~ The Codicil Coetus ~ (The First and Second Codicils bound as one)
Bound in black leather and embellished with brass and copper adjuncts. Containing in excess of two hundred pages. Based on the A5 format size, a tarnished brass chain secures a carved horn star-charm to its spine. Also see the 'Translation of Uses' which goes some way to laying bare at least a small portion of this work.
Bearing in mind what was said above, about not keeping the Twin Codicils in a close proximity to each other; at a time far removed from this, some dark soul (by name; Pordaff Stouk) harboured the desire to produce just such a compendium, and to ultimately comprise both volumes as one. Upon the completion of the work and his subsequent, sudden and surprising demise, these works were inherited by his associate who had the hindsight to shackle an astrum fascinum to each of their spines. Through their dark and dismal journey down the decades, and by a convolution of means (I choose, at this moment, not to divulge) a few of these printings found their way into the repository of The Thin-Air Foundation, thence to the Sleepwalker Press. These dark opuscules have now been in my hands for a little over a year, and must admit to not having experienced any of the threatened manifestations or misfortunes. Perhaps it is my temperament or set of mind, or perhaps it is that I harbour no wish in the sorcerous fields that might offer The Coetus any initial foothold. Or perhaps it is indeed the strange talisman that is affixed to its spine - I know not.)
~ The Codicil Coetus ~
This Codicil Coetus - or Assembled Addenda - is a foul cumuli of Great Olden-Ones lore, and must upon all occasions be attended by one or more star charm. What is gathered together within shall forever be coveted by Man, but will, at the same time, never sit easily in His hands, for they retain an antiquated glamour and are predisposed to insidiously pollute all wholesome learning. It should be well known that for many a good reason were the books of the Addenda held under separate covers, for if such lore as is held within the individual books are brought together; "... by, an' of, their innate natures, deviltry does occur spontaneous an' unbid" (Bathis). Thuswise, in this edition, has a star charm been permanently fettered to its spine, and in this fabrication is carved from the horn of the Dox and is so termed; Astrum Fascinum. It is by this charm alone that this ill-volume might be held calm and quiescent.
~ Close-up of cover detailing the Astrum Fascinum ~ (called by some, the Star Charm)
"Of the contours an outlines - them as were stable - did present as an open book upon an plinth. Through the haze of mine afflictions, distantly did fall to mine ears through the closed an’ barred door to mine rear, the remote chaunting of the Brothers. A mere whisper of words, but a roar of implication. Of them words? but a simple phrase. Of their import; “…. turn the page”. ~ 'The Daybook of Lori Bath Ban, and his rise by trial, from brother acolyte to Abbot' from The Mythoplasm ex Somnus
~ Inner Pages of The Codicil Coetus ~
"An' in thine Book, does not the all of this be writ with full intent for contrived converse an' commerce, raising an' manifestation of things inimical, an' whereat do we not fulminate an' concentrate an' paw with singular intent an' urge? An' does not the sigil, not least to say also written term there inscribed, possess of more import than that as simply uttered. By the all of the afore-said, rather do ask how such an volume might not be imbue of an locus of dark intent." ~ from; 'How it Might be as That an Spirit Might Inhabit of an Book. For ifn an Name in an Book does so be Invest of an Cogency, why not that Selfsame Book?' ~ The Mythoplasm ex Somnus
Included within the confines of its bindings the seeker will encounter a veritable plethora of alien scripts, signs and sigils, all full of the secret mechanisms of the cosmic disorder. But what are these secrets? Can a translation be found? Well, as afore said .... only him with an "book" might stand chance to so fathom.
