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Dungeon Dimensions
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Dimensions where all Creatures are sad because they have no reality, no life. These Creatures are large monsters – not large furry things, those are only bogeymen, but things that look like they might have had bicycles and octopussies in their ancestry. They are generally very violent. They crave life in a stable reality, so they try to break through into more ordinary dimensions such as the Discworld (it says something when the Discworld has a much more stable reality than the Dungeon Dimensions have). Magic weakens the boundaries between worlds, so the Creatures of the Dungeon Dimensions gather where there is a large amount of magic, waiting to break through. They also sometimes manage to come into the mind of a wizard, and these Creatures have an affinity to the number that is four-plus-four, so wizards try not to say that number (see The Discworld Companion).
Several people known to have survived the Dungeon Dimensions, either in corporeal form or in their minds, are:
- Esk, later the first female student in Unseen University.
- Simon, an Unseen student so smart that he started giving lectures to the faculty soon after he entered as a student.
- Coin, the Sourcerer.
- Rincewind the Wizzard [sic].
- These incidents are detailed in: Equal Rites, Sourcery, and Eric.
Other breakthrough attempts described in: The Light Fantastic, Moving Pictures, and sometimes referred to by Lord Havelock Vetinari, the current Patrician of Ankh-Morpork (in The Truth).
The Dungeon Dimensions are heavily inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Dark Gods of the Dungeon Dimensions
It has been suggested that some of the very terrible gods on the Disc are not ordinary demons from Hell who have managed to convince believers, but Creatures of the Dungeon Dimensions who have managed to attach to the Discworld enough to have believers.
Some of these Dark Gods are:
The Laddering Horror, Nylonathatep
The Drunken Cthubopalulu
The Sender of Eight, Bel-Shamharoth
C'hulagan
The Insider
