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Page Updated:
Tue, Aug 20, 2002
The worm-eaten pages you are holding, about a dozen in number, are filled with a dense, crabbed script which occasionally becomes spidery and sprawling without apparent reason... extended readings prove nauseating and disorienting. The language is a corrupted form of Ancient Suloise, and marginal notes suggest that the pages are a translation from an older tongue. The author or translator displays an obsession with capitalization and interjections. Most of the text is a meandering prayer, both groveling and gruesome, to something variously called the Unmaker, the Destroyer, the One and the None, the Eater, and the Sleeper in the Void. There are also disgusting supplications, dedications, and vows from the author to the entity, and several portions of the text are divine spells.
In some instances, the text alludes to an imprisoned "Avatar" of the entity. A mention of a manifestation of the Avatar near the now-lost Baklunish city of Dharba-Aran places the Avatar on Oerth prior to the Invoked Devastation, although there is nothing to indicate whether the Avatar or its associated entity was linked to the Cataclysm. It is clear that the author of the text regarded the Avatar, like the entity it represented, as an object of abject terror and sniveling adoration.
It is also clear that the Avatar or its associated entity was at some point imprisoned by "The Others," a group held in contempt by the author, who seems incredulous that such a thing could or should have happened. At one point, there is also mention of "thousand-cursed Tsojcanth." The author refers to a "Black Cyst" as the venue of the Avatar's or entity's confinement; several descriptions of the prison as "Beyond" and "Outside the Prime" suggest an extraplanar location.
An excerpt detailing the accessing of the aforementioned "Black Cyst"