Mythos Knowledge of the Investigators 1

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"To Create a Homonculous Servant"

A fragmentary book found in the hollow beneath Venard Alley off Chestnut Street – The location probably corresponding to a secret sub-basement of Herbert Warren Williams ship’s chandlery, which had previously been some sort of chapel -The chapel having relocated in the late 19th century and the building having been destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906.

Cover and Title Page

  The book is bound in a light brown fabric with the title embossed in gold. The condition is terrible – Partially burnt with only 3 pages remaining even in part. These pages seem to be from the beginning and are largely a jumble of apparently meaningless Latin words which represent a cipher for which no key is available.

Annotated - Br. H.W.W. for presentation on Beltane

Year of Our Dark Lord 1906

The title page gives the author as Gottfried Mulder and identifies the publisher as Graf von Neuberg – Frankfurt - 1843 

Details

  Strange Characters found scattered throughout the text seem to be from two separate alphabets or symbol sets. Each set seems to contain a couple of dozen variations at least. They are likely a magical alphabet like the “Angelic Script” dating from 16^th century occult sources. (Angelic Script is a derivation of Hebrew and Greek). These are, however, unfamiliar.

  The legible portion of the book also contains a magic circle which is definitely from “The Key of Solomon”, a classic grimoire alleged to derive from Solomon but actually dating from the 15^th century or thereabouts. The annotation below appears to comment on the circle.

 Classic Solomonic symbology.

Perhaps best that I have replaced it with the variant concocted by D.

The annotations throughout are assumed to be the work of Herbert Warren Williams.

The symbols to the right appear to be significant although the odd cartouche-like addition within the pentagram and the twig-shaped figure beside them are unfamiliar. They are described in the handwritten pages as “The Elder Sign”.

The triangle itself is one of a myriad of “Magic Triangles” from classic occult sources like the “Key of Solomon”.

The book does not contain enough undamaged material to reconstruct the presumed spell "Create Homonculous Servant".

Additional Information

  Some significance may attach to the bell-tower which was said to be part of the chapel in North Beach. The old lady who lives beside Venard Alley, and who remembered the chapel, repeated the nonsensical phrase "Beware Saint Toad's Cracked Chimes."