysopoeia'', the gnostic serpent Ouroboros, a planet or star called Tormantius, and the "[[Khian language]]." The Khian language is mentioned by [[Arthur Machen]].

=History=
The Voynich manuscript was found by Wilfred M. Voynich in Italy in an unnamed castle. It was brought to the United States in 1912. With it was found a letter asserting it's ownership of two 17th century scholars and that it had been penned by Roger Bacon, a monk.

It's cypher piqued the interested of American scholars for nine years until Prof. [[W. Romaine Newbold]] announced he had cracked it in 1921. With an intensification of publicity Prof. Newbold announced the contents. Apparent;y Roger Bacon had invented the microscope some four hundred years before Leeuwenhoek, and had made some amazing scientific discoveries with it.

But, after Prof. Newbold's death in 1926, his friend Roland Kent, who continued his work, discovered that the cipher was in fact a result of the flaking of the dried ink. Scholastic interest waned and the Voynich manuscript sunk back into obscurity.

It is housed in the University of Pennsylvania's library.

==Sources==
* Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Barrier of Naach-Tith

2014-02-20T07:02:36Z

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The Barrier of Naath-Tith

2014-02-20T07:00:26Z

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The Barrier of Naath-Tith is a fictional incantation which first appeared in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Dylath-Leen. It features heavily in another of his short stories The Horror at Oakdeene.
==Description==
The Barrier of Naath-Tith (also known as the Wall of Naach-Tith or Naath-Tith's Barrier) is a powerful formula which may be used to create a barrier to build an invisible forcefield of great strength.
As well as being used to create protective fields the barrier can also be used as a temporary means of imprisoning an entity. It has even proven capable of holding a [[Great Old One]] captive on several occasions. Casters should be careful lest the Barrier prove a prison as well as a safeguard.

I have been unable to find more than the first few words of the formula used to create this barrier. The words are as follows

''Lethiktros Themiel, phitrithte klep-thos'' -From the [[Cthäat Aquadingen]] - remaining text is corrupt and illegible.

This formula is often employed by the summoners of [[Yibb-Tstll]] to protect those within from the god's possible displeasure. For this reason the Barrier is referred to as Soul Sealing in a number of magical texts (the English Book of Eibon mistranslates this as Soul Searing).

==Locations==
The words required to raise the barrier are relatively obscure and may prove hard for the enterprising sorcerer. The Latin translation of the Cthaat Aquadingen mentions the spell but only in passing. Most copies of the [[The Book of Eibon|Liber Ivonis]] contain the correct formula though it is missing from the English Translation.

The spell may also be found in Chapter Ten of the [[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]]

===Spell Rules===
Create Barrier of Naath-Tith provides magical and physical defense. Costs 1D10 san and a variable number of mp of one or multiple casters. Each magic point spent adds 1D6 points of Str. It takes 1 minute to cast and the barrier lasts 1D4+4 hours. Anyone who knows the spell can participate. Projectiles can pass through the barrier if it's damage is higher than the Str. People inside the barrier can escape by overcoming the Str of the barrier. They can't combine their Str.

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Barrier of Naach-Tith

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Barrier of Naach-Tith

2014-02-20T06:58:57Z

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The '''Barrier of Naach-Tith''' is a magical barrier created in a ritual to "seal the souls" of the chanter when [[Yibb-Tstll]] is summoned and which can be used to provide a barrier in other circumstances. The barrier is spherical in shape and extends 100 yards in diameter. The caster chooses where the barrier exists. Any creature bisected by the barrier is pushed out of the circle unharmed. Bullets can bust through the barrier.

It is hinted at in the ''[[Cthaat Aquadingen]]''. The complete version can be found in the library of [[Celaeno]], or possibly the ''[[Fourth Book of D'harsis]]''.

Create Barrier of Naach-Tith provides magical and physical defense. Costs 1D10 san and a variable number of mp of one or multiple casters. Each magic point spent adds 1D6 points of Str. It takes 1 minute to cast and the barrier lasts 1D4+4 hours. Anyone who knows the spell can participate. Projectiles can pass through the barrier if it's damage is higher than the Str. People inside the barrier can escape by overcoming the Str of the barrier. They can't combine their Str.

* Call of Cthulhu Rule book 5.5
* Harms, Daniel, and Shannon Appel. The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana. Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1998. Print.
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Zombie

2014-02-20T06:49:23Z

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'''Zombies''' are an undead creature, usually humans who have risen from the grave, though sometimes can be magically controlled people or animals.

The term zombies originally come from the Haitian "zombis" created by paralyzing a victim with poison sending them into a death like trance. Once layer out for a certain period the spell caster could make the person come back and do simple commands.

Later zombies came to mean undead people, who literally came back from the dead, rotting and eating human flesh. Typically they are slow, but unnaturally strong. It is variable if they are intelligent or not. In [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s story ''[[Herbert West, Reanimator]]'' the main character [[Herbert West]] attempts to bring back humans with a special serum. This leads to zombie like creatures who eventually kill him. In popular media recently stronger faster zombies have been more present, while slower zombies are more comedic. Some zombies are also portrayed with special powers, extreme strength, acidic spit, etc.

==In the Mythos==
Death in the mythos is not always the barrier it seems. Often a strong willed person can keep their consciousness in their dead body or possess other's bodies. [[Herbert West]] created zombie like monsters with failed medical experiments, and [[Joseph Curwen]] resurrects bodies with the "essential salts" of the dead. However zombies feature in mythos stories more explicitly as well.

[[Robert Bloch]] imagines a sorcerer who's body parts crawl around to murder it's killer. [[Robert E. Howard]]'s voodoo related story ''[[Pigeons from Hell]]'' where a woman has become a [[zuvembie]] a far worse version of the voodoo zombi. Howard also features zombie like vampires in his [[Solomon Kane]] story ''[[The Hills of the Dead]]''.

Zombies also appear in many, many Call of Cthulhu scenarios. Too many to list.

Many spells exist in the Mythos to create zombies.
* Black Binding
Controllable grave born zombie. Costs 16mp and 1D6 San to cast. The caster pours a ritual liquid over a corpse or into a grave. After a week the caster returns to the body or grave and intones the Black Binding. After a half hour the zombie claws its way out. The caster can control it and it continues to rots as normal.
* [[Bind Soul]]
A soul is trapped and the body can be turned into a simple zombie.
*Create Zombi
Turns a living human into a zombi. Costs 10mp and 4 San.
-The magician or bokor paralyzes their victim by making them inhale the powder (POT 25 poison) made from blowfish innards and alkaloids. The target falls into a trance that is indistinguishable from death. They are still conscious but cannot move.
-The bokor then buries the person alive in a coffin a tube is inserted so they can breath. For every hour the person must make a San roll or lose 1D6 San. If they go insane they accept the will of the bokor to dispel the terror.
-Thee nights later the bokor comes back and casts the spell. They must make a Pow v. Pow if the victim hasn't already been broken. If the spell succeeds the target is stripped down to 1 Pow and they can be controlled as a zombi by the bokor. If the spell fails the sorcerer can just cover the breathing tube and leave the victim to suffocate.
*Create Zombie
Creates a zombie from a corpse. Cost 1D10 San and 1 Pow. The caster puts an ounce of their blood into the mouth of the corpse, kisses the lips of the corpse and “breathes part of the self” into the body. This is when the Pow is lost. If the spell succeeds the caster may give the zombie simple commands. If the caster dies the zombie become inactive and rots. Part of the invocation refers to the Outer Gods.
*[[Create Heart Seeker]] or Seek Heart
Quickens and makes a corpse seek out a fresh heart to replace it's own. Costs 6 San and 8 mp. They must be withing a 100 yards and see the corpse to cast it. The corpse has to be drained of blood and the heart removed. This preparation takes 1D3 hours. The corpse jumps up and runs to find the closest human target and tries to rip the victim's heart out and place it in it's own chest. It stands in ecstasy before collapsing and rotting away. The spell lasts the corpses Str+Con+Pow in minutes. If it fails the corpse laments and decays.

Once a zombie is created a magician might use the spell Eyes of the Zombie to personally control the zombie. Each cast costs 3 mp and 15 San, and is effective for 1D3 months. The eyes of the zombie are removed and put in a chemical bath, the casters eyes are also removed and stored for safety. Then the zombie's eyes are placed in the caster's sockets. They murmur a phrase and they can directly control the zombie body. Replacing the eyes takes a reversal spell.

*Spells from 5.5 Call of Cthulhu rulebook
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Zombie

2014-02-20T06:48:50Z

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Bind Soul

2014-02-20T06:27:23Z

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'''Bind Soul''' is a spell that allows the caster to imprison a human soul and control or murder the body. The soul has to be found and the caster must over come it's Pow. Once trapped the soul's body looses 2 Con per day until dead. The spell requires a suitable vessel to contain the soul. It can be released by breaking the container. The [[Powder of Ibn-Ghazi]] or other invisible revealing spells will show the link between the soul and the body.

Once the soul is imprisoned the magician can use the spell Compel Flesh to control the body like a [[zombie]].

Bind soul costs 10 mp and 3 san to cast.
Compel flesh costs 5 mp and 3 San to create and an additional mp for every ten game rounds that the spell lasts

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Baneful Dust of Hermes Trismegistus

2014-02-20T06:23:27Z

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The '''Baneful Dust of Hermes Trismegistus''' is a gold colored dust that harms creatures of nonterrerestrial origin. A Chemistry or Pharmacy roll is required. Thrown and causes 2D6 damage with no armor penalties.

If the throw roll misses it still does 1 point of damage. It's affect is horrible causing 0/1D3 san loss, the body of the target burns and smokes as if burnt with acid. It is made of common chemicals and must weight at minimum 2 pounds when creating it. Each does is 2 ounces or more.

Costs 4 mp and no San to create.

* Edition 5.5 Call of Cthulhu Rule book
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Baneful Dust of Hermes Trismegistus

2014-02-20T06:22:36Z

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Dread Curse of Azathoth

2014-02-20T06:18:22Z

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The caster utters the last syllable of the true name of Azathoth and drains 1D3 POW. Saying the true name alone can also be used to prove your power to other mythos knowledgeable people or entities.

Costs 4 mp and 1D6 san.

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Dread Curse of Azathoth

2014-02-20T06:17:54Z

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Paul Dunbar Lang

2014-02-16T06:41:52Z

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'''Paul Dunbar Lang''' is an American professor who lived in the 1960s and disappeared on a flight to Washington in 1969 with Colonel Urquart the author of ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''. He is a creation of [[Colin Wilson]] and features in his story ''[[The Return of the Lloigor]]''.

In the 1960s Professor Lang came to hear about the [[Voynich Manuscript]]. He picked up where [[ W. Romaine Newbold]]'s work on translating the piece ended. By hiring a color photographer he was able to reproduce the originally faded lettering and translate what turned out to be an introduction to a translation of the [[Necronomicon]]. Being intrigued by the work he followed mentions of [[Aklo]] in [[Arthur Machen]] and [[Lovecraft]]'s work to Wales.

There he met Colonel Urquart and discovered his theory of the [[lloigor]]. According to Urquart, and later backed up by Lang, the lloigor were invisible entities responsible for most of Earth's supernatural events, as well as general violence and cruelty in certain parts of the world. To "warn" the world of the threat the lloigor posed on humanity Prof. Lang hosted a conference at 83 Gower Street in London. However his theories, and that of Urquart were discounted. Later he was tabled with other cranks obsessed with UFOs and the like.

The pair moved to the United States to escape their general ridicule by other scholars and continued their warnings.

In 1969 Paul Lang was contacted by Senator Pinckney to invite them to Washington to meet with the Secretary for Defense. Had they been able to convince him they would have talked to the President. However while taking a flight on a private Cessna 311 to Washington Prof. Lang, Colonel Urquart and the pilot Captain Harvey Nichols disappeared along with the plane. No wreckage was ever discovered.

His account of his time in Wales and his theories were published along with his collection of newspaper articles "proving" his theory were published by his nephew Julian F. Lang in 1969. In his ending note Julian Lang theorizes that either Prof. Lang had been duped by Urquart, or had made it a personal joke.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Mu

2014-02-16T06:28:18Z

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'''Mu''' is a sunken continent that may have existed in the South Pacific between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago. It was inhabited by the [[lloigor]], [[Ghatanothoa]], and the lloigor's human slaves.

The lloigor and the humans were the two primary races that lived on Mu. The lloigor, who are invisible "vortexes of energy" fed off of the humans to survive. They also can draw huge amounts of energy for explosions of destruction, and this is what caused the destruction of Mu.

The human population of Mu is thought to live on in the Welsh people.

The book is mentioned in the [[Naacal]] tablets, and ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''.

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The Masked Messenger

2014-02-16T06:27:33Z

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The Masked Messenger is the title of a fictional volume which first appeared in [[David Conyers]] short story 'The Faceless Watchers'.

==Description==
The book was written in 1726 by Sharinza: the high priestess of the Sisterhood and a concubine of Sultan Moulay Ismailand. Rumour says the books contents was inspired by the [[Al Azif]] which Sharinza glimpsed in her youth. Studying the Masked Messenger has an enervating effect which causes the reader to feel weak and drained.

==Contents==
The Masked Messenger is a five hundred and fifty page volume made up of five hundred different short stories. The original versions of the ''Messenger'' are written in Classic Arabic.

Many of these tales feature an entity known as the Masked Messenger which brings knowledge and destruction to the protagonists. The Dark Pharaoh [[Nephren Ka]] and the sorcerer [[Abdul Alhazard]] are mentioned in a number of the stories. Many mythos locations are discussed in the book including the fabled city of [[Irim]] in the Arabian desert, the catacombs of [[Nitocris]] under Memphis and the mysterious lost temple of the Masked Messenger. A number of towns and kingdoms in the Dreamlands are referred to by name.

==Colbridge Translation==
In 1928 Professor Colbridge of the British Museum translated a portion of The Masked Messenger into English. Unfortunately Colbridge's disappearance the next year left the work unfinished. The work was latter published by a Mr [[Rudolph Pearson]].

==Role Playing Game Stats==

; Original Version '' : Sanity Loss 1D6/1D12; Cthulhu Mythos + 10 Percent. Average 24 weeks to study and comprehend/48 hours to skim.

; ''Colbridge Version'' : Sanity Loss 1D2/2D4; Cthulhu Mythos + 3 Percent. Average 6 weeks to study and comprehend/12 hours to skim.

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The Mysteries of Mu

2014-02-16T06:27:10Z

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'''The Mysteries of Mu''' is a book written by Colonel Lionel Urquart on the sunken content of [[Mu]]. The Colonel claims the people of Wales come from Mu and discounts the works of other scholars on both Wales and Mu. In general it is perhaps not the most scholastic work, but some of the Colonel's theories are sound.

The book was published in the 1960s and features a "luridly designed dust jacket" with the title in scarlet letters.

===Contents===
The book discusses the Colonel's theories on Mu, based on relics, certain greenish lakes he claims were left behind by the people of Mu, and Churchward's [[Naacal]] tablets.

The book recounts a basic history of Mu, that it was inhabited by two races, one a form of man, the other the alien [[lloigor]]. [[Ghatanothoa]] also lived with the lloigor there. The lloigor kept humans as slaves and fed off of their energy. The lloigor are by definition pessimistic. According to Urquart the Earth, being young, has an increase in positive energy. Evolution tends towards complication and the destruction of negative forces. Since the lloigor had to fight this "energy" they used humans as slaves to feed off and continue to survive.

Mu itself was destroyed by the lloigor. Urquart claims too that several other cities around the world were destroyed by the creatures. The lloigor have the power to cause huge explosions which leave behind the greenish contaminated lakes. He also claims the grand canyon was formed in this way.

Furthermore he goes on to postulate that lloigor still exist and feed off of people, causing depression. He claims that the Welsh are directly descended from the lloigors slaves, resulting in those peoples general depression and higher crime rate. (This author claims no knowledge on the topic of Welsh crime rates so can't say if this fact is true)

The book probably has little practical use, his theories and arguments too disjointed to be coherent. However it is possible he is correct in some way.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Lloigor

2014-02-16T06:24:58Z

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Originally, '''Lloigor''' was a [[Great Old One]] created by [[August Derleth]], said to be the twin of [[Zhar]] and child of [[Shub-Niggurath]].

==Species==
The '''lloigor''' are an alien species that feature in [[Colin Wilson]]'s story ''[[The Return of the Lloigor]].'' They are invisible "vortices of energy," but can take monstrous, reptilian physical forms. They came to Earth and settled on the content of [[Mu]] which existed between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago.

On Mu the lloigor kept human slaves to feed off of. The lloigor have a unified mind, not like human compartmentalized minds, were naturally pessimistic. Because of this and it's clash with Earths more upwards moving evolution the species have to feed on optimistic energy of people to survive. It is unknown why the lloigor left their original home somewhere in the Andromeda nebula, but the Earth's nature is hostile to them. Nowdays they are only really powerful below ground.

===Literature===
The primary source of information on the lloigor are Churchward's [[Naacal]] tablets, and ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''.

[[Arthur Machen]]'s stories based in Wales have certain connections to the lloigor who may now live there. He describes certain idiot families who breed with unknown evils, this has been connected to the lloigor.

[[Lovecraft]]'s story ''[[The Shunned House]]'' has also been connected. A theory emerges that the vampiric entity that sucks the breath from it's victims might also be a lloigor.

===Powers===
The lloigor have the power to manifest themselves and cause huge explosions, one of these caused the destruction of Mu itself. The destruction of many other cities and locales have also been attributed to them, including in ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]'' the grand canyon. These eruptions or rains of fire are said to leave behind strange greenish lakes of contaminated water, of which many can be found around the world. This "explosion" may in fact be the lloigor clawing their way out of the Earth causing earthquake like destruction, then physically tearing the area, and any inhabitants apart. The hole left behind then is filled with water causing the green lakes.

The main power of the lloigor is to drain energy from their victims causing depression and violent tendencies. According to ''The Mysteries of Mu'' this proves that the Welsh people are descendants of the human slaves of the lloigor, and that the Welsh serpent is one of these creatures.

The lloigor also have incredible powers of surgery, they are able to detach limbs completely and keep their victims alive. They can also cause tentacle like blisters to grow on their victim's bodies. They use this to control their hosts. The Naacal tablets show drawings of victims with tentacle blisters growing from both eye sockets.

Because the lloigor are normally immaterial they can manipulate objects, this would appear as if the objects were moving of their own accord. They can also touch humans if they want and will attempt to hurt those who might reveal their existence. Pushing victims down stairs or tripping them up are definite possibilities. They could also demagnetize compass needles, or affect other objects of matter. They are most powerful when underground, or in hollows.

The lloigor can also appear as a large reptile.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Mu (Cthulhu mythos)

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Mu

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Lloigor

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Originally, '''Lloigor''' was a [[Great Old One]] created by [[August Derleth]], said to be the twin of [[Zhar]] and child of [[Shub-Niggurath]].

==Species==
The '''lloigor''' are an alien species that feature in [[Colin Wilson]]'s story ''[[The Return of the Lloigor]].'' They are invisible "vortices of energy," but can take monstrous, reptilian physical forms. They came to Earth and settled on the content of [[Mu]] which existed between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago.

On Mu the lloigor kept human slaves to feed off of. The lloigor have a unified mind, not like human compartmentalized minds, were naturally pessimistic. Because of this and it's clash with Earths more upwards moving evolution the species have to feed on optimistic energy of people to survive. It is unknown why the lloigor left their original home somewhere in the Andromeda nebula, but the Earth's nature is hostile to them. Nowdays they are only really powerful below ground.

===Literature===
The primary source of information on the lloigor are Churchward's [[Naacal]] tablets, and ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''.

[[Arthur Machen]]'s stories based in Wales have certain connections to the lloigor who may now live there. He describes certain idiot families who breed with unknown evils, this has been connected to the lloigor.

[[H.P.Lovecraft]]'s story ''[[The Shunned House]]'' has also been connected. A theory emerges that the vampiric entity that sucks the breath from it's victims might also be a lloigor.

===Powers===
The lloigor have the power to manifest themselves and cause huge explosions, one of these caused the destruction of Mu itself. The destruction of many other cities and locales have also been attributed to them, including in ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]'' the grand canyon. These eruptions or rains of fire are said to leave behind strange greenish lakes of contaminated water, of which many can be found around the world. This "explosion" may in fact be the lloigor clawing their way out of the Earth causing earthquake like destruction, then physically tearing the area, and any inhabitants apart. The hole left behind then is filled with water causing the green lakes.

The main power of the lloigor is to drain energy from their victims causing depression and violent tendencies. According to ''The Mysteries of Mu'' this proves that the Welsh people are descendants of the human slaves of the lloigor, and that the Welsh serpent is one of these creatures.

The lloigor also have incredible powers of surgery, they are able to detach limbs completely and keep their victims alive. They can also cause tentacle like blisters to grow on their victim's bodies. They use this to control their hosts. The Naacal tablets show drawings of victims with tentacle blisters growing from both eye sockets.

Because the lloigor are normally immaterial they can manipulate objects, this would appear as if the objects were moving of their own accord. They can also touch humans if they want and will attempt to hurt those who might reveal their existence. Pushing victims down stairs or tripping them up are definite possibilities. They could also demagnetize compass needles, or affect other objects of matter. They are most powerful when underground, or in hollows.

The lloigor can also appear as a large reptile.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Mu

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Lloigor

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Puriridevry:

Originally, '''Lloigor''' was a [[Great Old One]] created by [[August Derleth]], said to be the twin of [[Zhar]] and child of [[Shub-Niggurath]].

==Species==
The '''lloigor''' are an alien species that feature in [[Colin Wilson]]'s story ''[[The Return of the Lloigor]].'' They are invisible "vortices of energy," but can take monstrous, reptilian physical forms. They came to Earth and settled on the content of [[Mu]] which existed between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago.

On Mu the lloigor kept human slaves to feed off of. The lloigor have a unified mind, not like human compartmentalized minds, were naturally pessimistic. Because of this and it's clash with Earths more upwards moving evolution the species have to feed on optimistic energy of people to survive. It is unknown why the lloigor left their original home somewhere in the Andromeda nebula, but the Earth's nature is hostile to them. Nowdays they are only really powerful below ground.

===Literature===
The primary source of information on the lloigor are Churchward's [[Naacal]] tablets, and ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''.

[[Arthur Machen]]'s stories based in Wales have certain connections to the lloigor who may now live there. He describes certain idiot families who breed with unknown evils, this has been connected to the lloigor.

[[H.P.Lovecraft]]'s story ''[[The Shunned House]]'' has also been connected. A theory emerges that the vampiric entity that sucks the breath from it's victims might also be a lloigor.

===Powers===
The lloigor have the power to manifest themselves and cause huge explosions, one of these caused the destruction of Mu itself. The destruction of many other cities and locales have also been attributed to them, including in ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]'' the grand canyon. These eruptions or rains of fire are said to leave behind strange greenish lakes of contaminated water, of which many can be found around the world.

The main power of the lloigor is to drain energy from their victims causing depression and violent tendencies. According to ''The Mysteries of Mu'' this proves that the Welsh people are descendants of the human slaves of the lloigor, and that the Welsh serpent is one of these creatures.

The lloigor also have incredible powers of surgery, they are able to detach limbs completely and keep their victims alive. They can also cause tentacle like blisters to grow on their victim's bodies. They use this to control their hosts. The Naacal tablets show drawings of victims with tentacle blisters growing from both eye sockets.

Because the lloigor are normally immaterial they can manipulate objects, this would appear as if the objects were moving of their own accord. They can also touch humans if they want and will attempt to hurt those who might reveal their existence. Pushing victims down stairs or tripping them up are definite possibilities. They could also demagnetize compass needles, or affect other objects of matter. They are most powerful when underground, or in hollows.

The lloigor can also appear as a large reptile.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Lloigor

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Puriridevry:

Originally, '''Lloigor''' was a [[Great Old One]] created by [[August Derleth]], said to be the twin of [[Zhar]] and child of [[Shub-Niggurath]].

==Species==
The '''lloigor''' are an alien species that feature in [[Colin Wilson]]'s story ''[[The Return of the Lloigor]].'' They are invisible "vortices of energy," but can take monstrous, reptilian physical forms. They came to Earth and settled on the content of [[Mu]] which existed between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago.

On Mu the lloigor kept human slaves to feed off of. The lloigor have a unified mind, not like human compartmentalized minds, were naturally pessimistic. Because of this and it's clash with Earths more upwards moving evolution the species have to feed on optimistic energy of people to survive. It is unknown why the lloigor left their original home somewhere in the Andromeda nebula, but the Earth's nature is hostile to them.

===Literature===
The primary source of information on the lloigor are Churchward's [[Naacal]] tablets, and ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''.

===Powers===
The lloigor have the power to manifest themselves and cause huge explosions, one of these caused the destruction of Mu itself. The destruction of many other cities and locales have also been attributed to them, including in ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]'' the grand canyon. These eruptions or rains of fire are said to leave behind strange greenish lakes of contaminated water, of which many can be found around the world.

The main power of the lloigor is to drain energy from their victims causing depression and violent tendencies. According to ''The Mysteries of Mu'' this proves that the Welsh people are descendants of the human slaves of the lloigor, and that the Welsh serpent is one of these creatures.

The lloigor also have incredible powers of surgery, they are able to detach limbs completely and keep their victims alive. They can also cause tentacle like blisters to grow on their victim's bodies. They use this to control their hosts. The Naacal tablets show drawings of victims with tentacle blisters growing from both eye sockets.

Because the lloigor are normally immaterial they can manipulate objects, this would appear as if the objects were moving of their own accord.

The lloigor can also appear as a large reptile.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Lloigor

2014-02-16T05:27:24Z

Puriridevry:

Originally, '''Lloigor''' was a [[Great Old One]] created by [[August Derleth]], said to be the twin of [[Zhar]] and child of [[Shub-Niggurath]].

==Species==
The '''lloigor''' are an alien species that feature in [[Colin Wilson]]'s story ''[[The Return of the Lloigor]].'' They are invisible "vortices of energy," but can take monstrous, reptilian physical forms. They came to Earth and settled on the content of [[Mu]] which existed between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago.

On Mu the lloigor kept human slaves to feed off of. The lloigor have a unified mind, not like human compartmentalized minds, were naturally pessimistic. Because of this and it's clash with Earths more upwards moving evolution the species have to feed on optimistic energy of people to survive. It is unknown why the lloigor left their original home somewhere in the Andromeda nebula, but the Earth's nature is hostile to them.

===Literature===
The primary source of information on the lloigor are Churchward's [[Naacal]] tablets, and ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]''.

===Powers===
The lloigor have the power to manifest themselves and cause huge explosions, one of these caused the destruction of Mu itself. The destruction of many other cities and locales have also been attributed to them, including in ''[[The Mysteries of Mu]]'' the grand canyon. These eruptions or rains of fire are said to leave behind strange greenish lakes of contaminated water, of which many can be found around the world.

The main power of the lloigor is to drain energy from their victims causing depression and violent tendencies. According to ''The Mysteries of Mu'' this proves that the Welsh people are descendants of the human slaves of the lloigor, and that the Welsh serpent is one of these creatures.

The lloigor also have incredible powers of surgery, they are able to detach limbs completely and keep their victims alive. They can also cause tentacle like blisters to grow on their victim's bodies. They use this to control their hosts. The Naacal tablets show drawings of victims with tentacle blisters growing from both eye sockets.

Because the lloigor are normally immaterial they can manipulate objects, this would appear as if the objects were moving of their own accord.

The lloigor can also appear as a large reptile.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

The Mysteries of Mu

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Voynich Manuscript

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'''The Voynich Manuscript''' is a series of papers found in an Italian castle in 1912 and is attributed to Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk who died around 1294. It seems to be written in Medieval Arabic lettering of a Latin and Greek script. It covers biological topics and has diagrams of cell structures well ahead of it's time.

=Contents=
The book has 116 pages which feature it's odd writing and many biological drawings of roots or plants. It also had sketches of amazingly detailed cell structures and microscopic organisms, despite the manuscripts age.

The lettering of the book appears to be in a cypher, but with closer study this "shorthand" is actually a result of the ancient ink flaking off the page. The actual letters are in Medieval Arabic that is transliterated into a mixture of Greek and Latin.

==Newbold Translation==
Professor [[W. Romaine Newbold]] translated the cypher under the incorrect assumption that it was in a cypher, and found the text to be a scientific treatise on cell structures and microscopic organisms. Written by Roger Bacon it seemed to be amazingly before it's time. After Newbold's death it was discovered that the papers were not in a cypher after all, so his translation was discounted.

==Lang Translation==
Around the 1960s [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] had the manuscript photographed in color and was able to complete the lettering, for the first time. Paul Lang took five months to complete the lettering, and began translating the lettering from the Arabic. It was Lang who theorized that the book was written by an Arabian physician writing in Greek and Latin. It was then that he found the title page, in clear Greek, [[Necronomicon]]. The manuscript was a fragment or digest of that greater text.

The book professed to be a complete scientific account of the universe: it's origin, history, geography, mathematical structure, and hidden depths. It contains advanced scientific theory mixed with medieval magical theories. It is not the whole original work and may be authored by more than one person. The manuscript itself is simply a summary of the main work and the author refers to himself as "Martinus Hortulanus", or Martin Gardener.

Newbold's theories of highly advanced scientific writing were not completely incorrect, the text mentions fragments of quantum theory, and human genomes, and it also mentions [[Azathoth]]. Further supporting the theory that this is the work of Roger Bacon are allusions to occult and contemporary texts. Next to an illustration of a spermatozoon is a reference to the ''Sefer Yezirah'' the Book of Creation in the Kabbala. The ''Ars Magna'' of Raymond Lull are also referenced. (Ratmond Lull was another Fransican monk who died in 1315.) Other references include: Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet, Cleopatra's book on gold making, the ''Chrysopoeia'', the gnostic serpent Ouroboros, a planet or star called Tormantius, and the "[[Khian language]]." The Khian language is mentioned by [[Arthur Machen]].

=History=
The Voynich manuscript was found by Wilfred M. Voynich in Italy in an unnamed castle. It was brought to the United States in 1912. With it was found a letter asserting it's ownership of two 17th century scholars and that it had been penned by Roger Bacon, a monk.

It's cypher piqued the interested of American scholars for nine years until Prof. [[W. Romaine Newbold]] announced he had cracked it in 1921. With an intensification of publicity Prof. Newbold announced the contents. Apparent;y Roger Bacon had invented the microscope some four hundred years before Leeuwenhoek, and had made some amazing scientific discoveries with it.

But, after Prof. Newbold's death in 1926, his friend Roland Kent, who continued his work, discovered that the cipher was in fact a result of the flaking of the dried ink. Scholastic interest waned and the Voynich manuscript sunk back into obscurity.

It is housed in the University of Pennsylvania's library.

==Sources==
* Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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W. Romaine Newbold

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'''W. Romaine Newbold''' is professor at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on the [[Voynich Manuscript]] in the 1920s.

Prof. Newbold claimed to have cracked the cypher the Voynich manuscript was written in and claimed it contained the scientific theories of Roger Bacon. Bacon, a Franciscan monk who died around 1294 seemed to have invented the microscope 400 years early. According to Newbold's work Bacon had written a great deal about cell structure and microscopic organisms well before his time.

Newbold's translation of the work was incredibly exciting and was upheld as a great work of American scholarship.

Professor Newbold died in 1926. His work was continued by his friend Roland Kent, who sadly discounted most of it. Under the microscope Bacon's cypher turned out to be a product of flaking ink, leaving half letters. The manuscript and Newbold's work fell into obscurity until it was picked back up by [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] in the 1960s.

*Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.
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Necronomicon

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The ''Necronomicon'' is the title of a fictional book created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. Numerous other authors including [[Clark Ashton Smith]], [[Brian Lumley]], [[Ramsey Campbell]] and [[Keith Herber]] have added to its contents over the years.
==Description==
The Kitab al Azif (original Arabic title of the Necronomicon) was written in the early 8th century by [[Abdul Alhazred]]. Alhazred was a poet in the court of a minor nobleman in the city of Sanaá. For reasons unknown he left the city and spent ten years wandering in the deserts. During this time he visited places such as [[Irim]]; City of the Pillars, the catacombs of Egypt and the temple of [[Nug and Yeb]] in the Crimson Desert. In his old age Alhazred lived in the great city of Damascus, where he produced the Kitab al Azif. In the long years that followed many translations of this great work have been made.

==Contents==
Alhazred's knoweldge is so extensive and wide ranging that describing all the al Azif's contents in such a short space would be nigh on impossible. However, I shall endeavour to give a short list of samples (note: there are many more spells I haven't listed).

*A section that mentions creatures beyond the threshold of space such as the [[Tomb Herd]].

*A description of the powers the Other Name of Azathoth gives the wielder (but not the name itself).

*Information on the [[Gulf of S'glhuo]].

*A chapter on a complicated and lengthy process capable of resurrecting the dead.

*A formula for temporarily banishing manifestations of [[Ahtu]].

*Page 984 contains a passage in the [[Naacal]], no translation is given.

*The Zoan Chant; a spell for reflected harmful powers sent against the caster.

*Stories about a [[Ghoul]].

*A formula for [[Mind Transference]].

*Instructions on how to make the [[Powder of Ibn Ghazi]].

*A foot note containing an untitled formula capable of opening a gateway to [[Cthugha]].

*A passage about the [[Crawling Ones]] and the Green Flame [[Tulzscha]].

*Page 751 contains a long chant capable of summoning [[Yog-Sothoth]] is used at the right time.

*Information on the Black Pharaoh [[Nephren-Ka]].

*A large amount of information on the Antarctic [[Elder Things]].

*Information on an ancient aquatic race Alhazred terms the [[Dwellers in the Depths]]. This page also features an astrological chart.

* Page 224 contains the [[Hoy-Dhin Chant]].

* Instructions on how to destroy an egg of [[Yig]] using a combination of musical notes.

*An illustration of the [[Furnace of Nug]].

*A prophecy foretelling the rebirth of the high priest [[Nophru Ka]].

* A chapter on [[Umr-At-Tawil]] and the ultimate gate.

==Quotes==
Here follows a small selection of quotes from various translations of the Necronomicon:

''And it was dreamed again of the priest Nophra-Ka and of the words he spake at his death, how the son would rise to claim the title, and the son would rule the world in his father’s name, and the son would revenge his father’s murder, and the son would call the Beast that is worshipped, and the sands would drink the blood of the seed of the Pharaoh. In this manner did Nophra-Ka prophecy.'' Excerpt from the Kitab al Azif.

''...Verily do we know little of the other universes beyond the gate which YOG-SOTHOTH guards. Of those which come through the gate and make their habitation in this world none can tell; although Ibn Schacabao tells of the beings which crawl from the Gulf of S'ghlhuo that they may be known by their sound. In that Gulf the very worlds are of sound, and matter is known but as an odor; and the notes of our pipes in this world may create beauty or bring forth abominations in S'glhuo. For the barrier between haply grows thin, and when sourceless sounds occur we may justly look to the denizens of S'glhuo. They can do little harm to those of Earth, and fear only that shape which a certain sound may form in their universe...'' Translated from the Latin version.

''...Men know him as the Dweller in Darkness, that brother of the Old Ones called Nyogtha, the Thing that should not be. He can be summoned to Earth's surface through certain secret caverns and fissures, and sorcerers have seen him in Syria and below the black tower of Leng: from the Thang Grotto of Tartary he has come ravening to bring terror and destruction among the pavilions of the great Khan. Only by the looped cross, by the Vach-Viraj incantation, and by the Tikkoun elixir may he be driven back to the nighted caverns of hidden foulness where he dwelleth...'' Translated from the Latin version.

''. . . from the space which is not space, into any time when the Words are spoken, can the holder of the Knowledge summon The Black, blood of YibbTstll, that which liveth apart from him and eateth souls, that which smothers and is called Drowner. Only in water can one escape the drowning; that which is in water drowneth not . . . ''Translated from the Latin version.

''Nor is it to be thought that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraver, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.'' Translated from the Latin version.

==Versions==
=== Kitab al Azif===
The Arabic manuscripts are faithful reproductions of Abdul al Alhazred 's original. These version are written upon scrolls and preserved in codices. All in all its contents total over one thousand pages complete with star charts, formula tables and astrological maps.

===Greek Translation===
In 950 AD [[Theodore Philétas]] of Constantinople made a Greek translation of the Kitab al Azif. This volume was named the Necronomicon after its opening words. Despite a few errors Philétas's reproductions of the book's charts and tables are faithful to Alhazred 's original illustrations. In 1050 the Patriarch Michel had many of copies of the book burnt.

Sometime between 1501 and 1550 the Italian Aldus Manutius commissioned the printing of around one hundred folio sized copies of Philétas's Greek translation.

Interestingly, the Greek translation contains a spell not present in the original. It is a formula used to open a Gate under Memphis through which the black sphinx; one of the million favoured ones, may enter the world. It is unknown whether Philétas added this spell of his own accord or if it had been added to his Arabic version by a previous owner.

=== Latin Translation ===
A Latin translation of Philétas's Greek version was made in 1228 by a Dominican monk named [[Olaus Wormius]] (no relation to the 16th century Danish physician Ole Worm). Unfortunately Wormius's beautifully stylised illustrations robbed many of the star charts of their accuracy. This edition was widely printed up until Pope Gregory IX
outlawed it, after which many copies were destroyed.

The Latin translation was reprinted in 1477 by a German publisher. The production was printed in black letter and a number of woodcuts were added.

Another reprint was made in Spain during the year of 1662. Both this and the above version were 802 page long folios.

===English “Dee” Translation ===
While staying at the home of a [[Baron Hauptman]] the famed occultist [[Doctor John Dee]] made an English translation from Hauptman's Greek copy. Dee's translation is garbled and in many places he has changed outright the meaning of certain things to fit with in his own Enochian beliefs. Never the less, his translations of many of the spells remains accurate. This version exists only in manuscript form.

===The Sussex Manuscript ===
Baron Frederic of Sussex produced a supposed translation in illuminated manuscript form. This translation is rife with inaccuracies and fanciful ideas added by the author. It contains such outlandish misconceptions as [[Cthulhu]] being a manifestation of [[Nyarlathotep]], and [[Abhoth]] having created the solar system. Although this "translation" is commonly called The Sussex Manuscript its proper title is Cultus Maleficarum.

=== Das Verichteraraberbuch===
Doctor [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Junz]] made a translation from an unknown Greek copy. This translation may have been published eight years after his death 1840 but I have been unable to track down any further details.

===[[Voynich Manuscript]]===
The Voynich manuscript was discovered in an Italian castle in 1921 and was translated by [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] in the 1960s. It is a fragment, or summary of the Necronomicon translated in the 1200s. The text was highly hidden, behind both a fake cypher, and a medieval Arabic transliteration of a Greek and Latin mix. It mentions [[Azathoth]] as a "vortex filled with stars" and follows it with a description of quantum theory. It also mentions references to genes and other very advanced scientific theories as well as more occult texts.

== Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Necronomicon==
In 1901 the noted occultist [[ Joachim Ferry]] produced a pamphlet on the book. It is mostly made up of translated quotes from the Latin version, augmented by pages of notes and speculation on their meaning. The accuracy of this publication was called into question when Ferry freely admitted including excerpts from his own dreams.

==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Kitab al Azif'' : Sanity Loss 2D10/1D10; Cthulhu Mythos +18 Percent. Average 68 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Gothic Translation'' : Sanity Loss ?/?; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average ? weeks to study and comprehend/ ?hours to skim.

; ''Greek Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +17 Percent. Average 68 weeks to study and comprehend/? hours to skim.

; '' Latin Translation '' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average 66 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''English “Dee” Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +15 Percent. Average 50 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''The Sussex Manuscript'' : Sanity Loss D/D; Cthulhu Mythos + Percent. Average weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Das Verichteraraberbuch'' : Sanity Loss 2D10/1D10; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average 66 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; '' Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Necronomicon'' : Sanity Loss 1D6/1D3; Cthulhu Mythos +6 Percent. Average 8 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

==links ==
[[Necronomicon Hoaxes]]<br />
[[The Necronomicon in Popular Culture]]<br />
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Necronomicon
==Sources==
* Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Voynich Manuscript

2014-02-16T04:30:48Z

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'''The Voynich Manuscript''' is a series of papers found in an Italian castle in 1912 and is attributed to Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk who died around 1294. It seems to be written in Medieval Arabic lettering of a Latin and Greek script. It covers biological topics and has diagrams of cell structures well ahead of it's time.

=Contents=
The book has 116 pages which feature it's odd writing and many biological drawings of roots or plants. It also had sketches of amazingly detailed cell structures and microscopic organisms, despite the manuscripts age.

The lettering of the book appears to be in a cypher, but with closer study this "shorthand" is actually a result of the ancient ink flaking off the page. The actual letters are in Medieval Arabic that is transliterated into a mixture of Greek and Latin.

==Newbold Translation==
Professor [[W. Romaine Newbold]] translated the cypher under the incorrect assumption that it was in a cypher, and found the text to be a scientific treatise on cell structures and microscopic organisms. Written by Roger Bacon it seemed to be amazingly before it's time. After Newbold's death it was discovered that the papers were not in a cypher after all, so his translation was discounted.

==Lang Translation==
Around the 1960s [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] had the manuscript photographed in color and was able to complete the lettering, for the first time. Paul Lang took five months to complete the lettering, and began translating the lettering from the Arabic. It was Lang who theorized that the book was written by an Arabian physician writing in Greek and Latin. It was then that he found the title page, in clear Greek, [[Necronomicon]]. The manuscript was a fragment or digest of that greater text.

The book professed to be a complete scientific account of the universe: it's origin, history, geography, mathematical structure, and hidden depths. It contains advanced scientific theory mixed with medieval magical theories. It is not the whole original work and may be authored by more than one person. The manuscript itself is simply a summary of the main work and the author refers to himself as "Martinus Hortulanus", or Martin Gardener.

Newbold's theories of highly advanced scientific writing were not completely incorrect, the text mentions fragments of quantum theory, and human genomes, and it also mentions [[Azathoth]]. Further supporting the theory that this is the work of Roger Bacon are allusions to occult and contemporary texts. Next to an illustration of a spermatozoon is a reference to the ''Sefer Yezirah'' the Book of Creation in the Kabbala. The ''Ars Magna'' of Raymond Lull are also referenced. (Ratmond Lull was another Fransican monk who died in 1315.) Other references include: Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet, Cleopatra's book on gold making, the ''Chrysopoeia'', the gnostic serpent Ouroboros, a planet or star called Tormantius, and the "[[Khian language]]." The Khian language is mentioned by [[Arthur Machen]].

=History=
The Voynich manuscript was found by Wilfred M. Voynich in Italy in an unnamed castle. It was brought to the United States in 1912. With it was found a letter asserting it's ownership of two 17th century scholars and that it had been penned by Roger Bacon, a monk.

It's cypher piqued the interested of American scholars for nine years until Prof. [[W. Romaine Newbold]] announced he had cracked it in 1921. With an intensification of publicity Prof. Newbold announced the contents. Apparent;y Roger Bacon had invented the microscope some four hundred years before Leeuwenhoek, and had made some amazing scientific discoveries with it.

But, after Prof. Newbold's death in 1926, his friend Roland Kent, who continued his work, discovered that the cipher was in fact a result of the flaking of the dried ink. Scholastic interest waned and the Voynich manuscript sunk back into obscurity.

It is housed in the University of Pennsylvania's library.

==Sources==
* Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

Voynich Manuscript

2014-02-16T04:28:41Z

Puriridevry:

'''The Voynich Manuscript''' is a series of papers found in an Italian castle in 1912 and is attributed to Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk who died around 1294. It seems to be written in Medieval Arabic lettering of a Latin and Greek script. It covers biological topics and has diagrams of cell structures well ahead of it's time.

=Contents=
The book has 116 pages which feature it's odd writing and many biological drawings of roots or plants. It also had sketches of amazingly detailed cell structures and microscopic organisms, despite the manuscripts age.

The lettering of the book appears to be in a cypher, but with closer study this "shorthand" is actually a result of the ancient ink flaking off the page. The actual letters are in Medieval Arabic that is transliterated into a mixture of Greek and Latin.

==Newbold Translation==
Professor [[W. Romaine Newbold]] translated the cypher under the incorrect assumption that it was in a cypher, and found the text to be a scientific treatise on cell structures and microscopic organisms. Written by Roger Bacon it seemed to be amazingly before it's time. After Newbold's death it was discovered that the papers were not in a cypher after all, so his translation was discounted.

==Lang Translation==
Around the 1960s [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] had the manuscript photographed in color and was able to complete the lettering, for the first time. Paul Lang took five months to complete the lettering, and began translating the lettering from the Arabic. It was Lang who theorized that the book was written by an Arabian physician writing in Greek and Latin. It was then that he found the title page, in clear Greek, [[Necronomicon]]. The manuscript was a fragment or digest of that greater text.

The book professed to be a complete scientific account of the universe: it's origin, history, geography, mathematical structure, and hidden depths. It contains advanced scientific theory mixed with medieval magical theories. It is not the whole original work and may be authored by more than one person. The manuscript itself is simply a summary of the main work and the author refers to himself as "Martinus Hortulanus", or Martin Gardener.

Newbold's theories of highly advanced scientific writing were not completely incorrect, the text mentions fragments of quantum theory, and human genomes, and it also mentions [[Azathoth]]. Further supporting the theory that this is the work of Roger Bacon are allusions to occult and contemporary texts. Next to an illustration of a spermatozoon is a reference to the ''Sefer Yezirah'' the Book of Creation in the Kabbala. The ''Ars Magna'' of Raymond Lull are also referenced. (Ratmond Lull was another Fransican monk who died in 1315.) Other references include: Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet, Cleopatra's book on gold making, the ''Chrysopoeia'', the gnostic serpent Ouroboros, a planet or star called Tormantius, and the "[[Khian language]]."

=History=
The Voynich manuscript was found by Wilfred M. Voynich in Italy in an unnamed castle. It was brought to the United States in 1912. With it was found a letter asserting it's ownership of two 17th century scholars and that it had been penned by Roger Bacon, a monk.

It's cypher piqued the interested of American scholars for nine years until Prof. [[W. Romaine Newbold]] announced he had cracked it in 1921. With an intensification of publicity Prof. Newbold announced the contents. Apparent;y Roger Bacon had invented the microscope some four hundred years before Leeuwenhoek, and had made some amazing scientific discoveries with it.

But, after Prof. Newbold's death in 1926, his friend Roland Kent, who continued his work, discovered that the cipher was in fact a result of the flaking of the dried ink. Scholastic interest waned and the Voynich manuscript sunk back into obscurity.

It is housed in the University of Pennsylvania's library.

==Sources==
* Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

Necronomicon

2014-02-16T04:02:38Z

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The ''Necronomicon'' is the title of a fictional book created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. Numerous other authors including [[Clark Ashton Smith]], [[Brian Lumley]], [[Ramsey Campbell]] and [[Keith Herber]] have added to its contents over the years.
==Description==
The Kitab al Azif (original Arabic title of the Necronomicon) was written in the early 8th century by [[Abdul Alhazred]]. Alhazred was a poet in the court of a minor nobleman in the city of Sanaá. For reasons unknown he left the city and spent ten years wandering in the deserts. During this time he visited places such as [[Irim]]; City of the Pillars, the catacombs of Egypt and the temple of [[Nug and Yeb]] in the Crimson Desert. In his old age Alhazred lived in the great city of Damascus, where he produced the Kitab al Azif. In the long years that followed many translations of this great work have been made.

==Contents==
Alhazred's knoweldge is so extensive and wide ranging that describing all the al Azif's contents in such a short space would be nigh on impossible. However, I shall endeavour to give a short list of samples (note: there are many more spells I haven't listed).

*A section that mentions creatures beyond the threshold of space such as the [[Tomb Herd]].

*A description of the powers the Other Name of Azathoth gives the wielder (but not the name itself).

*Information on the [[Gulf of S'glhuo]].

*A chapter on a complicated and lengthy process capable of resurrecting the dead.

*A formula for temporarily banishing manifestations of [[Ahtu]].

*Page 984 contains a passage in the [[Naacal]], no translation is given.

*The Zoan Chant; a spell for reflected harmful powers sent against the caster.

*Stories about a [[Ghoul]].

*A formula for [[Mind Transference]].

*Instructions on how to make the [[Powder of Ibn Ghazi]].

*A foot note containing an untitled formula capable of opening a gateway to [[Cthugha]].

*A passage about the [[Crawling Ones]] and the Green Flame [[Tulzscha]].

*Page 751 contains a long chant capable of summoning [[Yog-Sothoth]] is used at the right time.

*Information on the Black Pharaoh [[Nephren-Ka]].

*A large amount of information on the Antarctic [[Elder Things]].

*Information on an ancient aquatic race Alhazred terms the [[Dwellers in the Depths]]. This page also features an astrological chart.

* Page 224 contains the [[Hoy-Dhin Chant]].

* Instructions on how to destroy an egg of [[Yig]] using a combination of musical notes.

*An illustration of the [[Furnace of Nug]].

*A prophecy foretelling the rebirth of the high priest [[Nophru Ka]].

* A chapter on [[Umr-At-Tawil]] and the ultimate gate.

==Quotes==
Here follows a small selection of quotes from various translations of the Necronomicon:

''And it was dreamed again of the priest Nophra-Ka and of the words he spake at his death, how the son would rise to claim the title, and the son would rule the world in his father’s name, and the son would revenge his father’s murder, and the son would call the Beast that is worshipped, and the sands would drink the blood of the seed of the Pharaoh. In this manner did Nophra-Ka prophecy.'' Excerpt from the Kitab al Azif.

''...Verily do we know little of the other universes beyond the gate which YOG-SOTHOTH guards. Of those which come through the gate and make their habitation in this world none can tell; although Ibn Schacabao tells of the beings which crawl from the Gulf of S'ghlhuo that they may be known by their sound. In that Gulf the very worlds are of sound, and matter is known but as an odor; and the notes of our pipes in this world may create beauty or bring forth abominations in S'glhuo. For the barrier between haply grows thin, and when sourceless sounds occur we may justly look to the denizens of S'glhuo. They can do little harm to those of Earth, and fear only that shape which a certain sound may form in their universe...'' Translated from the Latin version.

''...Men know him as the Dweller in Darkness, that brother of the Old Ones called Nyogtha, the Thing that should not be. He can be summoned to Earth's surface through certain secret caverns and fissures, and sorcerers have seen him in Syria and below the black tower of Leng: from the Thang Grotto of Tartary he has come ravening to bring terror and destruction among the pavilions of the great Khan. Only by the looped cross, by the Vach-Viraj incantation, and by the Tikkoun elixir may he be driven back to the nighted caverns of hidden foulness where he dwelleth...'' Translated from the Latin version.

''. . . from the space which is not space, into any time when the Words are spoken, can the holder of the Knowledge summon The Black, blood of YibbTstll, that which liveth apart from him and eateth souls, that which smothers and is called Drowner. Only in water can one escape the drowning; that which is in water drowneth not . . . ''Translated from the Latin version.

''Nor is it to be thought that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraver, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.'' Translated from the Latin version.

==Versions==
=== Kitab al Azif===
The Arabic manuscripts are faithful reproductions of Abdul al Alhazred 's original. These version are written upon scrolls and preserved in codices. All in all its contents total over one thousand pages complete with star charts, formula tables and astrological maps.

===Greek Translation===
In 950 AD [[Theodore Philétas]] of Constantinople made a Greek translation of the Kitab al Azif. This volume was named the Necronomicon after its opening words. Despite a few errors Philétas's reproductions of the book's charts and tables are faithful to Alhazred 's original illustrations. In 1050 the Patriarch Michel had many of copies of the book burnt.

Sometime between 1501 and 1550 the Italian Aldus Manutius commissioned the printing of around one hundred folio sized copies of Philétas's Greek translation.

Interestingly, the Greek translation contains a spell not present in the original. It is a formula used to open a Gate under Memphis through which the black sphinx; one of the million favoured ones, may enter the world. It is unknown whether Philétas added this spell of his own accord or if it had been added to his Arabic version by a previous owner.

=== Latin Translation ===
A Latin translation of Philétas's Greek version was made in 1228 by a Dominican monk named [[Olaus Wormius]] (no relation to the 16th century Danish physician Ole Worm). Unfortunately Wormius's beautifully stylised illustrations robbed many of the star charts of their accuracy. This edition was widely printed up until Pope Gregory IX
outlawed it, after which many copies were destroyed.

The Latin translation was reprinted in 1477 by a German publisher. The production was printed in black letter and a number of woodcuts were added.

Another reprint was made in Spain during the year of 1662. Both this and the above version were 802 page long folios.

===English “Dee” Translation ===
While staying at the home of a [[Baron Hauptman]] the famed occultist [[Doctor John Dee]] made an English translation from Hauptman's Greek copy. Dee's translation is garbled and in many places he has changed outright the meaning of certain things to fit with in his own Enochian beliefs. Never the less, his translations of many of the spells remains accurate. This version exists only in manuscript form.

===The Sussex Manuscript ===
Baron Frederic of Sussex produced a supposed translation in illuminated manuscript form. This translation is rife with inaccuracies and fanciful ideas added by the author. It contains such outlandish misconceptions as [[Cthulhu]] being a manifestation of [[Nyarlathotep]], and [[Abhoth]] having created the solar system. Although this "translation" is commonly called The Sussex Manuscript its proper title is Cultus Maleficarum.

=== Das Verichteraraberbuch===
Doctor [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Junz]] made a translation from an unknown Greek copy. This translation may have been published eight years after his death 1840 but I have been unable to track down any further details.

===[[Voynich Manuscript]]===
The Voynich manuscript was discovered by [[Paul Dunbar Lang]] in the 1960s to be a copy of the Necronomicon. The text was highly hidden, behind both a fake cypher, and a medieval Arabic transliteration of a Greek and Latin mix.

== Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Necronomicon==
In 1901 the noted occultist [[ Joachim Ferry]] produced a pamphlet on the book. It is mostly made up of translated quotes from the Latin version, augmented by pages of notes and speculation on their meaning. The accuracy of this publication was called into question when Ferry freely admitted including excerpts from his own dreams.

==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Kitab al Azif'' : Sanity Loss 2D10/1D10; Cthulhu Mythos +18 Percent. Average 68 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Gothic Translation'' : Sanity Loss ?/?; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average ? weeks to study and comprehend/ ?hours to skim.

; ''Greek Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +17 Percent. Average 68 weeks to study and comprehend/? hours to skim.

; '' Latin Translation '' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average 66 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''English “Dee” Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +15 Percent. Average 50 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''The Sussex Manuscript'' : Sanity Loss D/D; Cthulhu Mythos + Percent. Average weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Das Verichteraraberbuch'' : Sanity Loss 2D10/1D10; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average 66 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; '' Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Necronomicon'' : Sanity Loss 1D6/1D3; Cthulhu Mythos +6 Percent. Average 8 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

==links ==
[[Necronomicon Hoaxes]]<br />
[[The Necronomicon in Popular Culture]]<br />
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Necronomicon
==Sources==
* Wilson, C. P. "The Return of the Lloigor." Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. N. pag. Print.

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Voynich Manuscript

2014-02-16T03:39:50Z

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'''The Voynich Manuscript''' is a series of papers found in an Italian castle in 1912 and is attributed to Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk who died around 1294. It is written in english and is either in a cypher or short hand, or it's age has left the letters worn, making reading difficult. It covers biological topics and has diagrams of cell structures well ahead of it's time.

[Contents]
The book has 116 pages which feature it's odd writing and many biological drawings of roots or plants. It also had sketches of amazingly detailed cell structures and microscopic organisms, despite the manuscripts age.

The lettering of the book appears to be in a cypher, but with closer study this "shorthand" is actually a result of the ancient ink flaking off the page.

[History]
The Voynich manuscript was found by Wilfred M. Voynich in Italy in an unnamed castle. It was brought to the United States in 1912. With it was found a letter asserting it's ownership of two 17th century scholars and that it had been penned by Roger Bacon, a monk.

It's cypher piqued the interested of American scholars for nine years until Prof. [[W. Romaine Newbold]] announced he had cracked it in 1921. With an intensification of publicity Prof. Newbold announced the contents. Apparent;y Roger Bacon had invented the microscope some four hundred years before Leeuwenhoek, and had made some amazing scientific discoveries with it.

But, after Prof. Newbold's death in 1926, his friend Roland Kent, who continued his work, discovered that the cipher was in fact a result of the flaking of the dried ink. Scholastic interest waned and the Voynich manuscript sunk back into obscurity.

It is housed in the University of Pennsylvania's library.

Justin Geoffrey

2013-09-01T21:49:21Z

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'''Justin Geoffrey''' is a fictional character created by [[Robert E. Howard]] and appears in several of his short stories.

Justin Geoffrey is a poet of some note for his weird poems and experience with the [[Cthulhu mythos]]. Much of Justin Geoffrey's life is left in mystery, most of the records of his life are incomplete or ended early.

==Family==
Justin Geoffrey's comes from an old English family that settled in New York in 1690 to restore their fortunes. All of the family, save the poet Justin, are industrious merchants.
Of Justin's three brothers and three sisters all are successful business people. His brother John lives in Cincinnati and works as a banker. Eustace is a junior partner in a lawyer firm and William, the youngest was at Harvard and on his way to become a bond salesman. His sisters are successfully married, a teacher, or graduating from Vassar in New York.

Justin Geoffrey and his poetic talent were considered unusual by his family and he was discouraged by his parents.

==Poetic Talent==
His talent for poetry began manifesting when he was only ten after an experience at a mysterious house in the small Old Dutchtown village in New York State. His parents were visiting friends in town and Justin went fishing with some other boys when he got lost. He was later found sleeping in a grove of oak trees next to a large abandoned house. The house itself later became a subject for New York painter [[Humphrey Skuyler]].

After his night at the house Justin Geoffrey began suffering feverish nightmares, many of which influenced his poetry. These visions and nightmares continued until his death in a madhouse much later.

==Mythos Interest==
Besides his dark and often horrifying poems Justin Geoffrey also exhibited interest in the darker areas of knowledge of the world. It is probable that he had read von Junzt's [[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]] which mentions several of the same themes he wrote about in his poetry.

It is also recorded that Justin Geoffrey visited the [[Black Stone]] in Hungary ten years before his death in an asylum. He wrote one of his more famous works ''The People of the Monolith'' about the Black Stone. It has been a conjecture of many more wild thinkers that Justin Geoffrey's ultimate madness and death in the asylum was due to a night he spent at the base of the Black Stone.

His life was of some interest to occult investigators [[John Conrad]] and [[John Kirowan]].

==Appearance==
* Howard, Robert E. The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. New York: Del Rey, 2008. Print.
-''The Black Stone,'' Robert E. Howard

-''The House,'' Robert E. Howard

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Geoffrey, Justin]]

Allan Halsey

2013-09-01T21:35:18Z

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'''Allan Halsey''' is a fictional character of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in his story ''[[Herbert West - Reanimator]]''.

==Career==
Dr. Allan Halsey was the dean of the [[Miskatonic University (Location)|Miskatonic University Medical School]] before 1900 until his death during the [[Arkham]] typhoid epidemic on August 14th 1903. His work with sick patients during the epidemic was especially distinguished, and he helped many who other physicians refused to treat. His funeral at the [[Christchurch Cemetery]] on the 15th of August 1903 was attended by most of the students and faculty of the University. He also received wreaths from grateful towns people.

==Mysterious Reappearance==
The night after Dr. Halsey's funeral on August 16th a series of brutal killings commenced starting at the Christchurch Cemetery. A watchman at the cemetery was clawed to death, by what many believed was a large beast. A circus owner visiting [[Bolton]] was questioned but swore no beasts had escaped.

The killing in the cemetery was followed the next night by the death of fourteen more, and an almost cannibalistic destruction of three bodies of typhoid victims around [[Arkham]].

The third night police set up volunteer telephone stations to track the beast. The frantic searchers were called to the college district and managed to capture the creature. It had managed to take two more victims. The creature, described by many as a large hairless white ape, was stopped by a non fatal bullet.

Terribly the beast turned out to be a man, and even worse, once cleaned, it appeared to be Dr. Allan Hallsey. Many connect this "resurrection" with student [[Herbert West]] who had often quarreled with Dr. Hallsey about the possibilities of reanimating the dead through the use of certain chemicals. Dr. Hallsey was taken and locked up at the Sefton Asylum.

Sixteen years later several strange men attempted to claim custody of Dr. Hallsey and, being refused, killed several wardens. The group of men and the doctor were never seen again.

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
*Loucks, Donovan K. "The H.P. Lovecraft Archive." The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. N.p., 20 Aug. 2013. Web. 01 Sept. 2013. http://www.hplovecraft.com

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Halsey, Allan]]

Erich Zann

2013-09-01T21:34:53Z

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'''Erich Zann''' is a fictional character of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and appears in his story the ''[[The Music of Erich Zann]]''. He is a mute German viol player.

==Early Life==
Erich Zann was born in Germany.
TODO

==Later Life==
Late in life Erich Zann moved to a small sixth floor garret on the Rue d'Auseil in Paris. There he played with a small theater orchestra. He also continued to play his viol every night. According to his landlord, Bladnot, he had chosen the room for its seclusion and its rare view from the top of Rue d'Auseil's hill.

There he met and was befriended by a student of meta-physics studying at an university in Paris. The student spent several nights listening to Zann's music, which he described in a later written [[The Music of Erich Zann|story]] as containing "weird notes."

===Death===
According to the student of meta-physics who was living in the same building as Erich Zann he died of fright while playing his music. According to the student Erich Zann was terrified of something outside the window, and when the student went to open the window Zann stopped him. As way of explanation the musician began to write a long note. He was interrupted however by a "mocking note" coming from the window.

Erich Zann then began to play wildly trying to drown out the sound. At one point the wind blew the window open. The wind blew Zann's notes out of the window. According to the student the view was complete nothingness. Withdrawing with fright the student tried to stop Erich Zann from playing, but found that Erich Zann had died, even as he continued to saw mechanically with the bow. The student fled the building and has never seen the house or the Rue d'Auseil again.

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
*Loucks, Donovan K. "The H.P. Lovecraft Archive." The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. N.p., 20 Aug. 2013. Web. 01 Sept. 2013. http://www.hplovecraft.com

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Zann, Erich]]

Herbert West

2013-09-01T21:34:19Z

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'''Herbert West''' is a fictional character of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and appears in his story ''[[Herbert West - Reanimator]]''. Herbert West appears as a blond, blue eyed and spectacled man.

==University Life==
Herbert West enrolled at the [[Miskatonic University (Location)|Miskatonic University Medical School]] in 1898 and went on to do graduate and post graduate work. Herbert West's life at the school was over shadowed by his notoriety. West claimed that through the use of certain drugs he could "reanimate" the dead.

Herbert West with the aid of another pupil carried out many experiments on test animals, and on rare occasions on human bodies. He claimed this was possible because life is purely mechanistic, simply the combination of chemical impulses. Despite Herbert West's results, mostly violent response from dead rabbits and guinea-pigs, he was banned from the medical labs by the Dean Dr. [[Allan Halsey]].

The summer of 1900 and Herbert West's third year at Miskatonic University he and his friend rented the deserted Chapman farmhouse beyond Meadow Hill near the potter's field in [[Arkham]]. According to his friend, who has since then been implicated in Herbert West's disappearance, they stole a body of a drowned man from the graveyard.

After injecting the body with a serum of Herbert West's design the body appeared not to change. Both West and his friend retreated to the next door room. Forty five minutes after injecting the serum the two medical students heard a loud screaming. In fright the two fled the scene knocking over an alcohol burner, The Chapman place burned down. In an unconnected event one of the graves in the potter's field was disturbed by strange scratching.

==Post-Grad Life==
In 1903 an epidemic of typhoid struck [[Arkham]]. Lacking physicians the faculty and many of the post-graduate alumni of the Miskatonic University were pressed to help the town. Herbert West and his friend joined them. Herbert West had argued with Dr. Allan Halsey about the use of the dissection room.

The epidemic killed massive numbers of people, [[Christchurch Cemetery]] was said to be overflowing. But overworked not even Herbert West could experiment with his reanimating serum. Then on August 14th Dr. Allan Halsey, who had become a popular hero of the town, died. He was quickly buried the next day. West and his friend were seen late that night bringing a third man to their rooms. At 3 AM the next morning wild cries were heard from West's rooms. West and his friend were found unconscious. Their attacker had apparently jumped from the second story window.

After completing their doctorates Herbert West and his friend moved to [[Bolton]] in 1904. They immediately had a large practice from the workers of the Bolton Worsted Mills. Herbert West's experiments with reanimation continued during this period.

One night in March the doctors were called to the recent killing of a Buck Robinson, "The Harlem Smoke," a black worker, during an illicit boxing match. Herbert West agreed to take care of the body and took it to their practice on Pond Street. They repeated their experiment with no result and buried the body in a near by forest.

In July, 1910 another experiment was carried out, this time using both the reanimating fluid and a new type of embalming fluid that could preserve the body just after death until the moment of reanimation. Dr. Herbert West's assistant had been visiting family when a stranger had come into the office to ask the way to the Bolton Worsted Mill. He had suddenly suffered a heart attack and refused Dr. West's treatments.

After very little time since the reanimating serum was applied the man began to regain his color. After a few minutes he came to. Despite this success no record can be found of the body's fate.

Sometime between 1910 and 1915 Herbert West and his friend and assistant moved their practice to Boston. They enjoyed a fashionable and prosperous practice there.

==Military Career==
Some time after the start of the First World War Herbert West acquired a medical commission as Major in the Canadian army, with the aid of Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham Lee. By 1915 West and his friend, now a physician First Lieutenant were serving a Canadian field hospital in St. Eloi in Flanders. Dr. West had begun experiments with reanimating separate body parts.

In March of 1915 Major Clapham Lee, and his pilot Lieutenant Ronald Hill were shot down while trying to land at St. Eloi. Dr. West took the Major's body, which had been almost nearly decapitated, and attempted to reanimate the body alone. At that moment the field hospital was hit with a bomb. Herbert West and his friend were the only survivors.

==Later Life==
After the war Dr. Herbert West retired to an elegant house overlooking the oldest graveyards in Boston. He constructed a secret laboratory in the basement, during which he discovered a bricked up passage that may have connected with one of the colonial era tombs of the Averills.

Dr. West continued his experiments and constructed a special incinerator in his underground lab for the purpose of destroying failures. He apparently attempted several experiments involving the joining of human limbs with non-human ones.

===Disappearance===
Dr. West disappeared one night from his home. According to his friend and long time assistant he had been taken away by a troop of reanimated corpses, the many failures of West's career. Dr. West's friend is under suspicion for the murder of his long time colleague.

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
*Loucks, Donovan K. "The H.P. Lovecraft Archive." The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. N.p., 20 Aug. 2013. Web. 01 Sept. 2013. http://www.hplovecraft.com

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|West, Herbert]]

Edward Norrys

2013-09-01T21:33:53Z

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'''Edward Norrys''' is a fictional character created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and appears in his story ''[[The Rats in the Walls]]''. Edward Norrys is a member of the long standing Norrys family of Anchester, England. He became a Captain in the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War. There he met aviation officer [[Alfred Delapore]], one of the ancestors of the de la Poers, whose land Edward's family now owned. Edward related several of the local legends relating to the de la Poer family to Alfred. After the war Edward became friends with Mr. Delapore, Alfred's father, who wanted to restore his ancestral seat, [[Exham Priory]]. Edward helped Mr. Delapore find legends and accounts of the Priory and to restore the building to its original state. After 1923, when Mr. Delapore moved into the Priory, Edward Norrys visited him several times. On July 24th Mr. Delapore invited Edward Norrys to come and investigate one of the cellars in the Priory, where Mr. Delapore thought rats had been living. The two of them discovered that a stone in the cellar covered an even deeper cavern. Capt. Norrys and Mr. Delapore went to London to assemble a group to explore the cavern. They returned August 7th and the next day the group descended into the cavern. There they found evidence that the de la Poers had been farming and eating humans. During the excitement Mr. Delapore attacked Capt. Norrys. He had eaten half of him before they were found.

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Norrys, Edward]]

Justin Geoffrey

2013-09-01T21:33:27Z

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'''Justin Geoffrey''' is a fictional character created by [[Robert E. Howard]] and appears in several of his short stories.

Justin Geoffrey is a poet of some note for his weird poems and experience with the [[Cthulhu mythos]]. Much of Justin Geoffrey's life is left in mystery, most of the records of his life are incomplete or ended early.

==Family==
Justin Geoffrey's comes from an old English family that settled in New York in 1690 to restore their fortunes. All of the family, save the poet Justin, are industrious merchants.
Of Justin's three brothers and three sisters all are successful business people. His brother John lives in Cincinnati and works as a banker. Eustace is a junior partner in a lawyer firm and William, the youngest was at Harvard and on his way to become a bond salesman. His sisters are successfully married, a teacher, or graduating from Vassar in New York.

Justin Geoffrey and his poetic talent were considered unusual by his family and he was discouraged by his parents.

==Poetic Talent==
His talent for poetry began manifesting when he was only ten after an experience at a mysterious house in the small Old Dutchtown village in New York State. His parents were visiting friends in town and Justin went fishing with some other boys when he got lost. He was later found sleeping in a grove of oak trees next to a large abandoned house. The house itself later became a subject for New York painter [[Humphrey Skuyler]].

After his night at the house Justin Geoffrey began suffering feverish nightmares, many of which influenced his poetry. These visions and nightmares continued until his death in a madhouse much later.

==Mythos Interest==
Besides his dark and often horrifying poems Justin Geoffrey also exhibited interest in the darker areas of knowledge of the world. It is probable that he had read von Junzt's [[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]] which mentions several of the same themes he wrote about in his poetry.

It is also recorded that Justin Geoffrey visited the [[Black Stone]] in Hungary ten years before his death in an asylum. He wrote one of his more famous works ''The People of the Monolith'' about the Black Stone. It has been a conjecture of many more wild thinkers that Justin Geoffrey's ultimate madness and death in the asylum was due to a night he spent at the base of the Black Stone.

==Appearance==
* Howard, Robert E. The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. New York: Del Rey, 2008. Print.
-''The Black Stone,'' Robert E. Howard

-''The House,'' Robert E. Howard

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Geoffrey, Justin]]

Randolph Delapore

2013-09-01T21:32:06Z

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'''Randolph Delapore''' if a fictional character created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in his story ''[[The Rats in the Walls]]''. Randolph is the cousin of Mr. Delapore who restored the [[Exham Priory]] in 1923. Randolph Delapore is considered by his family as a their one "scandal." Since Mr. Delapore was the last surviving member of the family in 1923, his own madness was not added to that list. Randolph Delapore of Carfax became a voodoo priest among the African American population of Virginia after returning from the Mexican war.
==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Delapore, Randolph]]

Alfred Delapore

2013-09-01T21:31:46Z

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'''Alfred Delapore''' is a fictional character created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in his story ''[[The Rats in the Walls]]''. Alfred is the son of Mr. Delapore, the last member of their family, and restorer of their ancestral home [[Exham Priory]]. When his grandfather died in 1904 Alfred was a motherless boy of ten. in 1917 the Great War took him to England as an aviation officer. There he met [[Edward Norrys]] of the Royal Flying Corps. Capt. Norrys told him about the Exham Priory, now included in Norrys' family lands. Capt. Norrys related many of the local legends about the Priory and the de la Poer family. During the war Alfred was injured and became an invalid. He was taken care of by his father between 1918 and 1921 when he died.
==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Delapore, Alfred]]

Walter de la Poer

2013-09-01T21:31:28Z

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'''Walter de la Poer''' is a fictional character of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in his story ''[[The Rats in the Walls]]''. Walter de la Poer is the ancestor of [[Gilbert de la Poer]], and was the eleventh Baron Exham, and the last de la Poer to live in the [[Exham Priory]]. According to legend he discovered something horrible amongst his families "cult" and murdered his father, three brothers and two sisters. He then fled to Vriginia in the 1600s. There he set up Carfax, his families home on the banks of the James. From him came the American Delapores. During the Civil war Carfax burnt down, killing the oldest Delapore at the time, and ruining the families fortune. With them went a sealed letter that bore Walter de la Pore's secret, and what he had discovered under Exham priory. Among his descendants are [[Alfred Delapore]], Mr. Delapore who restored [[Exham Priory]], and [[Randolph Delapore]].

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
[[Category:Mythos:Characters|De la Poer, Walter]]

Gilbert de la Poer

2013-09-01T21:31:10Z

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'''Gilbert de la Poer''' is a fictional character created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in his story ''[[The Rats in the Walls]]''. Gilbert de la Poer was the first Baron Exham, appointed by Henry the Third in 1261. Despite the good name of the de la Poer before, the de la Poers living at [[Exham Priory]] became the evil of legend. Gilbert built a castle on the site of the Priory. Not much is known about him, or whether he discovered the evil caverns underneath his home, later uncovered by Cpt. [[Edward Norrys]] and Mr. Delapore in 1923.

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|De la Poer, Gilbert]]

Henry Armitage

2013-09-01T21:30:20Z

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'''Henry Armitage''' is a fictional character created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. He appears in the Lovecraft story "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" and is mentioned in several other author's works.

==Early Life==
Henry Armitage was born in 1855.
Henry Armitage has degrees from several prestigous univerdities. A.M. Miskatonic University, Ph. D. Princeton, Litt. D. Johns Hopkins.
At some time he also met his wife.

==Time at The Miskatonic University==
Henry Armitage, now Dr. Armitage joined the faculty of the [[Miskatonic University (Location)|Miskatonic University]] and eventually became head librarian. There he was most friendly with Professor Warren Rice and Dr. Francis Morgan, also faculty members.

During his time as the head librarian at the Miskatonic University the library, sometimes refered to as the Orne Library, or simply the Library of Miskatonic University, grew to become one of largest occult collections on the planet. It contained many rare and unique books including one of [[Olaus Wormius]]'s Latin translation of the [[Necronomicon]].

In the middle of his time at the head of the library Dr. Armitage made the decision to put the occult collection under lock in key, only tp be read by recommended scholars. It is likely that this decision was contested by others.

==Dealings with the Occult==
Dr. Armitage came up against occult and mythos powers several times. He has a large and restricted collection of occult tomes at The Orne Library at the [[Miskatonic University (Location)|Miskatonic University]]. It is likely he was interested in the occult before he joined the Miskatonic University faculty.

===The Dunwich Horror===
Dr. Armitage's first experience with the mythos came during the "Dunwich Horror." In 1917 after the start of the Great War Armitage visited the Whateley barn in [[Dunwich]]. At the time the "Boston Globe" and the "[[Arkham Advertiser]]" printed stories about [[Wilbur Whateley]] who according to local sources had grown unnaturaly fast and was unussually intelligent for a boy of four and a half.

In the winter of 1927 Dr. Armitage was visited by Wilbur Whateley at the library. Wilbur wished to see the library's Latin copy of the Necronomicon. He had with him his own copy of Dr. Dee's English incomplete translation of the book. Dr. Armitage refused to let the boy copy the 751st page of the book and Wilbur left angry.

Dr. Armitage was concerned at Wilbur Whateley's interest in the Necronomicon so wrote to other librarians warning them to prevent Wilbur's entry. In August of 1928 Wilbur was killed by a guard dog while trying to break into the Orne Library. Dr. Armitage, Prof. Rice, and Dr. Morgan were present.

As the last surviving member of his branch of the Whateley family Wilbur's posessions were contested by distant relations. The police confiscated his journals which seemed to be in some foreign language. They defied translation and were intrusted to Dr. Armitage. Using several books on medieval cryptography he broke the code on the journals.

After intense study Armitage was taken ill. At home he was cared for by Dr. Hartwell. On the 7th of September he recovered and had a conference with Prof. Rice and Dr. Morgan.

During this time between September 9th and September 14th the "Dunwich Horror" took place. The Frye household, the Bishop household, and a party of state police were killed mysteriously. In all cases the buildings of the inhabitants were crushed, black slime covered the ruins, and large round foot prints approached and left the area. The party of police men climbed into a nearby glen and wete never seen again.

The 14th of September Dr. Armitage and his two collegues travelled to Dunwich. They were seen to climb a nearby hill use some magical chant. They returned later the next day. All three men were shaken and would give only the barest explanation for their actions.

==Death==
The are several conflicting theories about when and how Dr. Armitage died. Some postulate that he later sucummed to illness late in life. Others believed he died trying to rescue books from the library when it cought fire during the 1930s.
==Appearances==
*''[[The Dunwich Horror]]'', H.P. Lovecraft

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
*Loucks, Donovan K. "The H.P. Lovecraft Archive." The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. N.p., 20 Aug. 2013. Web. 01 Sept. 2013. http://www.hplovecraft.com

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Armitage, Henry]]

Randolph Carter

2013-09-01T21:28:27Z

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'''Randolph Carter''' is a fictional character created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. Carter appears in many of Lovecraft's writings including ''[[Through the Gates of the Silver Key]]'', ''[[The Statement of Randolph Carter]]'', and many of Lovecraft's [[Dreamlands]] stories.

==Early Life==
Carter is descended from old [[Arkham]] stock originating from the old wizard Edmund Carter who fled the Salem witch trials. During his childhood Randolph Carter visited the old Carter homestead often, then owned by Christopher Carter, and spent much time around the hills and exploring the caves nearby including the "Snake-Den," a local cave. The local farmers gossiped after Randolph's own disappeared that he had changed somehow when he was nine after spending a "memorable day" in the Snakes Den, where he said he had found a secret fissure leading to a secret inner cave.

It is also known that Carter began his long experience in the [[Dreamlands]] as a child, visiting many places that he strove to revisit later in life.

==Interest in Mysticism and the Disappearance of Harley Warren==
It is unclear exactly what the nine year old Randolph Carter experienced in the Snake-Den, but it sent him into the study of mysticism, and a career as a dreamer and novelist. Early in life he wrote much and traveled the fabled landscapes of his dreams. But as he grew older he became disillusioned with the world, forgetting the path to the Dreamlands. Becoming moody and desperate for a return to the state of beauty he had found in his sleep he fled to mysticism and the occult. For five years Carter helped [[Harley Warren]] study the [[Naacal]] language of the Himalayan priests and the deeper and darker subjects of mysticism. Many of Warren's library was in Arabic keeping Carter from unearthing the truths that Warren struggled with. Though after the fact Carter denied any memory of the events besides what he saw leading up to it, he claims Warren became interested in a rare book in the Naacal language from India. After study of the book Warren took Carter with him to an old graveyard in The Big Cypress Swamp off of the Gainesville pike out of Boston. The duo were seen by a passerby as they walked carrying spades, a radio device, and bundles of wire.

The two found an old graveyard, and at a particular tomb cracked it open. Warren, with the book descended into the tomb below carrying a radio hand set while Carter waited at the top with the other end of the radio. After sever hours Warren began frantically warning Carter to close up the tomb and flee. Carter frozen with fear stayed until the line went silent, after Warren hinted at legions of nameless things. Carter shouted into the receiver for some time until he got a response. Some horrible voice called back "YOU FOOL, WARREN IS DEAD!"

Carter was later found on the side of the Gainesville pike unconscious. After it was discovered that Harley Warren was missing Carter was taken in for questioning but was later released. Afterwards he returned to his ancestral home of [[Arkham]] " the terrible witch-haunted old town of his forefathers in New England, and had experiences in the dark, amidst the hoary willows and tottering gambrel roofs, which made him seal forever certain pages in the diary of a wild-minded ancestor."

==Dream Travels==
TO DO

==Disappearance==
Randolph Carter disappeared on the seventh of October 1928, after visiting his ancestral Arkham home and the "Snake-Den" a strange cave near by. According to his old servant Parks, who died two years later, Carter was led by an "strangely aromatic and hideously carved box" containing an old parchment and a silver key. Before leaving Carter claimed the parchment would lead him to his lost child hood, filled with dreams and peaceful adventure.

On the day he disappeared he returned to the Snakes-Den and the secret cave behind it. There he saw for a moment a door with a hand above it, alike to the door in The pillared city of [[Irem]]. Using a ceremony with the key Carter became the Carter at nine who had visited the cave in 1883. Leaving the cave the boy went back home, had dinner with his uncle and aunt. The next day he returned to the cave and repeated the spell this time going deeper to meet the "Guide."

In the Necronomicon the mad Arab [[Abdul Alhazred]] describes the Guide:
“And while there are those,” the mad Arab had written, “who have dared to seek glimpses beyond the Veil, and to accept HIM as a Guide, they would
have been more prudent had they avoided commerce with HIM; for it is written in the Book of Thoth how terrific is the price of a single glimpse.
Nor may those who pass ever return, for in the Vastnesses transcending our world are Shapes of darkness that seize and bind. The Affair that
shambleth about in the night, the Evil that defieth the Elder Sign, the Herd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to have, and
that thrive on that which groweth out of the tenants within—all these Blacknesses are lesser than HE Who guardeth the Gateway; HE Who will guide
the rash one beyond all the worlds into the Abyss of unnamable Devourers.
For HE is’[[UMR AT-TAWIL]], the Most Ancient One, which the scribe rendereth as THE PROLONGED OF LIFE.”

Within the First Gate is an area containing several hexagonal platforms where non-human figures sleep and dream. Around them paces the Guide who waits for minds to take through the Ultimate Gate. The guide questioned Carter about his wish to continue through the "Ultimate Gate" and Carter wishing to discover more agreed. Carter sat on one of the hexagonal platforms while the guide directed the other creatures, who call themselves the [[Ancient Ones]], to dream the Ultimate Gate open. After several non audible chants the Ancient Ones opened the Gate and Carter was able to go through.

Past the Ultimate Gate Carter found himself in a new dimension. He could experience being all of his "selves" at the same time and was able to see glimpses of different scenes. In the abyss of the dimension he came up to an entity, which many cults call [[Yog-Sothoth]]. The Entity explained to Carter that all matter and time of the human world are simply illusions of the higher dimensions. That each dimension is a cut from its higher counter parts. "The cube and sphere, of three dimensions, are thus cut from corresponding forms of four dimensions that men know only through guesses and dreams; and these in turn are cut from forms of five dimensions, and so on up to the dizzy and reachless heights of archetypal infinity." Likewise time and change are simply how humans look at a part of a whole. Like the shape of a cone changes when it is cut at different angles, an observer looks at time from different angles and therefore sees the same thing as many different things.

Eventually after learning much from the being, Carter requested to be sent to one of his distant visions, a planet of snout nosed creatures who lived in large cities. There he became the wizard Zkauba on the planet [[Yaddith]]. In the body of a Yaddith wizard Carter was trapped, as the power of Silver Key was a product of [[Hyperborea]], which as yet didn't exist. He spent much of the life time of the wizard trying to find a way back to earth, bodily or mentally. He created a crazy plan to return to Earth and decipher the parchment Carter had left in his car. He created a tough light-beam craft that could take him all the way to earth, as well as a way to put himself in suspended animation for the duration of the flight. Similarly he worked on projecting himself to the appropriate time for his travel, as close to 1928 as possible, and a wax mask and costume to disguise his strange form from human eyes.

Luckily his plan worked and he returned to earth unhurt in 1930. He carefully reinserted himself into the company of mystics and began translating the ancient [[R'lyehian]] parchment that he hoped would let him return to his body. Discovering that his estate was to be sold off he disguised himself as the Swami Chandraputra and tried to convince the two mystics and his distant cousin that he was in fact Randolph Carter. When his cousin ripped off Carter's mask and died of shock, Carter momentarily lost control of the alien wizards mind and became Zkauba again. Zkauba realized that an old clock in the apartments of Etienne de Marigny was actually the disguised light-beam craft and used it to escape, never to be seen again.

==Randolph Carter's Estate==
After disappearing, several of Carter's fellow mystics argued that he still lived in the Dreamlands as the king in [[Illek-Vad]]. The most prominent of these mystics, [[Ward Phillips]], tried his best to stop Carter's heir, a distant cousin [[Ernest B. Aspinwall]], from breaking up the Carter estate. After a long legal debate Philips, Aspinwall, the creole mystic [[Etienne-Laurent de Marigny]] and Swami Chandraputra, a high-caste Brahmin, met at Etienne de Marigny's home to discuss and split up the Carter estate. There the Brahmin reveled what he knew of Carter's disappearance.

According to the Swami Chandraputra Carter had followed instructions found in the [[Necronomicon]] and other books related to the Key to discover a way to recover moments in time. Using these methods he found himself in the body of an alien wizard. To escape this he returned to earth in a light-beam craft. Disguising himself he attempted to translate the parchment he had found to discover a way to return to his human form. Before he could he heard of his estate being sold off and sent the Swami. At this point Aspinwall became furious and tried to remove the Swami's mask. The Swami desperately trying to hold him back revealed that it was actually he, Randolph Carter. Aspinwall even angrier ripped the mask off and died from shock seeing the snouted head of the alien underneath. In the moment of excitement Carter lost control of the alien body and the the alien mind that still inhabited it took control and entered a strange clock in Etienne's parlor to disappear forever.

The Swami was declared a criminal with intent of stealing Carter's estate. The estate itself remains unsettled.

== Appearances ==
* ''[[The Statement of Randolph Carter]]'', [[H.P. Lovecraft]]
* ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'', [[H.P. Lovecraft]]
* ''[[Through the Gates of the Silver Key]]'', [[H.P. Lovecraft]]
==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.
*Loucks, Donovan K. "The H.P. Lovecraft Archive." The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. N.p., 20 Aug. 2013. Web. 01 Sept. 2013. http://www.hplovecraft.com

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Carter, Randolph]]

Joseph Curwen

2013-09-01T21:24:30Z

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'''Joseph Curwen''' is a fictional character of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in his story ''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]''. He had sandy colored hair, always seemed to be only thirty five years old, had a black mark on his chest, and a semi-circular scar over his brow.

==Early Life==
Joseph Curwen was born on the 18th of February 1663 in Salem-Village now Danvers, Massachusetts. At the age fifteen he ran away to sea. He returned after nine years and settled in [[Salem]] proper. He came back with the mannerisms of an Englishman. He also estranged himself from his family, and spent most of his time with his strange books he brought from Europe, and chemicals he imported.

Curwen spent much of his time with [[Edward Hutchinson]], who was later accused as a sorcerer, and [[Simon Orne]] of Salem. During a witchcraft trial, a witness Hepzibah Lawson, swore that on July 10, 1692 Curwen, and Orne as well as others had received a black mark from [[Nyarlathotep|The Black Man]].

==Life in Providence==
Curwen later fled to [[Providence]] where he lived until his burial in 1771. After qualifying as a freeman he bought a plot of land at the foot of Olney Street. There he built a house, which he later replaced in 1761 which is still standing. The original building was a low gambrel-roofed house with wooden shingles. When the house was demolished Joseph Curwen took care to burn every timber. The new building was a plain two story brick building whose carved doorway is still a local relic.

Being a shrewd business man Joseph Curwen began a merchant monopoly around Providence. By 1760 he dominated in the importation of saltpeter, black pepper, cinnamon, brassware, indigo, cotton, woolens, salt, rigging, iron, paper, and other English goods. For a time he also imported slaves for his own use, and later it was suspected that he began importing Egyptian mummies, and perhaps other dead bodies. Many of the shopkeepers in Providence relied completely on his sales.

However he suffered from a bad reputation. Rumors circulated that sailors hired by Curwen disappeared meant he began to have trouble keeping sailors employed on his ships. He had to resort to hiring sailors from Martinique, St. Eustatius, Havana, or Port Royal to keep his ships sailing. He had the same trouble with his captains, but he was able to use strangely obscure family secrets to blackmail them into staying.

Several odd habits also disturbed the townspeople. Curwen frequently was seen in graveyards with an unusual frequency, though he was never spotted doing anything "ghoulish." He also bought heavily in strange chemicals and alchemical equipment which he used for a myriad of strange experiments. In 1758 two Royal regiments were quartered in Providence. Curwen came under suspicion after he was seen talking to soldiers who later disappeared completely.

When Dr. Checkley came to Providence in 1738 to be rector of King's Church he visited Curwen. He left soon after and never spoke of what strange things Curwen had said inside.

Despite his evil reputation Curwen had much civic spirit. He funded the rebuilding of several Providence buildings. When the Colony House burned down he bought heavily in to the lottery to rebuild it in 1761 as well as replace many of the library books lost in the fire. He also helped rebuild the Great Bridge in the same year. He funded Daniel Jenckes bookshop in 1763 and and the struggling ''Gazette''.

He also was reasonably prolific in local politics. In 1743 when the Whitefield adherents broke away from Dr. Cotton's hill church Curwen went with them. He was also well liked when in 1765 he gave an eloquent speech against setting North Providence apart as a separate town and a pro-Ward vote.

To further disperse the cruel gossip Joseph Curwen also began looking for a wife. He pressured one of his captains Dutee Tillinghast, to let him marry his daughter Eliza. Eliza, age eighteen, was already engaged to Ezra Weeden. The engagement was broken off and Joseph Curwen and Elize were married on the 7th of March, 1763 in the Baptist Church. On the 7th of May, 1765 Curwen's only daughter Ann was born.

After his daughter's birth Joseph Curwen sat for a portrait by the Scotsman Cosmo Alexander. The painting was done directly onto the mantle in his Olney Street house.

==Pawtuxet Farm==
Most of Joseph Curwen's bad reputation came from a farm he owned in Pawtuxet village beside the river.

While he imported slaves most were not sold. They could be seen being driven up the bank of the river from Namquit Point to his farm under cover of nightfall. Later certain smugglers brought strangely shaped boxes to the same place. Many of the sailors who had errands to the farm were never seen again.

His library was equally notorious. In 1746 Mr. [[John Merritt]] moved to Providence. Having heard of Curwen's extensive scientific library Mr. Merrit visited his house on Olney Street. Curwen's library contained many alchemical, philosophical and mathematical texts beside the normal Greek and Latin classics. Mr. Merritt was enthusiastic enough about the works that Curwen invited him to his Pawtuxet farm, somewhere were no other man had visited.

There Mr. Merrit was slightly horrified to find a collection of obscure occult texts including the ''Turba Philosophorum'', Geber's ''Liber Investigationis'', and Artephius' ''Key of Wisdom'', ''Zohar'', Peter Jammy's set of Albertus Magnus, Raymond Lully's ''Ars Magna et Ultima'', Robert Bacon's ''Thesaurus Chemicus'', Fludd's ''Clavis Alchimiae'', and Trithemius' ''De Lapide Philosophico''. One book titled ''Qannoon-e-Islam'' actually was a copy of the dread ''[[Necronomicon]]''. The book that most disturbed Mr. Merritt was a copy of [[Borellus]] open to the middle with the passage:

''"The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated."''

This passage and the savage underlining and crabbed marginalia that covered it so disturbed Mr. Merritt that he left the house as soon as he could. For ever after he could write the passage by heart.

After his marriage to Eliza Tillinghast, Eliza's ex-fiancee Ezra Weedon began following Curwen and investigating his doings. Any chance he got Weedon watched the farm with his friend Eleazer Smith. They became convinced that a huge network of underground tunnels extended under the farm. Cries, chants, and odd smells emanated from many points underground. Several times when the river flooded bodies and bones were washed from the banks near the farm, and Weedon and Smith later discovered a heavy Oak door set into the bank.

During this period Curwen had begun to act more and more oddly, almost triumphant about some discovery. He spent more and more time at the farm. Suddenly he became worried as if he knew about the plot against him.

In January 1770 the schooner ''Cygnet'' was captured by the customs fleet. On board were several Egyptian mummies, to be collected off shore by a "Sailor A. B. C." Many people speculated that this shipment was meant for Joseph Curwen. Since the shipment was not strictly illegal the schooner was set free, but with a prohibition against docking in Providence. It was later seen in the Boston harbor.

In Autumn 1770 Ezra Weedon decided to act. Weedon informed Captain James Mathewson of the ''Enterprise.'' Based on the widely accepted speculations about Joseph Curwen, Capt. Mathewson was not hard pressed to believe the claims of Ezra Weedon. He decided to inform important and scientifically minded peoples of Providence of what Weedon had discovered. The group would decide wether to tell the government or to act on their own, if at all. Accordingly he called Dr. Benjamin West, Rev. James Manning, ex-Governer Stephan Hopkins, John Carter, the four Brown brothers, John, Joseph, Nicholas, and Moses, Dr. Jabez Bowen, and Catp. Abraham Whipple.

===Raid on the Farm===
After a huge naked body was found in January, following a cacophony of dog barks and cries not too far from Curwen's Pawtuxet farm, the group of men decided a raid was needed. Capt. Whipple was a privateer of some bravery so he organized his sailors into a land party. The group staked out the farm on April 12th, 1771. At about 1o'clock at night the group of nearly one hundred men entered the farm and the underground caverns.

The Fenner family who lived in the closest farm observed several musket shots, great flashes of light, strange inhuman, or very human cries, and two burning shapes fled the farm. More musket fire, then the youngest Fenner saw a red mist rising from the farm. A chill wind and a terrible stench blew in. Then a voice thundered around shouting "DEESMEES-JESHET-BONE DOSEFE DUVEMA-ENITEMOSS", an incantation mentioned by Mirandola and Agricola. A horrible shout and insane laughter followed and a large explosion, though no damage to the building was found.

The raiders returned, only eight of which were killed. Each man was covered with a strange and horrible stench. And each and every one was touched by the events of which they would never speak.

==Burial==
After the raid in 1770, Joseph Curwen's body was given to his widow in a strange lead casket. She was told that he had died in a battle with Customs officials. But she was given a hint to the truth, a passage from one of Jebediah Orne's letters:

''"I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can in Turne call up somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use. Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shall not wish to Answer, and shall commande more than you."''

The casket was buried "10 ft S. and 5 ft W. of Naphtali Field's grave in ye ---." All record of Curwen, his burial, his wedding, and the birth of his child were struck from the records of Providence. Only scraps in private collections and a few letters to people outside Providence survived. Eliza and Ann Curwen changed their name back to Tillinghast. Ann later married Welcome Potter, the great-great-grandfather of [[Charles Dexter Ward]] who uncovered most of the facts concerning Joseph Curwen before himself going insane.

==Reference==
*Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. New York: Library of America, 2005. Print.

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Justin Geoffrey

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'''Justin Geoffrey''' is a fictional character created by [[Robert E. Howard]] and appears in several of his short stories.

Justin Geoffrey is a poet of some note for his weird poems and experience with the [[Cthulhu mythos]]. Much of Justin Geoffrey's life is left in mystery, most of the records of his life are incomplete or ended early.

==Family==
Justin Geoffrey's comes from an old English family that settled in New York in 1690 to restore their fortunes. All of the family, save the poet Justin, are industrious merchants.
Of Justin's three brothers and three sisters all are successful business people. His brother John lives in Cincinnati and works as a banker. Eustace is a junior partner in a lawyer firm and William, the youngest was at Harvard and on his way to become a bond salesman. His sisters are successfully married, a teacher, or graduating from Vassar in New York.

Justin Geoffrey and his poetic talent were considered unusual by his family and he was discouraged by his parents.

==Poetic Talent==
His talent for poetry began manifesting when he was only ten after an experience at a mysterious house in the small Old Dutchtown village in New York State. His parents were visiting friends in town and Justin went fishing with some other boys when he got lost. He was later found sleeping in a grove of oak trees next to a large abandoned house. The house itself later became a subject for New York painter [[Humphrey Skuyler]].

After his night at the house Justin Geoffrey began suffering feverish nightmares, many of which influenced his poetry. These visions and nightmares continued until his death in a madhouse much later.

==Mythos Interest==
Besides his dark and often horrifying poems Justin Geoffrey also exhibited interest in the darker areas of knowledge of the world. It is probable that he had read von Junzt's [[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]] which mentions several of the same themes he wrote about in his poetry.

It is also recorded that Justin Geoffrey visited the [[Black Stone]] in Hungary ten years before his death in an asylum. He wrote one of his more famous works ''The People of the Monolith'' about the Black Stone. It has been a conjecture of many more wild thinkers that Justin Geoffrey's ultimate madness and death in the asylum was due to a night he spent at the base of the Black Stone.

==Appearance==
* Howard, Robert E. The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. New York: Del Rey, 2008. Print.
-''The Black Stone,'' Robert E. Howard

-''The House,'' Robert E. Howard

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Joseph Curwen

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Joseph Curwen

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