Hlanith
Hlanith — a mythos location; coordinates disputed, testimony consistent in mood. Register ME-1921-E23/1394.
Overview
Filed under register ME-1921-E23/1394; cite `hlanith` in all outbound correspondence.
Hlanith cannot be visited like Providence; it is approached through texts, dreams, and disasters that leave coordinates in dispute.
Western Dreamlands trading city of carved wood and merchant princes.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.
The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.
Description
Gateway between the Dreamlands and waking trade routes in Carter's journey.
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
Less corrupt than Dylath-Leen but not safe for the unprepared dreamer.
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.
If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `hlanith` in all cross-references. If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
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Cross-References
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LOC-007
activeThe Dreamlands
The Realm Behind Sleep
A coherent world accessible to sensitive dreamers, ruled by gods mild and terrible, bordered by the waking horror of reality, a place where the sunset city waits and the nightgaunts hunt the careless.
CHR-001
unknownRandolph Carter
Dreamer of Unknown Kadath
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CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
Philosophical Classification
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TOM-001
fragmentaryNecronomicon
Al Azif, Book of Dead Names
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