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Inhabitants of the far side of the Moon in the [[Dreamlands]], the Moon-Beasts live in windowless cities of stone. They sail black galleys between the moon and the Dreamlands, trading rubies for both slaves and gold, at the port of Dylath-Leen. When there, they employ the [[Men of Leng]], disguised in turbans, as their go-betweens and stay hidden below deck, lest the merchants of Dylath-Leen learn the terrible secret of with whom they are dealing. | Inhabitants of the far side of the Moon in the [[Dreamlands]], the Moon-Beasts live in windowless cities of stone. They sail black galleys between the moon and the Dreamlands, trading rubies for both slaves and gold, at the port of Dylath-Leen. When there, they employ the [[Man of Leng|Men of Leng]], disguised in turbans, as their go-betweens and stay hidden below deck, lest the merchants of Dylath-Leen learn the terrible secret of with whom they are dealing. | ||
==Associated Mythos Elements== | ==Associated Mythos Elements== | ||
* deity: [[Nyarlathotep]] | * deity: [[Nyarlathotep]] | ||
* race: [[ | * race: [[Man of Leng]] | ||
* location: [[Dreamlands]]; [[Leng, Plateau of]] | * location: [[Dreamlands]]; [[Leng, Plateau of]] | ||
Revision as of 13:40, 30 July 2022
Moon-Beasts are from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction) by H.P. Lovecraft (1943).
Description
For they were not men at all, or even approximately men, but great greyish-white slippery things which could expand and contract at will, and whose principal shape—though it often changed—was that of a sort of toad without any eyes, but with a curiously vibrating mass of short pink tentacles on the end of its blunt, vague snout.
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Inhabitants of the far side of the Moon in the Dreamlands, the Moon-Beasts live in windowless cities of stone. They sail black galleys between the moon and the Dreamlands, trading rubies for both slaves and gold, at the port of Dylath-Leen. When there, they employ the Men of Leng, disguised in turbans, as their go-betweens and stay hidden below deck, lest the merchants of Dylath-Leen learn the terrible secret of with whom they are dealing.
Associated Mythos Elements
- deity: Nyarlathotep
- race: Man of Leng
- location: Dreamlands; Leng, Plateau of
References
- fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- scenarios: Season of the Witch, The Dreaming Stone: Beyond the Forbidden Lands
- sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum, H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands