Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn: An Aklo Primer Aklo is a pre-human occult language, common to language, and sometimes outright impossible Thus, many primeval and unearthly species Fey, ancient some information is always lost or warped races, and entities from the Void are the most common Prolonged exposure to Aklo can permanently speakers of Aklo It is no one’s native tongue but rather change a mortal’s understanding of time or reality— a sort of lingua franca, spoken by many beings as a typically to his detriment in functioning in the mortal way to communicate across cultures A member of an realm Attempts to understand more than a primitive ancient race might wish to speak only with a fellow smattering (a sort of pidgin Aklo) can result in madness, Aklo speaker so that important arcane concepts are mania, or even death Generally, this is represented in correctly communicated, for example the dread and insanity rules as a moderate or major Aklo is not fully usable by or comprehensible by mortals, as its concepts and grammar are not Chapter) compatible with a sane mind Also, many parts of The effects of Aklo echo through its written form as the Aklo language function on a different level than well, so mortals must beware even tomes written in this mere vocal communication Spoken Aklo contains an tongue While a few Aklo concepts can be delivered empathic component best conveyed through telepathy, through other alphabets, typically the unique Aklo which resonates within the written form as well glyph system is necessary for full communication The tenses of Aklo are not simply past, present, and Aklo Speakers: The following creatures described future, but rather alter like the fluid shifting of other in this book normally know at least some Aklo and realities and dimensions unreachable by mortals Aklo may be fluent in it: abyssal custodian, byakhee, is the language best suited to entities that perceive the dark young, denizen of Leng, elder thing, eremite, passage of time differently from mortals: as a collection fire vampire, flying polyp, formless spawn, ghoul of events rather than as a stream Creatures that have (Mythos), gnoph-keh, gug (understand and write only), undergone profound changes in their forms (such as Great Old One (all), Outer God, hunting horror, mi- liches) can also make good use of Aklo go, moonbeast, nightgaunt (understand only), satyr Not all speakers comprehend Aklo at the same level (Mythos), serpentfolk, servitor of the Outer Gods, Some have access only to the fundamental principles of daughter of Shug-Niggurath, star vampire, starspawn, the tongue—those parts most similar to mortal speech Mythos undead, yithian Others plunge so deep into the ideas of Aklo that they find it almost impossible to impart information to mortals Beings incapable of verbal speech (such as Gugs) 100 disturbing discovery (previously described in this Additionally, here is a reference of creatures that speak Aklo, organized by monster type: Aberration: aatheriexa, aboleth, argus, azruverda, blightspawn, conqueror worm, cuero, decapus, may still be able to understand Aklo but cannot speak dossenus, drakainia, dream naga, fleshdreg flumph, or otheriwse transmit it They may, however, be able to flying polyp, ghorazagh, gibbering mouther, grick, write its glyphs horla, hundun, ike-turso, incutilis, leng hound, moon- Knowledge and wisdom are difficult to transmit beast, lunar naga, slime naga, neh-thalggu, neothelid, fully by translating them from Aklo to a mortal omnipath, rhu-chalik, roper, sagari, seugathi, shriezyx,