Letto da:
- Hemmet
In lettura:
nessuno
45 settimane per leggerlo (skimming 12 ore). +10 Miti di Cthulhu. 1d8 sanity.
Descrizione esterna:
A manuscript, 10” x 12.5” bound in pale green
leather. The cover has no title, only a peculiar
pentagram-like symbol, seared into the heavy
bindings. The title page gives the work’s name,
followed by a subtitle “As written in the so-called
Pnakotik Scrolls, as translatid from the Greke by
the author togeder with addicional remarkes
upon that worke in the light of Newe Lerning.”
The print is neat, typeset in archaic English. A
printer’s mark says “Trevisa et fils. 1496,” but the
binding appears to be much more recent.
Periodically plates (presumably bearing
illustrations) appear to have been carefully cut
from the book. Pencil annotations in modern
English appear frequently in the first third of
the work (usually glossing the more archaic
language), but decrease in frequency
afterwards.
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This work claims to be a translation of an
otherwise unknown series of documents (The
Pnakotic Manuscripts) brought to the West after
the fall of Constantinople in 1453. These are said
to be Greek translations of even older
documents chronicling an otherwise unknown
epoch of the pre-human history of Earth. The
unidentified translator claims to have obtained
this work, also called The Pnakotik Scrolls and
The Scrolls of Pnakotus, from an unnamed
refugee from the Byzantine Empire. This
translation was made in conjunction with the
help of another (also unnamed) Greek scholar.
The body of the text is a haphazard jumble
of myths outlining the history of various
fabulous kingdoms and civilizations of Earth
before the rise of Man (as well as other places
specifically said to be not of this world).
Discussions include a catalogue of various races
in residence on the Earth during the ages before
man, the actions of various legendary figures,
and the myriad inhuman deities worshiped by
both. A final section traces the mythic history
of the book itself, from fragments uncovered in
some vast non-human library (the so-called “city
of Pnakotus”) to the scribes of vast pre-historic
human empires who consulted with improbable
“others” (some sort of flying, barrel-shaped
beings) in their efforts to understand the work.
It seems likely that this work is a compilation of
a host of mystical texts, many of which are
preserved only in fragmentary form.
[Modificato da F. M. 17/11/2016 00:12]