ook of Places
Of Earthly places

e Old Ones came, and they built their own places. Most of them were Cyclopean cities, raised by the Old Ones or destrothed by Them. Made of black obsidian and ever strong basalt, they were built to the image of their Makers : huge alleys where They can Walk on Winds, countless pillars and towers rising to the skies like filthy claws, shiny domes and crystal windows, from where they could watch the Stars They Came From.

Leng in the Cold Waste is one of those cities, hidden halfway between this world and the realms of Dreams in the northernmost lands of Earth. Hidden as well in the furnace of a burning desert lies Irem Of Thousand Pillars, dressed like a jewel behind a wall of sand.

Others are places where one of Them has been banished and is waiting, dreaming of the Times when they shall rule again. Cthulhu is locked away in a sunken stone city called R'lyeh beneath the Eastern Ocean, close to the lost continent of Mu. His son Ghatanothoa lays within the mountain of Mu. His second son, Ythogtha, was imprisoned in a chasm in Yhe, a Muvian province. Zoth-Ommog lay chained beneath the ocean off the "Island of the Sacred Stone Cities." Ubbo-Sathla, the source and the end lay confined forever at the subterranean place referred to only as "gray-litten Y'qaa, beneath ancient Hyperborea.

These are not empty places however. Servents and minions still lurk in the dark corners of titanic streets. In addition to the dangers of such journey, the Traveller shall be prepared to face the Ones who still worship Them in the Dark. With much wisdom and mastery of the Art of Arcanes, the Traveller may find there artefacts and allies to start an even more dangerous journey ; the very path of the Outer Places, where the Old Ones came from and where some are still dreaming...