Von denen Verdammten

Von denen Verdammten (AKA Von denen Verdammten, oder: Eine Verhandlung über die unheimlichen Kulte der Alten, "The Damned, or: An Investigation into the Sinister Cults of the Old Ones") is statted out in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook, and originates in "Darkness, My Name Is (fiction)" by Eddy C. Bertin.

Description

Von denen Verdammten, by Kazaj Heinz Vogel in 1700, copied and reissued in 1907 by Edith Brendall; the tome discusses, among other things, information about Cyäegha (referred to as "The Dark that Waits") and its cult in the small German town of Freihausgarten. After the tome was published by Vogel, the German authorities seize and destroy all but two copies, which are held in the restricted collections of German libraries. Edith Brendall, a young woman with a photographic memory, somehow gains access to one of the two copies of Kazaj Heinz Vogel's book, memorizes, copies, rewrites, and adds to the original, releasing it (at her own expense) as Von denen Verdammten, oder: Eine Verhandlung über die unheimlichen Kulte der Alten ("The Damned, or: An Investigation into the Sinister Cults of the Old Ones"). Most copies of this reprint were bought or hastily stolen upon its release, and Brendall soon suspected that she was being followed, and moves from city to city to evade her pursuers, but disappears in Bonn; eight days later, her body is discovered in the Rhine.

Vogel Edition

• author: Kazaj Heinz Vogel
• date: 1700
• language: German
• number of known copies (if rare): (only two copies survived destruction by German authorities)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (held in restricted collections of German libraries)
• study: 10 weeks
• sanity loss: minor
• mythos lore: minor
• occult lore: minor
• spells:  ?

Physical Description: Unknown

General Content: Information on a variety of occult topics, notably including the Cyaegha cult in Freihausgarten (as "The Dark that Waits".)

Brendall Edition

• author: Kazaj Heinz Vogel and Edith Brendall
• date: 1907
• language: German
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown but uncommon)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (held in private occult/mythos collections)
• study: 24 weeks
• sanity loss: moderate
• mythos lore: moderate
• occult lore: minor
• spells:  ?

Physical Description: Unknown

General Content: Much the same content as the Vogel edition, rewritten from memory and expanded with additional mythos content apparently drawn by memory from Unaussprechlichen Kulten and Cthäat Aquadingen and other unknown sources, possibly including original research.

Associated Mythos Elements

• location: Germany
• cult: Cyäegha, "The Dark that Waits"
• tome: Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Cthäat Aquadingen
• race: Feiaden/Nagäae/Vaeyen

Quotes

• Und Das Dunkel Das Wartet hat fünf Diener, fünf Wächter des Tempels, und fünf Wächter der Dunkelheit, genannt die Feiaden: das schwarze Licht, das weiße Feuer, das schwärzer ist als die Nacht, das weiße Dunkel, das röter ist als das Feuer, das geflügelte Weib und der grüne Mond, die Ihn halten und Ihm dienen in Seiner Dunkelheit. ("And The Dark That Waits has five servants, five guardians of the temple, and five guardians of the darkness, called the Feiaden: the Black Light, the White Fire which is Blacker than Night, the White Darkness that is Redder than Fire, the Winged Woman, and the Green Moon, holding Him and serving Him in His darkness.")
• Irgendwo, an einem einsamen Ort / Wo Sie niemals bleiben wollten / Irgendwann, in diesem leeren Raum / Werden Sie einen Weg finden / Den Pfad im Dunkeln ("Somewhere, in a lonely place where you never wanted to stay, someday, in this empty room, you shall find a way: the path in the dark.")

Appearances

• fiction: "Darkness, My Name Is (fiction)" by Eddy C. Bertin
• sourcebook: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook