The Sedefkar Simulacrum

Sedefkar lived well over one hundred years. When he wrote of the simulacrum, he gave it his name, and thus it became the Sedefkar Simulacrum; he had prophesied that one day he would lose the artefact, and he was determined that its secrets should not be lost. Sedefkar composed the Sedefkar Scrolls, five symbolic texts which conveyed most of what he knew.

Sedefkar inscribed the last of the scrolls in 1203. When the Fourth Crusade breached the walls of Constantinople in 1204, Sedefkar hoped to escape with the conquerors, but Frankish knights under orders from Count Baldwin exposed Sedefkar, and killed him in his Red Tower. They recovered the simulacrum and the scrolls. As ordered, they returned the occult artefacts to their lord, who passed them  to the leper monk Brother Merovac for closer study. The monk and the artefacts disappeared that night.

The monk was in fact Fenalik, an inhuman monster who had already lived for centuries.  He kept the Simulacrum for himself, finally emerging in Paris as the Comte Fenalik.  He had the guise of a human and the tastes of a monster. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, he constructed a manor in Poissy, at the edge of the Forêt de St. Germain, not far from the Seine. The parties he held there became famous, and then infamous for their depravities. The authorities took notice, and sent soldiers who arrested the Comte and burned his manor to the ground.  The simulacrum itself was broken into its constituent parts and taken away as loot.

Information on the current whereabouts of the  simulacrum was unearthed by Dr Henry Ethelrod in 1926. His researches indicate that:

• Some part of the statue may still be in France.

• One  piece was in circulation in Paris just after the Great War, and was sold to someone from Milan.

• Napoleon’s soldiers carried a piece into Venice when they invaded that city.

• Another fragment made its way to Trieste at the same time.

• There may be a piece in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

• The final part was lost near Sofia during the Bulgarian War in 1875. At that time things of value were hidden from the invaders, so it may be buried somewhere. 

Ethelrod  urged the investigators to collect the statue pieces and destroy them. He told them that the only sure way is to take it back to its original home, a place in Constantinople known as the Shunned Mosque. A ritual which will destroy it utterly is included in the Sedefkar Scrolls, but these are also currently missing..