Chronike von Nath

The tome Creating Chronike von Nath is statted out in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook, and originates in H.P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel's "The Tree on the Hill (fiction)" (1934), with a little more detail added in Duane W. Rimel's "Music of the Stars (fiction)" (1943).

Description

In the year of the Black Goat a Shadow fell on Nath and fed on men’s souls. It lured them with dreams of the Land of Three Suns, in which freedom reigns. The high priest Ka-Nefer had a Gem — if any man could look through it and see the Shadow's true shape and live thereafter, he could dismiss it to the starless gulf of its spawning. Phrenes took on the task and disappeared with the Gem, but his sacrifice must have sated the Shadow, for it departed and will not return until the cycles roll back to the year of the Black Goat.
-Rudolph Yergler, Creating Chronike von Nath

A tome written by German Mermetic alchemist Rudolf Yergler in 1653 shortly before the author went blind and was confined to a madhouse in Berlin; it is said that the tome's prose was ingeniously constructed in odd musical rhythm patterns designed to summon certain star-born monsters from the earth's core and from other worlds and dimensions. Despite attempts to suppress the original edition, an only slightly less shocking English translation due to the difficulty in translating the rhythms of the text, surfaced in 1781.

German Edition

• author: alchemist Rudolf Yergler
• date: 1653
• language: German
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 22 weeks
• sanity loss: moderate
• mythos lore: moderate
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ? (musical summoning spells, along with a number of alchemical effects, and instructions for constructing lens-artifacts)

English Edition

• author: alchemist Rudolf Yergler
• date: 1781 (translation by James Sheffield)
• language: English
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 10 weeks
• sanity loss: minor
• mythos lore: minor
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ? (a few imperfect summoning spells, a number of alchemical effects, and instructions for constructing lens-artifacts)

Associated Mythos Elements

• setting: Ancient Khem
• deity: Shub-Niggurath
• character: Nephren-Ka
• artifact: Gem of Ka-Nefer

Appearances

• fiction: H.P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel's "The Tree on the Hill (fiction)"
• fiction: Duane W. Rimel's "Music of the Stars (fiction)"
• sourcebook: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook