The following is one of the rediscovered fragments from The Gospel of Draygon. Though lesser known than the famed Picatrix manuscript, the two documents share the same notoriety. Some scholars consider the Gospel of Draygon a composite of occult magic and arcane alchemical knowledge, while other believe it to be a hoax. Unlike the Picatrix however, we have only fragments and no complete volumes survives.

J.S. – 1981

When those left behind decayed and rotten,

By a bloodless beast, the shadow, the forgotten,

A blade you will need to cut through the darkest night

To set ablaze the forgotten and transcend its twilight

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The cost to forge thine weapon is ancient indeed,

For tribes of old, would know how to succeed

And strike the blade from black glass forged in fire,

And etch the futhark in the hilt made of bone, blood, and desire

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And whence from you find the materials to acquire?

In Yew is the wisdom, a sturdy root you desire.

Affix a bone from a broken thing, it’s essence made of fire,

Blood from thine own veins, will baptize thine hilt,

And the greatest of wills, removes all the guilt 

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And to learn the language of the land,

A journey you must undergo to truly understand,

The need for great endurance and power

Even as knowledge and stillness will bring justice to flower.

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Last of all, brings light to the blade,

To anoint, in the beasts own body, under the cursed glade,

Where things alive, pulse with malice,

And the creature hides in his smoking palace

There in the heart of the place, you must strike,

And draw the sap and soul from a place, dreamlike

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This fragment appears as a chapter epigraphic in Through an Endless Darkness Gleaming (Shades & Shapes in the Dark Book 2)

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