Sign of Koth
The Sign of Koth is a symbol in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. It is only referenced by name in two stories, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Koth itself is referenced on other occasions. In at least one of the Sign's appearances it is ascribed effects of its own. Due to these ascribed effects and the appearance of the sign on doors and doorways in Lovecraft's original works later uses by other authors, such as in the Call of Cthulhu role playing game, have connected it with doors and their sealing.
:"It was the sign of Koth, that dreamers see fixed above the archway of a certain black tower standing alone in twilight—and Willett did not like what his friend Randolph Carter had said of its powers." ~H.P. Lovecraft; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Ch V, Sec 4)
:"It was the sign of Koth, that dreamers see fixed above the archway of a certain black tower standing alone in twilight—and Willett did not like what his friend Randolph Carter had said of its powers." ~H.P. Lovecraft; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Ch V, Sec 4)
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