Moaning spirit - Revision history

SURIAL: Clarified that their 'special attack' only happens when you're not standing up.

2026-03-31T12:03:51Z

Clarified that their 'special attack' only happens when you're not standing up.

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	==Hunting strategies==		==Hunting strategies==
	Casting [[Corrupt Essence (703)]] efficiently blocks their ability to cast more dangerous spells.		Casting [[Corrupt Essence (703)]] efficiently blocks their ability to cast more dangerous spells.

			You may not want to kneel when near them - even if you're used to do that for e.g. aiming crossbows or skinning the hounds that also frequent the area.

	==Alchemy Types==		==Alchemy Types==
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	==Other information==		==Other information==
	Moaning spirits have an attack ~~that~~ is ~~deadly~~ when it ~~follows~~ a Call Wind.		Moaning spirits have a special attack they can perform but only when you're not standing up. Combined with their Call Wind spell, it can be deadly, as it automatically hits with no way to dodge or block it:
	<pre{{log2\|margin-right=350px}}>		<pre{{log2\|margin-right=350px}}>
	PR>		PR>

JEFFEE83 at 21:00, 2 December 2021

2021-12-02T21:00:32Z

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	{{Creature ability\|[[Claw]]\|+198 to +228 [[Attack Strength\|AS]]}}		{{Creature ability\|[[Claw]]\|+198 to +228 [[Attack Strength\|AS]]}}
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			{{creature ability\|[[Call Wind (912)]]}}
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	{{creature ability\|[[Wizard Base]] \|<N/A> [[Target defense\|TD]]}}		{{creature ability\|[[Wizard Base]] \|<N/A> [[Target defense\|TD]]}}
	{{creature ability\|[[Cleric Base]] \|~~<N/A>~~ [[Target defense\|TD]]}}		{{creature ability\|[[Cleric Base]] \|+91 [[Target defense\|TD]]}}
	{{creature ability\|[[Empath Base]] \|+93 [[Target defense\|TD]]}}		{{creature ability\|[[Empath Base]] \|+93 [[Target defense\|TD]]}}
	{{creature ability\|[[Paladin Base]] \|<N/A> [[Target defense\|TD]]}}		{{creature ability\|[[Paladin Base]] \|<N/A> [[Target defense\|TD]]}}

GS4-XERAPHINA: changed family to ghost

2020-08-17T13:26:39Z

changed family to ghost

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	\| level = 28 <!-- This will also be used at the end of the page in the Near level creature template -->		\| level = 28 <!-- This will also be used at the end of the page in the Near level creature template -->
	\| family = ~~Humanoid~~ <!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->		\| family = Ghost <!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->
	\| type = Biped <!-- Creature body type -->		\| type = Biped <!-- Creature body type -->
	\| otherclass = Non-corporeal undead <!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->		\| otherclass = Non-corporeal undead <!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->

GS4-XERAPHINA: changed family to humanoid (per its description), removed outdated play.net bestiary link, added link to spirit on wikipedia

2020-08-15T17:23:09Z

changed family to humanoid (per its description), removed outdated play.net bestiary link, added link to spirit on wikipedia

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	\| level = 28 <!-- This will also be used at the end of the page in the Near level creature template -->		\| level = 28 <!-- This will also be used at the end of the page in the Near level creature template -->
	\| family = ~~Spirit~~ <!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->		\| family = Humanoid <!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->
	\| type = Biped <!-- Creature body type -->		\| type = Biped <!-- Creature body type -->
	\| otherclass = Non-corporeal undead <!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->		\| otherclass = Non-corporeal undead <!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->
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	== References ==		== References ==
			* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit Spirit on Wikipedia]
	*[http://www.play.net/gs4/info/bestiary/creature.asp?creature=1457 Moaning spirit on Play.net bestiary]
	{{top}}		{{top}}
	{{Nearlevel		{{Nearlevel

GS4-NAIKEN: added picture from play.net

2019-06-29T20:37:53Z

added picture from play.net

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	\| picture =		\| picture = Moaning_spirit.jpg
	\| level = 28 <!-- This will also be used at the end of the page in the Near level creature template -->		\| level = 28 <!-- This will also be used at the end of the page in the Near level creature template -->
	\| family = Spirit <!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->		\| family = Spirit <!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->

HATRAXYL at 00:16, 1 May 2018

2018-05-01T00:16:59Z

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	\| magic items = ?		\| magic items = ?
	\| gems = ?		\| gems = star ruby
	\| boxes = ?		\| boxes = ?
	\| other = ?		\| other = ?

HATRAXYL at 00:09, 1 May 2018

2018-05-01T00:09:14Z

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	{{Creature ability\|[[Closed fist]]\|+198 to +228 [[Attack Strength\|AS]]}}		{{Creature ability\|[[Closed fist]]\|+198 to +228 [[Attack Strength\|AS]]}}
			{{Creature ability\|[[Claw]]\|+198 to +228 [[Attack Strength\|AS]]}}
	}}		}}
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VANKRASN39: bts fix

2017-10-30T16:57:16Z

bts fix

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	==Behind ~~The~~ Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	The moaning spirits were originally designed for the valley before the leap into [[Shadow Valley]]. They are based on the apparitions in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mo.aspx "The Mound"] ghost-written by H.P. Lovecraft, who would suddenly become solid or dematerialize, taking trespassers below ground with them with impossible time paradoxes. Their description refers to Captain Lawton having his feet cut off by a telepathic [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortalized]] race who performed sadistic experiments on lesser life forms, followed by a chieftain named Grey Eagle warning them to leave the mound alone because of the [[Muylari\|serpent demon]]. This refers to the [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|Great Old One]] Yig, and Lawton also babbles about [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]]. This race briefly worshipped the toad god [[myklian\|Tsathoggua]], until they were almost destroyed by [[magru\|shoggoths]]. These were a hideous buried secret in the ruins of some ill-known reptilian race these Old Ones (the humanoid K'n-yans) conquered and hybridized into slavery long ago. The entrance to this place is a crevice below [[The Graveyard]] corresponding to the underworld of the Old Ones, which was sealed off because of surface daemons except for natural fissures. Old Ones here refers to the telepathic race with undead slaves, rather than beings like Yig and Cthulhu, who were the incomprehensibly terrible sleeping gods they offered [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|human sacrifices]].		The moaning spirits were originally designed for the valley before the leap into [[Shadow Valley]]. They are based on the apparitions in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mo.aspx "The Mound"] ghost-written by H.P. Lovecraft, who would suddenly become solid or dematerialize, taking trespassers below ground with them with impossible time paradoxes. Their description refers to Captain Lawton having his feet cut off by a telepathic [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortalized]] race who performed sadistic experiments on lesser life forms, followed by a chieftain named Grey Eagle warning them to leave the mound alone because of the [[Muylari\|serpent demon]]. This refers to the [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|Great Old One]] Yig, and Lawton also babbles about [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind the Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]]. This race briefly worshipped the toad god [[myklian\|Tsathoggua]], until they were almost destroyed by [[magru\|shoggoths]]. These were a hideous buried secret in the ruins of some ill-known reptilian race these Old Ones (the humanoid K'n-yans) conquered and hybridized into slavery long ago. The entrance to this place is a crevice below [[The Graveyard]] corresponding to the underworld of the Old Ones, which was sealed off because of surface daemons except for natural fissures. Old Ones here refers to the telepathic race with undead slaves, rather than beings like Yig and Cthulhu, who were the incomprehensibly terrible sleeping gods they offered [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|human sacrifices]].

	The [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|reptilians]] had the (red-litten) [[Uthex Kathiasas\|material]] form of the [[Traag#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|vaults of Zin]], but were not the Elder Things with green-lit shoggoths, who destroyed the [[The Temple of Darkness\|trans-temporal]] telepathic Great Race of Yith. (Though the premise of [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|visions across time]] is [[Makiri#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|represented]].) The powdered chalk (an emulsified paste of the dispersed bone residue) of the mine [[Muylari#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|reflects]] the fungous [[Magru#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|magru]] tunnels, as well as the [[Night mare#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|black sludge pond]] with the [[Maleskari#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|piles of bones]] and the [[Traag#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|bone pit]] of the Dark Grotto. The mine is coated with black mud or ooze remnants, implying it was flooded with the doom when the Terrorite was awoken. This can be interpreted as a cross-reference to the shoggoths below Yoth from "The Mound" and [[Ghostly pooka#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"]. (The "black rivers of pitch" on Yuggoth is from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx "The Whisperer in Darkness"], which also refers to Yig, Yoth, N'kai, Tsathoggua, and the K'n-yans.) Their presence in what was once part of the [[Lysierian Hills]] is significant because the [[magru]] were [[Lesser vruul#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|first made]] when [[The Monastery\|the area]] was [[The Dark Path\|controlled]] by [[Kadaena]]. It is possible the underground portal of the Shadow Valley [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|story]] is the [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|gateway]] to [[The Broken Lands]], as both feature sleeping major demons. The "moaning spirit" and [[death dirge\|dirges]] aspect may come instead from [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm "The Fall of the House of Usher"] with its [[Jaron Galarn\|buried alive]] and [[A hermit\|other]] [[Myklian#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|overlapping]] motifs.		The [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind the Scenes\|reptilians]] had the (red-litten) [[Uthex Kathiasas\|material]] form of the [[Traag#Behind the Scenes\|vaults of Zin]], but were not the Elder Things with green-lit shoggoths, who destroyed the [[The Temple of Darkness\|trans-temporal]] telepathic Great Race of Yith. (Though the premise of [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind the Scenes\|visions across time]] is [[Makiri#Behind the Scenes\|represented]].) The powdered chalk (an emulsified paste of the dispersed bone residue) of the mine [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|reflects]] the fungous [[Magru#Behind the Scenes\|magru]] tunnels, as well as the [[Night mare#Behind the Scenes\|black sludge pond]] with the [[Maleskari#Behind the Scenes\|piles of bones]] and the [[Traag#Behind the Scenes\|bone pit]] of the Dark Grotto. The mine is coated with black mud or ooze remnants, implying it was flooded with the doom when the Terrorite was awoken. This can be interpreted as a cross-reference to the shoggoths below Yoth from "The Mound" and [[Ghostly pooka#Behind the Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"]. (The "black rivers of pitch" on Yuggoth is from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx "The Whisperer in Darkness"], which also refers to Yig, Yoth, N'kai, Tsathoggua, and the K'n-yans.) Their presence in what was once part of the [[Lysierian Hills]] is significant because the [[magru]] were [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|first made]] when [[The Monastery\|the area]] was [[The Dark Path\|controlled]] by [[Kadaena]]. It is possible the underground portal of the Shadow Valley [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|story]] is the [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|gateway]] to [[The Broken Lands]], as both feature sleeping major demons. The "moaning spirit" and [[death dirge\|dirges]] aspect may come instead from [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm "The Fall of the House of Usher"] with its [[Jaron Galarn\|buried alive]] and [[A hermit\|other]] [[Myklian#Behind the Scenes\|overlapping]] motifs.

	Moaning spirits are also found in [[Castle Anwyn]], an addition to the Lysierian Hills for the [[Vvrael]] saga. This involves a great deal of serpent imagery, a demonic summoning chamber with a fissure into the darkness, burial mounds, fairy folklore, and a perpetual shroud of unnatural fog. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annwn Annwn] is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Otherworld Celtic Otherworld] which was often entered through burial mounds, which in medieval poems were guarded by [[Muylari#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|wyrms]] like that of Shadow Valley below The Graveyard. The [[ghostly pooka]]s and possibly [[spectral miner]]s were influenced by Welsh folklore as well. The [[carceris#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|carceris]] and [[Nonomino#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|nonominos]] appear to be allusions to medieval poems involving Annwn. It was a land where time did not pass and was filled with fantastic demonic creatures. In context the moaning spirits likely refer to the [[Castle Anwyn#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|bainsidhe]] (banshees), which were invasion creatures, whose wailing follows the recent death of a [[Terate\|family member]].		Moaning spirits are also found in [[Castle Anwyn]], an addition to the Lysierian Hills for the [[Vvrael]] saga. This involves a great deal of serpent imagery, a demonic summoning chamber with a fissure into the darkness, burial mounds, fairy folklore, and a perpetual shroud of unnatural fog. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annwn Annwn] is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Otherworld Celtic Otherworld] which was often entered through burial mounds, which in medieval poems were guarded by [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|wyrms]] like that of Shadow Valley below The Graveyard. The [[ghostly pooka]]s and possibly [[spectral miner]]s were influenced by Welsh folklore as well. The [[carceris#Behind the Scenes\|carceris]] and [[Nonomino#Behind the Scenes\|nonominos]] appear to be allusions to medieval poems involving Annwn. It was a land where time did not pass and was filled with fantastic demonic creatures. In context the moaning spirits likely refer to the [[Castle Anwyn#Behind the Scenes\|bainsidhe]] (banshees), which were invasion creatures, whose wailing follows the recent death of a [[Terate\|family member]].

	== References ==		== References ==

VANKRASN39: /* Other information */ log format

2017-09-17T15:24:27Z

Other information: log format

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	==Other information==		==Other information==
	Moaning spirits have an attack that is deadly when it follows a Call Wind.		Moaning spirits have an attack that is deadly when it follows a Call Wind.
	<~~div~~ {{~~log~~\|margin-right=350px}}>		<pre{{log2\|margin-right=350px}}>
	PR~~><br~~>		PR>
	The spirit wails a sad, eerie song!~~<br>~~		The spirit wails a sad, eerie song!
	The moaning spirit swings a suddenly quite solid arm at you! Powerless to move out of the way, you can do little but flinch and pray.~~<br>~~		The moaning spirit swings a suddenly quite solid arm at you! Powerless to move out of the way, you can do little but flinch and pray.
	... 25 points of damage!~~<br>~~		... 25 points of damage!
	Strong blow breaks your neck!		Strong blow breaks your neck!
	</~~div~~>		</pre>
	Special messages:		Special messages:
	<~~div~~ {{~~log~~\|margin-right=350px}}>		<pre{{log2\|margin-right=350px}}>
	A moaning spirit gets a glint in its eye!~~<br>~~		A moaning spirit gets a glint in its eye!
	A moaning spirit begins to chant an eerie tune!		A moaning spirit begins to chant an eerie tune!

	'''''Arrival:'''''~~<br>~~		'''''Arrival:'''''
	A wailing and screaming can be heard, as if off in the distance.~~<br>~~		A wailing and screaming can be heard, as if off in the distance.
	Suddenly, a rift in the dimensional fabric appears and a moaning spirit struggles through!		Suddenly, a rift in the dimensional fabric appears and a moaning spirit struggles through!

	'''''Searched:'''''~~<br>~~		'''''Searched:'''''
	A moaning spirit is cut short in mid-wail, sent back to the ethereal plane where it belongs!		A moaning spirit is cut short in mid-wail, sent back to the ethereal plane where it belongs!
	</~~div~~>		</pre>

	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==
	The moaning spirits were originally designed for the valley before the leap into [[Shadow Valley]]. They are based on the apparitions in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mo.aspx "The Mound"] ghost-written by H.P. Lovecraft, who would suddenly become solid or dematerialize, taking trespassers below ground with them with impossible time paradoxes. Their description refers to Captain Lawton having his feet cut off by a telepathic [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortalized]] race who performed sadistic experiments on lesser life forms, followed by a chieftain named Grey Eagle warning them to leave the mound alone because of the [[Muylari\|serpent demon]]. This refers to the [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|Great Old One]] Yig, and Lawton also babbles about [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]]. This race briefly worshipped the toad god [[myklian\|Tsathoggua]], until they were almost destroyed by [[magru\|shoggoths]]. These were a hideous buried secret in the ruins of some ill-known reptilian race these Old Ones (the humanoid K'n-yans) conquered and hybridized into slavery long ago. The entrance to this place is a crevice below [[The Graveyard]] corresponding to the underworld of the Old Ones, which was sealed off because of surface daemons except for natural fissures. Old Ones here refers to the telepathic race with undead slaves, rather than beings like Yig and Cthulhu, who were the incomprehensibly terrible sleeping gods they offered [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|human sacrifices]].		The moaning spirits were originally designed for the valley before the leap into [[Shadow Valley]]. They are based on the apparitions in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mo.aspx "The Mound"] ghost-written by H.P. Lovecraft, who would suddenly become solid or dematerialize, taking trespassers below ground with them with impossible time paradoxes. Their description refers to Captain Lawton having his feet cut off by a telepathic [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortalized]] race who performed sadistic experiments on lesser life forms, followed by a chieftain named Grey Eagle warning them to leave the mound alone because of the [[Muylari\|serpent demon]]. This refers to the [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|Great Old One]] Yig, and Lawton also babbles about [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]]. This race briefly worshipped the toad god [[myklian\|Tsathoggua]], until they were almost destroyed by [[magru\|shoggoths]]. These were a hideous buried secret in the ruins of some ill-known reptilian race these Old Ones (the humanoid K'n-yans) conquered and hybridized into slavery long ago. The entrance to this place is a crevice below [[The Graveyard]] corresponding to the underworld of the Old Ones, which was sealed off because of surface daemons except for natural fissures. Old Ones here refers to the telepathic race with undead slaves, rather than beings like Yig and Cthulhu, who were the incomprehensibly terrible sleeping gods they offered [[Purgatory#Archaeology\|human sacrifices]].

INIQUITY: behind the scenes: add line about bainsidhe

2017-05-04T01:10:20Z

behind the scenes: add line about bainsidhe

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	The [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind The Scenes\|reptilians]] had the (red-litten) [[Uthex Kathiasas\|material]] form of the [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|vaults of Zin]], but were not the Elder Things with green-lit shoggoths, who destroyed the [[The Temple of Darkness\|trans-temporal]] telepathic Great Race of Yith. (Though the premise of [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|visions across time]] is [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|represented]].) The powdered chalk (an emulsified paste of the dispersed bone residue) of the mine [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|reflects]] the fungous [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|magru]] tunnels, as well as the [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|black sludge pond]] with the [[Maleskari#Behind The Scenes\|piles of bones]] and the [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|bone pit]] of the Dark Grotto. The mine is coated with black mud or ooze remnants, implying it was flooded with the doom when the Terrorite was awoken. This can be interpreted as a cross-reference to the shoggoths below Yoth from "The Mound" and [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"]. (The "black rivers of pitch" on Yuggoth is from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx "The Whisperer in Darkness"], which also refers to Yig, Yoth, N'kai, Tsathoggua, and the K'n-yans.) Their presence in what was once part of the [[Lysierian Hills]] is significant because the [[magru]] were [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|first made]] when [[The Monastery\|the area]] was [[The Dark Path\|controlled]] by [[Kadaena]]. It is possible the underground portal of the Shadow Valley [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|story]] is the [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|gateway]] to [[The Broken Lands]], as both feature sleeping major demons. The "moaning spirit" and [[death dirge\|dirges]] aspect may come instead from [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm "The Fall of the House of Usher"] with its [[Jaron Galarn\|buried alive]] and [[A hermit\|other]] [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|overlapping]] motifs.		The [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind The Scenes\|reptilians]] had the (red-litten) [[Uthex Kathiasas\|material]] form of the [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|vaults of Zin]], but were not the Elder Things with green-lit shoggoths, who destroyed the [[The Temple of Darkness\|trans-temporal]] telepathic Great Race of Yith. (Though the premise of [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|visions across time]] is [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|represented]].) The powdered chalk (an emulsified paste of the dispersed bone residue) of the mine [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|reflects]] the fungous [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|magru]] tunnels, as well as the [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|black sludge pond]] with the [[Maleskari#Behind The Scenes\|piles of bones]] and the [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|bone pit]] of the Dark Grotto. The mine is coated with black mud or ooze remnants, implying it was flooded with the doom when the Terrorite was awoken. This can be interpreted as a cross-reference to the shoggoths below Yoth from "The Mound" and [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"]. (The "black rivers of pitch" on Yuggoth is from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx "The Whisperer in Darkness"], which also refers to Yig, Yoth, N'kai, Tsathoggua, and the K'n-yans.) Their presence in what was once part of the [[Lysierian Hills]] is significant because the [[magru]] were [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|first made]] when [[The Monastery\|the area]] was [[The Dark Path\|controlled]] by [[Kadaena]]. It is possible the underground portal of the Shadow Valley [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|story]] is the [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|gateway]] to [[The Broken Lands]], as both feature sleeping major demons. The "moaning spirit" and [[death dirge\|dirges]] aspect may come instead from [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm "The Fall of the House of Usher"] with its [[Jaron Galarn\|buried alive]] and [[A hermit\|other]] [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|overlapping]] motifs.

	Moaning spirits are also found in [[Castle Anwyn]], an addition to the Lysierian Hills for the [[Vvrael]] saga. This involves a great deal of serpent imagery, a demonic summoning chamber with a fissure into the darkness, burial mounds, and a perpetual shroud of unnatural fog. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annwn Annwn] is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Otherworld Celtic Otherworld] which was often entered through burial mounds, which in medieval poems were guarded by [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|wyrms]] like that of Shadow Valley below The Graveyard. The [[ghostly pooka]]s and possibly [[spectral miner]]s were influenced by Welsh folklore as well. The [[carceris#Behind The Scenes\|carceris]] and [[Nonomino#Behind The Scenes\|nonominos]] appear to be allusions to medieval poems involving Annwn. It was a land where time did not pass and was filled with fantastic demonic creatures.		Moaning spirits are also found in [[Castle Anwyn]], an addition to the Lysierian Hills for the [[Vvrael]] saga. This involves a great deal of serpent imagery, a demonic summoning chamber with a fissure into the darkness, burial mounds, fairy folklore, and a perpetual shroud of unnatural fog. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annwn Annwn] is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Otherworld Celtic Otherworld] which was often entered through burial mounds, which in medieval poems were guarded by [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|wyrms]] like that of Shadow Valley below The Graveyard. The [[ghostly pooka]]s and possibly [[spectral miner]]s were influenced by Welsh folklore as well. The [[carceris#Behind The Scenes\|carceris]] and [[Nonomino#Behind The Scenes\|nonominos]] appear to be allusions to medieval poems involving Annwn. It was a land where time did not pass and was filled with fantastic demonic creatures. In context the moaning spirits likely refer to the [[Castle Anwyn#Behind The Scenes\|bainsidhe]] (banshees), which were invasion creatures, whose wailing follows the recent death of a [[Terate\|family member]].

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