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 * '''Zura''', The Land of Pleasures Unattained, is Chaosium's version of Xura, a beautiful graveyard Land of the Dead for the Dreamlands, ruled by a Ghoul-Queen of the Dead, [[Zura]].
 * '''Sona-Nyl''' is portrayed by Chaosium as a timeless Fantastic Land outside of the Dreamlands proper, with an entrance on Zura, land of Pleasures Unatained.  The city is surrounded by a gigantic wall called the Giant's Causeway.
-* '''Thalarion''' is a paper construct of the [[Ter-Men]].  (Brian Lumley)
+* '''Thalarion''' is a paper construct of the [[Ter-Men]].  (Brian Lumley, ''The Hero of Dreams'')
 ==Associated Mythos Elements==

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 ===Thalarion===
 The spires of infamous Thalarion, that daemon-city of a thousand wonders where the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the city's [[The Eidolon Lathi|eidolon, Lathi]], and wherein reside all those mysteries that man has striven in vain to fathom.  Over the wide stretches of grim, grey walls and the city's huge carven gate Akariel, one might spy only a few roofs, weird and ominous, yet adorned with rich friezes and alluring sculptures, fascinating yet repellent.
 ===Zar===
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 * '''Zura''', The Land of Pleasures Unattained, is Chaosium's version of Xura, a beautiful graveyard Land of the Dead for the Dreamlands, ruled by a Ghoul-Queen of the Dead, [[Zura]].
 * '''Sona-Nyl''' is portrayed by Chaosium as a timeless Fantastic Land outside of the Dreamlands proper, with an entrance on Zura, land of Pleasures Unatained.  The city is surrounded by a gigantic wall called the Giant's Causeway.
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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.
+* '''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, said to lead to the [[Alcheringa|Dreamtime]].  (''[[Terror Australis]]'')
 * '''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.
 * '''Zak'''/'''Zar''', an island added by Chaosium as the place where Zar (see above), city of forgotten and unremembered dreams, can be found. Here resides every dream that has ever been forgotten. In the city of Zak live amnesiacs, who have even forgotten themselves.  The island is haunted by unremembered/forgotten dreams, and not all of them are good ones. A Season of Uthlos comes to Zar rarely and lasts only a short time; during this season, the forgotten dreams may be remembered again.  There are some who say that gods which are forgotten by man come to live in Zak; then the coming of Uthlos will be a time to be feared rather than hoped for.  The [[Underworld#Heresies_and_Controversies|Caves of Life]] are beneath Zak.  (scenario "[[The Land of Lost Dreams]]")
 * '''Zura''', The Land of Pleasures Unattained, is Chaosium's version of Xura, a beautiful graveyard Land of the Dead for the Dreamlands, ruled by a Ghoul-Queen of the Dead, [[Zura]].
 * '''Sona-Nyl''' is portrayed by Chaosium as a timeless Fantastic Land outside of the Dreamlands proper, with an entrance on Zura, land of Pleasures Unatained.  The city is surrounded by a gigantic wall called the Giant's Causeway.
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−	'''The Southern Sea''' of the Dreamlands, including '''Oriab''' (AKA "Isle of Oriab") and neighboring islands, first appeared in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]".	+	'''The Southern Sea''' of the Dreamlands, including '''Oriab''' (AKA "Isle of Oriab") and neighboring islands, first appeared in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]". As the name suggests, the Southern Sea is placed to the South of the Dreamlands.

	==Southern Sea==		==Southern Sea==

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 * '''Zura''', The Land of Pleasures Unattained, is Chaosium's version of Xura, a beautiful graveyard Land of the Dead for the Dreamlands, ruled by a Ghoul-Queen of the Dead, [[Zura]].
 * '''Sona-Nyl''' is portrayed by Chaosium as a timeless Fantastic Land outside of the Dreamlands proper, with an entrance on Zura, land of Pleasures Unatained.  The city is surrounded by a gigantic wall called the Giant's Causeway.
-* '''Lhosk''', a Chaosium invention, is a seaport on the Cerenarian Sea, with white sand beaches, teak wharves, broad towers, gambrel roofs, and winding streets.  Like most Dreamlands cities on the Southern Sea, the principal businesses are fishing and trade, in this case with Sona-Nyl.  Ships have rose-tinted sails, and the fishermen wear turbans.
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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 [[Moonbeast]]s make their camp here, in [[Black Galleon]]s sailing trade routs to and 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 Galley]]s sailing trade routs to and from the [[Lunar Dreamland|Moon]].
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 ==Other Islands==
 ===Basalt Pillars of the West===
 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.