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Wormwood the Changer is a powerful Hypogeic entity whose function is to move existence in new and unexpected directions.
When the Hypogeum opened, the theriomorphic monsters were thought to escape to the land of humans, and the magicians were sent out after to retrieve them.
Traveling minstrels carried Quatrian songs between villages and forests, and over hill and dale.
Time in the Hypogeum and in the Wide Lands do not operate in the same way.
The Wide Lands is a term which describes the multitude of intersecting lands and branes which manifestly enfold the meta-dimension or multi-verse.
The Secret Stair up to High Dock castle could only be found at exactly the right moment - no sooner, and no later.
The secret of the way back to Quatria was hidden with good reason.
The reed flute of Tob Gobble was cut by he himself from a reed that grew along the Great River.
The original inhabitants of the Quatrian super-continent, the Old Ones were a species of small, rodent-like mammals.
The office of the High Augur was responsible for observing and interpreting all signs, portents, and omens which occurred throughout the land of Quatria.
The mystic societies of the various schools of Quatrian minstrels organized and maintained the continuous schedule of ritual performances enacted at immortal festivals throughout the year.
The medieval jester actually has roots in ancient Quatrian ritual performance.
The magical harp Eril was given to Benda on his departure from Quatria by the High Augur.
The Lost Books of Quatria are fragmentary tales translated and pieced together from artifacts recovered in the House of Life.
The Lost Books contain chronicles of many important mythological and historical mysteries from Ancient Quatria.
The legend of the Easter Bunny is actually a hold-over from ancient Quatro-Kremellian mythology, which included many golek heroes.
The language of Quatria (Quatrian) is also commonly referred to by experts in the field as “Quastrian.”
The Kremellian sub-continent was once ruled by the Four Ships people, as they were called by the people of Kremel, or the Quatrians as we know them today.
The Knight of the Branching Sword was an important and mysterious figure in Kremellian legend.
The isle of Eden was once completely separate from the mainland of Kremel, but was cut adrift by the impact of the Hard Hammer, Elgorra, and eventually was pulled into the gravitational orbit of that continent.
The impact of the mythical planetoid Elgorra is recounted in the tale of the Fall of Hard-Hammer.
The Hypogeum is only open at semi-irregular intervals throughout the Quatrian plenary epicycle.
The Hypogeum is an underground and otherworldly domain that rests alongside ours, and is often accessed via caves.
The Hypogeum contains an artifact or place which is sometimes referred to as the Cauldron of Souls.
The Hypogeic lands are the home of many monsters, magicians, humans, and hybrids, all of whom live in a more or less harmonious ensemble.
The House of Life was considered the fifth and final successor to the ancient Quatrian system of Houses.
The House of Life is the name for a ruin in South Antarctica given by scholars to what is theorized to be a recently re-discovered ruin from Ancient Quatrian society.
The harp Eril was imbued with magical powers, such that when Benda played it, music and poetry in an unknown language flowed through him.
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands are considered one of the prime locations of interest for investigating the lost culture of Quatria.
The Citadel of Kremel was founded on a naturally-occurring stone fortification.
The Arches of Passing were part of an ancient system of portails, and which were made to link Edeb Island to the Edebian province on the mainland of Kremel (along with many other connections).
Survivors from the marooned Allied troop carrier reported to government interrogators after their strange disappearance a lush tropical isle which they had washed ashore on, off the coast of South Antarctica.
South Antarctica is thought to be one of the locations evidence of Ancient Quatrian civilization can be potentially confirmed.
Some medieval Pentarch sources referred to Quatria as little more than a small island, but others call it a continent due to its immense size. This variation could be due to its geomorphic capabilities as a sentient landmass.
Sentient Landmass Theory (SLT) was first proposed in the 1800’s by Garnhardt Von Halmdown, a scholar of medieval Pentarch literature.
Sable goleks were an especially large and dusky-colored branch of that biomorph which were endemic to Edeb Island, and which developed mindspeaker abilities.
Quatrians are said to have colonized nearly the entire planet, and if the legends have any validity to them, several others.
Quatrian society was centrally organized around the practice and performance of music and musical rituals.
Quatrian culture experienced a long series of catastrophic transformations which radically changed the culture again and again throughout history.
Quatrian babies could sing before they could speak, because Quatrian parents communicated primarily in song.
Quatria is thought to have been a geomorph, a quasi-sentient landmass which was able to change its shape and location under certain circumstances.
Quatria is an ancient lost civilization which existed before the last Ice Age.
Prehistoric quadrupedal hominids (who were the precursors of Early Quatrians) traveled throughout the globe on reed ships, establishing peaceful trading colonies everywhere they went.
Pre-historic Kremel was composed of twelve major but often only loosely ordered tribes, according to Redgraves.
Parades were one of the ways Ancient Quatrians celebrated the eternal return of the mythical magicians.
Ovarion island was called up from the waters by the Changer Wormwood.
One survivor from the WWI Allied troop carrier which washed ashore on a supposed tropical island in South Antarctica was named Edward Allen Oxford.
Maps throughout history have attempted to place Quatria at different locations around the globe.
Many traditional earth cultures recognized the Hypogeum by other names, including the Otherworld or the Land Beyond.
Many explorers throughout history have tried and failed to find Lost Quatria and enter the Hypogeum.
Magicians in Quatrian mythology are usually depicted as shape-shifting hybrid biomorphs somewhere between human and animal.
Legends of island with tropical conditions have been reported around South Antarctica by voyagers for centuries.
Knowledge of the Secret Castle within the mountains protecting the Hypogeum was forbidden to all those entities who do not have the right or the means to traverse the worlds.
It is not known with certainty why Quatrian civilization ended, as any records they may have left were believed to have been lost.
It is not known who built the portail system on Kremel, though it has been speculated to be Zalthyrmians, ancient Lagoms, or some other party.
It is not just any ordinary ship or sailor which can get to Quatria.
In Ancient Quatria, there was a secret castle located within the ring of mountains which guard the entrance to the Hypogeum.
High Dock castle, once a docking station for Cloud Ships, was a remnant from a time of peace between the Majonan Sky Lords and the Edebians of the Wide Lands and Kremel.
Goleks are a type of large animal whose biomorph is somewhere between a horse and a large rabbit, and whose intelligence is thought to surpass humans.
Finding the way back to Quatria requires traveling in the Lost Direction.
During the Pentarch period, Kremel was ruled by five kingdoms, which banded together to form a High Council in the Citadel of Kremel when important decisions had to be made which could impact them all.
Being tone-deaf was considered a disability in Quatrian society, and people who were so affected would perform only minor speaking parts or tableaux vivant in the great Quatrian spectacles.
Banarat was the first of the Order of the Tempest, also known as the Storm Sages, who fought the Fall of the Hard Hammer, Elgorra.
Anthuor is one of several powers which dwells within the Hypogeum.
Antarctica once long ago acted as a bridge between the other continents, and was richly populated by flora and fauna.
Ancient texts speak of a Lost Direction, that was neither north, nor south, nor east, nor west.
Ancient Quatrian society was fragmented through multiple diasporas throughout its long and storied history.
Ancient Quatrian geography and culture was organized into four Houses: the House of Sorrow, the House of Wealth (or Abundance), the House of Song, and the House of Silence.
Ancient Quatria was ruled by what scholars call a festal government, with leadership changing throughout the calendar year.
Ancient Quatria is known by many names across many different cultures.
An Allied troop carrier was torpedoed by an unidentified Axis U-boat in the early days of WWI off the coast of South Antarctica.
After the Great War, Edward Allen Oxford claimed to have reproduced from his photographic memory the contents of scrolls of great antiquity which he discovered in a ruined temple on that supposed tropical island off the coast of South Antarctica.
Acho is one with the Ground of Being.
According to Quatrian myth, the people of Anthuor escaped from the Third World by way of the tunnel of Matarax.
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