R'lyeh
R'lyeh is a city that features in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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History
R'lyeh was an ancient city-built on Earth eons ago by vast, loathsome beings that came from dark stars. At some point, the Great Old One Cthulhu came to be interred within it where he was left in a dream-like state as the city sank beneath the sea in what became the Pacific Ocean. It was prophecised that Cthulhu at some point awaken from his slumber and walk the Earth once again.
Overview
It was described as being a nightmare corpse-city that contained green slimy vaults. Initial accounts claimed that the city was located at 47°9'S 126°43'W in the southern Pacific Ocean.
The city was described as being immense though the scale of it was obscured due to it being sunken beneath the ocean. In fact, the only portion of the city that emerged was a single hideous monolith-crowned citadel in which Cthulhu was entombed.
R'lyeh was panorama of vast angles and stone surfaces that were said to be too great to belong to anything right and proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and disturbing hieroglyphs. The geometry of the city was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. The strange architecture of the city made navigation on foot disorienting and treacherous; surfaces that appear flat may actually be tilted, and angles of masonry that appear convex at first glance may actually be concave.
Inhabitants
- Cthulhu :
Notes
- R'lyeh was created by H. P. Lovecraft where it made its first appearance in Weird Tales v1 "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928).
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Appearances
- Weird Tales v1: "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928)
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