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'''N'kai''' is a lightless cavern below [[Yoth]] (though it may lie beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]]). It is the home of the [[Great Old One]] [[Tsathoggua]].

Explorers from K'n-yan met with disaster when they first visited N'kai, encountering the deadly, amorphous [[Formless spawn|spawn of Tsathoggua]]. Thereafter, entrances to N'kai were sealed off.

==See also==
* [[K'n-yan]].
* [[Mount Voormithadreth]].
* [[Yoth]].

==Appearances==
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]

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-Over the jagged [[Peaks of Thok]] [[Nightgaunt|they]] sweep, heedless of all the cries I try to make, and down the nether pits to that foul lake where the puffed [[Shoggoth]]s splash in doubtful sleep.
+Over the jagged [[Underworld#Peaks_of_Thok|Peaks of Thok]] [[Nightgaunt|they]] sweep, heedless of all the cries I try to make, and down the nether pits to that foul lake where the puffed [[Shoggoth]]s splash in doubtful sleep.
 <br>&mdash; "[[Fungi from Yuggoth (poem)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]
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 === Vaults of Zin ===
-See [[Vaults of Zin]] for more information about these underground catacombs on the borders between [[Yoth]], [[N'Kai]], and the [[Dreamlands]].
+See [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]] for more information about these underground catacombs on the borders between [[Yoth]], [[N'Kai]], and the [[Dreamlands]].
 === Yoth ===
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-...This was a squat, plain temple of black basalt blocks without a single carving, and containing only a vacant onyx pedestal. The remarkable thing about it was its story, for it was a link with a fabled elder world compared to which even cryptic [[Yoth]] was a thing of yesterday. It had been built in imitation of certain temples depicted in the [[Vaults of Zin]], to house a very terrible black toad-idol found in [[Yoth|the red-litten world]] and called [[Tsathoggua]] in the [[Yothic Manuscripts]]. It had been a potent and widely worshipped god, and after its adoption the people of K'n-yan had lent its name to the city which was later to become dominant in that region. Yothic legend said that it had come from a mysterious inner realm beneath the red-litten world - a black realm of peculiar-sensed beings which had no light at all, but which had had great civilisations and mighty gods before ever [[Serpent People|the reptilian quadrupeds of Yoth]] had come into being. Many images of Tsathoggua existed in [[Yoth]], all of which were alleged to have come from the black inner realm, and which were supposed by Yothic archaeologists to represent the [[Serpent People|aeon-extinct race of that realm]]. The black realm called N'kai in the [[Yothic Manuscripts]] had been explored as thoroughly as possible by these archaeologists, and singular stone troughs or burrows had excited infinite speculation.
+...This was a squat, plain temple of black basalt blocks without a single carving, and containing only a vacant onyx pedestal. The remarkable thing about it was its story, for it was a link with a fabled elder world compared to which even cryptic [[Yoth]] was a thing of yesterday. It had been built in imitation of certain temples depicted in the [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]], to house a very terrible black toad-idol found in [[Yoth|the red-litten world]] and called [[Tsathoggua]] in the [[Yothic Manuscripts]]. It had been a potent and widely worshipped god, and after its adoption the people of K'n-yan had lent its name to the city which was later to become dominant in that region. Yothic legend said that it had come from a mysterious inner realm beneath the red-litten world - a black realm of peculiar-sensed beings which had no light at all, but which had had great civilisations and mighty gods before ever [[Serpent People|the reptilian quadrupeds of Yoth]] had come into being. Many images of Tsathoggua existed in [[Yoth]], all of which were alleged to have come from the black inner realm, and which were supposed by Yothic archaeologists to represent the [[Serpent People|aeon-extinct race of that realm]]. The black realm called N'kai in the [[Yothic Manuscripts]] had been explored as thoroughly as possible by these archaeologists, and singular stone troughs or burrows had excited infinite speculation.
 When the [[People of K'n-yan|men of K'n-yan]] discovered the red-litten world and deciphered its strange manuscripts, they took over the [[Tsathoggua]] cult and brought all the frightful toad images up to the land of blue light - housing them in shrines of Yothquarriedbasalt like the one Zamacona now saw. The [[Tsathoggua|cult]] flourished until it almost rivalled the ancient cults of Yig and Tulu [but] in that [[K'n-yan|world of blue light]] the [[Tsathoggua|cult]] came to an abrupt end, even though the name of [[Tsath]] was suffered to remain.  What ended the cult was the partial exploration of the black realm of N'kai beneath the red-litten world of [[Yoth]]. According to the [[Yothic Manuscripts]], there was no surviving life in N'kai, but... when the [[People of K'n-yan|men of K'n-yan]] went down into N'kai's black abyss with their great atom-power searchlights they found living things - living things that oozed along stone channels and worshipped onyx and basalt images of Tsathoggua. But they were not toads like [[Tsathoggua]] himself. Far worse - they were [[Shoggoth|amorphous lumps of viscous black slime]] that took temporary shapes for various purposes. The [[People of K'n-yan|explorers of K'n-yan]] did not pause for detailed observations, and those who escaped alive sealed the passage leading from red-litten [[Yoth]] down into the gulfs of nether horror. Then all the images of [[Tsathoggua]] in the land of K'n-yan were dissolved into the ether by disintegrating rays, and the cult was abolished forever.
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 ** [[Mount Voormithadreth]]
 ** [[Yoth]]
-** [[Vaults of Zin]]
+** [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]]
 * deities:
 ** [[Tsathoggua]]

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-'''N'kai''' is a lightless cavern below [[Yoth]] (though it may lie beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]]). It is the home of the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)|Great Old One]] [[Tsathoggua]].
+<!--[[Image:filename.jpg|thumb|200px|right|AltText]]-->
-Explorers from K'n-yan met with disaster when they first visited N'kai, encountering the deadly, amorphous [[Formless Spawn]] of [[Tsathoggua]]. Thereafter, entrances to N'kai were sealed off.
+'''N'kai''' (alternate spellings: ''Black Realm of N'kai'', ''The Gulf of N'kai'', ''The Black Abyss of N'kai'', ''The Gulfs of Nether Horror'', ''The Ultimate Abyss of N'kai Beneath Red-Litten Yoth'')
-==See also==
+Origin:  (earliest known story/scenario the Location appears in, indicate whether this is uncertain)
-==Appearances==
+<!--gap for TOC-->
-[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]
+==In the Mythos==

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−	'''N'kai''' is a lightless cavern below [[Yoth]] (though it may lie beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]]). It is the home of the [[Great Old Ones (~~Dieties~~)\|Great Old One]] [[Tsathoggua]].	+	'''N'kai''' is a lightless cavern below [[Yoth]] (though it may lie beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]]). It is the home of the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)\|Great Old One]] [[Tsathoggua]].

	Explorers from K'n-yan met with disaster when they first visited N'kai, encountering the deadly, amorphous [[Formless Spawn]] of [[Tsathoggua]]. Thereafter, entrances to N'kai were sealed off.		Explorers from K'n-yan met with disaster when they first visited N'kai, encountering the deadly, amorphous [[Formless Spawn]] of [[Tsathoggua]]. Thereafter, entrances to N'kai were sealed off.

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−	'''N'kai''' is a lightless cavern below [[Yoth]] (though it may lie beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]]). It is the home of the [[Great Old One]] [[Tsathoggua]].	+	'''N'kai''' is a lightless cavern below [[Yoth]] (though it may lie beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]]). It is the home of the [[Great Old Ones (Dieties)\|Great Old One]] [[Tsathoggua]].

	Explorers from K'n-yan met with disaster when they first visited N'kai, encountering the deadly, amorphous [[Formless Spawn]] of [[Tsathoggua]]. Thereafter, entrances to N'kai were sealed off.		Explorers from K'n-yan met with disaster when they first visited N'kai, encountering the deadly, amorphous [[Formless Spawn]] of [[Tsathoggua]]. Thereafter, entrances to N'kai were sealed off.