IN> Ultima Thule (Domain)

[Moe Lane]

http://moeticae.typepad.com/weblog_licentiae_moeticae/2007/12/ultima-thule-do.html

I would like to note for the record that I am well aware that there is
a lot of pseudo-history enshrined below.  To paraphrase Ken Hite, bad
scholarship means good gaming.

Ultima Thule (Domain)

You've heard the old saying "Old Nazis never die; they just move to
South America?"  Well, it's not true.  They die.  And if they know the
trick, then afterwards they move to Ultima Thule.

Ultima Thule was a very new Domain, and thus not very well formed when
it was discovered and almost immediately altered by the feverish
subconscious yearnings of several thousand demented, twisted
romantics.  Its present configuration as the ice-choked interior of an
endless hollow Earth is solely due to the beliefs of its inhabitants,
and could change in a moment.  Even the ruins that dot the landscape
are newly created, which does nothing to help determine the history of
the place.  There is nothing that can be verified as being relics of
the old tenants of Ultima Thule, assuming that there were any old
tenants to begin with.

The new indigenous tenants are made up of the same whole cloth as the
ruins.  There are two types: Ubermensch and Untermensch.  The
dream-shades that infest Ultima Thule have unconsciously created the
former for them to lead, and the latter for them to kill: while
Ubermensch are supposedly Ultimate Aryans, they are actually both
fairly stupid and easily controlled.  The Untermensch include within
them "foreigners" (read: outside ethereals that were sucked into this
Domain) who have had some success in Initiating the supposed
"subhumans."  There are currently four celestials in the entire
Domain, and all of them are engaged in short-term spying.

Precisely how an Ahnenerbe-trained lucid dreamer managed to stumble
upon Ultima Thule in the fall of 1943 is unknown.  Needless to say,
the SS jumped to completely the wrong conclusion and assumed that they
had found an "astral portal" to "the sacred motherland of the Aryan
race," etc, etc.  In fairness, this was the sort of thing that various
madmen in Nazi uniform had been looking for, particularly as the
Eastern Front began moving west, but the initial lack of expected
Aryan artifacts and tribes gave some researchers a bit of ideological
trouble until better reports conveniently started to come in.

How the Nazi high command kept Ultima Thule a secret is known: they
simply shot everybody below a certain rank who knew of it.  Those who
were loyal Nazis were given the opportunity to learn how to activate
the "astral portal" first, so as to prepare the land for those would
follow.  It is surprising how many of them did exactly that.  The
tendency for Nazi leaders to commit suicide at the end of World War II
anyway obscures how many of them did so while frantically trying to
visualize the gate to their new home, but it can be confirmed that
Ultima Thule is currently ruled by Hitler and Fuehrer (both being
titles) Heinrich I from his ponderously inane capital of New Germania.
 He has managed quite the collection of both old and new National
Socialists, most of whom have very good reasons not to abandon the
sanctuary that the Domain offers them.

Ultima Thule is, of course, an exceptionally unpleasant place to
visit; and for ethereals, going there is a one-way trip.  Thanks to
the Nazis interference (Domains aren't really designed to handle this
level of active mortal scrutiny) Once you're in, you're stuck there...
and there are always six or so wars going on, cities being firebombed,
atrocities taking place everywhere, and unless you happen to be
naturally human-looking, blond, and blue-eyed you are going to be a
favorite target.  Meanwhile, the Nazis themselves are frantically
attempting to work out how to reliably project people - by which they
mean themselves - back to Earth without immediately getting sucked
into Hell.  They hope that once they work out the trick they can use
it to send through armies as well.  It's the entire Fourth Reich
thing, of course, and from their point of view they have truly
enormous armies with which to work with.

Needless to say, none of it will work.  Nonetheless, Ultima Thule is
an annoyance, and potentially not a good neighbor to have.  While its
endless armies will dissipate on the corporeal plane, they won't on
the ethereal - and if the Nazis can just figure out how to get
ethereals out of the Domain safely, they could very well make a start
at conquering the Far Marches - which is a scenario that a good number
of ethereals have no desire to see come to pass.  Which is why Odin
visited Vishnu, and why Vishnu contacted Legba, and Legba stopped by
to chat with Yves, and why Yves invited David over for tea, and why
somewhere in the Negev desert there's a facility where about a hundred
or so Mossad agents are busily training in the esoteric arts of lucid
dreaming, symbolic logic bombing, and explosive literary
deconstruction techniques.

Because you want to have people with motivation for this sort of work,
of course.

Features: Common Tongue, Dream Magnet, Fierce Figments, Infinite,
Malleable (+3), Hostile (Constant warfare), Oasis, Sticky (only worse:
ethereals, once in, can't leave).


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