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'''Oriab''' (AKA "Isle of Oriab") first appeared in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]".

==Isle of Oriab==

An island located in the Southern Sea, Oriab is a small but thriving civilization. Its major city is Baharna in the north, the rest of the residents mostly live in hamlets or villages dotting the coast, generally concentrated on the northern end of the island.

==Geography==
===Southern Sea===
The illimitable Southern Sea with all its curious secrets, which is the way to the Isle of Oriab. See [[Southern Sea]].

===Accursed Valley===
The Accursed Valley is a blasted land below the southern slope of Mount Ngranak, a difficult terrain of lava and desolate crags and the bleak mountain face, pierced by curious cracks and caves, bleaker and wilder than those seaward lands than the rest of the isle.

[[File:Location DreamMtNgranek.png|thumb|150px|right|"Mount Ngranek" illustration by [[Mark Poole]]]]
===Mount Ngranak===
A great image is reported by travellers as carved on the solid rock of the mountain Ngranek, on the isle of Oriab in the Southern Sea, and hinting that it may be a likeness which earth's gods once wrought of their own features in the days when they danced by moonlight on that mountain; the features of that image are very strange, so that one might easily recognise them, and that they are sure signs of the authentic race of the gods.

===Lake Yath===
The inland lake of Yath beyond Baharna, connected to the harbor by an underground canal; on the farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered. A path along the lake's shore leads from Baharna to Mount Ngranek.

==Cities==
===Baharna===
Oriab is a very great isle, and its port of Baharna a mighty city; the wharves of Baharna are of porphyry, and the city rises in great stone terraces behind them, having streets of steps that are frequently arched over by buildings and the bridges between buildings. There is a great canal which goes under the whole city in a tunnel with granite gates and leads to the inland lake of Yath, on whose farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered. At evening the twin beacons Thon and Thal gleam a welcome at the mouth of the harbor, and in all the million windows of Baharna's terraces mellow lights of that steep and climbing seaport become a glittering constellation hung between the stars of heaven and the reflections of those stars in the still harbour. Quarters may be found in an ancient tavern opening on an alley of steps in the original part of the town, which is built of brick and resembles the ruins of Yath's farther shore.

===Nameless Ruins===
A vast, ancient, and forbidding clay-brick ruin of a primal city whose name is not remembered stand on the far side of Lake Yath from Baharna.

==Heresies and Controversies==

* '''Andahad''': a small, second city, added by Chaosium, and described as the furthest southern outpost of the known Dreamlands.
* '''Tyrhhia'': The nameless clay-brick ruins on the shore of Lake Yath, given a name, and connected to [[Yath-Li]]. ([[Brian Lumley]]?)

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* setting: [[Dreamlands]]

==References==
* fiction: [[H.P. Lovecraft]], "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]"
* sourcebook: ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands]]''

[[Category:Dreamlands]]
[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]
[[Category:Mythos:Locations:Dreamlands]]
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 ==Other Islands==
 ===Basalt Pillars of the West===
-The Basalt Pillars of the West, beyond which simple folk say splendid Cathuria lies, but which wise dreamers well know are the gates of a monstrous cataract wherein the oceans of earth’s dreamland drop wholly to abysmal nothingness and shoot through the empty spaces toward other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe.
+The Basalt Pillars of the West, beyond which simple folk say splendid [[Cathuria]] is said to lie, but which wise dreamers well know are the gates of a monstrous cataract wherein the oceans of earth’s dreamland drop wholly to abysmal nothingness and shoot through the empty spaces toward other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe.
 ===Sunken City===

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 '''Oriab''' (AKA "Isle of Oriab"), and neighboring islands of the '''South Sea''', first appeared in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]".
 ==Southern Sea==
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 ===Nameless Rock===
-In the Southern Sea north of the Cerenarian Sea on the way to [[Inganok]] stands a great jagged rock; it had no name and had never been sought by any vessel because of the sounds that came from it at night - a dull and ceaseless howling against which good seamen pray and chant till the noise is out of earshot, leaving sleeping sailors only terrible dreams within dreams in the small hours of following nights.  The monstrous moon-beasts make their camp here, in [[Black Galleon]]s sailed from the [[Lunar Dreamland|Moon]].
+In the Southern Sea north of the Cerenarian Sea on the way to [[Inganok]] stands a great jagged rock; it had no name and had never been sought by any vessel because of the sounds that came from it at night - a dull and ceaseless howling against which good seamen pray and chant till the noise is out of earshot, leaving sleeping sailors only terrible dreams within dreams in the small hours of following nights.  The monstrous [[Moonbeast]]s make their camp here, in [[Black Galleon]]s sailing trade routs to and from the [[Lunar Dreamland|Moon]].
 ===Thalarion===
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 * '''Andahad''':  a small, second city on Oriab, added by Chaosium, and described as the furthest southern outpost of the known Dreamlands.
 * '''Tyrhhia''':  The nameless clay-brick ruins on the shore of Oriab's Lake Yath, given a name, and connected to [[Yath-Li]].  ([[Brian Lumley]]?)
 * '''Granite Pillars of the South''', an addition (by Chaosium?) to Dreamlands lore that holds a rumor of these pillars standing far to the south of Oriab.
 * '''Mtal''', a neighboring island of the South Sea (added by Chaosium?) notable for its crystal-clear water and profusion of shellfish, including gigantic clams big enough to swallow a galley's anchor and snap its chain.

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-* '''Andahad''':  a small, second city, added by Chaosium, and described as the furthest southern outpost of the known Dreamlands.
+* '''Andahad''':  a small, second city on Oriab, added by Chaosium, and described as the furthest southern outpost of the known Dreamlands.
-* '''Tyrhhia''':  The nameless clay-brick ruins on the shore of Lake Yath, given a name, and connected to [[Yath-Li]].  ([[Brian Lumley]]?)
+* '''Tyrhhia''':  The nameless clay-brick ruins on the shore of Oriab's Lake Yath, given a name, and connected to [[Yath-Li]].  ([[Brian Lumley]]?)

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-'''Oriab''' (AKA "Isle of Oriab") first appeared in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]".
+'''Oriab''' (AKA "Isle of Oriab"), and neighboring islands of the '''South Sea''', first appeared in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]".
-==Isle of Oriab==
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 An island located in the Southern Sea, Oriab is a small but thriving civilization. Its major city is Baharna in the north, the rest of the residents mostly live in hamlets or villages dotting the coast, generally concentrated on the northern end of the island.
 ===Accursed Valley===
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 The inland lake of Yath beyond Baharna, connected to the harbor by an underground canal and barred by mighty onyx gates; on the farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered.  A path along the lake's shore leads from Baharna to Mount Ngranek.
 ===Baharna===
 Oriab is a very great isle, and its port of Baharna a mighty city; the wharves of Baharna are of porphyry, and the city rises in great stone terraces behind them, having streets of steps that are frequently arched over by buildings and the bridges between buildings. There is a great canal which goes under the whole city in a tunnel with granite gates and leads to the inland lake of Yath, on whose farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered.  At evening the twin beacons Thon and Thal gleam a welcome at the mouth of the harbor, and in all the million windows of Baharna's terraces mellow lights of that steep and climbing seaport become a glittering constellation hung between the stars of heaven and the reflections of those stars in the still harbour.  Quarters may be found in an ancient tavern opening on an alley of steps in the original part of the town, which is built of brick and resembles the ruins of Yath's farther shore.
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 ===Nameless Ruins===
 A vast, ancient, and forbidding clay-brick ruin of a primal city whose name is not remembered stand on the far side of Lake Yath from Baharna.
 ==Heresies and Controversies==
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 * '''Andahad''':  a small, second city on Oriab, added by Chaosium, and described as the furthest southern outpost of the known Dreamlands.
 * '''Tyrhhia''':  The nameless clay-brick ruins on the shore of Oriab's Lake Yath, given a name, and connected to [[Yath-Li]].  ([[Brian Lumley]]?)

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 [[File:Location DreamMtNgranek.png|thumb|150px|right|"Mount Ngranek" illustration by [[Mark Poole]]]]
 ===Mount Ngranek===
-Mount Ngranek is one of Oriab's most notable and famous features: a great image is reported by travellers as carved on the solid rock of the mountain Ngranek, and hints that it may be a likeness which earth's gods once wrought of their own features in the days when they danced by moonlight on that mountain; the features of that image are very strange, so that one might easily recognise them, and that they are sure signs of the authentic race of the gods.
+Mount Ngranek is one of Oriab's most notable and famous features: a great image is reported by travellers as carved on the solid rock of the mountain Ngranek, and hints that it may be a likeness which earth's gods once wrought of their own features in the days when they danced by moonlight on that mountain; the features of that image are very strange, so that one might easily recognise them, and that they are sure signs of the authentic race of the gods.  The mountain is honeycombed with onyx mines used by local stone-carvers and masons, as well as passages that allegedly lead deep into the [[Underworld]].
 ===Lake Yath===
-The inland lake of Yath beyond Baharna, connected to the harbor by an underground canal; on the farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered.  A path along the lake's shore leads from Baharna to Mount Ngranek.
+The inland lake of Yath beyond Baharna, connected to the harbor by an underground canal and barred by mighty onyx gates; on the farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered.  A path along the lake's shore leads from Baharna to Mount Ngranek.