VI 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 Spells All spells in Chapter 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 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 17 159