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Mythos Items and Artifacts

‘‘ Instructions for making certain artifacts
and alchemical powders and potions
‘‘ Passages with information about a wide
variety of Great Old Ones and creatures
It is easily the most complete tome of Cthulhu
Mythos knowledge widely known to mortals. However,
most copies of the book are incomplete and no two
printings (or transcriptions) are even mostly alike.
The book is heavily layered in symbolism, Aklo-based
allegory, and other methods of obfuscation. Almost
any Mythos spell or ritual can be found within.
Price 30,000 gp (6,300 gp without spells and rituals)
Complexity 30; Shock 20
Skills Knowledge (arcana, dungeoneering, geography,
nature, and planes) and Profession (Yog-Sothothery
philosopher); Bonus +5 (untrained)
Rituals
All rituals in Chapter 5
Spells
All spells in Chapter 5

PNAKOTIC MANUSCRIPTS
Created originally by the great race of Yith, there
are over a thousand individual fragmentary bits of
scroll that comprise the Manuscripts. They started as
excerpts from the great race’s pre-Pleistocene records,
but were later expanded upon by prehuman entities,

then again in the Dreamlands. They contain scientific,
geographic, and historical lore, as well as accounts
of dealings with many Mythos beings. For example,
fragment 595 contains a lengthy sequence which tells of
a battle between yithian forces and some of Cthulhu’s
starspawn allies. Because of the incomplete nature of
the Manuscripts, the accounts are often frustrating,
but they do provide fascinating glimpses into the prehuman universe.
Price 4,100 gp (2,400 gp without rituals and spells)
Complexity 23; Shock 16
Skills Knowledge (engineering, history, nature, and planes)
and Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher);
Bonus +3 (untrained)

Rituals
4th—brew space mead
5th—contact yithians
Spells
6th—ancient sorcery of serpentfolk, nuclear chaos
7th—gaze of Ghatanothoa, vortex

THE REVELATIONS OF GLA’AKI
This is the holy text of the worshipers of Gla’aki, a
Great Old One whose cultists are largely undead.
When Gla’aki is awake, his slaves/worshipers abide
completely under the sway of his will, with no minds
of their own. When he sleeps, however, they become
autonomous, and during one such period, some of his
cultists wrote down fragments of what they remembered
from Gla’aki’s mind and their own activities, and

what they see as the true nature of the universe. The
serious psychoses and breaks with reality suffered by
Gla’aki’s victims makes the Revelations non-sequential
and difficult to interpret. They provide a terrible and
wonderful peek into an alien god’s brain.
Price 2,360 gp (900 gp without spells)
Complexity 24; Shock 17

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