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Tagged: The Shadow of Nath

An amber crystal rests beside a wooden optical box containing a photograph of a tree; the apparatus is an artistic interpretation.
Books & artifacts

Chronicle of Nath

The Chronicle of Nath is a fictional occult history consulted by Constantine Theunis in The Tree on the Hill. Its account of a soul-consuming shadow supplies both a warning about deceptive appearances and the reason for using an ancient crystal on Single’s photographs.

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An amber crystal rests beside a wooden optical box containing a photograph of a tree; the apparatus is an artistic interpretation.
Books & artifacts

The Gem of Nath

The Gem is the ancient optical object used in The Tree on the Hill to reveal the presence concealed within a photographed landscape. “The Gem of Nath” is a descriptive index title for this wiki; the story usually calls it simply the Gem.

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An oak-like tree on a barren hill overlaps with the immense clawed outline of a presence concealed in the landscape; an artistic interpretation.
Entities & creatures

The Shadow of Nath

The Shadow of Nath is this wiki’s descriptive name for the predatory presence associated with the Chronicle of Nath in The Tree on the Hill. It conceals itself within recognizable appearances and alluring dreams. An unfinished drawing suggests that the apparent tree is only an extremity of something far larger than the landscape’s human visitor understands.

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An oak-like tree on a barren hill overlaps with the immense clawed outline of a presence concealed in the landscape; an artistic interpretation.
Literature

The Tree on the Hill

The Tree on the Hill concerns a solitary excursion whose photographs reveal a landscape different from the one consciously perceived. In this collaboration with Duane W. Rimel, a scholar uses an ancient crystal to expose the presence disguised as an inviting tree. The story links dreams, optical evidence and deceptive scale without assigning its unnamed antagonist to a familiar Mythos species.

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