The Exegesis of Ralph L. Chandler

Origin: scenario "The Space Between" by Scott Dorward

Description

The Exegesis of Ralph L. Chandler, written by Ralph L. Chandler over a period of decades between 1967 and 1995, in the form of a series of files containing the core of Chandler's analysis of the Necronomicon and his own conclusions about the nature of Emptiness, becoming Empty, and the The Void.

Original Box Files

Language: Language

Physical Description: This Mythos tome takes the form of five large battered cardboard box files, containing a mixture of handwritten and typed pages, incomprehensible diagrams, and clippings from other sources. Craig Steele had attempted to create an index and summary, but the notes are still insanely chaotic.

General Content: Contains some limited insights from the "Sussex Manuscript" version of the Necronomicon, with analysis and insights focusing on the nature of Emptiness, becoming Empty, and the The Void, and some references to Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, and Nyarlathotep where they overlap with Chandler's interest.

Number of known copies (if rare): one original copy

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): in the possession of the Church of Sunyata

Mythos Content

Spells: Gateway to the Void (Call/Dismiss Yog-Sothoth), Commune with the Bringer of Wisdom (Contact Nyarlathotep)

• Sanity Loss: moderate
• Mythos Knowledge: low-moderate
• Occult Knowledge: negligible, and limited to an understanding of the Church of Sunyata
• Mythos Rating: 30
• Study: several months

Appearances

• Call of Cthulhu Scenario: scenario "The Space Between" by Scott Dorward