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	A strange, vast, antique, and perhaps immaterial labyrinth of unclear location connected to certain aged graveyards and cellars of Earth as well as other and far stranger worlds, perhaps in a material location in the [[Hollow Earth]], or a metaphysical or astral location in the [[Dreamlands]] or the [[Other Side]], taking the form of a vast, dim cavern full of crumbling masonry, damp and winding passages and catacombs lined with mouldy books and scrolls, slimy and cobwebbed crypts, antique and greasy candles, piles of bones and mummified corpses, and indistinct brown hangings and carpets, and rotting and ramshackle furniture of fantastical, worn, and aged design, constructed from the wood of long-plundered caskets and sheets of roughly-stitched leather of suspicious origin, as well as various objects that were almost certainly plundered from both the [[Daylands\|Waking World]] and the [[Dreamlands]]. Though typically found vacant and empty save for spiders, rats, and other vermin, the macabre, shocking, and tasteless decor suggests the morbid and mocking hand of [[Ghoul]]s in its construction, or at least in its habitation and furnishing, likely facilitated by the location's connection to cemeteries, catacombs, and nightmarish caverns in various worlds. There is likewise evidence of occasional visits an habitation by beings of a still more alien nature in the presence of unspeakable artifacts constructed or abandoned there, as well as the remnants of the unspeakable rites of [[Human Cultist]]s and wizards and their familiars and imps at various points in the castle's ancient and mysterious history.		A strange, vast, antique, and perhaps immaterial labyrinth of unclear location connected to certain aged graveyards and cellars of Earth as well as other and far stranger worlds, perhaps in a material location in the [[Hollow Earth]], or a metaphysical or astral location in the [[Dreamlands]] or the [[Other Side]], taking the form of a vast, dim cavern full of crumbling masonry, damp and winding passages and catacombs lined with mouldy books and scrolls, slimy and cobwebbed crypts, antique and greasy candles, piles of bones and mummified corpses, and indistinct brown hangings and carpets, and rotting and ramshackle furniture of fantastical, worn, and aged design, constructed from the wood of long-plundered caskets and sheets of roughly-stitched leather of suspicious origin, as well as various objects that were almost certainly plundered from both the [[Daylands\|Waking World]] and the [[Dreamlands]]. Though typically found vacant and empty save for spiders, rats, and other vermin, the macabre, shocking, and tasteless decor suggests the morbid and mocking hand of [[Ghoul]]s in its construction, or at least in its habitation and furnishing, likely facilitated by the location's connection to cemeteries, catacombs, and nightmarish caverns in various worlds. There is likewise evidence of occasional visits an habitation by beings of a still more alien nature in the presence of unspeakable artifacts constructed or abandoned there, as well as the remnants of the unspeakable rites of [[Human Cultist]]s and wizards and their familiars and imps at various points in the castle's ancient and mysterious history.

−	One of the building's high "towers" connects through the cavern ceiling to a certain aged churchyard in "[[Lovecraft Country]]", while other towers may connect to other cemeteries and other subterranean places, while outside of the building's walls and across a putrid moat, the caverns, filled with strange subterranean vegetation and fungi, fields of twisted and jagged stalagmites, and other outlandish landscape, connect through tunnels to subterranean locations on several worlds, most notably the [[Vale of Pnath]].	+	One of the building's high "towers" connects through the cavern ceiling to a certain aged churchyard in "[[Lovecraft Country]]", while other towers may connect to other cemeteries and other subterranean places, while outside of the building's walls and across a putrid moat, the caverns, filled with strange subterranean vegetation and fungi, fields of twisted and jagged stalagmites, and other outlandish landscape, connect through tunnels to subterranean locations on several worlds, most notably the [[Underworld#Vale_of_Pnath\|Vale of Pnath]].

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 (Deep Dendo, AKA Faerie Land, Tir Na Nog, etc.)
-Arthur Machen's [[Faeries|Little People]] appear to live in a strange, alien faerie land, "Deep Dendo", described in "The White People" as "...some great white place where they lived, where the trees and the grass were all white, and there were white hills as high up as the moon, and a cold wind...", "the sky... like a wicked voorish dome in Deep Dendo..." (Arthur Machen, "The White People").  Much of the mythology about the faerie worlds these beings live in suggest that they normally exist in a parallel dimension and cross over into our world at times and places of uncertainty, of liminality, when the veil between worlds is thin (cemeteries as places between life and death, dawn and twilight as times that are neither night or day, equinoxes at times where neither day nor night are dominant, frontiers and wildernesses as places that are neither completely unknown nor completely civilized, etc.)  A journey into the shadowy faerie lands seems a bit like a journey into through a portal into some nightmarish alien world.
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 This strange and sinister "faerie land" can be considered to be a world carved out of the shadows of the Other Side near a "thin spot" between worlds by the ghastly [[Faerie]] people in their exile or exodus from the "real" world, and here, in the darkness, they dwell as shadowy spirits or physical beings crowding the gate and awaiting their appointed time to cross over again to our world to perform horrible rituals and cast terrible spells, kidnap and torment humans that they drag back to the Other Side, and cause other hellish mischief.
 === The Ghost-City of Xibalba ===
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 - [[H.P. Lovecraft]], "[[Dreams in the Witch House (fiction)]]"
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 "Whatever it was, the effect was curious: it brought back the dream - he was beginning to think of it as the vision - of the evening before. The homely well known pasture seemed in a moment to widen into an illimitable grey expanse - an acute feeling of extreme loneliness and of being on a hopeless and aimless journey came over him and his whole being cried out for companionship and protection, and yet he felt that there was none, none whatever to be had: he was helpless in a world of hostile shadows. Nothing was interesting any more, nothing was or could be important, and for all that, there was an instant pressure of hurry and no time to stop and think. It was a bitterness of despair which could not, he said, be put into any human words..."
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-- [[M. R. James]], "John Humphries" (Unfinished story.)
+- [[M.R. James]], "John Humphries" (Unfinished story.)
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 * The "Other Side" is also a useful "Astral Plane" where mystics of the right persuasion can find spirit guides, disincarnate spirits of all sorts, and spirits which may be the ghosts of formerly living people, or may be alien spirits claiming to be formerly living people - either a literal "afterlife", or a sinister deception masquerading as an afterlife for the purpose of misleading and trapping gullible mystics, priests, cultists, and their followers.
 * The "Other Side" also represents a dark and creepy alien world for mad scientists to incautiously open portals to and for intrepid investigators to explore and brave in their quests for strange places, rare artifacts and tomes, mysterious spirits, etc.
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-Gilman’s dreams consisted largely in plunges through limitless abysses of inexplicably coloured twilight and bafflingly disordered sound; abysses whose material and gravitational properties, and whose relation to his own entity, he could not even begin to explain. He did not walk or climb, fly or swim, crawl or wriggle; yet always experienced a mode of motion partly voluntary and partly involuntary. Of his own condition he could not well judge, for sight of his arms, legs, and torso seemed always cut off by some odd disarrangement of perspective; but he felt that his physical organisation and faculties were somehow marvellously transmuted and obliquely projected—though not without a certain grotesque relationship to his normal proportions and properties.<br>
+Gilman's dreams consisted largely in plunges through limitless abysses of inexplicably coloured twilight and bafflingly disordered sound; abysses whose material and gravitational properties, and whose relation to his own entity, he could not even begin to explain. He did not walk or climb, fly or swim, crawl or wriggle; yet always experienced a mode of motion partly voluntary and partly involuntary. Of his own condition he could not well judge, for sight of his arms, legs, and torso seemed always cut off by some odd disarrangement of perspective; but he felt that his physical organisation and faculties were somehow marvellously transmuted and obliquely projected—though not without a certain grotesque relationship to his normal proportions and properties.<br>
 The abysses were by no means vacant, being crowded with indescribably angled masses of alien-hued substance, some of which appeared to be organic while others seemed inorganic. A few of the organic objects tended to awake vague memories in the back of his mind, though he could form no conscious idea of what they mockingly resembled or suggested. In the later dreams he began to distinguish separate categories into which the organic objects appeared to be divided, and which seemed to involve in each case a radically different species of conduct-pattern and basic motivation. Of these categories one seemed to him to include objects slightly less illogical and irrelevant in their motions than the members of the other categories.  All the objects—organic and inorganic alike—were totally beyond description or even comprehension. Gilman sometimes compared the inorganic masses to prisms, labyrinths, clusters of cubes and planes, and Cyclopean buildings; and the organic things struck him variously as groups of bubbles, octopi, centipedes, living Hindoo idols, and intricate Arabesques roused into a kind of ophidian animation. Everything he saw was unspeakably menacing and horrible; and whenever one of the organic entities appeared by its motions to be noticing him, he felt a stark, hideous fright which generally jolted him awake. Of how the organic entities moved, he could tell no more than of how he moved himself. In time he observed a further mystery—the tendency of certain entities to appear suddenly out of empty space, or to disappear totally with equal suddenness. The shrieking, roaring confusion of sound which permeated the abysses was past all analysis as to pitch, timbre, or rhythm; but seemed to be synchronous with vague visual changes in all the indefinite objects, organic and inorganic alike....
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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * location:  borders on the [[Hollow Earth]], [[Dreamlands]]
 * race: [[The Drowners]]: [[Bugg-Shash]] and [[Yibb-Tstll]]

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 ===The Astral Depths===
 The Astral Depths are said to be the most material region of the Other Side which lay close to the [[Daylands|Material Plane]] as a dark and shadowy reflection of what we call "reality", a "hell of our own making" swarming with disincarnate spirits, ranging from human [[Ghost]]s, to less recognizably human entities ranging from animal ghosts, to [[Elemental]]s, to alien spirits and demonic beings which, hiding in the shadows, wait in darkness to plague astral travelers, and seek openings by which they may descend into the world of living beings to relive past sins, haunt and persecute the living, steal living bodies to use as their own, and worse.  Scattered throughout the darkness of the Astral Depths are shadow copies of places, buildings, and cities from the "living world" constructed in denial of death or the trauma of dying by spirits who felt strongly about those places in life or at the time of death, often copies of places loved in life, and not uncommonly copies of places in which tragic and horrible deaths occurred and are relived in death.
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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * race: [[The Drowners]]: [[Bugg-Shash]] and [[Yibb-Tstll]]
-* race: [[Ghost]]s, [[Spirit]]s
+* deity:  [[Mordiggian]], The Worm That Doth Corrupt
-* race: [[Faerie]]s, [[Troll]]s
+* cult:  [[Cult of Mordiggian]]
 * films:  appears in...
 ** ''[[Event Horizon (1997 film)]]''
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 ** ''[[Judas Ghost (2013 film)]]''
 ** ''[[Stranger Things (2016 series)]]''
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	=== Midian ===		=== Midian ===
	See [[Midian]] for more details. The Garden of [[Midian]] of [[Ghoul]] legend and myth is a paradise from which the tribe of the [[Ghouls]] fell or were driven from at the beginning of time, when the tribe were said to have been banished to Earth, Before the Beginning, where the Ghouls once dwelt in happiness in the paradise of Midian under the careless watch of nameless creator gods, until "The Beginning of Days", when the Ghouls were cast out of Midian "like falling stars ablaze in the night sky", down to Earth, where the Ghouls now live by night under the leadership of a new god, [[Mordiggian]]. Allegorical [[Midian]] is described by the cult of [[Mordiggian]] as a world like [[Daylands\|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 opened up upon the Earth when the Stars are Right and [[Cthulhu\|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.		See [[Midian]] for more details. The Garden of [[Midian]] of [[Ghoul]] legend and myth is a paradise from which the tribe of the [[Ghouls]] fell or were driven from at the beginning of time, when the tribe were said to have been banished to Earth, Before the Beginning, where the Ghouls once dwelt in happiness in the paradise of Midian under the careless watch of nameless creator gods, until "The Beginning of Days", when the Ghouls were cast out of Midian "like falling stars ablaze in the night sky", down to Earth, where the Ghouls now live by night under the leadership of a new god, [[Mordiggian]]. Allegorical [[Midian]] is described by the cult of [[Mordiggian]] as a world like [[Daylands\|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 opened up upon the Earth when the Stars are Right and [[Cthulhu\|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.
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		+	=== Sharnoth ===
		+	(See [[Sharnoth]]; not to be confused with [[Sarnath]])
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		+	If a sorcerer sends his mind out on a cosmic voyage beyond this world, it is possible to reach '''Sharnoth''', a place beyond space and time, where [[Nyarlathotep]] dwells in his gigantic ebony palace awaiting his second coming and served by his minions while he broods and festers in the blackest night of the Other Side.
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		+	This location was first described in [[Alsophocus]]'s ''[[Black Tome of Alsophocus\|Black Tome]]''.
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 The "Other Side", also known by a variety of other names, is a place of darkness and shadow, beyond our world in an astral plane, similar to reality but more like a reflection or shadow of it, not in the spaces we know, but between the spaces, bridged or sealed by metaphysical "gates" or "doorways" or "bridges", an alien place full of shapeless and shadowy monsters waiting in the dark for an opportunity to cross over the Abyss into our reality.  Typically, someone who finds him/herself traveling to the Other Side runs a risk of either never returning, or "coming back wrong" as an incomplete or empty shell of himself/herself, or as a shell filled with some alien purpose, personality, and mind....
 The [[Nameless Mist]] pervades the Other Side, and in the furthest reaches of this vast dark territory lay the Ultimate Gate, beyond which stretches the Ultimate Abyss, the Last Void where [[Yog-Sothoth]] dwells hidden in darkness.
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 See [[Midian]] for more details.  The Garden of [[Midian]] of [[Ghoul]] legend and myth is a paradise from which the tribe of the [[Ghouls]] fell or were driven from at the beginning of time, when the tribe were said to have been banished to Earth, Before the Beginning, where the Ghouls once dwelt in happiness in the paradise of Midian under the careless watch of nameless creator gods, until "The Beginning of Days", when the Ghouls were cast out of Midian "like falling stars ablaze in the night sky", down to Earth, where the Ghouls now live by night under the leadership of a new god, [[Mordiggian]].  Allegorical [[Midian]] is described by the cult of [[Mordiggian]] as a world like [[Daylands|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 opened up upon the Earth when the Stars are Right and [[Cthulhu|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.