Professor Henry Silberhutte, III

"Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity."

~ H.P. Lovecraft

Eternal Prisoners, as defined by John Steele:

"Any of the many beings who were once human and committed the unforgivable sin of making a deal with The Old Ones, Elder Gods, or The Chthonic Gods, as they are referred to by Professor Silberhutte. Worshipers of Chaos have been employing these sad creatures as their tools for centuries. Now, they are immortalized monsters, a steep price to pay for making a deal with demons. My pity for the Eternal Prisoners barely outweighs my fear of them."

~ John Steele

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Codicil-added to Last Will and Testament of Henry Silberhutte:

I am Professor Henry Silberhutte from the Southern Texas University of Ancient Studies, STUAS.

In the event of my sudden or untimely death or sudden disappearance- My attorney has been instructed to send these journals immediately, without any delay or concern for the rest of my estate, to John Steele.

In the event- that John Steele proceeds me in death, they are to be passed on to Sierra Masters.

In the event- that both John Steele and Sierra Masters proceed me in death, they are to be passed on to Frederick Masters.

In the event- all three of the people named herein proceed me in death, it won't matter any longer. The world as we know it will have come to a grisly end.

~ H.S.

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Excerpts from the personal Journals of Professor Henry Silberhutte:

What happened to John Steele in Arkham is the beginning of this war with Chaos. His experience with an Eternal Prisoner reinforces how fraught with danger our entangled lives have become. I, Professor Henry Silberhutte, am responsible for our current reality.

Let me be more transparent and honest. If a man cannot be honest in his diaries, when and where can he be?

John, Sierra, and Frederick have several things in common. First, they have all been students of mine at some point in their lives, and all are gifted with vast knowledge of ancient studies. Second, they have all encountered one or more Chthonic Elder Gods and their handiwork. Finally, they all risked their lives to investigate "activities" when I, their old professor, requested that they do so.

Another thing they all share, which I never speak of aloud but will put into this journal, is that I love them as if they were my own children.

John Steele finally recovered enough from his near-death encounter with one of the Eternal Prisoners (let us call her Medusa) to reach out to me. I have brought him home to Luvcraft, Texas, to rest and heal. Here in Luvcraft with , the four of us, his chosen family.

~ H.S.

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More excerpts from the personal Journals of Professor Henry Silberhutte:

I am a very, very old being. Never mind, how old exactly? Let us say it is much older than the lifespan most humans will be blessed with. I am not Henry Silberhutte, the second or third. I am the original. The one and only Henry Silberhutte. This is as it was meant to be for many centuries.

No, I have not found the elixir of life, and no, I am not immortal. Occasionally, it has required me to bequeath my wealth to a second (son) or third (grandson) version of myself.

I am forced to move too often and have had few close friends. It is challenging to grow to love someone only to watch them die in what appears to me to be the blink of an eye. Wealth built over many ages can be handy indeed. I used my money and the power that comes with it to demand an independent investigation into what occurred at Arkham last summer. All charges and inquiries have been dropped, and John is now a free man again.

The two people responsible for filing the charges against John dropped them when it became apparent that a real investigation was occurring. Who were these two people? The first was Dr. Herbert West, III, Director of the Arkham Sanitorium. The second was Hank Seamus, the newly appointed Chief of Police (said to have come from Chicago).

These are the only two of our enemies entirely out in the open in our life-or-death struggle. There are many more in that cursed area. Some in Arkham itself. Others are from Salem, Innsmouth, Dunwich, and other more rural areas in Essex County. It has long been a human stronghold for those who worship the Elder Gods, the Old Ones.

I refer to these Cosmic demons as The Chthonic Gods during my thousand-years war against them.

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