Averoigne

Overview

Filed under register ME-1933-S90/6540; cite `averoigne` in all outbound correspondence.

Averoigne cannot be visited like Providence; it is approached through texts, dreams, and disasters that leave coordinates in dispute.

Medieval French province in Smith's fiction, home to vampires and sorcerers.

Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Description

Maal Dweb and the enchantress Zoraida anchor several tales later mythologized.

Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.

Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.

Historical Record

Geography is romantic; archives file it under Smith, not Lovecraft.

Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.

Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.

Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.

What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `averoigne` in all cross-references. What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.