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	===Caves of Life===		===Caves of Life===
−	At the furthest southern tip of the [[Land of Zar]] can be found a hidden tunnel from the sea; the mouth of the tunnel is large enough to admit a medium sized ship. The tunnel leads deep under the island and eventually opens upon a vast cavern, the fabled Caves of Life, which contains a phosphorescent blue sea extending as far as human eyes can see, and out of this sea rise countless obsidian pillars which tower up into the darkness and support the roof. Ruins lie on the edge of the sea, and beyond those ruins are tunnels that run deep below the surface into the Underworld, where they are rumored to contain items allowing one to see into the future, and pass into forbidden regions of dream. (Chaosium?)	+	At the furthest southern tip of the [[Zar\|Land of Zar]] can be found a hidden tunnel from the sea; the mouth of the tunnel is large enough to admit a medium sized ship. The tunnel leads deep under the island and eventually opens upon a vast cavern, the fabled Caves of Life, which contains a phosphorescent blue sea extending as far as human eyes can see, and out of this sea rise countless obsidian pillars which tower up into the darkness and support the roof. Ruins lie on the edge of the sea, and beyond those ruins are tunnels that run deep below the surface into the Underworld, where they are rumored to contain items allowing one to see into the future, and pass into forbidden regions of dream. (Chaosium?)

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 * '''Ruins of Lost Karoth''', in the desolate Plain of Boulders which lay strewn upon the shores of the Sea of Pitch at the Peaks of Thok, at the base of which are carved the strange and grotesque ruins of lost [[Karoth]], resembling nothing so much as a series of titanic mausoleums infested with slumbering [[Vampire]]s; it is said that a long spiral staircase climbs up to [[Xura|Zura]].  (Brian Lumley?)
 * '''Luz''', '''Downs of D'Haz''' are a network of filthy caverns said to lie beneath  near the Vale of Pnath, infested by the [[Lords of Luz]], [[Halflings of D'haz]], the [[Tick-Man|Tick-Men]], the [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s, and [[Url Worms]], which are locked together in a bizarre and unspeakable reproductive cycle dependent on the corpses of Bholes and on human captives. ([[Brian Lumley]]'s "[[Augeren (fiction)]]")
-* '''Other Denizens of the Underworld''':  Other denizens of this region include strange creatures known as [[Pitch Spider]]s which live on the sluggish Sea of Pitch which any who would cross the sea should beware; there is little life in the desolate Plain of Boulders, but occasionally the Running Thing passes through; [[Goblin]]s infest the Fungus Forest; in the pools of the Cavern of Columns lurk [[Tentacle Monster]]s. (various, probably Chaosium?)
+* '''Other Denizens of the Underworld''':  Other denizens of this region include strange creatures known as [[Pitch Spider]]s which live on the sluggish Sea of Pitch which any who would cross the sea should beware; there is little life in the desolate Plain of Boulders, but occasionally the [[Running Thing]] passes through; [[Goblin]]s infest the Fungus Forest; in the pools of the Cavern of Columns lurk [[Tentacle Monster]]s; the Vale of Pnath is haunted by the fearsome [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s. (various, mostly Chaosium?)

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 * '''Sterile Lake''', a stagnant lake lay deep in the Underworld, and is said to be the home of [[Ghadamon]]. (Chaosium?)
 * '''Ruins of Lost Karoth''', in the desolate Plain of Boulders which lay strewn upon the shores of the Sea of Pitch at the Peaks of Thok, at the base of which are carved the strange and grotesque ruins of lost [[Karoth]], resembling nothing so much as a series of titanic mausoleums infested with slumbering [[Vampire]]s; it is said that a long spiral staircase climbs up to [[Xura|Zura]].  (Brian Lumley?)
-* '''Luz''', '''Downs of D'Haz''' are a network of filthy caverns said to lie beneath  near the Vale of Pnath, infested by the [[Lords of Luz]], [[Halflings of D'haz]], the [[Tick-Man|Tick-Men]], the [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s, and [[Url Worms]], which are locked together in a bizarre and unspeakable reproductive cycle dependent on the corpses of Bholes and on human captives. (Chaosium?)
+* '''Luz''', '''Downs of D'Haz''' are a network of filthy caverns said to lie beneath  near the Vale of Pnath, infested by the [[Lords of Luz]], [[Halflings of D'haz]], the [[Tick-Man|Tick-Men]], the [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s, and [[Url Worms]], which are locked together in a bizarre and unspeakable reproductive cycle dependent on the corpses of Bholes and on human captives. ([[Brian Lumley]]'s "[[Augeren (fiction)]]")
 * '''Other Denizens of the Underworld''':  Other denizens of this region include strange creatures known as [[Pitch Spider]]s which live on the sluggish Sea of Pitch which any who would cross the sea should beware; there is little life in the desolate Plain of Boulders, but occasionally the Running Thing passes through; [[Goblin]]s infest the Fungus Forest; in the pools of the Cavern of Columns lurk [[Tentacle Monster]]s. (various, probably Chaosium?)

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 ===City of the Whisperers===
-Eastward across the empty plains of the Vale of Pnath stands the City of the Whisperers. The city, like the sur- rounding landscape, stands in darkness, but not in silence, for any who approach the city might hear whispering voices speaking incomprehenisble but sanity-shaking words; who the whisperers are is unknown, for they stay out of sight, avoiding any light carried by explorers of the Underworld.  The city itself is a labyerinthine jumble of broken statuary cemented together like bricks ina wall, with various human anatomical features like heads, hands, feet, knees, and elbows projecting from the walls; the buildings have to doors or windows aside from round openings near the tops which are just big enough for an ill-advised explorer to try to crawl into. (Chaosium?)
+Eastward across the empty plains of the Vale of Pnath stands the City of the Whisperers. The city, like the sur- rounding landscape, stands in darkness, but not in silence, for any who approach the city might hear whispering voices speaking incomprehensible but sanity-shaking words; who the whisperers are is unknown, for they stay out of sight, avoiding any light carried by explorers of the Underworld.  The city itself is a labyrinthine jumble of broken statuary cemented together like bricks ina wall, with various human anatomical features like heads, hands, feet, knees, and elbows projecting from the walls; the buildings have to doors or windows aside from round openings near the tops which are just big enough for an ill-advised explorer to try to crawl into. (Chaosium?)
 ===Pit of Unknown Things===
-Even deeper than the Great Dhole Ossuary lies the Pit of Unknown Things. Here resides the foulness that is [[Abhoth]]. On this nethermost region of the Underworld, the putrescent Outer God spews forth [[Children of Abhoth|his children]] — the so-called "unknown things", creatures which are constantly at war with the [[Bhole]]s, as each side feeds upon the flesh of the other.  The Pit of Unknown Tings may border on [[Y'Quaa]] in the waking world.  (Clark Ashton Smith?)
+Even deeper than the Vale of Pnath lies the Pit of Unknown Things. Here resides the foulness that is [[Abhoth]]. On this nethermost region of the Underworld, the putrescent Outer God spews forth [[Children of Abhoth|his children]] — the so-called "unknown things", creatures which are constantly at war with the [[Bhole]]s, as each side feeds upon the flesh of the other.  The Pit of Unknown Tings may border on [[Y'Quaa]] in the waking world.  (Clark Ashton Smith?)
 ===Caves of Life===
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 * '''Sterile Lake''', a stagnant lake lay deep in the Underworld, and is said to be the home of [[Ghadamon]]. (Chaosium?)
 * '''Ruins of Lost Karoth''', in the desolate Plain of Boulders which lay strewn upon the shores of the Sea of Pitch at the Peaks of Thok, at the base of which are carved the strange and grotesque ruins of lost [[Karoth]], resembling nothing so much as a series of titanic mausoleums infested with slumbering [[Vampire]]s; it is said that a long spiral staircase climbs up to [[Xura|Zura]].  (Brian Lumley?)
-* '''Luz''', '''Downs of D'Haz''' are a network of filthy caverns said to lie beneath  near the Vale of Pnath, infested by the [[Lords of Luz]], [[Halflings of D'haz]], and [[Url Worms]], which are locke together in a bizarre and unspeakable reproductive cycle dependent on the corpses of Bholes and on human captives. (Chaosium?)
+* '''Luz''', '''Downs of D'Haz''' are a network of filthy caverns said to lie beneath  near the Vale of Pnath, infested by the [[Lords of Luz]], [[Halflings of D'haz]], the [[Tick-Man|Tick-Men]], the [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s, and [[Url Worms]], which are locked together in a bizarre and unspeakable reproductive cycle dependent on the corpses of Bholes and on human captives. (Chaosium?)
-* '''Other Denizens of the Underworld''':  Other denizens of this region include the [[Tick-Man|tick-men]] and the [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s of the Sea of Bones; strange creatures known as [[Pitch Spider]]s which live on the sluggish Sea of Pitch which any who would cross the sea should beware; there is little life in the desolate Plain of Boulders, but occasionally the Running Thing passes through; [[Goblin]]s infest the Fungus Forest; in the pools of the Cavern of Columns lurk [[Tentacle Monster]]s. (various, probably Chaosium?)
+* '''Other Denizens of the Underworld''':  Other denizens of this region include strange creatures known as [[Pitch Spider]]s which live on the sluggish Sea of Pitch which any who would cross the sea should beware; there is little life in the desolate Plain of Boulders, but occasionally the Running Thing passes through; [[Goblin]]s infest the Fungus Forest; in the pools of the Cavern of Columns lurk [[Tentacle Monster]]s. (various, probably Chaosium?)

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 ===Temple to Nodens===
 The Temple to Nodens at the Great Abyss, a windowless one-roomed building of black masonry, whose inner light pours out of the entrance into the surrounding void of darkness like a beacon; it is the largest of several similar shrines to the [[Elder God]] which stand in the [[Underworld]].  See [[Nodens]] for more details. (Chaosium and Keith Herber?)
 ===Sea of Pitch===
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 That portion of the Vale of Pnath which is covered by layers of bones deposited by the ghouls is known as the Sea of Bones. Here dwell many of the hideous [[Bholes]] which burrow through the bones in search of prey. (Chaosium and Keith Herber?)
-===Plain of Ghouls===
+===Cavern of Columns===
-The Plain of Ghouls is an upper region of the Underworld.
+Between the Seas of Bones and Pitch is a region of the Underworld where the ceiling has come low enough to be visible. In this great cavern are many stone columns formed by the union of stalactites and stalagmites, and between these columns are deep pools of black water.  (Chaosium?)
 ===Fungus Forest===
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 ===City of the Whisperers===
 Eastward across the empty plains of the Vale of Pnath stands the City of the Whisperers. The city, like the sur- rounding landscape, stands in darkness, but not in silence, for any who approach the city might hear whispering voices speaking incomprehenisble but sanity-shaking words; who the whisperers are is unknown, for they stay out of sight, avoiding any light carried by explorers of the Underworld.  The city itself is a labyerinthine jumble of broken statuary cemented together like bricks ina wall, with various human anatomical features like heads, hands, feet, knees, and elbows projecting from the walls; the buildings have to doors or windows aside from round openings near the tops which are just big enough for an ill-advised explorer to try to crawl into. (Chaosium?)
 ===Pit of Unknown Things===
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 ===Caves of Life===
-At the furthese southern tip of the [[Land of Zar]]
+At the furthest southern tip of the [[Land of Zar]] can be found a hidden tunnel from the sea; the mouth of the tunnel is large enough to admit a medium sized ship. The tunnel leads deep under the island and eventually opens upon a vast cavern, the fabled Caves of Life, which contains a phosphorescent blue sea extending as far as human eyes can see, and out of this sea rise countless obsidian pillars which tower up into the darkness and support the roof. Ruins lie on the edge of the sea, and beyond those ruins are tunnels that run deep below the surface into the Underworld, where they are rumored to contain items allowing one to see into the future, and pass into forbidden regions of dream. (Chaosium?)
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 * The '''Tunnels of the Ghouls''' open onto [[Midian]], a paradise city of the Ghouls.  (YSDC, borrowed from [[Clive Barker]])
 * '''Sterile Lake''', a stagnant lake lay deep in the Underworld, and is said to be the home of [[Ghadamon]]. (Chaosium?)
 * '''Ruins of Lost Karoth''', in the desolate Plain of Boulders which lay strewn upon the shores of the Sea of Pitch at the Peaks of Thok, at the base of which are carved the strange and grotesque ruins of lost [[Karoth]], resembling nothing so much as a series of titanic mausoleums infested with slumbering [[Vampire]]s; it is said that a long spiral staircase climbs up to [[Xura|Zura]].  (Brian Lumley?)
 * '''Other Denizens of the Underworld''':  Other denizens of this region include the [[Tick-Man|tick-men]] and the [[Dhole Ant-Lion]]s of the Sea of Bones; strange creatures known as [[Pitch Spider]]s which live on the sluggish Sea of Pitch which any who would cross the sea should beware; there is little life in the desolate Plain of Boulders, but occasionally the Running Thing passes through; [[Goblin]]s infest the Fungus Forest; in the pools of the Cavern of Columns lurk [[Tentacle Monster]]s. (various, probably Chaosium?)

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 ===Peaks of Thok===
-An austere and impassive granite edifice of cliffs in the Underworld twilight beneath [[Mount Ingranek]] on the [[Isle of Oriab]].  The Peaks of Thok are haunted by the [[Nightgaunt]]s, who guard the Underworld in the name of [[Nodens]], Lord of the Abyss, and carry wayward Dreamers who stray too close to Mount Ingranek into the Vale of Pnath in the Underworld below.
+An austere and impassive granite edifice of cliffs in the Underworld twilight beneath [[Mount Ngranek]] on the [[Isle of Oriab]].  The Peaks of Thok are haunted by the [[Nightgaunt]]s, who guard the Underworld in the name of [[Nodens]], Lord of the Abyss, and carry wayward Dreamers who stray too close to Mount Ingranek into the Vale of Pnath in the Underworld below.
 ===Crag of the Ghouls===

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 ===Cemetery of the Gugs===
 A barren, empty place in open twilight between the Vaults of Zin and the looming round towers of the City of the [[Gug]]s stands the Cemetery of the Gugs:  a forest of vast, lichened monoliths reaching nearly as high as the eye could see and forming the modest gravestones of the Gugs.  Travelers in the Cemetery should beware, for the [[Ghast]]s lurk in the Cemetery, where they will dig up the corpses of Gugs to eat, for a single Gug can feed a Ghat community for a year, though the voracious Ghats would not hesitate to make a snack of a careless Dreamer.
 ===Great Abyss===
 The Great Abyss is a realm that lies below the ruins of [[Sarkomand]], and is possibly a massive cavern that joins with all parts of the underworld. It connects with the upper Dreamlands by a stairway in Sarkomand.  The Abyss is ruled by the god [[Nodens]], who is served by the [[Nightgaunt]]s. Nodens' influence seems limited in the underworld and does not appear to extend much beyond the Abyss itself, except perhaps to [[Mount Ngranek]] on the isle of [[Oriab]], whose upper slopes are guarded by his Nightgaunts.

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 The Night-Gaunts bore Randolph Carter breathless into that cliffside cavern and through monstrous labyrinths beyond.... Soon they were plunging hideously downward through inconceivable abysses in a whirling, giddying, sickening rush of dank, tomb-like air; and Carter felt they were shooting into the ultimate vortex of shrieking and daemonic madness. He screamed again and again, but whenever he did so the black paws tickled him with greater subtlety. Then he saw a sort of grey phosphorescence about, and guessed they were coming even to that inner world of subterrene horror of which dim legends tell, and which is litten only by the pale death-fire wherewith reeks the ghoulish air and the primal mists of the pits at earth's core.
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 '''The Underworld''' is [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Dreamlands]] "[[Hollow Earth]]" setting, a vast cavern complex beneath the Dreamlands, including the Vale of Pnath, Vaults of Zin, City of the Gugs, Cemetery of the Gugs, and other subterranean locations, with entrances opening in multiple locations in the Dreamlands, and also into the [[Daylands|Waking World]].  The Underworld is home to a variety of strange beings, most notably including the [[Ghoul]]s, [[Ghast]]s, [[Gug]]s, [[Nightgaunt]]s, and [[Bhole]]s.  The Underworld is dimly lit by a grey natural phosphorescence, the "death-fires".
 ===Peaks of Thok===
 An austere and impassive granite edifice of cliffs in the Underworld twilight beneath [[Mount Ingranek]] on the [[Isle of Oriab]].  The Peaks of Thok are haunted by the [[Nightgaunt]]s, who guard the Underworld in the name of [[Nodens]], Lord of the Abyss, and carry wayward Dreamers who stray too close to Mount Ingranek into the Vale of Pnath in the Underworld below.
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 ===Cemetery of the Gugs===
 A barren, empty place in open twilight between the Vaults of Zin and the looming round towers of the City of the [[Gug]]s stands the Cemetery of the Gugs:  a forest of vast, lichened monoliths reaching nearly as high as the eye could see and forming the modest gravestones of the Gugs.  Travelers in the Cemetery should beware, for the [[Ghast]]s lurk in the Cemetery, where they will dig up the corpses of Gugs to eat, for a single Gug can feed a Ghat community for a year, though the voracious Ghats would not hesitate to make a snack of a careless Dreamer.