Creepy Academia

Compiled by Brand Robins, Mischa D. Krilov and Jason Morningstar

Call it 1925, somewhere in New England. Somewhere unwholesome… The ancient and dead languages are perfect for your Curious Volumes of Forbidden Lore.

Male Professors

  1. Underwood Mayfield-Carter
  2. Juan Santiago Ramos-Torres
  3. Ward Younghusband
  4. Archibald Woolidge
  5. Lafeyette Horner
  6. Jean-Jacques Brasseur
  7. August Ransom-Lowell
  8. Howard Murray Sharpless
  9. Bentinck Krahn
  10. Alphonso Deane
  11. Wallace Rutland-Mosteller
  12. Erkenfried Moeller-Heilemann
  13. Everett Charles Blackburn
  14. William Asher Church
  15. Urban Blazej Kusnierewicz
  16. Percival Dorsett-McNelly
  17. Franklin Oglethorpe-Waite
  18. Maynard Creasy III
  19. Benedict Willard-Makepeace
  20. Manchester Clematis-Frost

Female Professors

  1. Augusta Monck
  2. Gertje Hoogduytscher
  3. Dorothy Thorton Shaw
  4. Marie Venable
  5. Fidelia Harwood
  6. Kätchen Iris Von Schroeder
  7. Valeria Ulrich-Womble
  8. Nova St. Pierre
  9. Pasqualena Zuccaro-Fazio
  10. Hazel Tolley-Speer
  11. Alice Cobley-Evans
  12. Ekaterina Hlutev
  13. Sarah Stevenson
  14. Tabitha Rockworth Butterfield
  15. Marie-Zéphyrine La Pérouse
  16. Alba Chaplin-Davis-Dow
  17. Edith Fogg
  18. Eudora Bryngel
  19. Zlatka Moulton-Gardner
  20. Bernadette Eulalia Peterson

Male Students

  1. Winthrop “Winnie” Chaplin-Brown
  2. King “King” Burkey
  3. Courtney “Butterball” Craybeck
  4. Phillip “Poncey” Burns, Jr.
  5. James “Stumpy” Frazier
  6. Patrick Henry “Cookie” Stevens
  7. Gerald “Goat” Tucker
  8. Ronald “Pinch” Jackson
  9. Townsend “Gorilla” Van Foy
  10. Cross “Minty” McGowan
  11. Prescott “Rusty” French
  12. Hamilton “Buzzy” Mantooth III
  13. Cornelius “Raccoon” Huntoon
  14. Adam “Grampy” Harris-Sibley
  15. Woodrow “Woody” Harding, Jr.
  16. Fenton “Fenty” Gilchrist
  17. Karl “Hamburger” Deitrich
  18. Edward “Popsy” Olsen
  19. Joseph “Sour-Blood” Cutter, Jr.
  20. Liam “Toad” McIvey

Female Students

  1. Lottie Anne Werther
  2. Clementine Dupree
  3. Hester Hollingsworth
  4. Edwina Cobb
  5. Rosebud Grampian-Kettering
  6. Eliza-Jane Overton
  7. Helen Mogg-Wilson
  8. Irma Louise Plunkett
  9. Mina Todd Watson
  10. Jenny Biggs
  11. Capella Rausch
  12. Renee Fitzhugh-Camperdown
  13. Mildred Toynbee
  14. Button Hastings
  15. Roxie Brackett
  16. Louise Warner
  17. Loretta Potts
  18. Alice Bamberton-Willy
  19. Susan Peach
  20. Delia Wannamaker Levy

Campus Locations

  1. The ruins of the Old Rectory
  2. Scadwell auditorium
  3. Watkin-Tench conservatory of music
  4. Manders library and annex
  5. Drummond laboratory
  6. Hohenleutner observatory
  7. Muzetti gymnasium and ballroom
  8. Museum of Art and Science
  9. Physical plant and laundry
  10. Gamma Gamma Gamma house
  11. “Hillview”, the Chancellor’s house
  12. Brotherton chapel
  13. Theodore Roosevelt athletic field
  14. Braithewaite field-house
  15. Westcote-Kern arboretum
  16. Rowing club shed on Sexton lake
  17. “The green acre” quadrangle
  18. The Old Oak
  19. The statue of “Old Incorrigible”
  20. Passion Point above Sexton lake

Ancient and Dead Languages 1

  1. Latin (Rome, Latin alphabet)
  2. Mycenaean (Ancient Greece, Linear B)
  3. Eteocretan (Ancient Minoan Crete, Linear A, non translated)
  4. Classical and Hellenistic Greece (Classical Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Greek alphabet)
  5. Paninian Sanskrit (Classical India, Devanagari script, Gupta script, Sharada script, etc.)
  6. Vedic Saskrit (Ancient India, Brahmi script, Devanagari script)
  7. Pahlavi (Middle Persian, Pahlavi script and sometimes Manichean script)
  8. Avestan (Ancient Persian religious language, Den Dabireh script added late in history)
  9. Old Persian (Ancient Persia, cuneiform script)
  10. Akkadian (Assyria and Babylon, cuneiform script)
  11. Sumerian (Mesopotamia, cuneiform script)
  12. Aramaic (Ancient and Biblical Middle East, Phoenician script, then Syriac alphabet)
  13. Classical Hebrew (Ancient Israel, Hebrew alphabet)
  14. Elamite (Linear Elamite, cuniform Elamite script, non-translated proto-Elamite script)
  15. Harappan (Harappa - very ancient India, Indus Script, non translated)
  16. Classical Nahuatl (Aztec, pictographic)
  17. Classic Maya (Mayans, Maya hieroglyphics)
  18. Phoenician (Phoenicians, Phoenician alphabet)
  19. Ancient Egyptian (Ancient Egypt, Egyptian hieroglyphic)
  20. Demotic Egyptian (Classical Egypt, Demotic script)

Ancient and Dead Languages 2

  1. Coptic (Medieval Egypt, Coptic alphabet)
  2. Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopia, Ge’ez abugida script)
  3. Ammonite (Ancient Jordan, Canaanite alphabet)
  4. Edomite (Ancient Jordan, Canaanite alphabet)
  5. Nesite (Hittites, Akkadian cuneiform)
  6. Lydian (Ancient Turkey, related to Nesite, Lydian alphabet)
  7. Khitan (“small script” derived from Han characters, “large script” derived from Uighur)
  8. Tocharian (Ancient China/Central Asia, slanting Brahmi script)
  9. Kuchean (Ancient China/Central Asia, slanting Brahmi script)
  10. Gudian Hànyu - Classical Chinese (Ancient China Zhou to Han period, Hàn characters)
  11. Classical Arabic (Language of the Qur’an, Arabic alphabet)
  12. Khazarian (Khazars, Medieval Kazakhstan, Turkic runiform script and Hebrew alphabet)
  13. Nabataean (Classical Arabia, Syriac alphabet)
  14. Sabaean (Classical Yemen, South Arabian alphabet)
  15. Hurrian (Northern Mesopotamia, Akkadian cuneiform script)
  16. Chagatai (Central Asia, Arabic alphabet)
  17. Etruscan (Pre-Roman Italy, Etruscan alphabet, dubious translation only)
  18. Lusitanian (Ancient Portugal, Latin alphabet)
  19. Scythian (Ancient Central Asia and Near East, very dubious, Hieroglyphic Hittite)
  20. Jurchen (Ancient China/Manchuria/Central Asia, Jurchen script)

Real Magical Texts 1

  1. Sworn Book of Honorius
  2. Mishkat al-anwar
  3. Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis
  4. Datttreya
  5. Monas Hieroglyphica
  6. On the Ogdoad and Ennead
  7. The Vaishashik Darshana of Kanada
  8. Rasaratanakaram
  9. Kitab al-Kimya
  10. Declarations of the Perfected
  11. Sefer Yetzirah
  12. The Zohar
  13. Heptaplus
  14. The Kybalion
  15. Atharva-Veda
  16. Asclepius
  17. Mahanirvana Tantra
  18. The Divine Pymander
  19. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage
  20. Guhyasamja Tantra

Real Magical Texts 2

  1. Yog’c’bh’mi
  2. Tabaqat al-Awliya
  3. The Black Pullet
  4. Bodhicaryvatra
  5. Greater Key of Solomon
  6. Hatha Yoga Pradipika
  7. Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis
  8. Le Grand Grimoire
  9. Mahvairocanbhisambodhi Tantra
  10. Voynich manuscript
  11. Taittiriya
  12. De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres
  13. The Mystery of the Cathedrals
  14. De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum
  15. Hayagrava
  16. The Scrolls of Mahendrath
  17. Markandeya Purana
  18. Secrets of the Jade Chamber
  19. Shivastotravali
  20. Orus Apollo

Imaginary Magical Texts

  1. Dazhdbog’s Garden
  2. Scrolls of Skelos
  3. The Necronomicon
  4. Black Tome of Alsophocus
  5. Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
  6. Cthaat Aquadingen
  7. Sevil-el-Mafouh Whash
  8. Les Fleurs du Mal
  9. Testament of Carnamagos
  10. Zaywar andar’a’Baagh
  11. Red Book of Yarrow
  12. White Book of Cavalonia
  13. Acta Sanctorum
  14. Liber Ivonis
  15. Unaussprechlichen Kulten
  16. The Blasphemies of King Yama
  17. Prassidia Finium
  18. Faded Librum of His Hunters
  19. Catechism of the Wild Swan
  20. De Senectutae

Weird Book Materials

This is an adaptation/homage of Garry Stahl’s Generating Books article from Roleplaying Tips Weekly #314. See the full article here: http://www.roleplayingtips.com/readissue.php?number=314

Pages

  1. Human skin
  2. Precious metal, engraved
  3. Rice paper
  4. Ivory
  5. Plastic, thick and solid
  6. Hemp paper
  7. Stone
  8. Wood
  9. Metal, etched
  10. Parchment
  11. Slate (painted)
  12. Papyrus
  13. Dangerous substance (Poison, radiation, custom nanotech, cursed)
  14. Plastic, thin and flexible
  15. Cotton
  16. Glass (painted)
  17. Cloth
  18. Precious metal, embossed
  19. Glass (stained)
  20. Common wood pulp paper

Bindings

  1. Wood, carved
  2. Metal, semiprecious
  3. Plastic
  4. Metal, precious
  5. Leather, gilded
  6. Wood, gilded
  7. Rebound, handsomely
  8. Rebound, cheaply
  9. Amber
  10. Cloth
  11. Metal, faux
  12. Leather, tooled
  13. Iron
  14. Brass
  15. Stone
  16. Loose (no binding)
  17. Ivory
  18. Rebound, falsely
  19. Bare
  20. Artificial (Naugahyde, plastic, etc)