Those men of learning who claim dominion over the cold, weirdly angled laws of this world would deny that unutterable savagery of nature, conjuring their knowledge as a man in repose draws a blanket over himself, somnolent, to distract from cognizant mind the lethargic caliginosity of this world. Such mendacity is made manifest in the quillback. —From An Anatomie of Various Terrible Beasts, by Baron Havard-Pierre d'Amortisan Master means that it's pointy. —Footnote in the margins of the manuscript by the baron's scribe, Dunwich