The Drowned City
The architecture of R’lyeh is a nightmare made manifest, composing a cityscape of alien spires, grotesque angles, and structures that flout the laws of physics. R’lyeh is a place where the very fabric of reality unravels, challenging the sanity of those who dare to gaze upon its eldritch magnificence. The city’s towers reach toward the surface like accusing fingers, hinting at an intelligence that lies dormant within the sunken depths.
The Sepulchre of the Sleeper
Despite its unsettling ambiance, R’lyeh is not an empty, desolate place. Here, in the vaulted, flooded crypts, Cthulhu and most of his Star Spawn lie dead and dreaming. The slumbering giant sprawls within his palace, a towering structure that rises from the center of the city and stretches so high it seems poised to break the surface. Behind barriers of stone and spell, Cthulhu waits to be disturbed in his repose.
Point Nemo
R’lyeh’s exact location is layered in secrecy, hidden from the prying eyes of the world above. The waters surrounding it are not merely a physical barrier, but rather a metaphysical veil that guards the city, making it all but impossible to find. Nevertheless, it does not remain continually sunken. On occasion, as the stars align in peculiar configurations, R’lyeh rises from the ocean floor, a spectral city breaking the surface of the Pacific. It is during these times that the fools who seek R’lyeh may have a chance to visit the dead metropolis. Inevitably, most do not return. Those who do bring with them fragmented tales, their minds forever marked by the eldritch revelations that lie beneath the waves.
