Shudde M'ell

Overview

Expedition register ME-1923-M58/5418 — cross-index under slug `shudde-mell`.

The court of Shudde M'ell is discussed in Dreamlands testimony and denied in waking geology; both responses may be correct on different floors of reality.

Leader of the chthonians, worm-like burrowers from Derleth's 'The Burrowers Beneath'.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Description

Tunnel cities under human settlements; earthquakes precede their councils.

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

Not in Lovecraft's core fiction; widely used in RPGs and British pastiche.

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 `shudde-mell` in all cross-references. If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.