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[[Signet (The Confession of Brother Signet)|Brother Signet]] wants to do his bit in [[the War]] effort and help protect [[Faction Paradox]] but he may have opened a [[H. P. Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] box he can't quite control.

Unsure of where the story should start, he starts with the "frankly tiresome" way his family discussed the [[War in Heaven]] when he just wanted to read, but then enemy forces came to his door anyway. Wondering now how to help in the war, he had the idle idea to bring fictional characters to life as weapons. After figuring out a way to enter a fictional world, he decides to pick monstrous beings that could still exist in the 'real' universe: the [[Cthulhu]] Mythos of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].

His first target is a sentient colour that landed in North America, which can be used as a mobile poison against [[The Enemy]]; he wonders if removing the entity, which was said in its story to go on to poison more of the world, means he's part of Lovecraft's stories as the ones set later have no such crisis. The success makes him greedy; he goes on to capture paranormal hounds that inhabit the angles of time and cannot be escaped, but his attempt to control [[Shoggoth]]s is a failure. Signet decides to ask Lovecraft's character [[Abdul Alhazred]], writer of the ''[[Necronomicon]]''. It turns out Alhazred wasn't a very good writer and so Signet ends up ghostwriting the ''Necronomicon'' for him. Finally, Signet captures Cthulhu himself so he can [[transmat]] the beast into Enemy ranks at will.

Before he can continue, he is confronted by [[Nyarlathotep]] and ordered to stop: Signet's mission is bothering the dreams of [[Azathoth]]. He is also cursed by Nyarlathotep to die as punishment and his death will be a few days coming so he will be consumed in fear.

 

In the confessional, Signet says he researched for a loophole and found he could get off himself if he gave Azathoth a better offer and some entertainment. As he confessed, he has committed the sin of murder: he poisoned the church's communion wine so the mad god could have thirty or forty deaths instead of one. Signet realises mid-sentence that the priest probably died five minutes ago but continues to talk, apologising to the dead that "my life is worth considerably more than yours".

* Signet wonders if there's three missing Deadly Sins, so their number fits the number of [[Ten Commandments|commandments]].

* Signet first says "forgive me, Grandfather", as in the Faction's leader [[Faction Paradox]].

* Signet compares his idea to "broadly" be the same as [[Hannibal]] using elephants.

* Signet says there could be many books to be written about the War, an in-joke by Gilroy-Sinclair about the [[Faction Paradox (series)|''Faction Paradox'' series]].

* Signet is a name given to him as a joke: as he's a librarian, they call him the French for "bookmark".

* Rather than write the ''Necronomicon'' in human skin, he uses cotton-rich vellum A4 paper.

* The Cthulhu Mythos has often been treated as real in Doctor Who canon since [[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'' but was also treated as fictional in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lovecraft Invasion (audio story)|The Lovecraft Invasion]]'', which came out the year before ''The Confession of Brother Signet''.