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 === Midian in the Dreamlands ===
-A large and monstrously ancient [[Ghoul]] colony in the [[Dreamlands]] is one of several places called "Midian" or "The City of Midian", a fortified city carved into a vast cavern in some remote corner of the [[Vale of Pnath]], built and decorated from the morbid statuary and tomb-loot of thousands of exotic worlds in both the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Daylands]], and beyond.  Among Dreamlands [[Ghouls]], it is understood that this "City of Midian" is paradise in a figurative sense:  an elaborate sanctuary in the [[Dreamlands]] for the Ghouls and other monsters from the persecution of humans.  Earth's Ghouls, especially those from remote areas who have found ways to live in harmony with their human neighbors for generations, have come to think of this Midian as one and the same with the paradise of myth and legend, and may perhaps aspire to one day making a pilgrimage to the [[Vale of Pnath]] to see Midian for themselves before they die.
+A large and monstrously ancient [[Ghoul]] colony in the [[Dreamlands]] is one of several places called "Midian" or "The City of Midian", a fortified city carved into a vast cavern in some remote corner of the [[Underworld#Vale_of_Pnath|Vale of Pnath]], built and decorated from the morbid statuary and tomb-loot of thousands of exotic worlds in both the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Daylands]], and beyond.  Among Dreamlands [[Ghouls]], it is understood that this "City of Midian" is paradise in a figurative sense:  an elaborate sanctuary in the [[Dreamlands]] for the Ghouls and other monsters from the persecution of humans.  Earth's Ghouls, especially those from remote areas who have found ways to live in harmony with their human neighbors for generations, have come to think of this Midian as one and the same with the paradise of myth and legend, and may perhaps aspire to one day making a pilgrimage to the [[Underworld#Vale_of_Pnath|Vale of Pnath]] to see Midian for themselves before they die.
 There are strange Dreamlands sailors' tales which tell a story of a distant and uncharted "Island of Midian", a world located somewhere far over the edge of the world, out among the stars:  a beautiful garden paradise which may tempt lost sailors near for shelter and supplies, but is guarded from all approach by hosts of terrifying [[Angel|Cherubim]] armed with fiery, flaming swords, and who are known for boarding ships to take from the officers, sailors, and passengers any Ghouls, or any humans who might have Ghoulish blood in their veins.  Such tales are often considered fictions to terrify Ghoul sailors and passengers, perhaps for the purpose of extorting money from them under threat of sailing too close to this perhaps imaginary island or to explain the suspicious disappearance of Ghoul pilgrims who have hired ships to seek the island, but the Dreamlands are a mysterious place, and who is to say which sailors' tales are true, and which are fiction?

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	* [[Clive Barker]]'s ''Cabal'' and ''[[Nightbreed (1990 film)]]''		* [[Clive Barker]]'s ''Cabal'' and ''[[Nightbreed (1990 film)]]''

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 === Midian in the Dreamlands ===
-A large and monstrously ancient Ghoul colony in the Dreamlands is called "Midian" or "The City of Midian", a fortified city carved into a vast cavern in some remote corner of the [[Vale of Pnath]], built and decorated from the morbid statuary and tomb-loot of thousands of exotic worlds in both the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Daylands]], and beyond.  Among Dreamlands Ghouls, it is understood that this "City of Midian" is paradise in a figurative sense:  an elaborate sanctuary in the Dreamlands for the Ghouls and other monsters from the persecution of humans.  Earth's Ghouls, especially those from remote areas who have found ways to live in harmony with their human neighbors for generations, have come to think of this Midian as one and the same with the paradise of myth and legend, and may perhaps aspire to one day making a pilgrimage to the Vale of Pnath to see Midian for themselves before they die.
+A large and monstrously ancient [[Ghoul]] colony in the [[Dreamlands]] is one of several places called "Midian" or "The City of Midian", a fortified city carved into a vast cavern in some remote corner of the [[Vale of Pnath]], built and decorated from the morbid statuary and tomb-loot of thousands of exotic worlds in both the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Daylands]], and beyond.  Among Dreamlands [[Ghouls]], it is understood that this "City of Midian" is paradise in a figurative sense:  an elaborate sanctuary in the [[Dreamlands]] for the Ghouls and other monsters from the persecution of humans.  Earth's Ghouls, especially those from remote areas who have found ways to live in harmony with their human neighbors for generations, have come to think of this Midian as one and the same with the paradise of myth and legend, and may perhaps aspire to one day making a pilgrimage to the [[Vale of Pnath]] to see Midian for themselves before they die.
 There are strange Dreamlands sailors' tales which tell a story of a distant and uncharted "Island of Midian", a world located somewhere far over the edge of the world, out among the stars:  a beautiful garden paradise which may tempt lost sailors near for shelter and supplies, but is guarded from all approach by hosts of terrifying [[Angel|Cherubim]] armed with fiery, flaming swords, and who are known for boarding ships to take from the officers, sailors, and passengers any Ghouls, or any humans who might have Ghoulish blood in their veins.  Such tales are often considered fictions to terrify Ghoul sailors and passengers, perhaps for the purpose of extorting money from them under threat of sailing too close to this perhaps imaginary island or to explain the suspicious disappearance of Ghoul pilgrims who have hired ships to seek the island, but the Dreamlands are a mysterious place, and who is to say which sailors' tales are true, and which are fiction?

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 ==Heresies and Controversies==
 <!-- Optional.  This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the Location's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric takes on the mythos like Lovecraft's family tree; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos.   * Alternative_theory.  ([[source]]) -->
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 In the ''[[Necronomicon]]'', Abdul Alhazred places the origin of Ghouls, and presumably the location of Midian, as a place in the wastelands of the Arabian desert, "There the Djinn dwell / And the Ghouls fell / In a burning Hell / Where fiery winds swell", describing it as a place of burning pillars of fire, columns of black salt, pools of poisoned water, and yellow clouds of reeking brimstone smoke.
-The ''[[Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan]]'' mention the Midian of Ghoul legend, claiming that the Ghouls came to Earth from Midian in the form of disembodied spirits and pinpointing their world's location as an unseen place in the heavens in a specific place near the star Sirius; in the year 2005, an actual star, so dim as to be undetectable by human eyes, would be discovered by the Hubble Telescope in exactly the region of space referred to in the ''[[Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan]]''.
+<!--Yronimos Whateley totally made this part up.-->The ''[[Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan]]'' mention the Midian of Ghoul legend, claiming that the Ghouls came to Earth from Midian in the form of disembodied spirits and pinpointing their world's location as an unseen place in the heavens in a specific place near the star Sirius; in the year 2005, an actual star, so dim as to be undetectable by human eyes, would be discovered by the Hubble Telescope in exactly the region of space referred to in the ''[[Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan]]''.
 Midian is or was an actual place in the Middle East, generally believed to have been in the north-western part of the Arabian Peninsula, mentioned in the Bible and the Quran, settled by descendants of Midyan, one of the sons of Abraham, and destroyed by angels alongside Sodom and Gomorrah for sins including "lying in wait", idolatry, witchcraft, and seduction of Israelite men by Midianite women, after Midian refused to listen to prophets of doom.  According to Christian tradition, Midian was destroyed by an Israelite army, but in Islamic tradition were destroyed by a tremor, and cursed to "a day of overshadowing gloom" which drove them from their homes.

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 === Midian in the Daylands ===
 [[File:Nightbreed midiancemetery.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Midian Cemetery, located in North America, from ''Nightbreed (1990)''...]]
-Following Columbus' journey to the Americas, there were movements among persecuted Old World Ghoul families to establish a "Midian on Earth" in the New World, far from the persecution Ghouls have faced under inquisition and purges across Europe, Asia, and Africa.  As a result, a number of odd, small towns or cemeteries which once bore (and sometimes still bear) the name "Midian" can be found scattered across America, and, even today, some Old World Ghouls refer to the Americas figuratively as "Midian".  Similarly, there are said to be a "Midian" or two found in remote corners of Australia.  Many such towns have since changed their names and/or vanished, following the [[Salem Witch Trials]] and other such ominous events in the history of American Ghouls.
+Following Columbus' journey to the Americas, there were movements among persecuted Old World Ghoul families to establish a "Midian on Earth" in the New World, far from the persecution Ghouls have faced under inquisition and purges across Europe, Asia, and Africa.  As a result, a number of odd, small towns or cemeteries which once bore (and sometimes still bear) the name "Midian" can be found scattered across America, and, even today, some Old World Ghouls refer to the Americas figuratively as "Midian".  Similarly, there are said to be a "Midian" or two found in remote corners of Australia.  Many such towns have since changed their names and/or vanished, especially in North American following the [[Salem Witch Trials]] and other such ominous events in the history of American Ghouls.
 In the ''[[Necronomicon]]'', Abdul Alhazred places the origin of Ghouls, and presumably the location of Midian, as a place in the wastelands of the Arabian desert, "There the Djinn dwell / And the Ghouls fell / In a burning Hell / Where fiery winds swell", describing it as a place of burning pillars of fire, columns of black salt, pools of poisoned water, and yellow clouds of reeking brimstone smoke.

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 The Garden of Midian of [[Ghoul]] legend and myth is a perhaps allegorical paradise from which the tribe of Ghouls fell or were driven from at the beginning of time, when the tribe were said to have been banished to Earth.  The myth of the Ghouls' fall from Midian corresponds closely to the Biblical story of man's fall from Eden:  Before the Beginning, the Ghouls dwelt in happiness in the paradise of Midian under the careless watch of nameless creator gods, until "The Beginning of Days", the night that a [[Cthulhu|great dragon]] came into Midian while the gods slept, and taught the Ghouls the secrets of black magic and introduced them to the worship of the dragon's unspeakable Outer Gods;  when the mild gods of Midian awakened and realized that the Ghouls had been corrupted in the night, they were incensed to fury, and, slaying the dragon, cast the Ghouls out of Midian "like falling stars ablaze in the night sky", down to Earth, where the Ghouls led by their new god, [[Mordiggian]], show their defiance to their elder gods through the corruption of human flesh, and await the day that they might rise up in rebellion against the elder gods to reclaim Midian.
-Allegorical Midian is described by the cult of [[Mordiggian]] as a world like Earth, but without daylight, a vast graveyard full of all the corpses of all the humans which have ever lived for the Ghouls to gnaw upon, lit only by the moon, which is forever locked in a single phase, its fullest.  This Midian, according to the cult, is a future paradise to be found on Earth when the Stars are Right and the great dragon of old rises up from its grave and the spells of the cult of Mordiggian subdue humanity and overthrow the hated Sun.  To the [[Cult of Mordiggian]] and other Ghouls who take this view, Midian is a gift and reward to come at some time in the future, to be worked toward now and enjoyed later, if the Ghouls succeed in their work against the gods and the world, and if each Ghouls should live long enough to reap his or her rewards;  Midian is described in this way in the ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'' and in ''[[Cultes des Goules]]''.
+Allegorical Midian is described by the cult of [[Mordiggian]] as a world like Earth, but without daylight, a vast graveyard full of all the corpses of all the humans which have ever lived for the Ghouls to gnaw upon, lit only by the moon, which is forever locked in a single phase, its fullest.  This Midian, according to the cult, is a future paradise to be found on Earth when the Stars are Right and the great dragon of old rises up from its grave and the spells of the cult of Mordiggian subdue humanity and overthrow the hated Sun.  To the [[Cult of Mordiggian]] and other Ghouls who take this view, Midian is a gift and reward to come at some time in the future, to be worked toward now and enjoyed later, if the Ghouls succeed in their work against the gods and the world, and if each Ghoul should live long enough to reap his or her rewards.  Midian is described in this way in the ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'' and in ''[[Cultes des Goules]]''.
-To some Ghoul mystics, Midian is not a place, but instead a state of mind, an internal peace and balance to be achieved only by the wisest and most self-disciplined Ghouls.  Those Ghouls who have thus "returned to Midian" are the most ancient, wise, and civilized of Ghouls, Ghouls who walk beneath the Earth not as feral animals, but with their minds and intellects intact.  The most ancient, wise, and deathless masters among the Ghouls who have achieved Midian are said to have physically left Earth as Ghouls know it to live forever in Midian - perhaps in a real city, monastery, or sanctuary someplace that could be considered, for all intents and purposes, to be Midian on Earth.  To these Ghouls, Midian is already here, inside every Ghoul, a personal and solitary state to be discovered by turning inward and regaining some primal balance.
+To some Ghoul mystics, Midian is not a place, but instead a state of mind, an internal peace and balance to be achieved only by the wisest and most self-disciplined Ghouls.  Those Ghouls who have thus "returned to Midian" are the most ancient, wise, and civilized of Ghouls, Ghouls who walk beneath the Earth not as feral animals, but with their minds and intellects intact.  The most ancient, wise, and deathless masters among the Ghouls who have achieved Midian are said to have physically left Earth as Ghouls know it to live forever in Midian - perhaps in a real city, monastery, or sanctuary someplace that could be considered, for all intents and purposes, to be Midian on Earth.  To these Ghouls, Midian is already here, inside every Ghoul, a personal and solitary state to be discovered by turning inward and regaining some primal balance.  By some accounts, those Ghouls who have reached a state of Midian have done so by abstaining from consuming human flesh for centuries, thus halting their Ghoulish descent, retaining the last of their humanity, while enjoying the virtual immortality of a Ghoul.
 To still other Ghouls and some Mythos scholars, Midian is, or was, a more literal place to be found on the maps of the [[Dreamlands]], or somewhere in the [[Daylands]] on Earth or in the stars, perhaps still in existence today, or lost forever to time and catastrophe.
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 === Midian in the Dreamlands ===
-A large and monstrously ancient Ghoul colony in the Dreamlands is called "Midian" or "The City of Midian", a fortified city carved into a vast cavern in some remote corner of the [[Vale of Pnath]], built and decorated from the morbid statuary and tomb-loot of thousands of exotic worlds in both the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Daylands]], and beyond.  Among Dreamlands Ghouls, it is understood that this "City of Midian" is paradise in a figurative sense:  an elaborate sanctuary in the Dreamlands for the Ghouls and other monsters from the persecution of humans.  Earth's Ghouls, especially those from remote areas of who have found ways to live in harmony with their human neighbors for generations, have come to think of this Midian as one and the same with the paradise of myth and legend, and may perhaps aspire to one day making a pilgrimage to the Vale of Pnath to see Midian for themselves before they die.
+A large and monstrously ancient Ghoul colony in the Dreamlands is called "Midian" or "The City of Midian", a fortified city carved into a vast cavern in some remote corner of the [[Vale of Pnath]], built and decorated from the morbid statuary and tomb-loot of thousands of exotic worlds in both the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Daylands]], and beyond.  Among Dreamlands Ghouls, it is understood that this "City of Midian" is paradise in a figurative sense:  an elaborate sanctuary in the Dreamlands for the Ghouls and other monsters from the persecution of humans.  Earth's Ghouls, especially those from remote areas who have found ways to live in harmony with their human neighbors for generations, have come to think of this Midian as one and the same with the paradise of myth and legend, and may perhaps aspire to one day making a pilgrimage to the Vale of Pnath to see Midian for themselves before they die.
-There are strange Dreamlands sailors' tales which tell a story of a distant and uncharted "Island of Midian", a world located somewhere far over the edge of the world, out among the stars:  a beautiful, sunlit garden paradise which may tempt lost sailors near for shelter and supplies, but is guarded from all approach by hosts of terrifying [[Angel|Cherubim]] armed with fiery, flaming swords, and who are known for boarding ships to take from the officers, sailors, and passengers any Ghouls, or any humans who might have Ghoulish blood in their veins.  Such tales are often considered fictions to terrify Ghoul sailors and passengers, perhaps for the purpose of extorting money from them under threat of sailing too close to this perhaps imaginary island or to explain the suspicious disappearance of Ghoul pilgrims who have hired ships to seek the island, but the Dreamlands are a mysterious place, and who is to say which sailors' tales are true, and which are fiction?
+There are strange Dreamlands sailors' tales which tell a story of a distant and uncharted "Island of Midian", a world located somewhere far over the edge of the world, out among the stars:  a beautiful garden paradise which may tempt lost sailors near for shelter and supplies, but is guarded from all approach by hosts of terrifying [[Angel|Cherubim]] armed with fiery, flaming swords, and who are known for boarding ships to take from the officers, sailors, and passengers any Ghouls, or any humans who might have Ghoulish blood in their veins.  Such tales are often considered fictions to terrify Ghoul sailors and passengers, perhaps for the purpose of extorting money from them under threat of sailing too close to this perhaps imaginary island or to explain the suspicious disappearance of Ghoul pilgrims who have hired ships to seek the island, but the Dreamlands are a mysterious place, and who is to say which sailors' tales are true, and which are fiction?

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 <!-- The basic idea of Midian was borrowed from ''Nightbreed (1990 film)'', and expanded on greatly by Y.Whateley, beginning with the articles on ''Cultes des Goules'', Ghouls, Mordiggian, and ''Ghoul's Manuscript''.  This narrative is loosely inspired by August Derleth's infamous elder gods vs. outer gods theory and "black magic" quote; the "serpent" of the Ghoulish "Garden of Eden" myth is meant to be Cthulhu, though Mordiggian works, too (can you truly be sure that Cthulhu and Mordiggian are not of the same race, or indeed certain they are not the same being?) -->
-The Garden of Midian of [[Ghoul]] legend and myth is a perhaps allegorical paradise from which the tribe of Ghouls fell or were driven from at the beginning of time, when the tribe were said to have been banished to Earth.  The myth of the Ghouls' fall from Midian corresponds closely to the Biblical story of man's fall from Eden:  In the Beginning, the Ghouls dwelt in happiness in the paradise of Midian under the careless watch of unnamed creator gods, until the night that a [[Cthulhu|great dragon]] came into Midian while the gods slept, and taught the Ghouls the secrets of black magic and introduced them to the worship of the dragon's unspeakable Outer Gods;  when the mild gods of Midian awakened and realized that the Ghouls had been corrupted in the night, they were incensed to fury, and, slaying the dragon, cast the Ghouls out of Midian "like falling stars ablaze in the night sky", down to Earth, where the Ghouls led by their new god, [[Mordiggian]], show their defiance to their elder gods through the corruption of human flesh, and await the day that they might rise up in rebellion against the elder gods to reclaim Midian.
+The Garden of Midian of [[Ghoul]] legend and myth is a perhaps allegorical paradise from which the tribe of Ghouls fell or were driven from at the beginning of time, when the tribe were said to have been banished to Earth.  The myth of the Ghouls' fall from Midian corresponds closely to the Biblical story of man's fall from Eden:  Before the Beginning, the Ghouls dwelt in happiness in the paradise of Midian under the careless watch of nameless creator gods, until "The Beginning of Days", the night that a [[Cthulhu|great dragon]] came into Midian while the gods slept, and taught the Ghouls the secrets of black magic and introduced them to the worship of the dragon's unspeakable Outer Gods;  when the mild gods of Midian awakened and realized that the Ghouls had been corrupted in the night, they were incensed to fury, and, slaying the dragon, cast the Ghouls out of Midian "like falling stars ablaze in the night sky", down to Earth, where the Ghouls led by their new god, [[Mordiggian]], show their defiance to their elder gods through the corruption of human flesh, and await the day that they might rise up in rebellion against the elder gods to reclaim Midian.
 Allegorical Midian is described by the cult of [[Mordiggian]] as a world like Earth, but without daylight, a vast graveyard full of all the corpses of all the humans which have ever lived for the Ghouls to gnaw upon, lit only by the moon, which is forever locked in a single phase, its fullest.  This Midian, according to the cult, is a future paradise to be found on Earth when the Stars are Right and the great dragon of old rises up from its grave and the spells of the cult of Mordiggian subdue humanity and overthrow the hated Sun.  To the [[Cult of Mordiggian]] and other Ghouls who take this view, Midian is a gift and reward to come at some time in the future, to be worked toward now and enjoyed later, if the Ghouls succeed in their work against the gods and the world, and if each Ghouls should live long enough to reap his or her rewards;  Midian is described in this way in the ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'' and in ''[[Cultes des Goules]]''.