User:GoldenYak/Altar of the Old Gods (Journal)
Related to Spider Kingdom Expansion Concept
Entry 01
The following journal contains entries dated earlier than those relating to the city of Ahn'Vekir.
Bad news today. One o' me best scouts, Bosen Freefoot, came back from his damn fool venture into the Inner Kingdom, the black heart o' this bloody place. We'd gotten word of some major nerubian place of worship, this Altar of the Old Gods, where it's said that the secret names of all the Old Gods are watched over by the nerubian priesthood. I warned him not tae go, said it was too dangerous, but the young fool took off when me back was turned. He was determined to figure out everything he could about the Old Gods and report back. I thought we'd never seen him again, that he'd be dead for sure.
Titans forgive me, I almost think it would've been kinder if he were... He's utterly mad now. Worse than mad. He's barely into his forties and his beard's turned white as snow. White as bone.
I looked over the scoutin' reports he'd brought back. Can barely make any sense of 'em. He'd included... well, you could call 'em drawings... but drawings don't typically make ye feel like you've had the top of your skull pried off and icicles hammered into your brains. His journal's filled with 'em. They seem to be sketches of carvings or murals from the Altar. I'm sendin' the journal to Doorward - Titans willing, someone there can find something useful without goin' crazy. I've made a few copies of some of the more legible ones - the ones that didn't make me want to crawl out of me skin. I'd swear that some of the copies change when you're not lookin'...
Bosen's Report
A rough sketch in the journal corresponds to the image on the altar. A translation of the nerubian glyphs is written below:
- -The Defiler of Time-
- -Lord of the Wastes-
- The third line doesn't translate clearly. The word 'C'Thun' is written.
- The darkness has an eye
- It has no face but I can feel it grinning
- I can see the three lobed eye they spoke of
- It belongs to nothing of this world of this universe
- There can be no good in a universe where it exists
- Time losing time it feeds on time it eats seconds minutes hours centuries
- The unblinking eye is upon me
- They do not die
- CTHUN
A rough sketch in the journal corresponds to the image on the altar. A translation of the nerubian glyphs is written below:
- -The Lucid Dream-
- -Beast with a Thousand Maws-
- The third line doesn't translate clearly. The word 'Yogg-Saron' is written.
- The blood
- The blood lives
- The blood lives the blood lives the blood lives the blood lives
- A face it has a face a thousand maws wear one face
- The blood lives
- The blood is dead the blood is death the blood is alive
- THE BLOOD LIVES
- IT RISES
- YOGGSARON
A rough sketch in the journal corresponds to the image on the altar. A translation of the nerubian glyphs is written below:
- -The Seven Terrors-
- -The Devouring Mist-
- The third line doesn't translate clearly. The word 'Y'Shaarj' is written.
- they do not die
- they wait
- outside the world outside the Light
- scratching clawing at the Light
- casting shadows
- trick of the Light
- shadows six six shadows
- no not six the six are one six and one
- there are seven
- WHERE IS THE SEVENTH MASK
- YSHAARJ
- it waits
A rough sketch in the journal corresponds to the image on the altar. A translation of the nerubian glyphs is written below:
- -The Dreamer in Darkness-
- -The Drowned God-
- The third line doesn't translate clearly. The word 'N'Zoth' is written.
- not ready
- ready or
- or not ready
- not ready not ready or
- or not
- ready
- or not
- ready or not
- not not n
- no
- noth
- NOTH
- NZOTH
- NZOTH
- NZOTH
- NZOTH COMES
- ready or
A rough sketch in the journal corresponds to the image on the altar. A translation of the nerubian glyphs is written below:
- -The Weaver of Life-
- -He Who Shapes-
- The third line on the altar has been damaged. The heiroglyphs are unreadable. There is no translation.
- life is pain life is death pain is life
- a red snake a burning river a bloody organ
- nature is evil I never knew until now
- mother and child feed on mother and child
- they do not know their place in the grand design
- the curse he made it he made it and greater horrors still
- he made life
- HE FEEDS ON DEATH
- HE
- HE
- HE WHO SHAPES
There is a sixth entry bundled with the others, but it does not match the pattern of the first five. It appears to have sprung purely from the mind of the journal's writer.
- SHE MUST NOT BE NAMED
- cannot speak she will hear me
- cannot speak she will hear me
- cannot speak she will hear me
- cannot speak she will hear me
- cannot speak she will hear me
- DEATH WILL DIE
- SILENCE WILL FALL
- shhhhh