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Ecology Ĭarcosa is a monstrous, living city which sustains on civilisation itself and can connect to cities across the Material Plane, at which point Carcosa feeds upon the city's zeitgeist, spreads madness among its residents, transports both across space, and draws them into Carcosa. Sections of Carcosa can, like a mirage, always be seen across or upon Lake Hali no matter the distance. Tall structures in any nexus often appear to be behind the planet's moons. A technologically advanced city full of skyscrapers made from metal, glass, and plastic, inhabited by various robots and aliens, as well as non-natives armed with technologically advanced tools.An underwater city made from seashells and coral, filled with undead remnants of its former citizens.A hazy reflection of the Ustalavic town Thrushmoor.

The Rue d'Auseil, a section of the city called Paris from Earth.

Bohlvarai, the ruins of an elder thing city taken over by rebel shoggoths.

The flying polyp city dubbed Neruzavin by Upianshe.

Ĭarcosa is an unimaginably vast patchwork of the cities that it has subsumed across the Material Plane over the eons each individual piece is called a nexus. At sunset, the suns seem to fall into Lake Hali.

Stars are visible on the sky of Carcosa during both day and night. Looking into them is safe for the eyes, but risks headaches, nausea, bad dreams, or the attention of Hastur. It has two pitch-black suns, visible only as a pale yellow outline, which provide a modicum of heat and light. Geography Ĭarcosa is located on a Golarion-sized planet which does not differ significantly in terms of gravity, although nexuses sometimes retain many properties of their original worlds. Alar infused Carcosa with militarism, while Yhtill granted it with beauty and decadence. Time passed, and eventually, the Pallid Mask came to Yhtill so Hastur could call upon the Yellow Sign to have Carcosa consume it as well, and reshaped Carcosa into an instrument of his release and apotheosis into an Outer God. When the people of Alar attacked Carcosa to harness its power against Yhtill, the entire city and its inhabitants vanished without a trace. It is suggested by some scholars that Carcosa was Hastur's home before his imprisonment. Carcosa appeared across Lake Hali when the twin black suns sank into the lake it and the King in Yellow, its mysterious immortal ruler, dominated the folklore of both cities. It sat unreachable to the people of Alar and Yhtill, the centres of civilisation on the nameless world, since these cities were founded. The earliest references to the original Carcosa described it as a city that had been abandoned and crumbling since before time.