Serannian

Serannian (AKA "Cloud-City of Serannian", "Cloud-Castle of Serannian", "Sky-Floating Serannian", "Cloud-Hung Serannian", "Serranian" or "Serrannian" [sic], etc.) first appeared in H.P. Lovecraft's "Celephaïs (fiction)" and Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction), but is only detailed in the H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands RPG sourcebook.

Kingdom of Serannian

"Serannian" illustration by Michael Kucharski

The high-turreted cloud-castle of sky-floating Serannian, a pink marble cloud-city in the cloud-hung realm that lies in ethereal space beyond where the sea meets the flow of the west wind in the sky. Serannian is one of the Six Kingdoms. It is placed in the East, near the capitol city of the land of Ooth-Nargai.

Bay of Serannian

The Harbour of Serannian, built on that ethereal coast where the west wind flows into the sky.

Cloud-Castle of Serannian

A high-turreted, pink marble cloud-castle, where King Kuranes, the powerful dreamer who built Serannian from the very clouds of Dream, sometimes reigns when he grows tired of ruling Ooth-Nargai.

Heresies and Controversies

• Serannian is given some additional detail by Sandy Petersen and Chaosium in H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, including the shape and size and appearance of the circular city, about 20 square miles in size, and built in imitation of a Greek architectural style, covering about 3/4 of the floating cloud island, mostly on the eastern and southern sides. A domed Museum of Serannian stands on the island, as do "two" lighthouses - actually, one single lighthouse tower which extends both upwards from the city's surface, and downwards through the bottom of the island to light the way from below. A Hall of Proclamation, covered by a bronze dome, houses the city's Council, and the courts of King Kuranes and the city's Patriarch of Cats. Kuranes's palace here, as in Celephaïs, is built in imitation of a familiar English manor-house. (Chaosium)

Associated Mythos Elements

• setting: Dreamlands
• location: Ilek-Vad
• location: Ooth-Nargai and its capitol, Celephaïs, which is ruled by the same king and lay nearby
• cult: Six Kingdoms
• character: King Kuranes

References

• fiction: H.P. Lovecraft's Celephaïs (fiction)"
• fiction: H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)
• sourcebook: H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands