The Knowing of Selb-Kar
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"The Knowing of Selb-Kar" is the title of this volume of demonological lore. Unfortunately, as is most often the case, the bulk of the tome is actually the mad ravings of its author, who consistently refers to himself in the third person, by the rather regal title of "The Grand Hierophant of Geometry". One particularly lucid passage describes a location in the Void known as "Selb-Kar". It is unclear whether Selb-Kar is a city, a geographical feature, or some sort of unholy temple. One fairly lucid passage describes a trip the author made to Selb-Kar, and things he witnessed there: "Tall spires of angles more obscene than acute shadowed me. Vershaks shrieked catcalls above. There was no light until I saw the Intersection. A host, no, a floating, flickering, SENATE of shape met at the Intersection. Dark, alien polytopes, led sonorous fugues, speaking things that no thing ought not, for they were no thing. They turned, and I looked at them, but they LOOKED BACK. They CHANGED me, and now I SEE. MY SOUL HAS A SHAPE NOW" The rest of the book is far less coherent. Towards the end, the author promises to reveal the arcane "Angles of Selb-Kar" which can be used to summon denizens from that place. True to his word, the last page is inscribed with a complicated and obscure collection of runes, lines, and angles, denoting the mystical symbol referred to be studied by the skilled scholar.