A Contrast and Comparison of the Pentacle and Elder Scripts

***A Contrast and Comparison of the Pentacle and Elder Scripts*** is a top secret research paper by Rose Clintock that is not freely available to the cosmos at large. It discusses the nature of both Pentacle Script and Elder Script and arrives at a conclusion of which is superior.

## Summary

Clintock begins her essay by establishing the history of both scripts. Elder Script, as the name would suggest, is by far the older of the two, and it is the very the language that the Compact is written in. She then re-iterates the commonly-held belief that Pentacle Script was made by Valdos for mortals to use with the new rules of the universe. She explains that she will detail why this is not entirely correct later on.

The paper continues by outlining the existing uses that each script has seen. Pentacle Script is commonly used in summoning and binding angels, and it is especially easier to do so for Valdosian angels by design. Elder Script on the other hand, is the language of the universe. It can do anything given enough energy. It is at this point that she speculates that the universe is curved because the very space itself *is* the Compact. Space changes its shape just as Elder Script in a book changes its shape to an observer.

Clintock now explains why she believes that Pentacle Script is not actually a wholly new, full-fledged language, but instead "merely" a pre-programmed list of actions that one can take, whereas Elder Script is the building blocks that Pentacle Script uses. She first details some superficial similarities in the syntax and construction of individuals words. Next, she shows that the set of actions that can be taken with Pentacle Script is a complete subset of groups of Elder Script functions. She concludes from this that Valdos wrote Pentacle Script as an interface onto Elder Script for mortals to use. This is why Valdosian angels are so much easier to summon than other angels using Pentacle Script. Here she coins the terms "high-level" and low-level language" to describe Pentacle Script and Elder Script respectively.

Finally, Clintock begins her analysis of the benefits of using one over the other. Elder Script requires much more energy to simply get the words written, as it is required for stacking the many layers into higher dimensions. Pentacle Script requires somewhat less, since it is can be seen as a 3-dimensional projection of the higher dimensions of Elder Script. Elder Script is also more likely to destroy the soul by reading the final result than Pentacle Script is. And most importantly, there is more to keep track of when writing Elder Script the more complex the desired result is. This means that it becomes harder and harder to ensure everything will go as expected, relative to Pentacle Script.

Despite the drawbacks, Clintock concludes that Elder Script is the superior language. She proclaims that Pentacle Script is safer for inexperienced occult scholars, and she equates it to being an introductory language for students but not suitable for "true" professionals with any kind of budget. She gives an example of a summoning circle. While they are relatively easy to set up with Pentacle Script, many of the loopholes that make a circle more powerful and likely to succeed are better expressed though Elder Script, as they are only loosely covered by the expression set available to Pentacle Script. She does concede, however, that even an experienced occultist may want to use Pentacle Script for relatively simple and unimportant tasks.