Cthulhu-and-Illithid

The following are the previously posted Dark Interludes vignettes from my fictional Morgulia setting, edited, titled, and reorganized for a better reading experience. ****************************************************************************************************************************** MONSTERS We thought that life was hard and filled with horrors, that the cruelty and corruption of the Boyars had inspired the worst of the tales we told our children to make them behave, and that even the most dangerous of predators of the dark forests that lay at our doorstep could be kept in check by the might of the Bogatir and the skill of the Vanatori. We thought that thieves and bandits were the worst terrors lurking in the darkness. We were wrong, so very wrong... On the night that the black star screamed across the heavens, burning the skies until they glistened the color of blood, and holy monks went mad, clawing out their own eyes whilst chanting "Zibaba", and we cowered, wailing in