View source for The Queen in Red (tome)

Title:  ''The Red Queen'', a mythos tome, originally appears in ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''.

==Description==
An epic poem detailing the [[Queen in Red]], describing the marvels of her court in a surreal, astrological allegory with many passages describing in a poetic and round-about fashion an elaborate, dream-like journey through several metaphorical worlds or dimensions to solve nonsensical riddles in what modern commentary would likely interpret as a flying saucer, ending with a tantalizingly utopian prophecy of the Queen in Red's eventual ascension to the "Throne of the World". 

===Latin Version===
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* author:  Anonymous
* language: Medieval Italian
* number of known copies (if rare): (few copies were created, and no copies are known to have survived)
* last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (some copies might have survived in the Dreamlands)
* spells:  ?
* sanity loss: minor
* mythos lore: minor
* Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa
* study: 1 week to study and comprehend

This is the original anonymously-written medieval Italian version, of which there are no known copies to have survived an inquisition in Medieval Florence, Italy. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like. 


===English Version===
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* author:  Anonymous
* language: Elizabethan English translation
* number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, apparently uncommon)
* last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (copies turn up from time to time in the United States and elsewhere)
* spells:  ?
* sanity Loss: minor
* mythos lore: minor
* Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa
* study: 1 week to study and comprehend

The slim book is the English translation of its original anonymously-written medieval Italian, of which there are no known surviving copies. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like. 


==Appearances==
* sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''


==Associated Mythos Elements==
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* setting: [[Dreamlands]]
* setting: [[Hastur Cycle]]
* location:  [[Carcosa]]
* deity:  [[Queen in Red]]
* deity:  [[King in Yellow]]
* tome:  compare/contrast with ''[[The King in Yellow (tome)]]''

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==Keeper Notes==
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[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|Queen in Red]]
[[Category:Dreamlands|Queen in Red]]
[[Category:HasturCycle|Queen in Red]]
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