Arabia
regionReal-world: Arabia
The land of pathless deserts where old Castro thought the center of the cult lay, and where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.
Arabia is named once in the record, and at second hand: what comes down is what Castro told his questioners after the swamp raid.
Nothing in the account tests the claim. No one sets out for the deserts, and the City of Pillars said to dream in them is never seen — only placed.
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Every fact above traces back to the text.
“Of the cult, he said that he thought the center lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse