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2->The black realm Vanna is a world of darkness ruled by the Abyss. North of the Kaogamika rock wall, even farther north than the Needakitta plains where catfolk once lived, lies Vanna. The ground there is cracked, belching fire, swept by hot winds, beset by rain like waterfalls... it is a barren land no man or beast could ever call home. The Abyss is said to have appeared suddenly in Vanna, but as no one who set foot in Vanna before the Ring King returned is still alive, the truth is far less certain. In the age after the Abyss King was sealed, the curse of darkness held us in its clutches, and it became a forbidden land where none dared draw near.
3-->--''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings''
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5[[AC:Films -- Live-Action]]
6->''"My boy, we're pilgrims in an unholy land."''
7-->-- '''Dr. Henry Jones, Sr.''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', on UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.
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9->'''Marty [=McFly=]:''' I don't get it, Doc. [[AlternateTimeline I mean, how can all this be happening?]] It's like we're in Hell or something.\
10'''Doc Brown:''' No, it's Hill Valley. Although I can't imagine Hell being much worse!
11-->-- ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', on the [[WretchedHive 1985-A Hill Valley]].
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13[[AC:Literature]]
14->''"through many a dark and drearie Vaile\
15They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous,\
16O're many a Frozen, many a Fierie Alpe,\
17Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death,\
18A Universe of death, which God by curse\
19Created evil, for evil only good,\
20Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds,\
21Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,\
22Abominable, inutterable, and worse"''
23-->-- '''Creator/JohnMilton''', ''Literature/ParadiseLost''
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25->The air around the second planet of the Frogstar system was stale and unwholesome. The dank winds that swept continually over its surface swept over salt flats, dried-up marshland, tangled and rotting vegetation and the crumbling remains of ruined cities. No life moved across its surface. The ground, like that of many planets in this part of the Galaxy, had long been deserted.
26->The howl of the wind was desolate enough as it gusted through the old decaying houses of the cities; it was more desolate as it whipped about the bottoms of the tall black towers that swayed uneasily here and there about the surface of this world. At the top of these towers lived colonies of large, scraggy, evil-smelling birds, the sole survivors of the civilization that once lived here.
27->The howl of the wind was at its most desolate, however, when it passed over a pimple of a place set in the middle of a wide grey plain on the outskirts of the largest of the abandoned cities. This pimple of a place was the thing that had earned this world the reputation of being the most totally evil place in the Galaxy. From without it was simply a steel dome about thirty feet across. From within it was [[GoMadFromTheRevelation something more monstrous than the mind can comprehend]].
28-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
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30->The mountain consisted of a giant cone of blue-gray rock and was surrounded by an endless, barren highland studded with a few trees charred by fire and overgrown with gray moss and gray brush, out of which here and there brown boulders jutted up like rotten teeth. Even by light of day, the region was so dismal and dreary that the poorest shepherd in this poverty-stricken province would not have driven his animals there. And by night, by the bleaching light of the moon, it was such a godforsaken wilderness that it seemed not of this world. Even Lebrun, the bandit of the Auvergne, though pursued from all sides, had preferred to fight his way through to the Cévennes and there be captured, drawn, and quartered rather than to hide out on the Plomb du Cantal, where certainly no one would have sought or found him, but where likewise he would certainly have died a solitary, living death that seemed to him worse still. For miles around the mountain, there lived not one human being, not even a respectable mammal - at best a few bats and couple of beetles and adders. No one had scaled the peak for decades.
31-->-- ''Literature/PerfumeTheStoryOfAMurderer''
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33->''"I have seen Thakan'dar. The [[OminousFog great sea of fog]], rolling and crashing against the [[DarkIsEvil black]] cliffs, the fires of the forges glowing red beneath, and [[HostileWeather lightning stabbing up]] into a sky fit to drive men mad. I have taken the path down to the [[EldritchLocation belly of Shayol Ghul]], down the long way with stones like fangs brushing my head, to the shore of a lake of fire and molten rock that holds the [[TheAntiGod Great Lord of the Dark]] in its endless depths. The heavens above Shayol Ghul are black at noon with his breath."''
34-->-- '''Padan Fain''', ''The Fires of Heaven'', ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''
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36[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
37->The only true city is ''Mingol Zharr-Naggrund'' (literally "[[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace The Great City of Fire and Desolation]]"), which lies to the north of the dark empire in the heavily-mined Plain of Zharr. Surrounded by a constant miasma of black smoke and poison fumes, this colossal obsidian ziggurat is a monument to industrialization gone mad. It sits astride the River Ruin, a waterway that the [[EvilCounterpartRace Chaos Dwarfs]] have extended as a great canal beyond the Falls of Doom, giving the city naval access to the Sea of Chaos. The frigid waters of this river are harnessed to power massive steam-driven engines and cool the cities forges, which work day and night; finally, they are discharged from Zharr Nagrund's south gate, carrying the toxic effluent of all this industry to the Sea of Dread. Millennia of mining, smelting and industrial experimentation have transformed the Darklands from a barren but innocuous wasteland into a [[PollutedWasteland poisonous desolation]], habitable only by degenerate mutants and the grisly minions of the Undead.
38-->-- ''The World Of TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''
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40->Malfeas is a [[EldritchLocation surrealist's nightmare]], a twisted combination of a continent-sized insane asylum, toxic landfills, deteriorated factories and the European Dark Ages. It is [[TheMaze a twisted maze of tunnels]], hidden chambers, stone cells and iron bars, so many that even the lords of the realm do not know them all. Some say there are portals that have been forgotten, and that some of these portals go to entire realms that [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]] has forgotten in its madness; the truth of such stories will never be known. Screams and maniacal laughter echo off the spiked battlements and jagged, naked girders of the Realm, and skip across the stagnant ponds of slime and toxin. Here, the population is [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Banes]], [[DemonicPossession fomori]], the occasional [[EvilCounterpartRace Black Spiral Dancer]], and a disquieting number of mortal slaves who fell to the Wyrm in life and [[FateWorseThanDeath were carried off to Malfeas]] before their deaths.
41->And for all this, Malfeas is constantly in a state of slow change. New areas manifest as new realms are corrupted, and other areas atrophy, disappear, or become hidden in the Realm's layers. Sadly enough, the change is always growth, never shrinkage - [[JustBeforeTheEnd such is the state of]] the [[CrapsackWorld World of Darkness]] that Malfeas has never gone hungry.
42-->-- ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Book of the Wyrm (second edition)''
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44->There are stories of those who have travelled to the [[EldritchLocation Realm of Chaos]] and returned. These tales speak of a land immersed in perpetual darkness lit only by monumental pillars of flame that soar high into the sky. A place where [[TimeCrash time has lost its meaning]] and great champions from the past, present and future fight on, [[WarIsHell trapped in a world of eternal battle]].
45->Here, [[RealityIsOutToLunch nature itself is cast down]], and the very landscape is moulded by the uncaring Gods of Chaos. It is home for monstrous creatures of all kinds, mindless beasts that crave the blood of the living. Here, even the earth rebels against what it has become: trees moan in eldritch voices, and the rocks scream their hatred to the skies. Daemons walk freely upon the land, nourished by the magical energy seeping from the [[HellGate great, broken warp gate]]. This is indeed a hell on earth.
46-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Realm Of Chaos Armies Book''
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48[[AC:Video Games]]
49->''"Ahh, look! How lovely! The black clouds of twilight are so fetching today..."''
50-->-- '''Midna''', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''
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52[[AC:Web Original]]
53->''"Flying through Borg space is like practicing yoga in a prison shower: It's just an invitation to get roundly screwed."''
54-->-- '''Website/SFDebris'''
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56->''"Come on guys, we have a nice settlement, why didn't you stick around? Was it the ashen wasteland? The bloodstained gates? Was it the screams of madmen or the stench of death? We've got awful nice engravings of some fucking cheese here, come the fuck on in!"''
57-->-- '''[[Website/SomethingAwful Cross Quantum]]''', describing Blog/{{Boatmurdered}}
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