K'n-yan is a vast underground nation under a "sky" of glowing blue clounds similar to the Northern Lights, occupied by a hidden race of prehistoric of humanoids who sealed themselves away from the rest of the world at some time after the sinking of Mu.
History
Hailing from a planet much like Earth the K'n-yanians were supposedly brought across space by Tulu founding a mighty civilisation spanning as far as the South Pole near the Mountain of Kadath. When the continent of Mu sank they decided to hole up in their underground shelter believing survivors on the outside to be in league with space-devils. Though at one point the great expanse had once been home to several races the men of Tsath After a million or two years belief in the old legends faded and rare visitors like Zamacona y Nuñez were allowed to enter to be questioned about the world above but could never leave.
Description
the North of K’n-yan has a dry, temperate climate and a landscape of bare hills and plains made up of grey basaltic soil. A snaking highway leading to the city of Tsath crosses a slow moving river full over an ancient black basalt bridge. By 1541 the road up until this point had lost its paving
Locations
Tsath
Named after the once worshipped Tsathoggua, Tsath is the last occupied city in K'n-yan. Looking more like a mountain than a city it is a mass of clustered, heaven-reaching towers adorned with a million golden minarets. Despite its imposing size many of the taller spires had been abandoned or dismantled in favour of easy to maintain shorter buildings. Surrounding the outskirts are the great amphitheatres used for entertainment and drawn out public executions.The gold/stone-paved roads are thronged with ever present caravans flowing noisily in and out. The maze of streets and ornate avenues that run below the great towers are filled with people and lined with curious carvings on its doorways and windows. High up balustraded plazas and huge tiered terraces gave sweeping veiws of gorge-like streets below. The gn’agn of the supreme tribunal and the council of executives operates from the frescoed halls of a gold-and-copper palace behind a gardened and fountained park.
L'thaa
A ruined suburb of Tsath leading to Nith.
Nith
A collection of deserted machine-cities from the middle period on gorse-grown plains between Tsath and the low hills of Grh-yan.
Yoth
Lying below K’n-yan are the abandoned Cyclopean ruins of red-litten Yoth, the largest of which is the once great city of Zin. All of the information about Yoth's lost civilisation comes from a handful of manuscripts and carvings discovered by K'n-yanian archaeologists in the vaults buried beneath the city.
It seems that the vanished inhabitants of Yoth had been quadrupedal reptilians with the capability to create synthetic life. They used this knowledge to make and destroy a series of creatures from efficiently designed industrial and transportational animals to fantastic living shapes built for their decadent (the latter echoing Tsath's constant search for new sensations). Because of this it is unclear whether or not they devolved into the creatures found in Yoth that were used as the genetic base of the gyaa-yothn.
N’kai
Another level below Yoth is the black realm N'kai populated with peculiar-sensed beings which had forged great civilisations without any light at all even before the emergence of the people of Yoth. The source of the multiple black idols and images of Tsathoggua. The Yothic manuscripts were scoured by archaeologists for references to N’kai, and even singular stone troughs or burrows had excited infinite speculation. Though the manuscript described it as barren the one expedition from Tsath found that it had been repopulated by a collection of formless black blobs that worshipped onyx and basalt images of Tsathoggua. Much later a second attempt to access the depths was made but neither they nor Zamacona y Nuñez was able to find the entrance.
Inhabitants
Dressed in "tasteful robes and trappings and swords" the Men of Tsath are the dominant power in K'nyan.
Slaves
Slavery is a common practice in K’n-yan and there are several forms of slaves used :
- The four legged gyaa-yothn.
- The bio-mechanical y'm-bhi.
- An unnamed , semi human slave-class which could also be programmed with hympnotic impressions to do incredibly efficient. Inferior specimens provided the principal meat stock of K’n-yan.
Language
The closest link to a human language is that it may have been corrupted into Aztec.
- "oxi, oxi, giathcán ycá relex"
Religion
Wildlife
- Aimless wandering herds
- Large bizzare fish
- High soaring birds