everyone knows that obscure old books full of evil power are traditional ingredients in the mythos formula. what, if any, infamous tomes have you cooked up for your characters to find?
in my story 'I.N.R.I.' i'm introducing an eldritch volume called viaticus in veritas inremeabilis, which (if i'm not wrong) means 'for a journey into truth from which there is no return.'
the background of the book goes like this. during the spanish colonization of 'alta california,' missions were established to facilitate the dominance of european culture over those of the native tribes.
an anonymous catholic priest collaborated with a manitongva shaman (the manitongva are my fictitious splinter tribe with ties to mysterious powers) to produce an instruction manual of ancient magic/technology that supposedly came from ancient superhumans, refugees from a country that was wiped from the face of the earth.
the book is written in a combination of latin, spanish, and another form of writing that isn't identified. the ultimate purpose of the book was for the besieged natives to form an alliance with the old ones and drive the conquistadores off the new world. obviously, something went wrong...
so have you invented any books like this? i think we should use each other's books the way hpl's buddies used the necronomicon and de vermis mysteriis and whatever in a bunch of different stories. that would be wicked bitchin awesome, says m
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