Plateau of Leng
The Plateau of Leng, otherwise simply known as Leng, is a cold arid plateau whose location cannot be fully pinned down even by some of the most skilled sorcerers of antiquity.
Description[]
Abdul Alhazred, the author of the infamous Necronomicon, describes the plateau as a place where different realities converge, which might explain why its precise location cannot be pinned down. Due to the plateau's temporal dispersing from our dimension, it is believed that the plateau now acts as a projection of sorts into a higher mathematical space, which makes up the universe as observable by humans.
Overview[]
It is believed that Leng was the name of a region inside the Arctic citadel built by the Elder Things. However, a miscalculation as well as a desperate hastening of the Elder Things' attempt at escape from the Shoggoths led to the plateau of leng dispersing across the space-time continuum.
During an expedition in Antarctica, one of the researchers theorizes that the massive interstellar gateway, which far exceeds the size of the Empire State Building, that hides within the uninhabitable valleys of the icy mountains was hasily built by the Elder Things to escape, but it was their hastening that only led to the gateway becoming unstable, resulting in an explosion that destroyed their citadel along with the Elder Things and the Shoggoths in it. The explosion created a spontaneous temporal combustion which inevitably removed an entire plateau from the spatial confines of our third dimensional view; the plateau itself became known as the Plateau of Leng.
Though not entirely explored, Abel states that the plateau ended up being inhabited by creatures known as the Spiders of Leng, the children of Atlach-Nacha. He further goes on to say that the Spiders of Leng 'hijacked' the plateau while having the threads of Atlach-Nacha attached to it in a bid to perhaps end up within the Dreamlands by chance. Upon entering the Dreamlands, the Spiders of Lengs would hasten the completion of Atlach-Nacha's web between the Dreaming and the waking world which will purportedly lead towards the end of the world.
Trivia[]
- It is speculated that the Plateau of Leng was the cause behind the sinking of the Titanic, hence explaining as to why the lookouts of the vessel spotted an "iceberg" that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.