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[From the journal of Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, discovered May 1899, near the great Temple at Tiahuanaco, Peru:]
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[23 September: 1893]
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Upon extensive examination of the nefarious arcane codex known as The Epsilon
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Exordium, I believe my search may at last be drawing to a close. Indeed, I
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feel that perhaps the great discovery which has eluded me for so long may
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finally be within my grasp. And yet I must be cautious, for twice more have
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I seen the figures in the night, watching me in silence from the confines of
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the darkness. I cannot discern their features, only that they are vaguely
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human in shape, save for their arms which seem abnormally long and oddly
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jointed. My native guides are becoming increasingly agitated and skittish,
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babbling incoherently about the guardians of the tombs... citing legends
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from their ancestral past which speak of mysterious travellers who reputedly
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came down from the stars in great silvern chariots drawn by steeds of flame.
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At any rate, I have my trusted Martini-Henry .45 calibre breech-loader
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should these silent stalkers prove malign and ever deign to lay hold of me
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in the night. I have at last translated the carvings on the stone fragment I
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unearthed amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat. To my astonishment, I found that it
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predated the construction of the temple itself by countless thousands of years,
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and that it spoke of the same subject as did the hieroglyphs I beheld on the
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wall of the concealed chamber which I and Lord Blakiston discovered within the
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Great Pyramid in Egypt. Successive examinations of the edifices at Giza and
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Karnak revealed further parallels too precise to be mere coincidence. The
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pieces of this great cosmic puzzle are finally beginning to fall into place...
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[2 October: 1893]
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Yes, it is as I suspected. I have long felt that the Sumerians of Mesapotamia
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were among the first peoples to attain elucidation concerning the dread matter
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I pursue. My excavations at Lagash, Eridu, and most notably the ziggurats at
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Ur, have revealed truths which subsequent finds at Angkor, Egypt and
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Sacsahuaman only serve to consolidate. I now know that the Olmechs, the Aztecs
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and the Mayans were also undeniably key tendrils of this grand global web,
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and the unnerving truth I hitherto felt compelled to deny now seems inexorably
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to point to some grand and terrifying universal axiom.
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It seems however, that the closer I come to enlightenment, the greater the
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danger becomes. Last night, one of our expedition's chief guides disappeared
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without trace. His native compatriots could find no tracks, nor offer any
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evidence of his departure to suggest that his superstitions had finally
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compelled him to abandon the party... the man seems simply to have vanished
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inexplicably into the oppressive, sweltering dark. In light of the
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disappearance, I opted not to inform the group that during the darkling hours
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before sunrise last night I had peered from my tent to behold what I perceived
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to be three of the shadowy figures I have previously described moving furtively
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in the gloom, keeping ever just out of the illuminatory radias of our campfire.
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By the time I had brought my rifle to bear, they had melted away into the
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fathomless shadows of the benighted jungle...
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[10 October: 1893]
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The inscriptions on the tablet I discovered seem to be a fragmentary piece of
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some mysterious, perhaps apocryphal, larger work; evidently a lexicon of some
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description, undoubtedly of antediluvian origin. The first section, as far as
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I can discern, tells of an era thousands of years past when countless great
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and advanced civilisations, apparently with the legendary Atlantis foremost
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amongst them, spanned the circumference of the globe. The initial passage,
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seemingly a celebration of Atlantis Ascendant carved by a renowned chronicler
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of the day, speaks thusly:
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The Epsilon Exordium
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| Bal-sagoth |
