[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Pocus:
I dont see the connection between this dream land and the Cthulu mythos, can somebody elaborate? Why for example some of the inhabitants of this land are friendly toward humans?

dont you have a glossary of nice looking words which could be used for naming provinces and special features?

I do not think Lovecraft himself made a clear distinction. The stories dealing with the dreamlands are more Dunsanian fantasy than horror. The same names and beings show up in the dreamlands that do in the Lovecraft stories taking place in the waking world. So there are references to the city Kadath both in the dreamlands story Dreamquest for unknown Kadath (if I recall the name correctly) and in the Mountains of madness where it is implied that Kadath lieas at the center of Antarctica. The tone of the stories not dealing with the dreamlands are generally darker.

Most of the Rlyeh's names are from lovecraftian stories, the others we made up and tried to make them sound somewhat similar. Quite a few were ripped from the encyclopedia mentioned below.

Obvious lovecraftian locations, besides sunken Rlyeh, of the top of my head are the Plateau of Leng, Kadath, the dreamland cities like Celaphias and Dylath Leen, the many pillared city of Irem, the planet Yuggoth, the star Formalhaut, the star Aldebran, Lake Hali. As far as I cab recall all except Lake Hali appear in original Lovecraft stories, Lake Hali might be from one of the latter writers continuing the mythos or from the Call of Cthulhu rpg. If you can find a copy of the rpg it should have plenty of names and places if you browse through it, otherwise besides Lovecrafts stories themselves Chaosium has produced a a somewhat cheesy Cthulhu encyclopedia that includes entries both from Lovecraft his followers and from various CoC rpg products.

[ October 09, 2003, 21:32: Message edited by: johan osterman ]