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| − | Title: ''The Red Queen'' originally appears in ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''. | + | Title: ''The Red Queen'', a mythos tome, originally appears in ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''. |
| − | ==Latin Version== | + | ==Description== |
| + | An epic poem detailing the [[Queen in Red]], describing the marvels of her court in a surreal, astrological allegory with many passages describing in a poetic and round-about fashion an elaborate, dream-like journey through several metaphorical worlds or dimensions to solve nonsensical riddles in what modern commentary would likely interpret as a flying saucer, ending with a tantalizingly utopian prophecy of the Queen in Red's eventual ascension to the "Throne of the World". | ||
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| + | ===Latin Version=== | ||
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* author: Anonymous | * author: Anonymous | ||
* language: Medieval Italian | * language: Medieval Italian | ||
| − | * number of known copies (if rare): (no copies known to have survived) | + | * number of known copies (if rare): (few copies were created, and no copies are known to have survived) |
| − | * last known location of surviving copies (if rare): ( | + | * last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (some copies might have survived in the Dreamlands) |
* spells: ? | * spells: ? | ||
* sanity loss: minor | * sanity loss: minor | ||
* mythos lore: minor | * mythos lore: minor | ||
| − | * Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on Carcosa | + | * Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa |
* study: 1 week to study and comprehend | * study: 1 week to study and comprehend | ||
| − | + | This is the original anonymously-written medieval Italian version, of which there are no known copies to have survived an inquisition in Medieval Florence, Italy. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like. | |
| − | ==English Version== | + | ===English Version=== |
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* author: Anonymous | * author: Anonymous | ||
| − | * language: English | + | * language: Elizabethan English translation |
* number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, apparently uncommon) | * number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, apparently uncommon) | ||
* last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (copies turn up from time to time in the United States and elsewhere) | * last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (copies turn up from time to time in the United States and elsewhere) | ||
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* sanity Loss: minor | * sanity Loss: minor | ||
* mythos lore: minor | * mythos lore: minor | ||
| − | * Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on Carcosa | + | * Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa |
* study: 1 week to study and comprehend | * study: 1 week to study and comprehend | ||
| − | + | The slim book is the English translation of its original anonymously-written medieval Italian, of which there are no known surviving copies. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like. | |
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| − | [[Category:Dreamlands|Red | + | [[Category:Dreamlands|Queen in Red]] |
| − | [[Category:HasturCycle|Red | + | [[Category:HasturCycle|Queen in Red]] |
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Latest revision as of 00:47, 13 August 2022
Title: The Red Queen, a mythos tome, originally appears in Malleus Monstrorum.
Description
An epic poem detailing the Queen in Red, describing the marvels of her court in a surreal, astrological allegory with many passages describing in a poetic and round-about fashion an elaborate, dream-like journey through several metaphorical worlds or dimensions to solve nonsensical riddles in what modern commentary would likely interpret as a flying saucer, ending with a tantalizingly utopian prophecy of the Queen in Red's eventual ascension to the "Throne of the World".
Latin Version
- author: Anonymous
- language: Medieval Italian
- number of known copies (if rare): (few copies were created, and no copies are known to have survived)
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (some copies might have survived in the Dreamlands)
- spells: ?
- sanity loss: minor
- mythos lore: minor
- Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa
- study: 1 week to study and comprehend
This is the original anonymously-written medieval Italian version, of which there are no known copies to have survived an inquisition in Medieval Florence, Italy. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like.
English Version
- author: Anonymous
- language: Elizabethan English translation
- number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, apparently uncommon)
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (copies turn up from time to time in the United States and elsewhere)
- spells: ?
- sanity Loss: minor
- mythos lore: minor
- Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa
- study: 1 week to study and comprehend
The slim book is the English translation of its original anonymously-written medieval Italian, of which there are no known surviving copies. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like.
Appearances
- sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum
Associated Mythos Elements
- setting: Dreamlands
- setting: Hastur Cycle
- location: Carcosa
- deity: Queen in Red
- deity: King in Yellow
- tome: compare/contrast with The King in Yellow (tome)
