What is up with these names? (Patreon)

Some folks might be wondering where some of the more exotic names in Quire 3 originated. In a letter Clark Ashton Smith laid out a genealogy for Tsathoggua and the antagonist of his tale The Testament of Athammaus.

These names are... daunting. I feel like my cat walking across my keyboard might yield similar results.

In the end I decided to treat them like YHWH: a shortened version of a holy word. And just as that led in the 16th century to the word Jehovah, I have let John Dee expand these names with some vowels and an Arabic flair.