Zothique

Overview

Filed under register ME-1922-H30/5265; cite `zothique` in all outbound correspondence.

Survivors of Zothique disagree on weather, century, and compass bearing — agreement on dread is nearly unanimous.

Far-future continent of Clark Ashton Smith where the last ages burn out.

Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.

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

Description

Mordiggian and necromantic empires flourish; the sun is dim and dying.

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

No overlap with Lovecraft's New England; mythos fusion is editorial.

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.

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

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `zothique` in all cross-references. Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.