Al Azif - The Cipher Manuscript known as "Liber Logaeth"
Al Azif
Ye Book of Ye Arab, Abdul Alhazred, 730 at Damascus
Of Ye Old Ones and their Spawn
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are and the Old Ones shall be. From the dark stars They came
ere man was born, unseen and loathsome They descended to primal earth.
Beneath the oceans They brooded while ages past, till seas gave up the land, whereupon They
swarmed forth in Their multitudes and darkness ruled the Earth.
At the frozen Poles They raised mighty cities, and upon high places the temples of Those whome
nature owns not and the Gods have cursed.
And the spawn of the Old Ones covered the Earth, and Their children endureth throughout the
ages. Ye shantaks of Leng are the work of Their hands, the Ghasts who dwelleth in Zin's
primordial vaults know Them as their Lords. They have fathered the Na-Hag and the Gaunts that
ride the Night; Great Cthulhuis Their brother, the shaggoths Their slaves. The Dholes do homage
unto Them in the nighted vale of Pnoth and Gugs sing Their praises beneath the peaks of ancient
Throk.
They have walked amidst the stars and They have walked the Earth. The City of Irem in the great
desert has known Them; Leng in the Cold Waste has seen Their passing, the timeless citadel upon
the cloud-vieled heights of unknown Kadath beareth Their mark.
Wantonly the Old Ones trod the ways of darkness and Their blasphemies were great upon the
Earth; all creation bowed beneath Their might and knew Them for Their wickedness.
And the Elder Lords opened Their eyes and beheld the abominations of Those that ravaged the
Earth. In Their wrath They set their hand against the Old Ones, staying Them in the midst of Their
iniquity and casting Them forth from the Earth to the Void beyond the planes where chaos reigns
and form abideth not. And the Elder Lords set Their seal upon the Gateway and the power of the
Old Ones prevailest not against its might.
Loathsome Cthulhu rose then from the deeps and raged with exceeding great fu