Ptetholite

The Ptetholite language is a fictional language system which appeared in Brian Lumley's short story The Caller of the Black.

Description

The Ptetholite language and its subsequent script are one of the few existing remnants left by the Ptetholite people: a prehuman race which antedated the Hyperboreans. Though little is known about the language itself, we do know that the script was sometimes used for writing curses and incantations.

Examples

Few traces of the Ptetholites or their language remain. Fragmentary examples of the script may remain in such Hyperborean records as the Libor Ivonis or the Testaments of Carnamagos. Earlier translations of the Cthaat Aquadingen contain a version of the Sixth Sathlattae written in Ptetholite script.

The best preserved examples of the Ptetholite script can be found upon the Broken Columns of Geph situated on the cost of Liberia. Inscribed upon the columns is a long narrative recording the Ptetholite peoples magic and its use in there wars. However the complete message is undecipherable since a number of the columns have been defaced and some of their contents erased by the Mi-Go.