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 The book of Eibon is the work of the legendary magician [[Eibon]] of Mhu-Thulan. The book contains deals with magic he practised, records of the area and historical accounts of other mages. The book was produced after Eibon's disappearance by his former apprentice Cyron of Varaad.
 ==Contents==
-The book contains information on the magics in use at the time and the accounts of other mages through out history. It also contains records of the habits of Great Old Ones such as [[Abhoth]], [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Rlim Shaikorth]] and [[Tsathoggua]] (the later being a deity by whom Eibon was particularly favoured). There is a limited amount of information on the Drowners; [[Bugg-Shash]] and [[Yibb-Tsll]].
+The book contains information on the magics in use at the time and the accounts of other mages through out history. It also contains records of the habits of Great Old Ones such as [[Abhoth]], [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Rlim Shaikorth]] and [[Tsathoggua]] (the later being a deity by whom Eibon was particularly favoured). There is a limited amount of information on the Drowners; [[Bugg-Shash]] and [[Yibb-Tstll]].
 The Book of Eibon also contains a huge number of spells, to large too list here. Among them are the procedures required to create a spatial gateway, numerous prayers to Tsathoggua, an incantation used to summon one of the former's children, how to make a protective symbol effective against the servants of Nyarlathotep, a simple spell to raise a small curtain of mist and a potent curse to cripple a foe, as well as incantations for calling forth the Emanation of Yoth and the Green Decay. It is said that the early edition contained a formula capable of calling a [[Dhole]] to Earth and controlling it.

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 ==Sanskrit Version==
 [[File:Tome BookOfEibon(French).png|thumb|150px|right|"The Book of Eibon, French Version", illustration by [[Scott M. Fischer]]]]
-A previously unheard of alleged Sanskrit variant of the ''Liber Ivonis'', known only to certain cults of Nepalese sorcerers, and found only in scroll form at the [[Dreamlands]] [[Library of Oneiros|Library of Celaeno]]. The scroll is one object that could be requested from [[Hastur]] as part of the bargain implied by the casting of the [[Unspeakable Promise]] spell.  This variant takes the form of a scroll tube containing several sheets of thin leather with Sanskrit writing on it. An idea roll will shockingly suggest to anybody handling it that the leather is human skin; a close examination shows pores and along some of the edges there are traces of hair.  (scenario "[[Must_The_Show_Go_On%3F|Must the Show Go On?]]" by Jason Williams)
+A previously unheard of alleged Sanskrit variant of the ''Liber Ivonis'', known only to certain cults of Nepalese sorcerers, and found only in scroll form at the [[Dreamlands]] [[Library of Oneiros|Library of Celaeno]]. The scroll is one object that could be requested from [[Hastur]] as part of the bargain implied by the casting of the [[Unspeakable Promise (spell)|Unspeakable Promise]] spell.  This variant takes the form of a scroll tube containing several sheets of thin leather with Sanskrit writing on it. An idea roll will shockingly suggest to anybody handling it that the leather is human skin; a close examination shows pores and along some of the edges there are traces of hair.  (scenario "[[Must_The_Show_Go_On%3F|Must the Show Go On?]]" by Jason Williams)
 This variant appears likely to be incomplete or a possibly a text completely unrelated to the waking world ''Book of Eibon'', consisting of only a few crude leather scrolls, focusing largely on [[Hastur]] and its cult, powers, and effects in this world.  The scrolls may have been transcribed in Sanskrit by [[Tcho-Tcho]], [[Ghoul]], or [[Man of Leng|Lengish]] wizards, either within the [[Dreamlands]] while in a state of astral projection or in a physical pilgrimage into Dream through the subterranean regions of [[Plateau of Leng]] bordering on [[Dreamlands|Dream]], or perhaps transcribed in the waking world through a trance of automatic writing at some point before the resulting scrolls were transported by some means into the [[Dreamlands]].
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 In addition to puzzling hints at the nature, goals, motives, and origins of [[Hastur]], the Sanskrit Variant contains a mysterious and confusing account of the summoning of a [[Shantak|Roc]] (or "rook"), a gigantic bird sent from the heavens, to carry a wizard and his retinue out of the waking world and into the world of [[Dreamlands|Dream]] within the comfort of a great chariot, castle, or palace built upon or drawn behind the bird's back or carried within its claws; it seems that this expedition barely worked but nearly resulted in disaster when the Roc failed to stop at its appointed destination in dim [[Carcosa]], and apparently instead tried to carry the wizard's party off to the tower of a faceless angel which the wizard refused to name but apparently greatly feared; the wizard had to slay the Roc in a particularly ghastly way to cut its intended journey short.  This variant also contains a strange and curiously obscured account full of vague hints to the great and terrible mysteries engraved by the gods on great granite tablets guarded by an extremely dangerous and horrible [[Ubbo-Sathla|Guardian of the Keys to Wisdom]], tablets which contain secrets which must be seen or read by any wizard who dares to contact the wise and terrible Masters of [[Hastur|fever]] and [[Cthulhu|dream]] and survive with his sanity intact; this account also contains the confusing and contradictory spells and formulae by which a wizard can summon a veiled, whispering [[Byakhee|astral spirit]] who can safely guide the wizard's way to a frightful audience before Wisdom's Guardian in its shadowy halls in Dream.
-Suggested Spells:  Summon Whispering Guide (Contact Byakhee), Summon Roc/Chariot of the Heavens (Contact Shantak), Consult the Keeper of the Keys to Wisdom (Contact Ubbo-Sathla), Consult the Wisdom of Dream (Contact Cthulhu), Consult the Wisdom of Fever (Contact Hastur), Enchant Knife, Guide Astral Projection (Assist Dreamer), Song of Fever (Song of Hastur)
+Suggested Spells:  Summon Whispering Guide ([[Contact (spell)|Contact Byakhee]]), Summon Roc/Chariot of the Heavens ([[Contact (spell)|Contact Shantak]]), Consult the Keeper of the Keys to Wisdom ([[Contact (spell)|Contact Ubbo-Sathla]]), Consult the Wisdom of Dream ([[Contact (spell)|Contact Cthulhu]]), Consult the Wisdom of Fever ([[Contact (spell)|Contact Hastur]]), [[Enchant (spell)|Enchant Knife]], Guide Astral Projection ([[Assist Dreamer (spell)|Assist Dreamer]]), Song of Fever ([[Song of Hastur (spell)|Song of Hastur]])
 ==Book of Eibon ==

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 A previously unheard of alleged Sanskrit variant of the ''Liber Ivonis'', known only to certain cults of Nepalese sorcerers, and found only in scroll form at the [[Dreamlands]] [[Library of Oneiros|Library of Celaeno]]. The scroll is one object that could be requested from [[Hastur]] as part of the bargain implied by the casting of the [[Unspeakable Promise]] spell.  This variant takes the form of a scroll tube containing several sheets of thin leather with Sanskrit writing on it. An idea roll will shockingly suggest to anybody handling it that the leather is human skin; a close examination shows pores and along some of the edges there are traces of hair.  (scenario "[[Must_The_Show_Go_On%3F|Must the Show Go On?]]" by Jason Williams)
-This variant appears likely to be incomplete or a possibly a text completely unrelated to the waking world ''Book of Eibon'', consisting of only a few crude leather scrolls, focusing largely on [[Hastur]] and its cult, powers, and effects in this world.  The scrolls may have been transcribed in Sanskrit by [[Tcho-Tcho]], [[Ghoul]], or [[Man of Leng|Lengish]] wizards, either within the [[Dreamlands]] while in a state of astral projection or in a physical pilgrimage into Dream through the subterranean regions of [[Leng]] bordering on [[Dreamlands|Dream]], or perhaps transcribed in the waking world through a trance of automatic writing at some point before the resulting scrolls were transported by some means into the [[Dreamlands]].
+This variant appears likely to be incomplete or a possibly a text completely unrelated to the waking world ''Book of Eibon'', consisting of only a few crude leather scrolls, focusing largely on [[Hastur]] and its cult, powers, and effects in this world.  The scrolls may have been transcribed in Sanskrit by [[Tcho-Tcho]], [[Ghoul]], or [[Man of Leng|Lengish]] wizards, either within the [[Dreamlands]] while in a state of astral projection or in a physical pilgrimage into Dream through the subterranean regions of [[Plateau of Leng]] bordering on [[Dreamlands|Dream]], or perhaps transcribed in the waking world through a trance of automatic writing at some point before the resulting scrolls were transported by some means into the [[Dreamlands]].
 In addition to puzzling hints at the nature, goals, motives, and origins of [[Hastur]], the Sanskrit Variant contains a mysterious and confusing account of the summoning of a [[Shantak|Roc]] (or "rook"), a gigantic bird sent from the heavens, to carry a wizard and his retinue out of the waking world and into the world of [[Dreamlands|Dream]] within the comfort of a great chariot, castle, or palace built upon or drawn behind the bird's back or carried within its claws; it seems that this expedition barely worked but nearly resulted in disaster when the Roc failed to stop at its appointed destination in dim [[Carcosa]], and apparently instead tried to carry the wizard's party off to the tower of a faceless angel which the wizard refused to name but apparently greatly feared; the wizard had to slay the Roc in a particularly ghastly way to cut its intended journey short.  This variant also contains a strange and curiously obscured account full of vague hints to the great and terrible mysteries engraved by the gods on great granite tablets guarded by an extremely dangerous and horrible [[Ubbo-Sathla|Guardian of the Keys to Wisdom]], tablets which contain secrets which must be seen or read by any wizard who dares to contact the wise and terrible Masters of [[Hastur|fever]] and [[Cthulhu|dream]] and survive with his sanity intact; this account also contains the confusing and contradictory spells and formulae by which a wizard can summon a veiled, whispering [[Byakhee|astral spirit]] who can safely guide the wizard's way to a frightful audience before Wisdom's Guardian in its shadowy halls in Dream.

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 A previously unheard of alleged Sanskrit variant of the ''Liber Ivonis'', known only to certain cults of Nepalese sorcerers, and found only in scroll form at the [[Dreamlands]] [[Library of Oneiros|Library of Celaeno]]. The scroll is one object that could be requested from [[Hastur]] as part of the bargain implied by the casting of the [[Unspeakable Promise]] spell.  This variant takes the form of a scroll tube containing several sheets of thin leather with Sanskrit writing on it. An idea roll will shockingly suggest to anybody handling it that the leather is human skin; a close examination shows pores and along some of the edges there are traces of hair.  (scenario "[[Must_The_Show_Go_On%3F|Must the Show Go On?]]" by Jason Williams)
-This variant appears likely to be incomplete or a possibly a text completely unrelated to the waking world ''Book of Eibon'', consisting of only a few crude leather scrolls, focusing largely on [[Hastur]] and its cult, powers, and effects in this world.  The scrolls may have been transcribed in Sanskrit by [[Tcho-Tcho]], [[Ghoul]], or [[Men_of_Leng|Lengish]] wizards, either within the [[Dreamlands]] while in a state of astral projection or in a physical pilgrimage into Dream through the subterranean regions of [[Leng]] bordering on [[Dreamlands|Dream]], or perhaps transcribed in the waking world through a trance of automatic writing at some point before the resulting scrolls were transported by some means into the [[Dreamlands]].
+This variant appears likely to be incomplete or a possibly a text completely unrelated to the waking world ''Book of Eibon'', consisting of only a few crude leather scrolls, focusing largely on [[Hastur]] and its cult, powers, and effects in this world.  The scrolls may have been transcribed in Sanskrit by [[Tcho-Tcho]], [[Ghoul]], or [[Man of Leng|Lengish]] wizards, either within the [[Dreamlands]] while in a state of astral projection or in a physical pilgrimage into Dream through the subterranean regions of [[Leng]] bordering on [[Dreamlands|Dream]], or perhaps transcribed in the waking world through a trance of automatic writing at some point before the resulting scrolls were transported by some means into the [[Dreamlands]].
 In addition to puzzling hints at the nature, goals, motives, and origins of [[Hastur]], the Sanskrit Variant contains a mysterious and confusing account of the summoning of a [[Shantak|Roc]] (or "rook"), a gigantic bird sent from the heavens, to carry a wizard and his retinue out of the waking world and into the world of [[Dreamlands|Dream]] within the comfort of a great chariot, castle, or palace built upon or drawn behind the bird's back or carried within its claws; it seems that this expedition barely worked but nearly resulted in disaster when the Roc failed to stop at its appointed destination in dim [[Carcosa]], and apparently instead tried to carry the wizard's party off to the tower of a faceless angel which the wizard refused to name but apparently greatly feared; the wizard had to slay the Roc in a particularly ghastly way to cut its intended journey short.  This variant also contains a strange and curiously obscured account full of vague hints to the great and terrible mysteries engraved by the gods on great granite tablets guarded by an extremely dangerous and horrible [[Ubbo-Sathla|Guardian of the Keys to Wisdom]], tablets which contain secrets which must be seen or read by any wizard who dares to contact the wise and terrible Masters of [[Hastur|fever]] and [[Cthulhu|dream]] and survive with his sanity intact; this account also contains the confusing and contradictory spells and formulae by which a wizard can summon a veiled, whispering [[Byakhee|astral spirit]] who can safely guide the wizard's way to a frightful audience before Wisdom's Guardian in its shadowy halls in Dream.

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 The Kishites made a translation in their language from the Atlantean relics they unearthed. Information about this version of the book is sketchy at best.
 ==Egyptian Version ==
-[[File:Tome BookOfEibon(French).png|thumb|150px|right|"The Book of Eibon, French Version", illustration by [[Scott M. Fischer]]]]
+[[File:Tome BookOfEibon(Latin).png|thumb|150px|right|"The Book of Eibon, Latin Version", illustration by [[Scott M. Fischer]]]]
 Some copies of the Kisihtic edition where preserved on papyri and translated by the latter Egyptians into hieroglyphs. Tablets and tomb paintings containing these hieroglyphs may still exist.
 ==Libor Ivonis ==
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 In 1240 Gaspard du Nord of Aivonge translated his former teacher's copy of the Libor Ivonis into French.
 ==Sanskrit Version==
-[[File:Tome BookOfEibon(Latin).png|thumb|150px|right|"The Book of Eibon, Latin Version", illustration by [[Scott M. Fischer]]]]
+[[File:Tome BookOfEibon(French).png|thumb|150px|right|"The Book of Eibon, French Version", illustration by [[Scott M. Fischer]]]]
 A previously unheard of alleged Sanskrit variant of the ''Liber Ivonis'', known only to certain cults of Nepalese sorcerers, and found only in scroll form at the [[Dreamlands]] [[Library of Oneiros|Library of Celaeno]]. The scroll is one object that could be requested from [[Hastur]] as part of the bargain implied by the casting of the [[Unspeakable Promise]] spell.  This variant takes the form of a scroll tube containing several sheets of thin leather with Sanskrit writing on it. An idea roll will shockingly suggest to anybody handling it that the leather is human skin; a close examination shows pores and along some of the edges there are traces of hair.  (scenario "[[Must_The_Show_Go_On%3F|Must the Show Go On?]]" by Jason Williams)

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 The Book of Eibon is the title of a fictional book created by [[Clark Ashton Smith]].
 ==Description==
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 The Kishites made a translation in their language from the Atlantean relics they unearthed. Information about this version of the book is sketchy at best.
 ==Egyptian Version ==
 Some copies of the Kisihtic edition where preserved on papyri and translated by the latter Egyptians into hieroglyphs. Tablets and tomb paintings containing these hieroglyphs may still exist.
 ==Libor Ivonis ==
 In approximately 900 AD a Latin translation known as the ''Libor Ivonis'' was made by the monk Caius Phillippus Faber. It was finally printed during 1622 in Rome. This translation is over five hundred pages long.
 ==Libre d'Ivon ==
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 ==Book of Eibon ==
 This English translation was made by an unknown author sometime between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.  A flawed and incomplete translation; eighteen copies by various hands are known to exist today.

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 The Book of Eibon also contains a huge number of spells, to large too list here. Among them are the procedures required to create a spatial gateway, numerous prayers to Tsathoggua, an incantation used to summon one of the former's children, how to make a protective symbol effective against the servants of Nyarlathotep, a simple spell to raise a small curtain of mist and a potent curse to cripple a foe, as well as incantations for calling forth the Emanation of Yoth and the Green Decay. It is said that the early edition contained a formula capable of calling a [[Dhole]] to Earth and controlling it.
-Finally, the Book of Eibon contains narratives and records of the exploits of Eibon and other Hyperborean sorcerers, including Eibon's journeys to [[Shaggai]] and the [[Vale of Pnath]], and an account of the wizard Zon Mezzamalech's attempts to view [[the Tablets of Ubbo Sathla]].
+Finally, the Book of Eibon contains narratives and records of the exploits of Eibon and other Hyperborean sorcerers, including Eibon's journeys to [[Shaggai]] and the [[Underworld#Vale_of_Pnath|Vale of Pnath]], and an account of the wizard Zon Mezzamalech's attempts to view [[the Tablets of Ubbo Sathla]].
 ==Hyperborean Version==