Miskatonic Arcihves

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Places

Inganok

Inganok is the northern country and onyx-built city whose people bear the features Carter recognizes from the divine image on Ngranek. Its beauty, regulated rituals and prosperous stone trade exist beside an impassable mountain barrier and an unacknowledged route toward Kadath.

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Books & artifacts

Yellow Sign

The Yellow Sign is an ominous emblem in Robert W. Chambers’s fiction. Its best-known physical appearance is a gold design inlaid in a black onyx clasp that Tessie Reardon gives to the painter Mr. Scott. In another story it marks Hildred Castaigne’s imagined imperial conspiracy. Chambers supplies these uses without drawing a definitive symbol or setting out a universal rule for its effects.

5 min read · 874 words