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The tome '''The Seven Geases''' originates from ''[[Return to Dunwich (Supplement)]]'', inspired directly by [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Seven Geases (fiction)]]".

==Description==
This scroll is a detailed account of medical/psychological experiments conducted by a mad sorcerer, Ezdagor  the Hermit, upon an unfortunate ancient [[Hyperborean|Kranorian]] prince, Ralibur Vooz, who happened to blunder through Ezdagor's [[Hollow Earth|subterranean cult compound]]; in consequence to Ralibur's incautious invasion of the sorcerer's privacy, the prince was subjected to exploratory brain surgery, massive doses of psychedelic drugs, severe psychological trauma, and a curse, and then released into the Cave World under observation by [[Men in Black|doctors and scribes]], who took detailed notes from the shadows while Ralibur tore gentle [[Sasquatch|Voormi people]] to pieces with teeth and bare hands, before wandering deeper into the caves below though a series of increasingly nightmarish experiences until, his sanity shattered at last, prince Ralibur met an unexpected and ignominious doom that, the scribes noted, was far outside of the carefully-designed parameters of the sorcerer-hermit Ezdagor's experiment.  (This is essentially an adaptation of the plot of [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Seven Geases (fiction)]]".)

The tome contains a reasonably detailed description of the [[Hollow Earth]] beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]] in [[Dunwich|Ancient Kranoria]] which might still be usable in the modern era as a rough guide to those caverns, along with descriptions of a number of the underground horrors to be encountered there including [[Voormi]]s, [[Tsathoggua]], [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Abhoth]], [[Yig]], and more, including a short side-trip to see [[Haon-Dor]] on the planet [[Cykranosh|Saturn]].

* author: [[Men in Black|Scribes and Doctors]] serving Ezdagor the Hermit
* date: Unknown ([[Thurian Age]])
* language: [[Hyperborean]]
* number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, probably unique)
* last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (one frail old copy was found in the Hollow Earth beneath 1920s Dunwich)
* study: 26 weeks
* sanity loss: moderate
* mythos lore: moderate
* Hyperborean lore: minimal
* spells:  ? (at Keeper's discretion, a few spells might be included relating to the "geases"/curses and "experiments" - mind control etc. - and the weird entities encountered by the subject Ralibur Vooz)


==Associated Mythos Elements==
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* character: Prince [[Ralibur Vooz]]
* character: [[Ezdragor]] the Hermit
* character: [[Haon-Dor]] the Sorcerer
* location: [[Dunwich|Ancient Kranoria]]
* location: [[Hollow Earth]], [[Mount Voormithadreth]]
* location: [[Cykranosh]] ([[Saturn]])
* deities: [[Tsathoggua]], [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Abhoth]], [[Yig]]
* race: [[Voormi]]s, [[Sasquatch]]
* race: [[Serpent People]]
* race: [[Spawn of Tsathoggua]], [[Spawn of Abhoth]]

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==Keeper Notes==
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==Appearances==
* fiction:  [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Seven Geases (fiction)]]"
* sourcebook:  ''[[Return to Dunwich (Supplement)]]''


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