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Ubbo-Sathla Synopsis
We open with Paul Tregardis discovering a crystal. He picks it up in a local shop and takes it home. He is an arcanist and cultist expert who recalls a line in the Book of Eibon about it. It was supposedly found in Greenland, which matches the location of Hyperborea in old times, when the Book of Eibon was written
In the Book of Eibon, it mentions a wizard named Zon Mezzamelech who owned a crystal with a description that matches the one he has found. He pulls down his copy of the Book and finds the reference. It said that he could use the stone to observe the ancient past of Earth and creation, all the way back to the source and Ubbo-Sathla, the demiurge. The crystal and mage were lost.
Paul sets down the book and peers deep into the crystal. He stares deep into it for minutes and longer, until he notices changes. He becomes, in a sense, a dream like someone else. He realizes that he is Zon Mezzamelech while still connected to Paul Tregardis in London. He sees and knows what Zon knows. Zon wants to recover the secrets of the gods, and believes the crystal is his tool to do so.
Zon is about to use the crystal for the first time. The vision of the crystal becomes more distinct and Paul forgets his connection and is fully Zon. Zon begins to use the crystal and his mind is racing backwards into the past, witnessing various scenes. The scene is too much, and Zon breaks off connection, and Paul returns to consciousness in London.
Something is wrong. Paul does not fully feel himself. He still considers himself Zon and the real world is more like a dream. He feels a bit disconnected. Details off his life seem like another’s. On three separate occasions, Paul peers into the crystal again, and as Zon in the past, again tries to tear into the past. He goes farther each time, but he wants to see past everything.
Then he vows not to turn back, and one final time Paul peers into the glass and becomes Zon in Hyperborea. Zon uses the crystal and peers into the past. Scenes begin to flow past him, and they see and become other users of the crystal before Zon. He lives many lives and learns many things as time speeds past in reverse. Not all of these lives are human. Then he speeds past life itself and moves to the source and finds Ubbo-Sathla there at the beginning.
Paul is never seen from again and the crystal is not found among his belongings.
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