f Irem Of Thousand Pillars
rem Zhat al
Imad, Irem of the Pillars, the great city. I have spent ten years in the
heart of the "Roba al Khaliyeh," the empty space, the great southern
desert colored "Dahma," crimson. And I have seen the fabulous many pillars
of Irem and I have been called "majnun," mad and possessed of the Jinn.
Many are the strange and unbelievable marvels that may be seen there. Alas
for the earth has swallowed up the City of Pillars, no more do the
caravans of frankincense pass by. Many have called it a town of great
wickedness, but do they dare comprehend the fabulous?
Irem was an earthly paradise to the initiated. Towers rising high, the
great octagonal fort, alas no more! And there were places here of hidden
knowledge and of power.
Some say it was built by giants, some by the tribe of Ad, but Irem was
here before men and though swallowed she will protect her secrets from the
profane, releasing them to the knowing
For there are many levels of existence for Irem, many levels of
reality. So Irem of the Old Ones still exists in some form, and is not
this great desert, this empty quarter connected to the void.? Cannot a
Muqarribun interact with its unseen denizens in the Crimson Desert? |
Book of Earthly Places |