Death of the Outsider books
A Recipe for Sweet-Tongue
To Cook Sweet-Tongue This sonorous dish will soothe your throat and widen your vocal range. First, slice eight young, freshly-cut tongues lengthwise and boil…
Accounting of Heretical Items from the Royal Conservatory
This is the complete listing of heretical items that have been submitted to thorough examination during the Month of Rain, 1852. STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION:…
Bonecharms
[Excerpt from a book on sailing traditions and scrimshaw] Bonecharms, a sailor’s blessing, they say. The carving itself is a practice from long back, passed…
Can The Outsider Speak? An analysis of his visitations [1]
[Excerpt from a monograph on encounters with the Outsider] It is a rare enough tale, but one which varies only in the tone and enthusiasm of its narrators.…
Can The Outsider Speak? An analysis of his visitations [2]
[Excerpt from a monograph on encounters with the Outsider] Perhaps the most well-documented, yet also the most dubious, of the Outsider’s visitations are his…
Can The Outsider Speak? An analysis of his visitations [3]
[Excerpt from a monograph on encounters with the Outsider] The most common dialogic interactions recorded with the Outsider are conjurations occurring at one…
Can The Outsider Speak? An analysis of his visitations [4]
[Excerpt from a monograph on encounters with the Outsider] We must consider, then, the possibility of the Outsider’s own agency in these encounters. Does the…
Chant of the Eye
A voice for the silence A face for the terror A body for the darkness A wound for the wanting A knife for the knowing A hold for the hollow A truth for the…
Charm Carver's Diary
8th of Songs A charm carver will never starve, my mother used to say. Always coin to be made by selling wishes and wants to folks who don’t come by much of…
Clockwork Sentinels Owner’s Manual
[Excerpt from Clockwork Sentinels Owner’s Manual] Your Clockwork Sentinels are marvels of Kirin Jindosh’s ingenuity, but malfunctions may occur. Please read…
Cultist’s Diary
12th Hearths It has begun. When I woke this morning my shoulder felt stiff and insensate, and when I inspected it there was a thread of pure, silver stone…
Daud's Journal
She found me. I’m not surprised, only grateful. If anyone in the Isles could have found me, it was Lurk. She’s just as capable as she always was. I remember…
Daud's Journal [2]
She’s done good work. I knew she would. Still, I know she has doubts. I asked her to do something that would terrify most. I don’t blame her for questioning me.
Doctor Galvani's Memoir
RUMINATIONS ON AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE The 28th day of the Month of High Cold. The most important day of my life. It was after High Table, when we professors…
Exsanguination Experiment
The donor was nervous when I started the pump. Note: increase sedation next time. First signs of distress: muttering, grogginess. I asked what he was seeing,…
Fidelia's Journal
2nd Earth I tried the old incantations over the teeth and strings like before, but it didn’t work. It always used to work. Is the magic really gone? I heard…
Journal - E. Cienfuegos
[Excerpt from a journal kept by Eleuterio Cienfuegos] 5th day, Month of Songs Another dream. Not the Void, but a place every Karnacan sees daily! Shindaerey…
Lost Days at Shindaery: A Memoir
[Excerpt from Lost Days at Shindaery: A Memoir] It started with hallucinations: Juana Gallardo screaming when her house vanished as she unlocked her front…
Malchiodi's Diary
2nd, Month of Darkness I am now certain of the meaning of that script adorning the flesh of those few who encounter the Outsider. It is his name—the name he…
My Effigies of the Oracular Sisters
4th Day It’s been difficult to create effigies of the Oracular Sisters. They keep to themselves, rarely venturing outside. Impossible to get the hair and nail…
My Family's Bones
[Excerpt from an unfinished memoir written by Ivan Jacobi] My grandfather had always disliked my Tyvian mother, and my mother regarded her father-in-law with…
Notes on the Archive
The archive sent by the pharmacist is intriguing. I wonder how he knew to contact me? I will interrogate him about this when we meet. Cienfuegos describes a…
Old Widows’ Recipes
Marnie’s Secret Powders (For bringing on Frightful Illusions, Blurred Vision, and the like) Dry twenty purple sea slugs in the sun until they be crisped and…
On Bertie the Bird
I caught ‘Bertie’, as we came to call him, on one of those ill-fated expeditions to Pandyssia which I and a few others attempted from time to time, to follow…
On the Oracular Order, By Douglas Harwickle, Historian
Much has been said about the blind Sisters of the Oracular Order. In truth their eyes function just as well as yours or mine. However, they do endeavor to…
Rosewyn's Prophecies
19 Earth Five red strings pulled taut over some unknown instrument. My sisters could not make sense of it. Perhaps it will reveal itself again. 3 Harvest More…
Selected Sayings of the Overseer
“Let not the eyes linger upon pretty things. Better to pluck them out than to rest them long on temptations.” Sayings of the Overseers, 114 “One heretical…
The Ancient Music
[Excerpt from a longer work] Throughout the natural world there are ripples that we can barely perceive with our senses, an Ancient Music permeating everything…
The Child Empress
[Excerpt from a Historical Series] There was a definitive moment when people stopped calling Emily Kaldwin “the Child Empress.” It came after an ambush by the…
The Corroded Mind, by Álvaro Cardoza
Effects of the Outsider’s Influence The anatomical evidence clearly demonstrates that the mind itself deteriorates under the Outsider’s influence. This…
The Essence of Eternal, by Polina Roszakova
[Excerpt from a treatise on the Void] It is impossible to study the Outsider without also examining that desolate place which so exalts him. But it is a grave…
The Eyeless Got Potential
Anyone who’s spent time on the water knows what these are. Lucky charms, scrimshaw, witchcraft if you want. Whatever you call them, these fancy bits of bone…
The Knife of Dunwall
[Excerpt from a Penny Novel] Chapter 3 Daud stared at the blade. The plan had gone perfectly, even better than he could have hoped. In fact, the whole thing…
The Lonely Rat Boy and Other Tales [1]
It was the year the rat plague sank its bloody teeth into Dunwall and tore out all its mercies. The year the people who live submerged within the shadows of…
The Lonely Rat Boy and Other Tales [2]
He had walked for hours, limping unsteadily, crossing the city as he avoided those who prowled the streets at night. He had found himself in an unknown part of…
The Lonely Rat Boy and Other Tales [3]
He had never learned love, only fear. Love was a phantom; a press of a gentle hand against his cheek that had long since lost its warmth. But his wounds were…
The Lonely Rat Boy and Other Tales [4]
Blood wept from the wound in his palm. Soon, blood welled in his eyes and rolled down his face in long, staining tears. His white rat lay curled in his marked…
The Shindaerey Gift, A study, By Emora Clipswitch
On the Effect of the Winds on the Karnacan Landmass and Resulting Economic Positions Whale oil. Liquid power! How astonishing that within those beasts, inside…
We Watch the Stars, by F.H. Clapp
[Excerpt from a monograph on celestial cartography] Any child knows the constellations above the Isles. The Captain at the Helm, the Tusked Leviathan, the Vain…
We’ll Be Rich
[Excerpt from a journal] We been here just a month and I’m making coin hand over fist. It’s a dream come true. Sure, it costs to keep that Suppressor running,…
Whispers from the Void, By Barnoli Mulani [1]
Treatise on the Physical Existence of that Foreign Realm [Excerpt] It is a common story: A person has stopped breathing, pinned under carriage wheels or some…
Whispers from the Void, By Barnoli Mulani [2]
Treatise on the Physical Existence of that Foreign Realm [Excerpt] These little glimpses of the Void in dreams or described by those awoken from comas, are not…
Whispers from the Void, by Barnoli Mulani [3]
Treatise on the Physical Existence of that Foreign Realm [Excerpt] The Abbey of the Everyman condemns any continued study into the Void and its existence. But…
Whispers from the Void, by Barnoli Mulani [4]
Treatise on the Physical Existence of that Foreign Realm [Excerpt] If the difficulties of reaching the Void are neither practical nor moral, then we must…