Lore Book: Book of Endless Dark

This lore book is for my Midgard Empire of the Ghouls campaign and is based upon the lore on the Night Cauldron of Chernobog found in Demon Cults & Secret Societies, and in a few Kobold Press blog posts.

This aged book’s pages are yellowed with age. The title is blazed across the second page, covering much of the page, as if the scribe sought to blot out the entire surface with the dark ink. Within the book speaks of “the deceptions of the gods” and their “lies that persuaded the Lord of the Night to allow the stars and sun to alight.”

It speaks of a future “age of glory to come, when the sun sets for the last time, and the stars are choked in endless void.” It urges followers of the Black God to throw off their shackles and embrace the Cauldron of Night, “heralding the “Architect of Disaster that is to come” and will “leave the World Tree burning” in their wake.

The book is inscribed to “My loyal pupil of the Night Cauldron, Fane Illmaladson, in preparation for you to receive the Black God’s Blessing,” and is signed with the symbol of a cauldron marked with a bear paw.