And then Billy ripped off HP Lovecraft...

Much has been written about Jezirat of Kemet, the mad priest and explorer, but the lengthy volumes and histories pale against the scale and depth of his own writings. There are orders of scholars and academics who have dedicated their professional lives to decoding the double riddle that is the writings and the life of the enigmatic adventurer. 

Firstly piecing together the life of Jezirat is nearly impossible. Jezirat's writings document events covering a span of time stretching back almost two thousand years to apparently only decades before the current date. Leading theorists suggest that Jezirat was simply a very powerful prophet gifted with both disturbingly accurate fore and hindsight. Others have suggested that "Jezirat" is not simply one man but an order of scholars dating back through the millennia utilizing the same idioms, script and coding, however both of these ideas are rejected by those who consider external accounts of Jezirat's activities as true, as these span a similar period of time and include no less than eight accounts of Jezirat's execution (three burnings, two hangings, two beheadings and one blood eagle).

It has been suggested by the scholar Ziphus Vachochilde of Tarantion that Jezirat was (or perhaps is) in fact a vampire, but this theory has been largely rejected by his peers due to a lack of substantial evidence and being "too obvious". 

The texts themselves take the form of a series of scribbled notes, scrolls and journals written in an obscure and highly formal dialect of Old Kemetian. Unfortuantely for the academics attempting to date the man, whilst the dialect is roughly identical to what scholars believe the inhabitants of Kemet spoke two thousand years ago, it is the same dialect used by scholars, nobles and holy men to this day.

An entirely other body of scholarship chooses to simply ignore the impossible life of Jezirat the man in favour of studying his impossible text. Jezirat's subject matter seems to consist of the most comprehensive study of the lands, peoples, animals, gods and customs east of Khalad. Invariably historical accounts creep in as well, though Jezirat seemed to have little interest in the comings and goings of kings and armies and, to the chagrin of his academic followers, seldom makes note of the dates in his diaries. 

Jezirat's texts are problematic however in terms of their content. Whilst it is nearly impossible to order then with an exact chronology it is also very difficult to order them by content, as Jezirat, being mad, seemed to have a habit of writing about one matter before moving on to something entirely different, occasionally mid-paragraph, before returning to the earlier matter several pages later. Often these non-sequetuers are nothing more but semi-coherent ramblings and ravings. 

The generally accepted method for dealing with this problem is to focus upon one specific field of Jezirat's writings and collaborate within the community to try and construct a larger understanding. For example, one scholar might focus entirely on Jezirat's theological observations whilst collaborating with a scholar of Jeziratine anthropology.

There are numerous translations and compilations of Jezirat's notes in publication each dealing with innumerable Jezirat fields but perhaps the best known and most comprehensive of these is a zoological text concerning various exotic fauna encountered by Jezirat on his travels. The volume is the disappointingly entitled A Compendium of the Monstrous, Fiendish and Other Beasts, by the renowned naturalist Vixterian of Atenople, lately executed for heresy. Jezirat's actual observations are heavily supplemented by Vixterian's own findings and was recently republished in the Seven Cities in a new edition with illustrations by Lady Hypernia Audoinchilde. It is very popular. So popular it has caused a rift in the... fucking... FUCK THIS FUCK YOU 4TH WALL I'm gonna be sticking a bunch of my reinterpretations of monsters and stuff up here. I've been going through the Monstrous Manuel and the Fiend Folio alphabetically and getting people to pick monsters. Sometimes I get an easy one, sometimes I get a dumb one which I then have to make work and fit into my world. I'm most proud thus far of my Al'Miraj. Currently I'm on C is for Chimera but exams and big cats being really hard to draw have slowed me down. I'm not a very good drawerer generally but it's fun. ANYWAY back in character aaaaaaaaaaannddddd..... and thanks to this and Jezirat's writings on the nature of the Other, Below and Beyond have earned him the badge of Heretic First Class in Pellix and only high ranking members of the clergy are allowed to even touch his work.