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[From the journal of Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, discovered May 1899, near the great Temple at Tiahuanaco, Peru:]



[23 September: 1893]

Upon extensive examination of the nefarious arcane codex known as The Epsilon

Exordium, I believe my search may at last be drawing to a close. Indeed, I

feel that perhaps the great discovery which has eluded me for so long may

finally be within my grasp. And yet I must be cautious, for twice more have

I seen the figures in the night, watching me in silence from the confines of

the darkness. I cannot discern their features, only that they are vaguely

human in shape, save for their arms which seem abnormally long and oddly

jointed. My native guides are becoming increasingly agitated and skittish,

babbling incoherently about the guardians of the tombs... citing legends

from their ancestral past which speak of mysterious travellers who reputedly

came down from the stars in great silvern chariots drawn by steeds of flame.

At any rate, I have my trusted Martini-Henry .45 calibre breech-loader

should these silent stalkers prove malign and ever deign to lay hold of me

in the night. I have at last translated the carvings on the stone fragment I

unearthed amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat. To my astonishment, I found that it

predated the construction of the temple itself by countless thousands of years,

and that it spoke of the same subject as did the hieroglyphs I beheld on the

wall of the concealed chamber which I and Lord Blakiston discovered within the

Great Pyramid in Egypt. Successive examinations of the edifices at Giza and

Karnak revealed further parallels too precise to be mere coincidence. The

pieces of this great cosmic puzzle are finally beginning to fall into place...



[2 October: 1893]