Monday 25 October 2010

The Old One's Epitaph

Enscribed on the wall of the Barrow Den in my short story 'Black Rock'.

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Chalnoth rysal hidrik col'na
(In the deep dark)
Chich namwa razan
(In the underbelly of the world)
Litzick harnol anta maydo
(Locked and sealed)
Rado inifinternae lodaz
(Bound for eternity)
Phaethlu
(Phaethlu)
Ti'amoriette
(The Old One)
Riss ternana rado valastadt zof ax
(Interred for the protection of all)
Chu'larthu ax vryft zfad car
(So that the world-bourne may grow)
Exarchedax fszadba ednae trekku felldau
(Unencumbered by the fate we brought upon ourselves)

The remainder of the inscription was irreparably damaged but seemed to imply some sort of pact or creed with an entity described as being one of many faces and none being pure. There were hints that this being is from beyond this world, and that it feared something referred to as 'Vorbados', no translation of this term can be discerned other than 'Void', the possibility remains that 'Vorbados' may be another entity.