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Tagged: Black galleys

An ominous black galley approaches lantern-lit quays beneath a dense skyline of angular basalt towers and a harbor lighthouse.
Places

Dylath-Leen

Dylath-Leen is the basalt port on the Southern Sea where Randolph Carter seeks passage to Oriab in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Its international trade provides information and transport, but its appetite for rare rubies sustains dealings with the sinister black galleys. Carter is abducted there, returns after a lunar rescue and fails to secure a complete end to the dangerous commerce.

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Eyeless pale moon-beasts unload a black galley at their lunar port.
Entities & creatures

Moon-beasts

The moon-beasts are the pale, changeable masters of the black-galley trade in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Carter encounters them as strong, eyeless, tentacle-faced inhabitants of a lunar city whose commerce depends on disguised intermediaries, captive labor and predation.

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Carter’s feline allies rescue him beside a black galley on the moon.
Literature

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Randolph Carter searches the Dreamlands for the gods who can explain a city he has seen only at sunset. His journey crosses trading ports, the moon, subterranean kingdoms and the frozen north, gathering allies whose frightening appearances conceal loyalties more dependable than the assurances of a god.

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