Refractions of the Soul
Current Holder: Georgiana Wentworth
Physical Description
A slim, hand-bound volume with a title page in English, the text a mixture of English prose and Latin marginalia. The binding is recent — early 19th century, possibly a private printing or a manuscript copy. The pages carry faint staining that could be ink, could be something else. The title is embossed in silver leaf that has tarnished to grey.
Provenance
CoC 7e Tome Statistics
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Language | English (with Latin marginalia) |
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Campaign Relevance
The title suggests a text concerned with perception, optics, and the relationship between light and the soul — themes that align closely with Georgiana’s scholarly interests and the campaign’s treatment of the fork’s sensory effects (colour distortion, alien spectra, the visual phenomena accompanying harmonic resonance).
Possible thematic connections:
- The “Refractions” may describe how light behaves at dimensional boundaries — the visual equivalent of the harmonic binding described in the Liber Ivonis
- “On Lights & Loss” may refer to what is lost when perception expands beyond human norms — a thematic mirror to Georgiana’s escalating fork bond
- The text may contain practical information about the visual phenomena associated with Mythos contact, which would make it a field reference for recognising dimensional intrusion through optical anomalies