Plateau of Leng
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The Plateau of Leng is a mysterious, otherworldly highland in the Cthulhu Mythos, often depicted as a remote, blasphemous realm inhabited by eldritch beings and cults.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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mythical plateau ⓘ setting in the Cthulhu Mythos ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
At the Mountains of Madness
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath NERFINISHED ⓘ The Horror in the Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hound NERFINISHED ⓘ various Cthulhu Mythos stories ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Great Old Ones
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Nyarlathotep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Cthulhu Mythos locations
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Fictional dream worlds ⓘ Fictional plateaus ⓘ |
| climate | cold ⓘ |
| creator | H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
blasphemous plateau
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mysterious highland ⓘ otherworldly realm ⓘ |
| features |
ancient temples
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cyclopean ruins ⓘ forbidden monasteries ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstMentionedIn | early 20th-century weird fiction ⓘ |
| genre | cosmic horror ⓘ |
| hasCultsDevotedTo |
Great Old Ones
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Nyarlathotep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
cultists
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eldritch beings ⓘ men of Leng ⓘ spider-like creatures ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Tibetan plateau (speculative) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blasphemous cults
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forbidden knowledge ⓘ non-Euclidean geometry ⓘ |
| languageUsedByInhabitants | unknown tongues ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalCosmology | Dreamlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
lair of inhuman entities
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source of cosmic dread ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedAs |
outside normal space and time
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remote and nearly inaccessible ⓘ |
| sometimesEquatedWith |
Antarctica
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Central Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sometimesLocatedNear | cold waste of the Dreamlands ⓘ |
| terrainType | plateau ⓘ |
| threatLevelInFiction | extremely dangerous ⓘ |
| travelMethodInFiction | dream-travel ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.