Document #8338
©1999 Stabernide

The End Rite

By:                  unknown
Language:            see below
Effects:             +16 Cthulhu Mythos; -1D10+10 SAN; x5 spell
                     multiplier
Study Time:          3 weeks
Publishing History:  none 
Spells:              Call Azathoth; Create Temporal Gate; (see 
                     below for Notes on spells)

This wretched and filthy text is allegedly written in the year 2015, by 
a person whose identity is never revealed. The author claims to belong 
to a secret society of mages he refers to only as ‘the Fades’, who, 
following the Endtimes, engineer the mass ‘suicide’ of the human race to 
spare them from the ravages of the Great Old Ones. The book is written 
in no recognised language, but rather a curious mish-mash of European 
dialects - similar to Esperanto. Any skilled linguist will be able to 
decipher it within a few days. 

The book is part journal, part grimoire. It refers obliquely to how the 
Fades go about their despicable task, and recounts their rejection of 
any sane kind of morality in order to do it. Even more sickening are the 
author’s descriptions of the things the Fades had to do in order to 
survive in the Endtimes long enough to complete their plans.  To this 
end, the book is also a ‘survival guide’ to the Endtimes, and may be 
useful to those travelling to places like Carcosa, that are already 
subject to the dominance of the Great Old Ones. 

The author is clearly insane - even notwithstanding the supposed date of 
the book’s completion and his other wild claims; he accepts the Fades’ 
nihilism, but at the same time is tortured at having to do so. The book 
ends after the mass death of humankind, with the author standing on an 
atoll of human flesh, looking across an ocean of blood towards risen 
R’lyeh, and realising he has become ‘as the Great Old Ones’. 

The only known copy of this book resides in the Vatican’s ‘forbidden 
library’, after it was recovered from Abyssinia by an Italian soldier in 
1937. Vatican scholars have been unable to ascertain it’s origins or 
establish whether or not it is a fraud. As a consequence, it was buried 
in their vaults and forgotten. However; the author claims the Fades had 
been established for hundreds of years before the Endtimes; hiding in 
the recesses of human society - planning and organising for their 
inevitable destiny. Assuming the author’s claims are true, it is not 
known if the Fades are aware of the books presence in this time. 

Note on spells:
It is intended that this book contain some really nasty magic - 
extremely powerful but sanity blasting spells that would annihilate most 
present day casters. Spells like ‘Astral fire’ and ‘Control 
Psychoplasm’. However, given that these are all so dangerous it is left 
to individual keepers to decide whether or not they allow players to 
understand the stranger, deadlier spells. 

The Fades’ genocide spell however, does involve calling forth Azathoth, 
hence the appearance of that ‘familiar’ spell in the listing. There 
should also be a number of time travel related spells  - including 
‘Create Temporal Gate’ a variation on the traditional Create Gate spell.