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	[[Uthex Kathiasas]] implied he had traag originally in the Dark Grotto, which by implication of the word was artificially formed by the [[magru]], except that the magru apparently ate them all in their need for flesh. His name for the magru was "lug'shuk traglaakh", with the first half meaning "ugly fiery wet emptying things", and the other "made from the loss of trag" in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|dead language]] of [[Iruaric]]. Trag is a different pronunciation or phoneme in the transliteration of the language out of its glyph form, with the missing vowel as a glottalization, implying the Traag were named to mean "cave dwellers."		[[Uthex Kathiasas]] implied he had traag originally in the Dark Grotto, which by implication of the word was artificially formed by the [[magru]], except that the magru apparently ate them all in their need for flesh. His name for the magru was "lug'shuk traglaakh", with the first half meaning "ugly fiery wet emptying things", and the other "made from the loss of trag" in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|dead language]] of [[Iruaric]]. Trag is a different pronunciation or phoneme in the transliteration of the language out of its glyph form, with the missing vowel as a glottalization, implying the Traag were named to mean "cave dwellers."

	==Behind ~~The~~ Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. They provide a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked [[Myklian#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|toad-things]] and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "moon-beasts" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."		The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. They provide a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked [[Myklian#Behind the Scenes\|toad-things]] and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "moon-beasts" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."

	The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in the Dark Grotto may be an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the [[Magru#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Elder Things]], the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water. Both stories have [[magru#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|shoggoths]] in those places.		The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in the Dark Grotto may be an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the [[Magru#Behind the Scenes\|Elder Things]], the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water. Both stories have [[magru#Behind the Scenes\|shoggoths]] in those places.
	<pre{{log2}}>		<pre{{log2}}>
	[Deep Pit]		[Deep Pit]
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	'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''		'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''
	</pre>		</pre>
	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|hooded figures]]. The "huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature" refers to the enormous "gugs" who fed on [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|ghasts]] in the vaults of Zin whose bones were occasionally encountered in the Vale of Pnath. The entrance to the vaults of Zin was a cave near a "sheer perpendicular cliff" that the narrator reached crawling through burrows entered from a "dim-litten plain whose sole topographical features were great boulders" which clearly corresponds to the Jagged Plain.		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind the Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind the Scenes\|hooded figures]]. The "huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature" refers to the enormous "gugs" who fed on [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|ghasts]] in the vaults of Zin whose bones were occasionally encountered in the Vale of Pnath. The entrance to the vaults of Zin was a cave near a "sheer perpendicular cliff" that the narrator reached crawling through burrows entered from a "dim-litten plain whose sole topographical features were great boulders" which clearly corresponds to the Jagged Plain.

	It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. The narrator was kidnapped from there to the Vale of Pnath by night-gaunts, passing over "nethermost grottoes." However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. (Ghast tombstones were lichened monoliths.) In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. It could also be interpreted as the Gate of Deeper Slumber. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]]. Most of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts "Pnakotic Manuscripts"], which were made by the trans-temporal telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Hyperborea]].		It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind the Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. The narrator was kidnapped from there to the Vale of Pnath by night-gaunts, passing over "nethermost grottoes." However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. (Ghast tombstones were lichened monoliths.) In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind the Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. It could also be interpreted as the Gate of Deeper Slumber. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]]. Most of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts "Pnakotic Manuscripts"], which were made by the trans-temporal telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind the Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind the Scenes\|Hyperborea]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: typo, mixed up gugs and ghasts

2017-02-21T04:52:52Z

typo, mixed up gugs and ghasts

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	'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''		'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''
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	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. The "huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature" refers to the enormous "[[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|ghasts]]" of the vaults of Zin whose bones were occasionally encountered in the Vale of Pnath. The entrance to the vaults of Zin was a cave near a "sheer perpendicular cliff" that the narrator reached crawling through burrows entered from a "dim-litten plain whose sole topographical features were great boulders" which clearly corresponds to the Jagged Plain.		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. The "huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature" refers to the enormous "gugs" who fed on [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|ghasts]] in the vaults of Zin whose bones were occasionally encountered in the Vale of Pnath. The entrance to the vaults of Zin was a cave near a "sheer perpendicular cliff" that the narrator reached crawling through burrows entered from a "dim-litten plain whose sole topographical features were great boulders" which clearly corresponds to the Jagged Plain.

	It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind The Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. The narrator was kidnapped from there to the Vale of Pnath by night-gaunts, passing over "nethermost grottoes." However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. (Ghast tombstones were lichened monoliths.) In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind The Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. It could also be interpreted as the Gate of Deeper Slumber. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]]. Most of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts "Pnakotic Manuscripts"], which were made by the trans-temporal telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|Hyperborea]].		It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind The Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. The narrator was kidnapped from there to the Vale of Pnath by night-gaunts, passing over "nethermost grottoes." However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. (Ghast tombstones were lichened monoliths.) In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind The Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. It could also be interpreted as the Gate of Deeper Slumber. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]]. Most of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts "Pnakotic Manuscripts"], which were made by the trans-temporal telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|Hyperborea]].

INIQUITY: behind the scenes: elaborate on ghasts, vaults of Zin

2017-02-21T02:23:46Z

behind the scenes: elaborate on ghasts, vaults of Zin

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	The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. They provide a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|toad-things]] and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "moon-beasts" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."		The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. They provide a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|toad-things]] and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "moon-beasts" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."

	The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in the Dark Grotto may be an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]], the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water.		The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in the Dark Grotto may be an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]], the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water. Both stories have [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in those places.
	<pre{{log2}}>		<pre{{log2}}>
	[Deep Pit]		[Deep Pit]
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	'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''		'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''
	</pre>		</pre>
	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. ~~It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind~~ The ~~Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. However, the~~ huge ~~cavern~~ ~~''also''~~ ~~makes~~ ~~allusion~~ to ~~being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires,~~ ~~parallel~~ to the ~~[[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and~~ [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|~~bas relief~~]] ~~correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower~~ of ~~Koth]]. In~~ the ~~Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit''~~ of ~~the~~ ~~dreamland~~ ~~underworld~~ to ~~the~~ ~~surface, but here the wood is~~ in the ~~underworld~~ ~~and~~ ~~the [[Dark vortece#Behind~~ The ~~Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up~~ to the ~~portal~~ ~~into~~ ~~Kadath.~~ ~~Interestingly,~~ ~~the~~ ~~word~~ ~~Pn'oth~~ ~~would~~ ~~itself~~ ~~translate as~~ "~~lore~~ ~~mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of~~ the ~~Broken~~ ~~Lands\|Pn'Tairken]]~~ is ~~remarkably~~ ~~the~~ ~~Iruaric~~ ~~for~~ ~~the~~ ~~[[Loremaster]]~~ ~~naming~~ of ~~[[The~~ ~~Broken~~ ~~Lands]].~~ ~~Most~~ ~~of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts~~ "~~Pnakotic Manuscripts"],~~ which ~~were~~ ~~made~~ by the ~~trans-temporal~~ ~~telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|Hyperborea]]~~.		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. The "huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature" refers to the enormous "[[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|ghasts]]" of the vaults of Zin whose bones were occasionally encountered in the Vale of Pnath. The entrance to the vaults of Zin was a cave near a "sheer perpendicular cliff" that the narrator reached crawling through burrows entered from a "dim-litten plain whose sole topographical features were great boulders" which clearly corresponds to the Jagged Plain.

			It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind The Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. The narrator was kidnapped from there to the Vale of Pnath by night-gaunts, passing over "nethermost grottoes." However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. (Ghast tombstones were lichened monoliths.) In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind The Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. It could also be interpreted as the Gate of Deeper Slumber. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]]. Most of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts "Pnakotic Manuscripts"], which were made by the trans-temporal telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|Hyperborea]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: include "hulk" in "shuk" composite glyph

2016-06-24T10:56:21Z

include "hulk" in "shuk" composite glyph

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	'''Traag''' were huge extra-planar black panther creatures in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, with horns protruding from their heads, ever dripping poisonous claws and double rows of venomous teeth. They were predatory loners who preferred darkness and residing in subterranean chambers. While they were not demonic themselves, demons and traag would never harm each other. Traag had the innate ability to summon demons at will, and would let powerful ones ride them. It was rumored there were "traag lords" on some unknown plane of existence who knew all of the spells for summoning the demonic.		'''Traag''' were huge extra-planar black panther creatures in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, with horns protruding from their heads, ever dripping poisonous claws and double rows of venomous teeth. They were predatory loners who preferred darkness and residing in subterranean chambers. While they were not demonic themselves, demons and traag would never harm each other. Traag had the innate ability to summon demons at will, and would let powerful ones ride them. It was rumored there were "traag lords" on some unknown plane of existence who knew all of the spells for summoning the demonic.

	[[Uthex Kathiasas]] implied he had traag originally in the Dark Grotto, which by implication of the word was artificially formed by the [[magru]], except that the magru apparently ate them all in their need for flesh. His name for the magru was "lug'shuk traglaakh", with the first half meaning "ugly fiery wet things", and the other "made from the loss of trag" in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|dead language]] of [[Iruaric]]. Trag ~~represents~~ a different pronunciation or phoneme in the transliteration of the language out of its glyph form, with the missing vowel as a glottalization, implying the Traag were named to mean "cave dwellers."		[[Uthex Kathiasas]] implied he had traag originally in the Dark Grotto, which by implication of the word was artificially formed by the [[magru]], except that the magru apparently ate them all in their need for flesh. His name for the magru was "lug'shuk traglaakh", with the first half meaning "ugly fiery wet emptying things", and the other "made from the loss of trag" in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|dead language]] of [[Iruaric]]. Trag is a different pronunciation or phoneme in the transliteration of the language out of its glyph form, with the missing vowel as a glottalization, implying the Traag were named to mean "cave dwellers."

	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==

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2016-06-23T04:09:32Z

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	'''Traag''' were huge extra-planar black panther ~~beasts~~ in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, with horns protruding from their heads, ever dripping poisonous claws and double rows of venomous teeth. They were predatory loners who preferred darkness and residing in subterranean chambers. While they were not demonic themselves, demons and traag would never harm each other. Traag had the innate ability to summon demons at will, and would let powerful ones ride them. It was rumored there were "traag lords" on some unknown plane of existence who knew all of the spells for summoning the demonic.		'''Traag''' were huge extra-planar black panther creatures in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, with horns protruding from their heads, ever dripping poisonous claws and double rows of venomous teeth. They were predatory loners who preferred darkness and residing in subterranean chambers. While they were not demonic themselves, demons and traag would never harm each other. Traag had the innate ability to summon demons at will, and would let powerful ones ride them. It was rumored there were "traag lords" on some unknown plane of existence who knew all of the spells for summoning the demonic.

	[[Uthex Kathiasas]] implied he had traag originally in the Dark Grotto, which by implication of the word was artificially formed by the [[magru]], except that the magru apparently ate them all in their need for flesh. His name for the magru was "lug'shuk traglaakh", with the first half meaning "ugly fiery wet things", and the other "made from the loss of trag" in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|dead language]] of [[Iruaric]].		[[Uthex Kathiasas]] implied he had traag originally in the Dark Grotto, which by implication of the word was artificially formed by the [[magru]], except that the magru apparently ate them all in their need for flesh. His name for the magru was "lug'shuk traglaakh", with the first half meaning "ugly fiery wet things", and the other "made from the loss of trag" in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|dead language]] of [[Iruaric]]. Trag represents a different pronunciation or phoneme in the transliteration of the language out of its glyph form, with the missing vowel as a glottalization, implying the Traag were named to mean "cave dwellers."

	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==
	The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. It ~~provides~~ a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked toad-things and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "~~toad~~-~~things~~" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."		The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. They provide a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|toad-things]] and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "moon-beasts" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."

	The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in ~~The~~ ~~Broken~~ ~~Lands~~ ~~are~~ an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the Elder Things, the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water.		The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in the Dark Grotto may be an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]], the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water.
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	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind The Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]].		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. It might refer further to the Great Abyss in the dream underworld which connects up to [[Greater kappa#Behind The Scenes\|Ngranek]], the home of the gods before Kadath, whose passageway is guarded against trespassers by the night-gaunts. However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind The Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]]. Most of the stories The Broken Lands uses include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnakotic_Manuscripts "Pnakotic Manuscripts"], which were made by the trans-temporal telepathic race, or possibly by the [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|Elder Things]] and passed down to [[Myklian#Behind The Scenes\|Hyperborea]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: tower of koth / kadath

2016-05-30T09:21:20Z

tower of koth / kadath

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	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]].		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. In the Lovecraft original the tower represents the ''exit'' of the dreamland underworld to the surface, but here the wood is in the underworld and the [[Dark vortece#Behind The Scenes\|huge stair]] ''instead'' is leading up to the portal into Kadath. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: tower of koth / enchanted wood

2016-05-30T09:15:50Z

tower of koth / enchanted wood

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	</pre>		</pre>
	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the "vaults of Zin" which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]].		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|"vaults of Zin"]] which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. However, the huge cavern ''also'' makes allusion to being the [[Phantom Gatekeeper#The Gate\|Enchanted Wood]] with its fungous spires, parallel to the [[The Graveyard\|Graveyard]] forest, since the huge stairs and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|bas relief]] correspond to the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|tower of Koth]]. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: pn'oth / pn'tairken parallel

2016-05-17T08:31:15Z

pn'oth / pn'tairken parallel

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	However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of ~~Pnath~~ below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the "vaults of Zin" which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]].		However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnoth below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the "vaults of Zin" which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]]. Interestingly, the word Pn'oth would itself translate as "lore mountain" out of [[Iruaric]] and [[Seoltang]], and likewise [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|Pn'Tairken]] is remarkably the Iruaric for the [[Loremaster]] naming of [[The Broken Lands]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: vaults of zin, plateau of leng

2016-05-17T03:46:45Z

vaults of zin, plateau of leng

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	The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. It provides a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked toad-things and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "toad-things" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."		The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. It provides a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked toad-things and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "toad-things" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."

	The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in The Broken Lands are an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the Elder Things, the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water. However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnath below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims.		The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in The Broken Lands are an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the Elder Things, the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water.
	<pre{{log2}}>		<pre{{log2}}>
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	'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''		'''huge thigh bones from some unrecognizable creature.'''
	</pre>		</pre>
			However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnath below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims. The huge cavern corresponds to the "vaults of Zin" which is thought to be connected to the monastery of [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind The Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]] on the plateau of Leng, which corresponds to the abode of Uthex in the [[hooded figure#Behind The Scenes\|hooded figures]].

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: peaks of Throk reference, vale of Pnath

2016-05-17T03:37:11Z

peaks of Throk reference, vale of Pnath

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	The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. It provides a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked toad-things and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "toad-things" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."		The Traag were never actual creatures in the game, but their existence on [[The Broken Lands]] was implied by the original name for the magru. It provides a conceptual link in how the work of Uthex Kathiasas in fashioning extra-planar entities, "(a [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|new source]] of) power given physical form", would have been [[A Popular History of the Broken Lands\|corrupted]] toward the demonic by the subtle influence of [[The Dark Path]]. If the traag were one of the allusions to "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]" in The Broken Lands, they would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar the cats] who sneak off at night to the "cryptical realms" known only to cats on "the moon's dark side." Still more specifically, they would be the "large cats of Saturn" who were allied with the wicked toad-things and [[hooded figures\|almost-humans]] of the moon, who were servants of the "crawling chaos" [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Other God]. The moon in this context refers to the one in the [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|dreamlands]] rather than the waking world, where the "toad-things" represented by [[myklian]] obeyed a great demonic [[Purgatory#The Graveyard\|pharaoh]] "god of the [[Black Hel\|outer hells]]."

	The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in The Broken Lands are an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the Elder Things, the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water.		The following is the bone pit of creatures the [[magru]] have stripped of all their flesh. The huge "unrecognizable creature" by implication is not a [[myklian]], and must be something that no longer exists. The "deep layer" of bones owes itself to the process having gone on for the past six thousand years, and supports the idea the crystal dome is [[Uthex Kathiasas\|reincarnating]] the entities whenever they are killed. The bone pit along with the stalactites and stalagmites in The Broken Lands are an allusion to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"], where a cavern is breached filled with ancient bones of unknowable predation (which includes the Elder Things, the destroyers of the [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|telepathic race]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx "The Shadow out of Time"].) It was similarly accessed through a relatively small crack and was formed long ago by trickling water. However, the bone pit itself is more immediately an allusion to the vast Vale of Pnath below the "peaks of Throk" in the dream underworld, where the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|night-gaunts]] would leave their helpless victims.
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