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...Matuni, but has a slightly smaller [[area]].) Eordi is the site of one of Dadauar's oldest and most powerful onirarchies, [[Drithidiach]], as well as many ot ...en the Strait of Mazara and the isthmus, borders the circumferent [[ocean (Dadauar)|ocean]]; offshore in that direction lie the [[Murk Islands]]. ...

...e [[Bathybius]]. As a deepling, it presumably serves somehow the purposes of its creator, the Bathybius, though the exact means by which it serves those ...id to look especially eerie when backlit by one of Dadauar's three [[moon (Dadauar)|moon]]s, at which time it appears to glow with a spectral light. ...

...e full of magically altered and wholly artificial creatures, [[talisman]]s of diverse sorts, and powerful [[enchantment]]s to help enforce the rulers' wi ...the leaders, endured without complaint in order to return to the paradise of dreaming—so that awake and asleep, the people are working for the oni ...

...ical Charotian [[rew]] is separated from its nearest neighbors by millions of [[kilometer]]s, and is in most ways a self-contained world, although it may ...[Heqhasta]] the [[H axis]]. The [[obverse (cosmology)|obverse]] conspects of Qabede, Gaden, and Heqhasta are [[Mriddiom]], [[Ckapir]], and [[Gaiua]], re ...

...here is evidence that the Bathybius gains the [[knowledge]] and [[skill]]s of all entities it absorbs... and it's perhaps for that reason that it prefers ...large scale very flat; essentially, it appears to be just a gigantic lump of gelatinous goo spread over the ocean floor. ...

...its new gulletful. The ganulia tends to stay at or very near the surface of the water, very seldom having any need to submerge. ...stories of ganulias with the ability to [[spell|cast spells]], though none of these have been substantiated. ...

...intelligent]] than others, they are all [[agency|self-willed]] and capable of acting on their own initiative. For the most part, however, batirines are ...elves, but by their subjects, and it reflects the dread with which these [[life form|creatures]] were initially (and to some degree still are) regarded. ...

...nced {{IPA|/ˈdædəwɑːr/}}) is a [[world]] of [[Qabede]] where [[tyranny|tyrannical]] [[dictatorship|dictators]] tap into ...oper. It is the presence of Chethe that gives Dadauar its name; the name "Dadauar" comes from the [[Lilmi]] word ''yatyatyawarr'' ({{IPA0|[jæˈd& ...

...sness common to all deeplings. Sometimes, however, apparently at the whim of the Bathybius, they take on a different shape, [[transfiguration|transfigur ...ooze]] or even a part of their own bodies—which, after all, are made of the same stuff. ...

..., however, don't know all the secrets Koval hides; it is built on the site of a much older [[city]], predating the [[Avelachian Pall]], and perhaps even ...one or more major [[god (Ses)|god]]s; others believe that it was the site of an ancient [[race]] or civilization that lived primarily underground; still ...

...lagic reef]]s and the shallower parts of the [[ocean floor]]s, though not, of course, at the deepest reaches where the [[Bathybius]] lies. ...ncient Greek]] ''ξυστοόν''), a kind of [[spear]], in reference to the [[animal]]'s hastiform weapons. This, howev ...

...gets, holding them fast both by their gluey secretions and by the strength of their grip. Once a victim is caught, the clam pulls it in toward its [[mou ...hile the roper clam does spend most of its time so anchored, it is capable of movement. Dissolving the byssus when it wishes to relocate, it uses its fo ...

...th directions. These colors are in fact the temporarily transformed forms of the people using the path; an empty streampath appears colorless and nearly ...different countries, although the [[onirarch]]s no doubt have careful ways of tracking border crossings. ...

...f [[Dadauar]]'s [[ocean]]s. Like the Bathybius, deeplings are made mostly of [[enchantment|enchanted]] [[seawater]], and—absent [[dye]]s or [[illu ...rwise introduced into its [[body]], and [[transformation|transforms]] that life form into something more like the Bathybius. Once the transformation is co ...

...as the existence of the [[ambient magic]] that seems to exist independent of dreaming—but it fits the facts well enough to have won wide acceptanc ...own. In any case, dreamwards only protect against direct physical effects of dream magic; they might prevent a person from being [[transformation|transf ...