Chronicles of the Cthulhu CodexEditorPierre ComtoisHenry J. Vester, IIIRon HilgerRobert M. PriceJoseph S. Pulver, Sr.FounderPierre ComtoisLanguageEnglishFrequencyIrregularFoundedJanuary 1985Final PublicationDecember 2000 Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex, also The Cthulhu Codex and simply Cthulhu Codex, was a sporadically-released zine which focused on the Lovecraftian horror genre.
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Pigfolk, sometimes calledswine-things or porcs, are porcine humanoids that are a particularly fouloffshoot of orc. When the majority of the orcs emerged onto the surface to preyon the peoples there, some stayed behind and moved into even deeper and darkercaverns. There, they discovered the worship of the Outer Gods, and theseeldritch entities rewarded their worshipers with more bestial frames and keenerminds. The pigfolk are rarely seen in the surface world, but they spread chaosand death wherever they go.
SwineLordThe greatest of the pigfolk,called swine lords, are bestowed with magical might by their awful gods. Swinelords typically advance in spellcasting classes, such as psychic, occultist orcleric. A swine lord is a pigfolk with the advanced simple template, telepathy100 feet, and can use faerie fire andmurderous command as spell-likeabilities 3/day. A swine lord is CR 2.
Hargins differ in terms of their alignments, but most have acquisitive personalities. A hargin typically wishes to gain some sort of power, prestige or fame in their humanoid form, or barring that, get rich. Some hargins turn to performance, others to theft, and others seduce their way into the households of the nobility. Although hargins are somewhat naïve, they are charming and capable, and have a handful of magical tricks to assist them in either social climbing or larceny. They spend almost all of their lives in disguise, returning to their monstrous forms only in order to defend themselves. Hargins are more likely to view other members of their own species as threats than allies. Hargins are sexually compatible with the humanoids they mimic, and some fey or aberrant blooded sorcerers have a hargin ancestor somewhere on their family tree.
The length, size, and detail of the codex are of such extraordinary magnitude that legend surrounds its origin, specifically the story that it was written by one scribe in one night with help from the devil himself.[12][13] It initially contained 320 sheets, though twelve of these were subsequently removed.[14] It is unknown who removed the pages or for what purpose.
According to one version of a legend that was already recorded in the Middle Ages, the scribe was a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive. In order to avoid this harsh penalty, he promised to create, in one night, a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge. Near midnight, he became sure that he could not complete this task alone so he made a special prayer, not addressed to God but to the fallen angel Lucifer, asking him to help him finish the book in exchange for his soul. The devil completed the manuscript, and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid.[1][25][26] In tests to recreate the work, it is estimated that reproducing only the calligraphy, without the illustrations or embellishments, would have taken twenty years of non-stop writing.[11]
The project of civilization [is] for man to graduate from the metaphorical savage, subject to the law of the jungle, to the civilized gardener who, while theoretically still subject to the law of the jungle, is so dominant as to limit the usefulness of that model. 2ff7e9595c
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