Byatis

Overview

Expedition register ME-1923-O11/7705 — cross-index under slug `byatis`.

We catalogue Byatis because silence failed: too many unrelated witnesses described the same wrong geometry after the same sleepless week.

Robert Bloch's 'Berkeley Toad', a hypnotic, multi-eyed horror bound beneath Severn Valley soil.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Description

Summoned through relics and hunger; feeds on minds as readily as flesh.

Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.

Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.

Historical Record

Later RPG material links Byatis to Yig and serpent cults; evidence is post-1960.

Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.

Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.

Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.

If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `byatis` in all cross-references. If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.