He does this just in time before he gets arrested by Innsmouth's police. The last chapters tail off, as though the translation has not been finished.' Role in the game : įollowing the death of his daughter Ramona, Thomas Waite gives Jack the key to the back door of his store, asking him to get what it contains out of Insmouth. Their greatest awe, however, is reserved for a dark god named Great Cthulhu, who is said to sleep and dream in the underwater city of R'lyeh. Father Dagon and Mother Hydra are such individuals, and are greatly revered for their age and size.

If this incredible manuscript is to be believed, their history stretches back beyond the remotest human origins, into unthinkably remote antiquity.Ī few individuals are so incredibly old that they have seen continents rise and fall, for they do not die of old age as humans do. The descriptions of the sacrifices are particularly shocking, and there are details of magical spells and other strange rituals. They are the greatest of an underwater race called the Deep Ones, who worship them with sacrifices and other rites. It tells of an entity called Dagon - apparently some kind of sea-god - and his consort Hydra.

It's cover is embossed with the title 'The Book of Dagon.' It seems to be a religious work, translated from a series of ancient tablets. This book is hand-written, and heavily bound. The following text is taken from Jack Walters' journal: Jack kills Robert and regains possesion of the Book, using it to grasp the context of the Tablets at the very end of the game. He very nearly succeeds in that goal after Jack's capture in Y'ha-nthlei, during which his brother Sebastian gets his hands o the Book, previously found by Jack in the shop of Thomas Waite. Despite it's uses, the book is in fact incomplete and only by using the Tablets and the Book is one able to grasp the full context of both.Ĭompleting the translation of the Tablets became the late obsession of Robert Marsh, who by the end of the game directs most of the resources of the Order to complete that goal despite the fact the whole Order is under attack. It also contains horrible depictions of their religious practices, and even some spells. The book contains a great deal of information about the Deep Ones, their leader and some of their history - but nothing about their origins.

It was written in order to allow for the translation and understanding of the infamous Tablets of Dagon. The Book of Dagon, written by Obed Marsh around 1846-1878, is an important manuscript of the Mythos and the Esoteric Order of Dagon. The ' Book of Dagon', in Thomas Waite's safe.

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