If you're reading The Averoigne Legacy, which you should (preview available Google; may be purchased here), you may have noted Hilger's collaboration.
The "Oracle of Sadoqua" derives from the Black Book. It involves a man seeking out the mystery of Sadoqua and being consumed by it. It is similar in structure to "Satampra Zeiros" from the Hyperborean cycle.
To be brutally honest, I think it is "Satampra Zeiros". It may be a halfbaked crossover. Alternately it is an earlier version, first cut for Averoigne with Hyperborean callbacks, and finally brought to its correct state as fully Hyperborean. Either way, its redundant nature explains why Smith never expanded on the tale himself.
By contrast "The Doom of Azédarac", also a Black Book unfinished-tale, seems more original. Its expansion is well worth the read.
BACKDATING 11/2 2:55 PM MST
CONSIDER 12/6 Ulua and Istarelle.
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