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 * May be the same place as the [[Plateau of Sung]], containing the Tcho-Tcho cities of [[Alaozar]] and [[Lelag-Leng]].  (Chaosium, possibly Derleth or others?)
 * The '''Elder Pharos''' or Black Tower has a hidden chamber beneath it where [[Nyogtha]] is said to dwell.  (Chaosium?)
-* The '''Monastery of Leng''' has other tunnels, which riddle the Plateau and are said to lead to other times, planets, or dimensions. [[Shoggoth]]s and other dire horrors infest [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Leng|Leng's lower vaults]], guarding the Sigils of Elder Lore. (Chaosium?)
+* The '''Monastery of Leng''' has other tunnels, which riddle the Plateau and are said to lead to other times, planets, or dimensions. [[Shoggoth]]s and other dire horrors infest [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Leng's lower vaults]], guarding the Sigils of Elder Lore. (Chaosium?)

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-'''Plateau of Leng'''
+The '''Plateau of Leng''' appears first in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[The Hound (fiction)]]", as well as "[[Fungi from Yuggoth (poem)]]", but gets described in the most detail in ''[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]''.
 ==Description==
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 ===Monastery of the Thing in the Silken Mask===
-TO_DO
+Atop the plateau is a huge monastery in which lives only one being, the High Priest Not To Be Described. Much of the monastery is ruined, but the interior walls and tunnels that still stand are decorated with [[Annals_of_Leng|paintings and frescoes]] of [[Men of Leng|half-men]] and the history of Leng. One of the tunnels leads to the ruins of [[Sarkomand]].
 ===Elder Pharos===
-From the most remote of far Leng's bleak and bare rocky peaks climbs the Elder Pharos in a tower of stone, a beacon of eerie light and beating drums where [[Thing_in_the_Silken_Mask|the last Elder One]] on Earth is said to dwell.  Wizards have sought out the Elder Pharos to consult on the Elder One's terrible wisdom, but none have ever returned.
+From the most remote of far Leng's bleak and bare rocky peaks climbs the Elder Pharos in a tower of stone, a beacon of eerie light signaling up into empty space and the beating of hidden drums, where [[Thing_in_the_Silken_Mask|the last Elder One]] on Earth is said to dwell.  Wizards have sought out the Elder Pharos to consult on the Elder One's terrible wisdom, but none have ever returned.
 ==Heresies and Controversies==
 * The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inganok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.  (compared Lovecraft stories, "The Hound", ''Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'', ''At the Mountains of Madness'')
 * May be the same place as the [[Plateau of Sung]], containing the Tcho-Tcho cities of [[Alaozar]] and [[Lelag-Leng]].  (Chaosium, possibly Derleth or others?)

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 ===Elder Pharos===
 From the most remote of far Leng's bleak and bare rocky peaks climbs the Elder Pharos in a tower of stone, a beacon of eerie light and beating drums where [[Thing_in_the_Silken_Mask|the last Elder One]] on Earth is said to dwell.  Wizards have sought out the Elder Pharos to consult on the Elder One's terrible wisdom, but none have ever returned.
 ==Heresies and Controversies==

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 ===Elder Pharos===
-TO_DO
+From the most remote of far Leng's bleak and bare rocky peaks climbs the Elder Pharos in a tower of stone, a beacon of eerie light and beating drums where [[Thing_in_the_Silken_Mask|the last Elder One]] on Earth is said to dwell.  Wizards have sought out the Elder Pharos to consult on the Elder One's terrible wisdom, but none have ever returned.
 ==Heresies and Controversies==

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 ===Elder Pharos===
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 ==Heresies and Controversies==
-* The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inquanok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.
+* The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inganok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.  (compared Lovecraft stories, "The Hound", ''Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'', ''At the Mountains of Madness'')
-* May be the same place as the [[Plateau of Sung]], containing the Tcho-Tcho cities of [[Alaozar]] and [[Lelag-Leng]].
+* May be the same place as the [[Plateau of Sung]], containing the Tcho-Tcho cities of [[Alaozar]] and [[Lelag-Leng]].  (Chaosium, possibly Derleth or others?)

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	==Heresies and Controversies==		==Heresies and Controversies==
	* The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing\|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inquanok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.		* The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing\|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inquanok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.
		+	* May be the same place as the [[Plateau of Sung]], containing the Tcho-Tcho cities of [[Alaozar]] and [[Lelag-Leng]].

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-A high arid plateau inhabited by a [[Man of Leng|race of semihuman beings]], and also the site of the Elder Pharos and the sinister monastery where dwells a high priest not to be described, who conceals his (or its) face behind a yellow silken mask. Some of its inhabitants participate in a corpse-eating cult whose symbol, a winged hound, may be seen on the [[amulet of Leng]].  Leng is described in the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' and several other tomes.
+A high arid plateau inhabited by a [[Man of Leng|race of semihuman beings]], and also the site of the Elder Pharos and the sinister monastery where dwells a high priest not to be described, who conceals his (or its) face behind a yellow silken mask. Some of its inhabitants participate in a corpse-eating cult whose symbol, a winged hound, may be seen on the [[Amulet of Leng]].  Leng is described in the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' and several other tomes, and is variously placed in the [[Dreamlands]], Central Asia, or sometimes Antarctica.
 ===Inganok===
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 TO_DO
-===Alaozar===
+==Tcho-Tcho Cities==
-TO_DO (Tcho-Tcho city in Leng)
+By some accounts (Chaosium, possibly Derleth or others?), the Plateau of Leng is home to two cities of Tcho-Tchos, [[Alaozar]] and [[Lelag-Leng]].

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 '''Plateau of Leng'''
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 ==Description==
+[[File:Mythos plateauofleng.png|thumb|150px|right|"Plateau of Leng" illustration by [[Lee Moyer]]]]
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 The shantak now flew lower, revealing beneath the canopy of cloud a grey barren plain whereon at great distances shone little feeble fires. As they descended there appeared at intervals lone huts of granite and bleak stone villages whose tiny windows glowed with pallid light. And there came from those huts and villages a shrill droning of pipes and a nauseous rattle of crotala which proved at once that Inganok’s people are right in their geographick rumours. For travellers have heard such sounds before, and know that they float only from the cold desert plateau which healthy folk never visit; that haunted place of evil and mystery which is Leng.
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-A high arid plateau inhabited by a race of semihuman beings, and also the site of the [[Elder Pharos]] and the sinister monastery where dwells a high priest not to be described, who conceals his (or its) face behind a yellow silken mask. Some of its inhabitants participate in a corpse-eating cult whose symbol, a winged hound, may be seen on the [[amulet of Leng]].  Leng is described in the [[Necronomicon]] and several other tomes.
+A high arid plateau inhabited by a [[Man of Leng|race of semihuman beings]], and also the site of the Elder Pharos and the sinister monastery where dwells a high priest not to be described, who conceals his (or its) face behind a yellow silken mask. Some of its inhabitants participate in a corpse-eating cult whose symbol, a winged hound, may be seen on the [[amulet of Leng]].  Leng is described in the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' and several other tomes.
 ==Heresies and Controversies==
+* The great mystery about Leng is its location. According to "The Hound," and certain unnamed eldritch tomes cited in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the plateau of Leng is located in central Asia. Professor William Dyer, the narrator of ''At the Mountains of Madness'', argues instead that Leng is identical to the plateau beyond the city of the crinoid [[Elder Thing|Elder Things]] in Antarctica, while the account of Randolph Carter in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' places Leng squarely in the [[Dreamlands]], near [[Inquanok]] and [[Sarkomand]]. Given the ambiguity of space and time in relation to the Great Old Ones, Leng may be in all of these places at once, and perhaps others as well.
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 * artifact:  [[Amulet of Leng]]
 * race: [[Man of Leng]], [[Moon-Beast]]
-* location: [[Inquanok]], [[Sarkomand]]
+* location: [[Inganok]], [[Sarkomand]]
 ==References==
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 * fiction: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/h.aspx The Hound]," ''[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx At the Mountains of Madness]'', and ''[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]'' by H.P. Lovecraft.
-[[Category:Mythos:Locations]][[Category:Mythos:Locations:Dreamlands]]
+[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]

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