Liber Damnatus Damnationum
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The tome Liber Damnatus Damnationum (AKA "Liber Damnatus", "Book of the Damned", "Book of Damnation", "Damnation's Book", et.al) is statted out in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook, and originates in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)", with details added in Richard L. Tierney's "House of the Toad (fiction)", and Colin Wilson's "The Barrens (fiction)".
Description
Liber Damnatus Damnationum is a text written by Janus Aquaticus in Latin, first published in London in 1647. The book contains information on the "Great Dying" (the end of the age of man, when the Great Old Ones return to enact their will unopposed upon the earth, raising up their worshipers to join them in madness forever), formulae for the contact of Yog-Sothoth and for immortality, and information on locations where the barriers between dimensions are thin during the equinox.
Miskatonic University has possessed at least one handwritten Latin copy of this book, one reportedly stolen from the university, another (the same one?) seems to have been obtained or retrieved from the private library of Joseph Curwen. Much of this book seems to have been shamelessly plagiarized in Janus Cornelius Wasserman's The Occult Foundation.
- author: Janus Aquaticus
- date: 1647
- language: Latin
- number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
- study: 34 weeks
- sanity loss: moderate
- mythos lore: moderate
- occult lore: minor
- spells: ?
Associated Mythos Elements
Heresies and Controversies
- Janus Cornelius Wasserman is reputed to be a nom-de-plume for the undying author of the original tome, Janus Aquaticus, who rewrote the original tome from memory after his supposed death in the 17th century. (YSDC)
