Mordiggian

Overview

Miskatonic seal ME-1932-R53/7544 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `mordiggian`.

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

Clark Ashton Smith's chthonic god of ghouls, manifesting as a dark cloud or taloned presence in Zul-Bha-Sair.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

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

Description

The Church of the Ghoul pays him tribute; priests wear masks of the Great One.

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

Associated with charnel houses and the consumption of the dead rather than the living.

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.

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

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `mordiggian` in all cross-references. The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.