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The strange pyramid in the Yucatan, constructed above the Dreaming God.

The Dreaming God was a two kilometer long primordial entity that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula 64 million years ago after perishing in the battle that formed the Magellanic Clouds billions of years ago. Its impact triggered the K-Pg extinction event. The Dreaming God was likely a W'rkncacnter.

Overview

Sixty-four million years ago, a large extra-terrestrial object struck the Earth in what would later
be called the Yucatan Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico. The dust and rock thrown up by the
resulting explosion caused enormous climactic changes in the ensuing years, and many of the
Earth’s species became extinct during the long winter that followed.

The object itself was buried thousands of feet below ground, its nearly two kilometer length
remarkably intact. It remained there, motionless, for thousands of years before it finally began
to stir— and to dream. It was a member of a race whose history began when the Milky Way was
still a formless collection of dust and gas— a powerful race of immortals which had quickly grown
bored of their tiny universe and nearly exterminated themselves in war.

This particular being, whose name no human throat will ever learn to pronounce, was part of the
cataclysmic battle that formed Magellanic Clouds, billions of years ago. It died there, or it came
as close to dying as these things can, and drifted aimlessly for millions of light years before
striking the Earth.

The heat of impact liquefied the rock around it, which later cooled and encased the dead god’s
huge body far below ground. As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its
environment. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out
of reality. Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible
manifestations of the dead god’s dream.

Only during the last few centuries has the god begun to effect changes on the surface of the
Earth. Grotesque creatures have been sighted deep in the trackless forest of the Yucatan, and
strange rumors of an ancient pyramid— which is neither Aztec nor Mayan— in the same area
have been circulating in the archaeological community since the early 1930’s.

The god is awakening.

– Pathways Into Darkness Manual

History

In the Spring of 1994, Sergeant Eddings successfully detonated a nuclear device beneath the pyramid, stunning the Dreaming God. Two years later, the Jjaro arrived on Earth to take permanent measures against the Dreaming God.

Gallery

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  Sergeant Eddings approaches the Dreaming God's pyramid.

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  Eddings fights a Nightmare, an emanation of the Dreaming God, inside the pyramid.