Book of Black Stones

The Book of Black Stones originally appears in the H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands RPG sourcebook.

Description

Book of Black Stones, Moonbeast

• Number of known copies (if rare):
• Last known location of surviving copies (if rare):
• Spells: Contact Nyarlathotep, Curse of Darkness, and others
• Sanity Loss: moderate
• Mythos Knowledge: moderate
• Dream Knowledge: moderate
• Study: average of 17 weeks to study and comprehend

In Moonbeast hieroglypgs, by unknown moonbeast authors. A series of plates of black stone, laced together with thick wire to form a sort of book. Attached to the book by a small chain is a disk of curved glass with a rod-like handle, similar to a magnifying glass, which allows one to read the Moonbeast inscriptions as though they were written in their own native tongue, revealing that the black plates deal with the worship of Nyarlathotep in clinical detail, as well as dealing with methods of torture as applied to some seventeen different alien species, including humankind (interestingly, Ghouls and humans are classified as the same species!)

Associated Mythos Elements

• setting: Dreamlands
• race: Moonbeasts
• cult: Nyarlathotep

Appearances

• sourcebook: H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands