documents



Nil's Vision

Link to the files depicting Nil's vision, plus a text summary.


Monkey at the River

A folktale in which Monkey meets Man and Woman at the river. From the Monkey crone oral tradition.


Creation Myth of the Gaetani

Sea and Sun, the Great Dragon, the Moons, the Wolf and the Monkey, lots of incestuous God children.


The Calendar as Creation Myth

The Holy Church Calendar consists of 18 months of 20 days, plus six High Holy Days. The calendaric cycle describes the creation of the world, and the liberation of humanity from the Theocracy. It focuses on the imperfect nature of humanity, expressed through the person of the Priest King of Vestra.


Viscus vim

The infamous crudity of the garish figures and illuminations notwithstanding, this is an arid tome: “The most boring waste of time conceived by magus,” as it is described in the inaugural volume of Morgensterni.


Annus Unus

Religious interpretation of the works of Lem, written by the founder of the Circulan School.


Caudex lamminæ glaciei

Mostly known for the spells and mentem theory that concern themselves with strengthening the ice and protecting the dreamer from the deeps, its striking approach has relegated it to the second or third tier of mentem texts, along with Fons indolis or Rationis mentis.


Rei nefabricati

Rei nefabricati was written by Jotham Sebasticook, filius Cotswold Sebasticook, scholae Touccio. Two "originals" exist, bound in stamped white cow hide, with brass studs at corners and cover.


Gazetteer (revised and expanded)

Some simple descriptions of some regions, cities and countries.


Lux umbrarum

Teaching text written to incorporate lessons in Cholæic vocabulary and grammar with basic magical instruction; as such regarded throughout the Order as the most useful.


Famae Facinus

famae facinus (reports of infamy)
by Caleth (nee Tenellus) scholae Cristofer, filia Perfidius scholae Savacion.


Nil Admirari

A Cristoferean-Derlethian with bad eyesight and keen vision.


de calamitas et adeifico

de calamitas et aedifico (of loss and creation)
by Caligatus filius Lagopus


Lucerna et tintinnabulum

A harmless text musing on perception. Or a thinly veiled Eleanorian manifesto.


ad voco draconis

ad voco draconis

by Testudo Tesselata (L107) filia Chalybs (L77)

Local knowledge and first hand accounts of dragons.


Speculum pro ducibus

Reputation as a “puzzle book” keeps Speculum from joining Artificia videndi clari as a definitive essentialist text.


Primo Vere

Text on herbam by Aegidius. Phantom for the Nemus Animae lexicon game.


Ab esse ad posse

A comprehensive text on the five substances for the Lexicon Game.


Poculum meloris simplex

What a spare little book this is! Then, what else would one expect from a stone such as Saxeus? A subtly stinging rebuke of plenilunial elementalism, you say? Read on!