The Queen in Red (tome)
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: 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)
