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Spawn of Abhoth

2017-07-10T04:10:19Z

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Origin: Clark Ashton Smith, “The Seven Geases” (1934).

==Description==

<blockquote>
There were things which he could only liken to monstrous one-legged toads, and myriad-tailed worms, and miscreated lizards. They came flopping or crawling through the gloom in a ceaseless procession; and there was no end to the loathsome morphologic variations which they displayed.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "The Seven Geases"
</blockquote>

Misshapen creatures generated by the Outer God [[Abhoth]], the primeval source of all uncleanness who dwelt in the cavern of Y'quaa beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]] in [[Hyperborea]]. In one recorded encounter with these creatures, they proved to be relatively harmless, but other investigators may not be so fortunate.

==Heresies and Controversies==
* It has been suggested repeatedly that [[Abhoth]] may be identical with, or related to, the primal demiurge [[Ubbo-Sathla]]. If this is the case, the Spawn of Abhoth may be identical with, or related to, the amoebic archetypes of all earthly life procreated by Ubbo-Sathla.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* deity: [[Abhoth]]
* location: [[Mount Voormithadreth]]

==References==

* fiction: "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/192/the-seven-geases The Seven Geases]".
* scenario: "[[The_Devourer|The Devourer]]," "[[Lemuralia]]," "[[Mysteria_Matris_Oblitae|Mysteria Matris Oblitae]];" see also [[:Category:CoC:Spawn_of_Abhoth_scenarios|Spawn of Abhoth scenarios]].

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Mount Voormithadreth

2017-07-10T04:06:23Z

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'''Mount Voormithadreth''' was a mountain in [[Hyperborea]]. It was a four-coned extinct volcano and the tallest peak in the [[Eiglophian mountains]]. During the age of Hyperborea, a variety of monsters and godlike beings lived in the system of caves beneath it, including [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Tsathoggua]], [[Haon-Dor]], [[Abhoth]], and a culture of [[serpent people]]. The outer slopes of the mountain were inhabited by [[voormis]], furry proto-humans.

It has been suggested that the name "Voormithadreth" is a pun, a lisped homonym for "voormis' address".

==Y'quaa==

The gray-litten cavern of Y'quaa is the dwelling place of [[Abhoth]], the Source of Uncleanliness. It is indirectly connected with the Cavern of Archetypes. [[Atlach-Nacha]] originated here. Y'quaa might be the true home of the enigmatic [[Ubbo-Sathla]].

==Cavern of Archetypes==

The cavern of the Archetypes is a vast cavern inhabited by the spectral archetypes of all life on this earth. [[Nug and Yeb]] reside here.

==References==
* Fiction: [[Clark Ashton Smith]], "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/192/the-seven-geases The Seven Geases]"

[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]

Spawn of Abhoth

2017-07-10T04:02:44Z

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Spawn of Abhoth

2017-07-10T03:59:59Z

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Shantak

2017-07-09T02:52:09Z

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Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' (1926).

==Description==
<blockquote>
They were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland, for they were larger than elephants and had heads like a horse's. Carter knew that they must be the shantak-birds of ill rumour, and wondered no more what evil guardians and nameless sentinels made men avoid the boreal rock desert.
:—H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

A shantak is a huge, scaly, birdlike creature with a horselike head, batlike wings, slimy skin, and two strong talons. Shantaks lives in the Cold Waste of Earth's [[Dreamlands]], serving [[Nyarlathotep]]. Shantaks are sometimes summoned to serve as steeds. They are hunted by the [[Elder God]] [[Nodens]] and greatly fear [[Nightgaunt]]s.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* deity: [[Nyarlathotep]]
* race: [[Men of Leng]]
* location: [[Leng, Plateau of]]

==References==
* fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]
* scenarios: [[The_Curse_of_Chaugnar_Faugn|The Curse of Chaugnar Faugn]], [[Shadows_Over_Hollywood_(Rulebook_Scenario)|Shadows Over Hollywood (Rulebook Scenario)]].

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Moon-Beast

2017-05-27T04:00:33Z

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'''Moon-Beasts'''

Origin: ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' by H.P. Lovecraft (1943).

==Description==

<blockquote>
For they were not men at all, or even approximately men, but great greyish-white slippery things which could expand and contract at will, and whose principal shape—though it often changed—was that of a sort of toad without any eyes, but with a curiously vibrating mass of short pink tentacles on the end of its blunt, vague snout.
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

Inhabitants of the far side of the Moon in the [[Dreamlands]], the Moon-Beasts live in windowless cities of stone. They sail black galleys between the moon and the Dreamlands, trading rubies for both slaves and gold, at the port of Dylath-Leen. When there, they employ the [[Men of Leng]], disguised in turbans, as their go-betweens and stay hidden below deck, lest the merchants of Dylath-Leen learn the terrible secret of with whom they are dealing.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* deity: [[Nyarlathotep]]
* race: [[Men of Leng]]
* location: [[Dreamlands]]; [[Leng, Plateau of]]

==References==

* fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]
* scenarios: [[Season_of_the_Witch|Season of the Witch]], [[The_Dreaming_Stone:_Beyond_the_Forbidden_Lands|The Dreaming Stone: Beyond the Forbidden Lands]]

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Hounds of Tindalos

2017-05-27T03:57:19Z

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'''Hounds of Tindalos''', also known as Tind'Losi Hounds.

Origin: "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long (1929).

==Description==

<blockquote>
 "What were they like?" I said, to humor him.
 He leaned forward and gripped my arm. He was shivering horribly. "No words in our language can describe them!" He spoke in a hoarse whisper. "They are symbolized vaguely in the myth of the Fall, and in an obscene form which is occasionally found engraved on ancient tablets. The Greeks had a name for them, which veiled their essential foulness. The tree, the snake and the apple—these are the vague symbols of a most awful mystery.
His voice had risen to a scream. "Frank, Frank, a terrible and unspeakable ''deed'' was done in the beginning. Before time, the ''deed'', and from the deed—"
 He had risen and was hysterically pacing the room. "The seeds of the deed move through angles in dim recesses of time. They are hungry and athirst!"
 "Chalmers." I pleaded to quiet him. "We are living in the third decade of the Twentieth Century."
 "They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked. "''The Hounds of Tindalos!''"
 — Frank Belknap Long, "The Hounds of Tindalos"
</blockquote>

The Hounds of Tindalos are monstrous creatures which dwell in angular time, and pursue human beings who stray out of the curved time that is humanity's normal habitat. Users of the drug [[Liao]], which allows the mind to wander through time leaving the body behind, risk drawing the attention of the Hounds if they travel too far. The Hounds will then pursue the person through time, eventually catching up with that person in the present and slaying them.

Accounts of the form and appearance of the Hounds vary drastically from one source to another, and the occultist Halpin Chalmers -- a witness of the Hounds and also one of their victims -- may be correct in saying that human language cannot describe them.

The Hounds of Tindalos take their nature from a nameless, foul deed before the beginning of time, the origin of the Christian account of the Fall, in which the Hounds participated fully and humans took part only partially. Foulness expresses itself in angles, while purity expresses itself through curves; the pure element in humanity derives from a curve, and it is for this reason that we dwell in curved. The Hounds desire to devour this pure part of humans.

Since it dwells in angular time, a Hound of Tindalos pursuing its prey can manifest through any angle, but if its chosen prey is in a place without angles, the Hound cannot appear. However, the Hounds can enlist the help of other preternatural beings, including [[Dholes|Doels]] and satyrs, to gain access to their prey. Victims of the Hounds are found horribly mangled, and splashed with a bluish ichor that resembles living protoplasm but contains no enzymes.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The behavior of the Hounds of Tindalos is reminiscent of the houndlike creature that seeks out and slays those who possess the [[Amulet of Leng]], and it is possible that these are two manifestations of the same race of beings.

==References==

* fiction: "[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hounds_of_Tindalos The Hounds of Tindalos]" by Frank Belknap Long.
* scenarios: [[Alone_Against_the_Dark_(Scenario)|Alone Against the Dark]], [[Christmas_in_Venice|Christmas in Venice]], [[The_Faculty_Party|The Faculty Party]], [[Ghost_Jackal_Kill_(Scenario)|Ghost Jackal Kill]], [[Lemuralia]], [[Signs_Writ_in_Scarlet|Signs Writ in Scarlet]], [[You_In_Your_Small_Corner|You In Your Small Corner]]

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Man of Leng

2017-05-27T03:48:43Z

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Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' (1943)

==Description==

<blockquote>
They leaped as though they had hooves instead of feet, and seemed to wear a sort of wig or headpiece with small horns. Of other clothing they had none, but most of them were quite furry. Behind they had dwarfish tails, and when they glanced upward he saw the excessive width of their mouths. Then he knew what they were, and that they did not wear any wigs or headpieces after all. For the cryptic folk of Leng were of one race with the uncomfortable merchants of the black galleys that traded rubies at Dylath-Leen; those not quite human merchants who are the slaves of the monstrous moon-things!
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

The Men of Leng are the primitive, satyr-like inhabitants of the [[Leng, Plateau of|Plateau of Leng]] in the [[Dreamlands]]. Only very generally humanlike, they have horns, hooves, and tails, and very wide mouths. In ancient times the Men of Leng built the ancient city of [[Sarkomand]] as their capital, but long ages ago they were enslaved by the [[Moon-Beast|Moon-Beasts]] and now serve as the Moon-Beasts' go-betweens in interaction with humans. While in this capacity, the Men of Leng wear turbans with double peaks in front to conceal their horns, and small shoes to hide their hooves.

The Men of Leng, like their Moon-Beast masters, serve [[Nyarlathotep]].

==Heresies and Controversies==

The [[Necronomicon]] tells of a corpse-eating cult of Leng, which is associated with the sinister [[Amulet of Leng]], but apparently specifies that Leng is to be found in central Asia. Whether or not this has any connection to the Men of Leng who dwell in the Dreamlands is entirely uncertain.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* tome: ''[[Necronomicon]]''(?)
* artifact: [[Amulet of Leng]](?)
* deity: [[Nyarlathotep]]
* race: [[Moon-Beast|Moon-Beasts]]
* location: [[Leng, Plateau of|Plateau of Leng]], [[Sarkomand]]

==References==

* fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]; Brian Lumley, ''The Clock of Dreams'' and ''Mad Moon of Dreams''
* scenarios: [[The_Pits_of_Bendal-Dolum|The Pits of Bendal-Dolum]], [[Season_of_the_Witch|Season of the Witch]], and [[The_Dreaming_Stone:_Beyond_the_Forbidden_Lands|The Dreaming Stone: Beyond the Forbidden Lands]]

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Gnoph-Keh

2017-05-27T03:43:50Z

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'''Gnoph-Keh''', also known as '''Gnophkeh'''.

Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, "Polaris" (1920)

==Description==

[[File:Mythiciceland.png|100px|thumb|right|Gnoph-Keh portrayed on the cover of Chaosium's ''[[Mythic Iceland]]'']]

<blockquote>
A small bulge in the canvas far to the right suggested the sharp horn of Gnoph-Keh, the hairy myth-thing of the Greenland ice, which sometimes walked on two legs, sometimes on four, and sometimes on six.
 — H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, "The Horror in the Museum"
</blockquote>

The Gnoph-Kehs are dangerous cannibalistic entities found on the Greenland ice cap. Current artwork portrays them as similar to very large six-legged polar bears, with a narwhal-like horn, but not all sources agree with this, nor do the sources provide any clearer account of their form. The Gnoph-Kehs dwelt in [[Hyperborea]] before the [[voormi|Voormis]], and in [[Lomar]] before the Lomarians, and were driven out by both peoples.

==Heresies and Controversies==

Some accounts draw a distinction between Gnoph-Kehs and Gnophkehs, describing the first in the terms given above and the second as a humanoid race of Greenland that worshipped the Gnoph-Kehs. Others, including Laurence Cornford's usually reliable [http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/62/a-hyperborean-glossary Hyperborean Glossary], give "Gnoph-Keh" as the term for a single member of the Gnophkeh race.

According to one source, '''Gnoph-Keh''' is also is the name given to a single, exceptionally large member of the Gnoph-Keh, possibly spawned by [[Aphoom-Zhah]]. This being may have procreated the Gnoph-Keh race. He currently lies entombed in ice below [[Hyperborea]].

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* deity: [[Aphoom-Zhah]], [[Rhan-Tegoth]]
* race: [[voormi|Voormis]]
* location: [[Hyperborea]], [[Lomar]]

==References==

* fiction: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/p.aspx Polaris]" and [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath] by H.P. Lovecraft; and "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/hm.aspx The Horror in the Museum]" by H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.
* scenarios: [[The_Trail_of_Tsathogghua_(Scenario)|The Trail of Tsathogghua]]

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Gnoph-Keh

2017-05-25T05:00:03Z

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Gnoph-Keh

2017-05-25T04:56:25Z

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Man of Leng

2017-05-24T05:33:53Z

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Man of Leng

2017-05-24T05:33:40Z

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Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' (1943)

==Description==

<blockquote>
They leaped as though they had hooves instead of feet, and seemed to wear a sort of wig or headpiece with small horns. Of other clothing they had none, but most of them were quite furry. Behind they had dwarfish tails, and when they glanced upward he saw the excessive width of their mouths. Then he knew what they were, and that they did not wear any wigs or headpieces after all. For the cryptic folk of Leng were of one race with the uncomfortable merchants of the black galleys that traded rubies at Dylath-Leen; those not quite human merchants who are the slaves of the monstrous moon-things!
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

The Men of Leng are the primitive, satyr-like inhabitants of the [[Leng, Plateau of|Plateau of Leng]] in the [[Dreamlands]]. Only very generally humanlike, they have horns, hooves, and tails, and very wide mouths. In ancient times the Men of Leng built the ancient city of [[Sarkomand]] as their capital, but long ages ago they were enslaved by the [[Moon-Beast|Moon-Beasts]] and now serve as the Moon-Beasts' go-betweens in interaction with humans. While in this capacity, the Men of Leng wear turbans with double peaks in front to conceal their horns, and small shoes to hide their hooves.

The Men of Leng, like their Moon-Beast masters, serve [[Nyarlathotep]].

==Heresies and Controversies==

The [[Necronomicon]] tells of a corpse-eating cult of Leng, which is associated with the sinister [[Amulet of Leng]], but apparently specifies that Leng is to be found in central Asia. Whether or not this has any connection to the Men of Leng who dwell in the Dreamlands is entirely uncertain.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* tome: ''[[Necronomicon]]''(?)
* artifact: [[Amulet of Leng]](?)
* deity: [[Nyarlathotep]]
* race: [[Moon-Beast|Moon-Beasts]]
* location: [[Leng, Plateau of|Plateau of Leng]], [[Sarkomand]]

==References==

* fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]; Brian Lumley, ''The Clock of Dreams'' and ''Mad Moon of Dreams''

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Hounds of Tindalos

2017-05-24T05:16:08Z

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Dhole

2017-05-23T04:21:12Z

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'''Dholes''' are a race of incredibly huge worm creatures. Little is known about these creatures, not even their planet of origin. It is likely they are related to the [[Bholes]] that dwell in the Dreamlands, in the [[Vale of Pnath]]. Their most documented appearance is in the [[H.P. Lovecraft]] story "[[Through the Gates of the Silver Key]]". In that story, the Dholes are shown living on the world of [[Yaddith]] and slowly eating the planet away through tunelling.

They are highly carnivorous, and despite the magical and technological skill of the native Yaddithians, they were forced to abandon the planet to the Dholes after hundreds of years of fighting them. It is implied that the Dholes follow the Yaddithians wherever they go, though that seems unlikely. No Dholes are known to exist on Earth, as they would surely cause the slow death of the planet.

In ''[[The White People]]'' by [[Arthur Machen]], whom Lovecraft admired, there is mention of "Dôls", but no description is given. In ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'', both the Dôls of Machen and Dholes of Lovecraft are mentioned as being references to mythical creatures associated with the [[Illuminati]]. In "The Hounds of Tindalos" by [[Frank Belknap Long]], the [[Hounds of Tindalos]] are said to be allied to Doels, who aid them in gaining access to their victims; whether or not these are the same as Dholes is uncertain.

==See also==
*[[Bhole]]

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Hounds of Tindalos

2017-05-23T04:18:00Z

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'''Hounds of Tindalos'''

Origin: "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long (1929).

==Description==

<blockquote>
 "What were they like?" I said, to humor him.
 He leaned forward and gripped my arm. He was shivering horribly. "No words in our language can describe them!" He spoke in a hoarse whisper. "They are symbolized vaguely in the myth of the Fall, and in an obscene form which is occasionally found engraved on ancient tablets. The Greeks had a name for them, which veiled their essential foulness. The tree, the snake and the apple—these are the vague symbols of a most awful mystery.
His voice had risen to a scream. "Frank, Frank, a terrible and unspeakable ''deed'' was done in the beginning. Before time, the ''deed'', and from the deed—"
 He had risen and was hysterically pacing the room. "The seeds of the deed move through angles in dim recesses of time. They are hungry and athirst!"
 "Chalmers." I pleaded to quiet him. "We are living in the third decade of the Twentieth Century."
 "They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked. "''The Hounds of Tindalos!''"
 — Frank Belknap Long, "The Hounds of Tindalos"
</blockquote>

The Hounds of Tindalos are monstrous creatures which dwell in angular time, and pursue human beings who stray out of the curved time that is humanity's normal habitat. Users of the drug [[Liao]], which allows the mind to wander through time leaving the body behind, risk drawing the attention of the Hounds if they travel too far. The Hounds will then pursue the person through time, eventually catching up with that person in the present and slaying them.

Accounts of the form and appearance of the Hounds vary drastically from one source to another, and the occultist Halpin Chalmers -- a witness of the Hounds and also one of their victims -- may be correct in saying that human language cannot describe them.

The Hounds of Tindalos take their nature from a nameless, foul deed before the beginning of time, the origin of the Christian account of the Fall, in which the Hounds participated fully and humans took part only partially. Foulness expresses itself in angles, while purity expresses itself through curves; the pure element in humanity derives from a curve, and it is for this reason that we dwell in curved. The Hounds desire to devour this pure part of humans.

Since it dwells in angular time, a Hound of Tindalos pursuing its prey can manifest through any angle, but if its chosen prey is in a place without angles, the Hound cannot appear. However, the Hounds can enlist the help of other preternatural beings, including [[Dholes|Doels]] and satyrs, to gain access to their prey. Victims of the Hounds are found horribly mangled, and splashed with a bluish ichor that resembles living protoplasm but contains no enzymes.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The behavior of the Hounds of Tindalos is reminiscent of the houndlike creature that seeks out and slays those who possess the [[Amulet of Leng]], and it is possible that these are two manifestations of the same race of beings.

==References==

* fiction: "[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hounds_of_Tindalos The Hounds of Tindalos]" by Frank Belknap Long.

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Hounds of Tindalos

2017-05-23T04:17:41Z

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'''Hounds of Tindalos'''

Origin: "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long (1929).

==Description==

<blockquote>
 "What were they like?" I said, to humor him.
 He leaned forward and gripped my arm. He was shivering horribly. "No words in our language can describe them!" He spoke in a hoarse whisper. "They are symbolized vaguely in the myth of the Fall, and in an obscene form which is occasionally found engraved on ancient tablets. The Greeks had a name for them, which veiled their essential foulness. The tree, the snake and the apple—these are the vague symbols of a most awful mystery.
His voice had risen to a scream. "Frank, Frank, a terrible and unspeakable ''deed'' was done in the beginning. Before time, the ''deed'', and from the deed—"
 <bHe had risen and was hysterically pacing the room. "The seeds of the deed move through angles in dim recesses of time. They are hungry and athirst!"
 "Chalmers." I pleaded to quiet him. "We are living in the third decade of the Twentieth Century."
 "They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked. "''The Hounds of Tindalos!''"
 — Frank Belknap Long, "The Hounds of Tindalos"
</blockquote>

The Hounds of Tindalos are monstrous creatures which dwell in angular time, and pursue human beings who stray out of the curved time that is humanity's normal habitat. Users of the drug [[Liao]], which allows the mind to wander through time leaving the body behind, risk drawing the attention of the Hounds if they travel too far. The Hounds will then pursue the person through time, eventually catching up with that person in the present and slaying them.

Accounts of the form and appearance of the Hounds vary drastically from one source to another, and the occultist Halpin Chalmers -- a witness of the Hounds and also one of their victims -- may be correct in saying that human language cannot describe them.

The Hounds of Tindalos take their nature from a nameless, foul deed before the beginning of time, the origin of the Christian account of the Fall, in which the Hounds participated fully and humans took part only partially. Foulness expresses itself in angles, while purity expresses itself through curves; the pure element in humanity derives from a curve, and it is for this reason that we dwell in curved. The Hounds desire to devour this pure part of humans.

Since it dwells in angular time, a Hound of Tindalos pursuing its prey can manifest through any angle, but if its chosen prey is in a place without angles, the Hound cannot appear. However, the Hounds can enlist the help of other preternatural beings, including [[Dholes|Doels]] and satyrs, to gain access to their prey. Victims of the Hounds are found horribly mangled, and splashed with a bluish ichor that resembles living protoplasm but contains no enzymes.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The behavior of the Hounds of Tindalos is reminiscent of the houndlike creature that seeks out and slays those who possess the [[Amulet of Leng]], and it is possible that these are two manifestations of the same race of beings.

==References==

* fiction: "[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hounds_of_Tindalos The Hounds of Tindalos]" by Frank Belknap Long.

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Man of Leng

2017-05-23T03:34:35Z

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The '''Men of Leng''' are a fictional race in the writings of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].

Men of Leng are the primitive, satyr-like inhabitants of the [[Leng, Plateau of|Plateau of Leng]] in the [[Dreamlands]]. They are mentioned throughout Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, especially in the novella ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' (1926).

The Men of Leng appear in ''The Clock of Dreams'' and ''Mad Moon of Dreams'', by [[Brian Lumley]].

The ruined city of [[Sarkomand]] was their former capital.

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Sarkomand

2017-05-22T04:34:50Z

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'''Sarkomand'''

Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' (1943).

==Description==

<blockquote>
Ahead stretched double rows of pillars, and the fragments and pedestals of pillars, that spoke of a broad and bygone street; and from the urns and basins along the way he knew it had been a great street of gardens. Far off at its end the pillars spread to mark a vast round plaza, and in that open circle there loomed gigantic under the lurid night clouds a pair of monstrous things. Huge winged lions of diorite they were, with blackness and shadow between them. Full twenty feet they reared their grotesque and unbroken heads, and snarled derisive on the ruins around them. And Carter knew right well what they must be, for legend tells of only one such twain. They were the changeless guardians of the Great Abyss, and these dark ruins were in truth primordial Sarkomand.
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

A ruined city of the [[Dreamlands]] located between the [[Leng, Plateau of|Plateau of Leng]] and the [[Cerenerian Sea]], Sarkomand was built and inhabited by the [[Men of Leng]] in the distant past, before they were enslaved by the [[Moon-Beast|Moon-Beasts]]. Its best known feature is an entrance to the [[Underworld (Dreamlands)|Underworld]] sometimes used by [[Ghoul|ghouls]] and [[Nightgaunt|nightgaunts]], which is flanked by two massive lion statues carved of diorite. Adventurers in the Dreamlands who come to Sarkomand should be wary, for Moon-beasts and their slaves sail to the ruined port from time to time in their black galleys.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* races: [[Men of Leng]], [[Moon-Beast]]
* location: [[Leng, Plateau of]]

==References==

* fiction: [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]'' by H.P. Lovecraft.

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Ghoul

2017-05-21T04:26:45Z

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[[File:Ghoul.png|100px|thumb|right|a feral Ghoul]]

Ghouls are a species of cannibalistic nocturnal creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos. They are first described in the Cthulhu Mythos by Lovecraft's story "[[Pickman's_Model_(Fiction)|Pickman's Model]]".

Lovecraftian Ghouls are usually described as white or green-skinned humanoid hairless creatures with long canine muzzles, pointed ears, and clawed feet that have almost become hooves. They inhabit networks of underground tunnels and crypts, and eat the corpses of dead humans. Despite their favored food and reclusive habits, Ghouls are usually not hostile creatures, and in ''[[The_Dream_Quest of_Unknown_Kadath_(Fiction)|The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' the protagonist gains the aid of a group of Ghouls and travels with them for a period of time. Ghouls communicate using a "meeping" or gibbering vocalization called Ghoul Speech or [[Pnathic]].

Ghouls are found through the underworld of the [[Dreamlands]] as well, and it seems that they can navigate between the waking world and the dreamlands through the use of special tunnels. The universal center of ghoul activity seems to be the bone-filled [[Vale of Pnath]] in the Dreamland underworld, were the world's ghouls dump cleaned bones. This dumping is done from the [[Crag of the Ghouls]], a cliff jutting off from the [[Mountains of Thok]] over the vale.

Ghouls appear to be a separate species from humans, breeding and living as their own society, but it also seems that some humans can slowly become ghouls, though the exact means are unknown, and the Changeling aspect of some of Pickman's paintings suggests that human and ghoul infants are routinely exchanged, and it might be inferred that, similarly to other aspects of Changeling myths, humans and ghouls might be able to interbreed.

==Description==
[[Image:Lovecraft ghoul sketch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|"Pickman's Model" sketch by HPL]]

<blockquote>
"These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness.... Occasionally the things were shown leaping through open windows at night, or squatting on the chests of sleepers, worrying at their throats. One canvas showed a ring of them baying about a hanged witch on Gallows Hill, whose dead face held a close kinship to theirs.... "...It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present prey and seek a juicier morsel. But damn it all, it wasn't even the fiendish subject that made it such an immortal fountain-head of all panic- not that, nor the dog face with its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips. It wasn't the scaly claws nor the mould-caked body nor the half-hooved feet- none of these, though any one of them might well have driven an excitable man to madness...."
 — HPL, "[[Pickman's_Model_(Fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
</blockquote>

From ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(Fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'', we learn that Ghouls speak in a "meeping"/"glibbering" language of their own and remember little of the language they spoke in life, have no beards, have a rubbery/mouldy texture to their skin, lope "in a slumping way" and squat when resting, tend to prefer not to wear clothes, live in conflict with [[Ghast]]s, and might turn greenish in old age. This story also contains many details about the Ghouls' habitat in the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Wakeworld|waking world]], as well as something of the feeding habits of Ghouls and their disposal of bones in the [[Vale of Pnath]].

==Heresies and Controversies==

* Ghouls share some resemblance to hairless baboons or apes, and may represent a different path of evolution, an earlier stage of evolution, or a de-evolution from humanity (source: "[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ The Great Ghoul Thread]")
* Ghouls are known to worship the Great Old One [[Mordiggian]], and his priests wear concealing hooded purple robes and metal skull-shaped masks, which double as disguises when the ghouls wish to walk among humans. (Clark Ashton Smith)
* Many Ghouls gather in the great Ghoul city of [[Midian]], built beneath a [[Kingsport]] cemetery near the borders between Dream and Day.
* Ghouls share some thematic similarities to [[Deep One]]s, [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Dero]]s, [[Wendigo]]s, [[Faerie]]s (or elves, dwarfs, trolls, goblins, witches, ogres, etc.), [[Serpent Man|Serpent Folk]], [[Worm of the Earth|Worms of the Earth]], and other such beings, and might be similar, closely-related, or even completely interchangeable with such creatures.... (fan speculation)
* Similarly, there is a great deal of overlap between Ghoul, [[Faerie]], [[Werewolf]], [[Vampire]], Witch, and Ogre legends, with clear distinctions between these creatures only being drawn since the Victorian era; aspects from the folklore of any of these creatures might be used to add unique details to Ghouls. (European folklore)
* Ghoul-like beings appear in other Lovecraft stories (fan speculation):
** "[[The_Hound_(Fiction)|The Hound]]" (The ghoulish lifestyle of the human narrator and his accomplice, as well as the spectre associated with the strange, canine [[amulet of Leng]] they unearth in an abnormal grave, and the apparently living corpse they disturb in retrieving this tomb-loot. The amulet bears "the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of [[Leng, Plateau of|Leng]]," which is at least suggestive...)
** "[[The_Outsider_(Fiction)|The Outsider]]" (The narrator claims to have lived his life in a sort of "castle" beneath a stone slab in what appears to be a cemetery, among bones and skeletons he accepted as normal and strange libraries of books, with dim memories "...that whoever nursed me must have been shockingly aged, since my first conception of a living person was that of something mockingly like myself, yet distorted, shriveled, and decaying like the castle...."; at the climax of the story, the narrator reports seeing "the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and desolation; the putrid, dripping eidolon of unwholesome revelation; the awful baring of that which the merciful earth should always hide. God knows it was not of this world—or no longer of this world—yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape....")
** "[[The_Picture_in_the_House_(Fiction)|The Picture in the House]]" (An encounter with a repulsively youthful and strange old man who has apparently been kept young for centuries by eating human flesh....)
** "[[The_Horror_at_Red_Hook_(Fiction)|The Horror at Red Hook]]" (The strange tunnels under the neighborhood used by cultists, with underground cells containing prisoners "in a state of idiocy", including mothers with "infants of disturbingly strange appearance" who died soon after exposure to sunlight, prompting investigators to speculate about children born of "demons, incubi, and succubi"....)
** "[[The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter_(Fiction)|The Statement of Randolph Carter]]" (the undescribed and unnamed hordes encountered by Harley Warren in the crypts could as easily be Ghouls as anything else....)
** "[[The_Rats_in_the_Walls_(Fiction)|The Rats in the Walls]]" (The hellish subterranean cannibal paradise below Exham Priory could as easily have been inspired by, influenced by, or perpetrated by Ghouls as anything else....)
* Many conclusions might be drawn from Lovecraft's sketchy details about the relationship between Ghouls and humans:
** Humans evolved from Ghouls.
** Ghouls evolved from Humans.
** Humans and Ghouls are different branches of the same family tree.
** Ghouls are the result of interbreeding between humans and some eldritch horror.
** Ghouls are some form of mutation.
** Ghouls are unrelated to humans, and are instead the descendants of alien beings from another world (such as the [[Dreamlands]]).
** Ghouls are supernatural beings, the results of magic or the miracles of demonic spirits.
** Ghouls are humans who have contracted some communicable, dietary, or genetic disease.
** Ghouls are undead beings, malevolent spirits inhabiting human corpses.
** Ghouls are just a different form of humanity, resulting from the psychological and physical corruption from a steady diet of human flesh and morbid and abnormal interests, entertainments, and lifestyles.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* deity: [[Mordiggian]] the Great Ghoul, a [[Great Old One]] worshiped by some Ghouls ("[[The Charnal God]]" by [[Clark Ashton Smith]])
* races: [[Ghast]]s and [[Gug]]s are the enemies of Ghouls
* language: [[Pnathic]], the "meeping", "glibbering", "warbling" language of the Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'', a Mythos Tome which may heavily reference Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'', a Mythos Tome dedicated to the worship of [[Mordiggian]]
* location: The Ghoul city of [[Midian]]
* cult: the [[Rakes]]
* cult: [[Cult of Mordiggian]]

==References==
* Fiction (primary sources): "[[Pickman's_Model_(Fiction)|Pickman's Model]]", "[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(Fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]"
* Fiction (secondary sources): "[[The_Hound_(Fiction)|The Hound]]", "[[The_Outsider_(Fiction)|The Outsider]]", "The_Horror_at_Red_Hook_(Fiction)|The Horror at Red Hook", "[[The_Picture_in_the_House_(Fiction)|The Picture in the House]]", "[[The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter_(Fiction)|The Statement of Randolph Carter]]", "[[The_Rats_in_the_Walls_(Fiction)|The Rats in the Walls]]"
* Fiction (other sources): "[[The Charnal God]]" ([[Clark Ashton Smith]]), "Dream Land" ([[Edgar Allen Poe]]), "The Hour of the Dragon" ([[Robert E. Howard]]), "The Dwellers Under the Tomb" ([[Robert E. Howard]]), "Amina" ([[Edward Lucas White]]), "The Chadbourne Episode" (Henry S. Whitehead), "Cabal" (Clive Barker), "[[Hunters from Beyond]]" ([[Clark Ashton Smith]])
* Film: ''[[Nightbreed (1990 film)]]'', "[[Pickman's Model (1972 film)|Pickman's Model]]" (1972 ''[[Night Gallery]]'' episode)
* "[[Down in the Delta]]", a [[Delta Green]] short story by [[Scott Glancy]]
* "The Great Ghoul Thread" at Yog-Sothoth.com: ([http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ link])

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Amulet of Leng

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'''Amulet of Leng'''

Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Hound"

==Description==

<blockquote>
In the coffin lay an amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the sleeper’s neck. It was the oddly conventionalised figure of a crouching winged hound, or sphinx with a semi-canine face, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade. The expression on its features was repellent in the extreme, savouring at once of death, bestiality, and malevolence. Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St. John nor I could identify; and on the bottom, like a maker’s seal, was graven a grotesque and formidable skull.
 — H.P. Lovecraft, "The Hound"
</blockquote>

A jade amulet hinted at in the [[Necronomicon]], bearing the soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in central Asia. At least two people who possessed this object were torn to pieces by a gigantic, supernatural houndlike creature, and a third committed suicide to escape the same fate.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The reference to a "corpse-eating cult" in "The Hound" suggests that the amulet of Leng may in some way relate to [[Ghoul|Ghouls]]. The supernatural hound that seeks out and kills those who possess the amulet seems highly reminiscent of the [[Hounds of Tindalos]]. Whether these apparent connections are meaningful or random is known only to the Great Old Ones...

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* tome: ''[[Necronomicon]]''
* race: [[Men of Leng]]
* location: [[Leng, Plateau of]]

==References==

* fiction: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/h.aspx The Hound]" by H.P. Lovecraft.

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Category:Mythos:Locations

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[[Carcosa]]

[[City of the Elder Gods]]

[[Clotton]]

[[Goatswood]]

[[Temphill]]

[[Sesqua Valley]]

[[Severnford]]

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Plateau of Leng

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'''Plateau of Leng'''

Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Hound"

==Description==

<blockquote>
The shantak now flew lower, revealing beneath the canopy of cloud a grey barren plain whereon at great distances shone little feeble fires. As they descended there appeared at intervals lone huts of granite and bleak stone villages whose tiny windows glowed with pallid light. And there came from those huts and villages a shrill droning of pipes and a nauseous rattle of crotala which proved at once that Inganok’s people are right in their geographick rumours. For travellers have heard such sounds before, and know that they float only from the cold desert plateau which healthy folk never visit; that haunted place of evil and mystery which is Leng.
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

A high arid plateau inhabited by a race of semihuman beings, and also the site of the [[Elder Pharos]] and the sinister monastery where dwells a high priest not to be described, who conceals his (or its) face behind a yellow silken mask. Some of its inhabitants participate in a corpse-eating cult whose symbol, a winged hound, may be seen on the [[amulet of Leng]]. Leng is described in the [[Necronomicon]] and several other tomes.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inquanok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* tome: ''[[Necronomicon]]''
* artifact: [[Amulet of Leng]]
* race: [[Men of Leng]], [[Moon-Beast]]
* location: [[Inquanok]], [[Sarkomand]]

==References==

* fiction: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/h.aspx The Hound]," ''[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx At the Mountains of Madness]'', and ''[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]'' by H.P. Lovecraft.

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Moon-Beast

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Moon-Beast

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'''Moon-Beasts'''

Origin: ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' by H.P. Lovecraft (1943).

==Description==

<blockquote>
For they were not men at all, or even approximately men, but great greyish-white slippery things which could expand and contract at will, and whose principal shape—though it often changed—was that of a sort of toad without any eyes, but with a curiously vibrating mass of short pink tentacles on the end of its blunt, vague snout.
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

Inhabitants of the far side of the Moon in the [[Dreamlands]], the Moon-Beasts live in windowless cities of stone. They sail black galleys between the moon and the Dreamlands, trading rubies for both slaves and gold, at the port of Dylath-Leen. When there, they employ the [[Men of Leng]], disguised in turbans, as their go-betweens and stay hidden below deck, lest the merchants of Dylath-Leen learn the terrible secret of with whom they are dealing.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* deity: [[Nyarlathotep]]
* race: [[Men of Leng]]
* location: [[Dreamlands]], [[Leng, Plateau of]]

==References==

* fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]

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Category:Mythos:Locations

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[[Brichester]]

[[Carcosa]]

[[City of the Elder Gods]]

[[Clotton]]

[[Goatswood]]

[[Leng, Plateau of]]

[[Temphill]]

[[Sesqua Valley]]

[[Severnford]]

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Ghast

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Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''

==Description==

<blockquote>
After a moment something about the size of a small horse hopped out into the grey twilight, and Carter turned sick at the aspect of that scabrous and unwholesome beast, whose face is so curiously human despite the absence of a nose, a forehead, and other important particulars.
 H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

The ghasts are a race of fearsome humanoids that live in the vaults of Zin in the underworld of the [[Dreamlands]]. They are much larger than a man and have a vaguely human face, albeit missing a nose. Their skin is rough and knotty. Their senses are unusually acute; they can see in the dark and have a strong sense of smell. They hop about on a pair of hooved, kangaroo-like legs, and are swift, strong, and agile. They have also been described as lacking a forehead. Ghasts prefer to dwell in complete darkness and have no tolerance for natural light — sunlight will kill them instantly. The pallid glow of the Dreamlands' underworld seems to cause them no harm.

The ghasts are aggressive carnivores and often hunt in packs, though they are quick to turn cannibalistic when no game is readily available. They prey mostly on the [[Gug|Gugs]], but have no qualms about eating other denizens of the underworld. Their method of attack is particularly savage and gruesome, rending and tearing apart their victims with their muzzles, paws, and hoofed feet.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* Location: [[Dreamlands]], [[Vaults of Zin]]

==References==

H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''] (1943)

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Gug

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Gugs, horrifying Dreamlands giants....

Origin: H.P. Lovecraft's ''[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]''

==Description==
[[File:Gug.png‎|200px|thumb|right|Gug]]

<blockquote>
It was a paw, fully two feet and a half across, and equipped with formidable talons. After it came another paw, and after that a great black-furred arm to which both of the paws were attached by short forearms. Then two pink eyes shone, and the head of the awakened gug sentry, large as a barrel, wabbled into view. The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally.
 —H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

Gugs are a race of horrifying giants. They are speechless, communicating only by facial expressions.

The Gugs were banished to the underworld by the earth’s gods, the [[Great Ones]], for an unnamed blasphemy. Now they reside in a terrifying, underground city, dwelling in lofty, round, cyclopean towers. Nearby, colossal monoliths mark the cemetery of the Gugs.

In the midst of the Gug city, the Tower of Koth contains a stairway that leads to the [[The Enchanted Wood]] in the upper [[Dreamlands]]. There it is sealed by a huge stone trapdoor with a large iron ring. Because of a curse of the gods, no Gug may open that door, though no such restriction prevents a Gug from climbing to the very top of the tower.

Gugs prey on the [[Ghast]]s that live in the [[Vaults of Zin]] (though prior to their banishment, they had been known to devour wayward dreamers). When in sufficient numbers, Ghasts may likewise prey on the Gugs. Though Gugs would seem to have the advantage, they nonetheless superstitiously fear [[Ghoul]]s. The Gugs often indulge in great feasts and, once engorged, retire to their great towers to sleep.

==Heresies and Controversies==

* Dreams of Gugs could account for some legends of [[Giants]], [[Troll]]s, giant Ogres, Titans, and other such large creatures of myth; populations of these creatures may have access to Earth's Daylands, and a few may actually live somewhere deep under the surface of Daylands Earth. (fan speculation)
* A population of Gugs live on [[Barsoom]], the Dreamlands version of Mars. (fan speculation linking the vaguely-similar White Apes of Edgard Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels)

==Keeper Notes==

* TO DO

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* setting: [[Dreamlands]]
* location: [[Vaults of Zin]]
** location: City of the Gugs
** location: Tower of Koth

==References==
* H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''] (1943)

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Ghast

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Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''

==Description==

<blockquote>
After a moment something about the size of a small horse hopped out into the grey twilight, and Carter turned sick at the aspect of that scabrous and unwholesome beast, whose face is so curiously human despite the absence of a nose, a forehead, and other important particulars.
 H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''
</blockquote>

The ghasts are a race of fearsome humanoids that live in the vaults of Zin in the underworld of the [[Dreamlands]]. They are much larger than a man and have a vaguely human face, albeit missing a nose. Their skin is rough and knotty. Their senses are unusually acute; they can see in the dark and have a strong sense of smell. They hop about on a pair of hooved, kangaroo-like legs, and are swift, strong, and agile. They have also been described as lacking a forehead. Ghasts prefer to dwell in complete darkness and have no tolerance for natural light — sunlight will kill them instantly. The pallid glow of the Dreamlands' underworld seems to cause them no harm.

The ghasts are aggressive carnivores and often hunt in packs, though they are quick to turn cannibalistic when no game is readily available. They prey mostly on the [[Gug|Gugs]], but have no qualms about eating other denizens of the underworld. Their method of attack is particularly savage and gruesome, rending and tearing apart their victims with their muzzles, paws, and hoofed feet.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* Location: [[Dreamlands]], [[Vaults of Zin]]

==References==

H.P. Lovecraft, [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath] (1943)

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Quachil Uttaus

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Origin: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust" (1935)

==Description==

<blockquote>
It was a figure no larger than a young child, but sere and shriveled as some millennial mummy. Its hairless head, its unfeatured face, borne on a neck of skeleton thinness, were lined with a thousand reticulated wrinkles. The body was like that of some monstrous, withered abortion that had never drawn breath. The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping. The legs, with feet like those of a pigmy Death, were drawn tightly together as though confined by the swathings of the tomb; nor was there any movement or striding or pacing. Upright and rigid, the horror floated swiftly down the wan, deathly gray beam toward Sebastian.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust"
</blockquote>

The [[Great Old One]] Quachil Uttaus is rarely encountered, and apparently referenced only in one tome of the Mythos, the [[Testament of Carnamagos]]. He takes the form of a diminutive mummy with outstretched claws. He is the concentrated essence of corruption and decay; everything in his vicinity suffers the ravages of time, and when he is about to appear, objects begin to age inexplicably. Those who are visited by Quachil Uttaus are reduced instantly to dust, as though by the passage of long ages, and the Great Old One commonly leaves his paired footprints in the dust of his victims. This is the source of his usual title, "The Treader of the Dust."

An incantation in the Testament of Carnamagos can be used to summon Quachil Uttaus. It is dangerous even to read this incantation, though, because if the reader has even the slightest longing for death, the Great Old One may suddenly appear and annihilate him.

==References==

Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/222/the-treader-of-the-dust The Treader of the Dust]" (1935)

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Quachil Uttaus

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'''Quachil Uttaus'''

Origin: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust" (1935)

==Description==

<blockquote>
It was a figure no larger than a young child, but sere and shriveled as some millennial mummy. Its hairless head, its unfeatured face, borne on a neck of skeleton thinness, were lined with a thousand reticulated wrinkles. The body was like that of some monstrous, withered abortion that had never drawn breath. The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping. The legs, with feet like those of a pigmy Death, were drawn tightly together as though confined by the swathings of the tomb; nor was there any movement or striding or pacing. Upright and rigid, the horror floated swiftly down the wan, deathly gray beam toward Sebastian.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust"
</blockquote>

The [[Great Old One]] Quachil Uttaus is rarely encountered, and apparently referenced only in one tome of the Mythos, the [[Testament of Carnamagos]]. He takes the form of a diminutive mummy with outstretched claws. He is the concentrated essence of corruption and decay; everything in his vicinity suffers the ravages of time, and when he is about to appear, objects begin to age inexplicably. Those who are visited by Quachil Uttaus are reduced instantly to dust, as though by the passage of long ages, and the Great Old One commonly leaves his paired footprints in the dust of his victims. This is the source of his usual title, "The Treader of the Dust."

An incantation in the Testament of Carnamagos can be used to summon Quachil Uttaus. It is dangerous even to read this incantation, though, because if the reader has even the slightest longing for death, the Great Old One may suddenly appear and annihilate him.

==References==

Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/222/the-treader-of-the-dust The Treader of the Dust]" (1935)

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Category:Mythos:Tomes

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These are the tomes of the Mythos.

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[[Book of Iod]]

[[Nyhargo Codex]]

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Testament of Carnamagos

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'''Testament of Carnamagos'''

Origin: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust" (1935)

==Description==

<blockquote>
On the old lecturn or reading-stand which he used for his heavier tomes, ''The Testament of Carnamagos,'' in its covers of shagreen with hasps of human bone, lay open at the very page which had frightened him so unreasonably with its eldritch intimations.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust"
</blockquote>

One of the less frequently encountered tomes of the Mythos, ''The Testament of Carnamagos'' was written by an evil sage and seer of that name, recovered in the tenth century from a Graeco-Bactrian tomb, and transcribed by an apostate monk in the original Greek, in the blood of a monster. Like most such tomes, it contains the histories of great sorcerers, accounts of demonic beings, and spells for summoning and commanding an assortment of entities. According to legend, only two copies had ever existed, and one was destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition early in the thirteenth century.

Extreme caution is required in the presence of this tome, for it contains an invocation of the [[Great Old One]] Quachil Uttaus so potent that merely reading it is sometimes sufficient to bring about the appearance of this entity. The sole warning sign that will alert the investigator to the imminence of this danger is that everything in the vicinity of the book will show signs of decay and extreme antiquity

==Role Playing Game Stats==

Sanity Loss 1D6/2D6; Cthulhu Mythos +15 Percent. Average 36 weeks to study and comprehend/72 hours to skim (if Hellenistic Greek is known).

==Quotes==

"…The olden wizards knew him, and named him Quachil Uttaus. Seldom is he revealed: for he dwelleth beyond the outermost circle, in the dark limbo of unsphered time and space. Dreadful is the word that calleth him, though the word be unspoken save in thought: For Quachil Uttaus is the ultimate corruption; and the instant of his coming is like the passage of many ages; and neither flesh nor stone may abide his treading, but all things crumble beneath it atom from atom. And for this, some have called him The Treader of the Dust."

"Though Quachil Uttaus cometh but rarely, it had been well attested that his advent is not always in response to the spoken rune and the drawn pentacle. Few wizards, indeed, would call upon a spirit so baleful. But let it be understood that he who readeth to himself in the silence of his chamber, the formula given hereunder, must incur a grave risk if in his heart there abide openly or hidden the least desire of death and annihilation. For it may be that Quachil Uttaus will come to him, bringing that doom which toucheth the body to eternal dust, and maketh the soul as a vapor for evermore dissolved. And the advent of Quachill Uttaus is foreknowable by certain tokens; for in the person of the evocator, and even perchance in those about him, will appear the signs of sudden age; and his house, and those belongings which he hath touched, will assume the marks of untimely decay and antiquity..." (Both quotations from Clark Ashton Smith, "The Treader of the Dust")

==References==

Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/222/the-treader-of-the-dust The Treader of the Dust]" (1935)

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Category:Mythos:Artifacts

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[[The R’lyeh Disk]]

[[Arc of Vlactos]]

[[Magna of Illusion]]

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Mhu Thulan

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'''Mhu Thulan''' was a region of ancient [[Hyperborea]] famous for its sorcerers. It was the dwelling place of the legendary wizard [[Eibon]], as well as Zon Mezzamalech, owner of the [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]] discussed in [[The Book of Eibon]]. Among the cities of Mhu Thulan were Cerngoth and Oggon-Zhai.

Mhu Thulan apparently corresponds either to part or all of modern Greenland in its preglacial days.

Before the end of Hyperborean civilization, ice sheets from [[Polarion]] spread over Mhu Thulan. The one recorded attempt to recover treasures lost to the glaciers did not end well.

==References==

The following stories by Clark Ashton Smith contain references to Mhu Thulan:

* "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/50/the-door-to-saturn The Door to Saturn]" (1932)

* "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/96/the-ice-demon The Ice-Demon]" (1933)

* "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla Ubbo-Sathla]" (1933)

* "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/245/the-white-sybil The White Sibyl]" (1935)

* "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/28/the-coming-of-the-white-worm The Coming of the White Worm]" (1941)

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Lomar

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'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic. It was destroyed by invading tribes 26,000 years ago, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.

The people of Lomar dwelt in a land further north named Zobna, until they were driven out by spreading ice sheets, and they expected one day to have to depart Lomar for the same reason. They brought copies of [[The Pnakotic Fragments]] with them from Zobna, though no known copies of their translation are recorded. The date of the fall of Zobna is not recorded, but Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, while his mind was inhabiting a [[Yithian]] body, conversed with the captive mind of a king of Lomar who reigned one hundred thousand years before the fall of Lomarian civilization.

The capital of Lomar was the city of Olathoe, which lay on the plateau of Sarkia between the peaks Noton and Kadiphonek. One account of Olathoe describes it as a city of marble, with marble pillars in the streets carved at the top to represent grave bearded men.

Lomar was destroyed by the Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, who invaded from the west.

==Location==
While the location of Lomar is not given in the sources, the only place in the arctic region that has significant mountains and a present-day ice sheet is Greenland. During the time when Lomar flourished, the Wisconsin glaciation had not yet reached its fullest extent, and it is possible that southern Greenland was still unglaciated at that time. Investigators who hope to find the buried remains of Lomarian civilization might be well advised to look there.

==References==
The following stories by H.P. Lovecraft include references to Lomar:

* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/p.aspx Polaris]" (1918)

* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx The Other Gods]" (1921)

* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/qi.aspx The Quest of Iranon]" (1935)

* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx The Shadow Out of Time]" (1936)

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Brood of Ubbo-Sathla

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'''The Brood of Ubbo-Sathla'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith.

<blockquote>
Headless, without organs or members, it sloughed from its oozy sides, in a slow, ceaseless wave, the amebic forms that were the archetypes of earthly life... And there, to the goal of a forgotten search, was drawn the thing that had been -- or would sometimes be -- Paul Tregardis and Zon Mezzamalech. Becoming a shapeless eft of the prime, it crawled sluggishly and obliviously across the fallen tablets of the gods, and fought and ravened blindly with the other spawn of Ubbo-Sathla.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Brood of Ubbo-Sathla are mindless, shapeless, amoebic masses of protoplasm that inhabited the early Earth, before the emergence of the first continent from the primal mire. They are continually spawned by the idiot demiurge [[Ubbo-Sathla]] by a process of sloughing.

Incautious use of the [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]] may result in the user being drawn back through time to become one of the Brood of Ubbo-Sathla, losing all consciousness and memory in the process.

==Heresies and Controversies==

It has been suggested by students of eldritch lore that Ubbo-Sathla may be, or may be related to, the shapeless being [[Abhoth]] who dwells in a cavern deep beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]], and similarly produces protoplasmic spawn.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* artifacts: [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]], [[The Tablets of Ubbo Sathla]]

==References==

* Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla Ubbo-Sathla]" (1933)

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Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech

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'''The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)

==Description==

<blockquote>
The thing was about the size of a small orange and was slightly flattened at the ends, like a planet at its poles. It puzzled Tregardis, for it was not like an ordinary crystal, being cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glowing at its heart, as if it were alternately illumed and darkened from within.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech is a sphere of crystal with flattened ends. Looking into it, it appears cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glow at its center that seems to alternate between light and shadow.

It was owned in prehistoric times by the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech, who lived in the region of [[Mhu Thulan]] in [[Hyperborea]], and is discussed briefly in [[The Book of Eibon]]. The details of its fate after Zon Mezzamalech's disappearance is unknown, but it was recovered in Greenland in the early 20th century and brought to London, where it played a role in the disappearance of an occult student named Paul Tregardis. Its current whereabouts are unknown.

The Crystal shows glimpses of the prehistoric past, which appear to be (and may well be) previous incarnations of the person looking into it. Incautious use of the Crystal may cause the user to be drawn all the way back through time to the beginning of life on Earth, to become one of the [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]], with consequent loss of all memory and consciousness.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The substance of the Crystal is described in terms very similar to those used for the [[Glass from Leng]], and it shares with that artifact the property of granting visions of distant places and times, and the dangers involved in opening a door between the user and the things seen. It is possible, therefore, that the Crystal may also have been brought from the Hyades, as the Glass apparently was.

==Keeper Notes==

Looking into the Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech long enough to behold visions of the past produces a psychological condition in which the person's surroundings and identity become increasingly tenuous and confused. Those who look into the crystal for a prolonged period suffer sanity loss of 1D4/2D4 per session, and each session of looking into the crystal also increases the risk of being drawn back through time to become one of the Brood of Ubbo-Sathla.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* artifact: [[The Tablets of Ubbo Sathla]]
* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* deity: [[Ubbo-Sathla]]
* race: [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]]
* location: [[Hyperborea]]

==References==

* Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla Ubbo-Sathla]" (1933)

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Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech

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'''The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)

==Description==

<blockquote>
The thing was about the size of a small orange and was slightly flattened at the ends, like a planet at its poles. It puzzled Tregardis, for it was not like an ordinary crystal, being cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glowing at its heart, as if it were alternately illumed and darkened from within.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech is a sphere of crystal with flattened ends. Looking into it, it appears cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glow at its center that seems to alternate between light and shadow.

It was owned in prehistoric times by the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech, who lived in the region of [[Mhu Thulan]] in [[Hyperborea]], and is discussed briefly in [[The Book of Eibon]]. The details of its fate after Zon Mezzamalech's disappearance is unknown, but it was recovered in Greenland in the early 20th century and brought to London, where it played a role in the disappearance of an occult student named Paul Tregardis. Its current whereabouts are unknown.

The Crystal shows glimpses of the prehistoric past, which appear to be (and may well be) previous incarnations of the person looking into it. Incautious use of the Crystal may cause the user to be drawn all the way back through time to the beginning of life on Earth, to become one of the [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]], with consequent loss of all memory and consciousness.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The substance of the Crystal is described in terms very similar to those used for the [[Glass from Leng]], and it shares with that artifact the property of granting visions of distant places and times, and the dangers involved in opening a door between the user and the things seen. It is possible, therefore, that the Crystal may also have been brought from the Hyades, as the Glass apparently was.

==Keeper Notes==

Looking into the Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech long enough to behold visions of the past produces a psychological condition in which the person's surroundings and identity become increasingly tenuous and confused. Those who look into the crystal for a prolonged period suffer sanity loss of 1D4/2D4 per session, and each session of looking into the crystal also increases the risk of being drawn back through time to become one of the Brood of Ubbo-Sathla.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* artifact: [[The Tablets of Ubbo Sathla]]
* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* deity: [[Ubbo-Sathla]]
* race: [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]]
* location: [[Hyperborea]]

==References==

*Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla Ubbo-Sathla]" (1933)

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The Tablets of Ubbo Sathla

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'''The Tablets of Ubbo-Sathla'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)

==Description==

<blockquote>
Zon Mezzamalech had dreamt to recover the wisdom of the gods who had died before the Earth was born. They had passed to the lightless void, leaving their lore inscribed upon tablets of ultrastellar stone; and the tablets were guarded in the primal mire by the formless, idiotic demiurge Ubbo-Sathla.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Tablets of Ubbo-Sathla are stone tablets on which are inscribed the secret lore of a pantheon of gods predating the existence of the Earth. During the earliest era of life on Earth, they were protected by [[Ubbo-Sathla]], the mindless source of all terrestrial life.

According to [[The Book of Eibon]], Zon Mezzamalech, a sorcerer of [[Hyperborea]], attempted to read the lore on the Tablets using [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech|a curious crystal]]. He apparently did not succeed, however, and disappeared during one of these attempts.

The present location of the Tablets of Ubbo-Sathla is unknown, nor do any known sources record any appearance of the Tablets after the earliest period of life on Earth.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* artifact: [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]]
* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* deity: [[Ubbo-Sathla]]
* race: [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]]
* location: [[Hyperborea]]

==References==

The following sources contain references to the Tablets of Ubbo-Sathla:

*Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla Ubbo-Sathla]" (1933)

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Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech

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'''The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)

==Description==

<blockquote>
The thing was about the size of a small orange and was slightly flattened at the ends, like a planet at its poles. It puzzled Tregardis, for it was not like an ordinary crystal, being cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glowing at its heart, as if it were alternately illumed and darkened from within.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech is a sphere of crystal with flattened ends. Looking into it, it appears cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glow at its center that seems to alternate between light and shadow.

It was owned in prehistoric times by the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech, who lived in the region of [[Mhu Thulan]] in [[Hyperborea]], and is discussed briefly in [[The Book of Eibon]]. The details of its fate after Zon Mezzamalech's disappearance is unknown, but it was recovered in Greenland in the early 20th century and brought to London, where it played a role in the disappearance of an occult student named Paul Tregardis. Its current whereabouts are unknown.

The Crystal shows glimpses of the prehistoric past, which appear to be (and may well be) previous incarnations of the person looking into it. Incautious use of the Crystal may cause the user to be drawn all the way back through time to the beginning of life on Earth, to become one of the [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]], with consequent loss of all memory and consciousness.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The substance of the Crystal is described in terms very similar to those used for the [[Glass from Leng]], and it shares with that artifact the property of granting visions of distant places and times, and the dangers involved in opening a door between the user and the things seen. It is possible, therefore, that the Crystal may also have been brought from the Hyades, as the Glass apparently was.

==Keeper Notes==

Looking into the Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech long enough to behold visions of the past produces a psychological condition in which the person's surroundings and identity become increasingly tenuous and confused. Those who look into the crystal for a prolonged period suffer sanity loss of 1D4/2D4 per session, and each session of looking into the crystal also increases the risk of being drawn back through time to become one of the Brood of Ubbo-Sathla.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* deity: [[Ubbo-Sathla]]
* race: [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]]
* location: [[Hyperborea]]

==References==

*Clark Ashton Smith, "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla Ubbo-Sathla]" (1933)

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Glass from Leng

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'''Glass from Leng'''

Origin: “The Gable Window” by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft.

==Description==

<blockquote>
...a great round window of a most curious clouded glass, of which (Wilbur Akeley) said only that it was a work of great antiquity, which he had discovered and acquired in the course of his travels in Asia.
 — August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft, "The Gable Window"
</blockquote>

The Glass from Leng is a large disk of cloudy glass, apparently imported from the Plateau of Leng, though it may have originated in the [[Hyades (star cluster)|Hyades]]. It may be used as a window and gateway into various realms of space and time. To make use of the Glass from Leng, the practitioner must trace on the floor, in chalk, a complicated five-pointed star elaborated with intricate designs. Standing inside the star, the practitioner then utters the words ''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthuhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn''. The glass then becomes clear and a scene becomes visible through it.

The scene revealed by the Glass may be a location on Earth, in the Dreamlands, on an alien planet, or in some stranger realm. What appears seems to be random. If there is a way to command the Glass from Leng to show particular scenes desired by the user, no record of the method is known to exist.

Investigators should be wary of attempting to use the Glass from Leng, because entities on the other side of the glass can pass through it. The only way to prevent them from doing so is to erase part of the star, shatter the glass, or both; this will disrupt the spell, though any entity or portion of an entity that has already passed through the glass will remain present.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The substance of the Glass from Leng is described in very similar terms to the substance of the [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]], and these two artifacts may therefore be related.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* race: [[Sand-Dwellers]]
* locations: [[Hyades (star cluster)]], [[Plateau of Leng]]

==References==

August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft, "The Gable Window" (1957)

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Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech

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'''The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)

==Description==

<blockquote>
The thing was about the size of a small orange and was slightly flattened at the ends, like a planet at its poles. It puzzled Tregardis, for it was not like an ordinary crystal, being cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glowing at its heart, as if it were alternately illumed and darkened from within.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech is a sphere of crystal with flattened ends. Looking into it, it appears cloudy and changeable, with an intermittent glow at its center that seems to alternate between light and shadow.

It was owned in prehistoric times by the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech, who lived in the region of [[Mhu Thulan]] in [[Hyperborea]], and is discussed briefly in [[The Book of Eibon]]. The details of its fate after Zon Mezzamalech's disappearance is unknown, but it was recovered in Greenland in the early 20th century and brought to London, where it played a role in the disappearance of an occult student named Paul Tregardis. Its current whereabouts are unknown.

The Crystal shows glimpses of the prehistoric past, which appear to be (and may well be) previous incarnations of the person looking into it. Incautious use of the Crystal may cause the user to be drawn all the way back through time to the beginning of life on Earth, to become one of the [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]], with consequent loss of all memory and consciousness.

==Heresies and Controversies==

The substance of the Crystal is described in terms very similar to those used for the [[Glass from Leng]], and it shares with that artifact the property of granting visions of distant places and times, and the dangers involved in opening a door between the user and the things seen. It is possible, therefore, that the Crystal may also have been brought from the Hyades, as the Glass apparently was.

==Keeper Notes==

Looking into the Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech long enough to behold visions of the past produces a psychological condition in which the person's surroundings and identity become increasingly tenuous and confused. Those who look into the crystal for a prolonged period suffer sanity loss of 1D4/2D4 per session, and each session of looking into the crystal also increases the risk of being drawn back through time to become one of the Brood of Ubbo-Sathla.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* deity: [[Ubbo-Sathla]]
* race: [[Brood of Ubbo-Sathla]]
* location: [[Hyperborea]]

==References==

*Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla" (1933)

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Glass from Leng

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'''Glass from Leng'''

Origin: “The Gable Window” by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft.

==Description==

<blockquote>
...a great round window of a most curious clouded glass, of which (Wilbur Akeley) said only that it was a work of great antiquity, which he had discovered and acquired in the course of his travels in Asia.
 — August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft, "The Gable Window"
</blockquote>

The Glass from Leng is a large disk of cloudy glass, apparently imported from the Plateau of Leng, though it may have originated in the [[Hyades (star cluster)|Hyades]]. It may be used as a window and gateway into various realms of space and time. To make use of the Glass from Leng, the practitioner must trace on the floor, in chalk, a complicated five-pointed star elaborated with intricate designs. Standing inside the star, the practitioner then utters the words ''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthuhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn''. The glass then becomes clear and a scene becomes visible through it.

The scene may be a location on Earth, in the Dreamlands, on an alien planet, or in some stranger realm. What appears seems to be random. If there is a way to command the Glass from Leng to show particular scenes desired by the user, no record of the method is known to exist.

Investigators should be wary of attempting to use the Glass from Leng, because entities on the other side of the glass can pass through it. The only way to prevent them from doing so is to erase part of the star, shatter the glass, or both; this will disrupt the spell, though any entity or portion of an entity that has already passed through the glass will remain present.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* race: [[Sand-Dwellers]]
* locations: [[Hyades (star cluster)]], [[Plateau of Leng]]

==References==

August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft, "The Gable Window" (1957)

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[[Arc of Vlactos]]

[[Glass from Leng]]

[[Magna of Illusion]]

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Brood of Ubbo-Sathla

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'''The Brood of Ubbo-Sathla'''

Origin: "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith.

<blockquote>
Headless, without organs or members, it sloughed from its oozy sides, in a slow, ceaseless wave, the amebic forms that were the archetypes of earthly life... And there, to the goal of a forgotten search, was drawn the thing that had been -- or would sometimes be -- Paul Tregardis and Zon Mezzamalech. Becoming a shapeless eft of the prime, it crawled sluggishly and obliviously across the fallen tablets of the gods, and fought and ravened blindly with the other spawn of Ubbo-Sathla.
 — Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"
</blockquote>

The Brood of Ubbo-Sathla are mindless, shapeless, amoebic masses of protoplasm that inhabited the early Earth, before the emergence of the first continent from the primal mire. They are continually spawned by the idiot demiurge [[Ubbo-Sathla]] by a process of sloughing.

Incautious use of the [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]] may result in the user being drawn back through time to become one of the Brood of Ubbo-Sathla, losing all consciousness and memory in the process.

==Heresies and Controversies==

It has been suggested by students of eldritch lore that Ubbo-Sathla may be, or may be related to, the shapeless being [[Abhoth]] who dwells in a cavern deep beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]], and similarly produces protoplasmic spawn.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

* tome: ''[[The Book of Eibon]]''
* artifact: [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]]

==References==

*Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla" (1933)

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Sand-Dweller

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'''Sand-Dwellers'''

Origin: “The Gable Window” by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft

==Description==

<blockquote>
...a kind of human being, rough of skin, as if the desert's sand had been encrusted upon the surface of his body, with abnormally large eyes and ears. He seemed to be emaciated, with ribs showing through his skin, but what was particularly repellent was the look of his face -- for he resembled an Australian toy bear called the Koala.
 — August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft, "The Gable Window"
</blockquote>

Sand-Dwellers resemble thin, sand-encrusted humans with unusually large eyes and ears, and faces that look somewhat like those of koala bears. They dwell in caves during the daylight hours, and emerge at night in groups to hunt. Their dietary habits are unknown, but investigators should be cautious when dealing with them. In at least one case they were associated with a very large tentacled creature of unknown nature and habits.

==Heresies and Controversies==

It is unclear whether Sand-Dwellers live on this world or another, since the journals of Wilbur Akeley, which provide most of what is known about Sand-Dwellers, are based on observation through the [[Glass from Leng]]. Their habitat was described by Akeley as resembling the deserts of the American Southwest.

==Associated Mythos Elements==

Artifact: [[Glass from Leng]]

==References==

August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft, "The Gable Window"

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Sand-Dweller

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'''Sand-Dwellers''' resemble emaciated, sand-encrusted humans with abnormally large eyes and ears, and faces that look somewhat like those of koala bears. They dwell in caves during the daylight hours, and emerge at night in groups to hunt. Their dietary habits are unknown, but investigators should be cautious when dealing with them. In at least one case they were associated with a very large tentacled creature of unknown nature and habits.

It is unclear whether they live on this world or another, since the journals of Wilbur Akeley, which provide most of what is known about Sand-Dwellers, are based on observation through the [[Glass from Leng]]. Their habitat was described by Akeley as resembling the deserts of the American Southwest.

==References==

The following sources include information about Sand-Dwellers:

* “The Gable Window” by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft

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Mhu Thulan

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'''Mhu Thulan''' was a region of ancient [[Hyperborea]] famous for its sorcerers. It was the dwelling place of the legendary wizard [[Eibon]], as well as Zon Mezzamalech, owner of the [[Crystal of Zon Mezzamalech]] discussed in [[The Book of Eibon]]. Among the cities of Mhu Thulan were Cerngoth and Oggon-Zhai.

Mhu Thulan apparently corresponds either to part or all of modern Greenland in its preglacial days.

Before the end of Hyperborean civilization, ice sheets from [[Polarion]] spread over Mhu Thulan. The one recorded attempt to recover treasures lost to the glaciers did not end well.

==References==

The following stories by Clark Ashton Smith contain references to Mhu Thulan:

* "The Door to Saturn" (1932)

* "The Ice-Demon" (1933)

* "Ubbo-Sathla" (1933)

* "The White Sibyl" (1935)

* "The Coming of the White Worm" (1941)

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Lomar

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'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic. It was destroyed by invading tribes 26,000 years ago, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.

The people of Lomar dwelt in a land further north named Zobna, until they were driven out by spreading ice sheets, and they expected one day to have to depart Lomar for the same reason. They brought copies of [[The Pnakotic Fragments]] with them from Zobna, though no known copies of their translation are recorded. The date of the fall of Zobna is not recorded, but Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, while his mind was inhabiting a [[Yithian]] body, conversed with the captive mind of a king of Lomar who reigned one hundred thousand years before the fall of Lomarian civilization.

The capital of Lomar was the city of Olathoe, which lay on the plateau of Sarkia between the peaks Noton and Kadiphonek. One account of Olathoe describes it as a city of marble, with marble pillars in the streets carved at the top to represent grave bearded men.

Lomar was destroyed by the Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, who invaded from the west.

==Location==
While the location of Lomar is not given in the sources, the only place in the arctic region that has significant mountains and a present-day ice sheet is Greenland. During the time when Lomar flourished, the Wisconsin glaciation had not yet reached its fullest extent, and it is possible that southern Greenland was still unglaciated at that time. Investigators who hope to find the buried remains of Lomarian civilization might be well advised to look there.

==References==
The following stories by H.P. Lovecraft include references to Lomar:

*"Polaris" (1918)

*"The Other Gods" (1921)

*"The Quest of Iranon" (1935)

*"The Shadow Out of Time" (1936)

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