Like a dragon of rot and venom, it sludges around in swamps and bogs. The water boils beneath its feat, and dealthy things are given life. Great hoary things once were called back by Kiran, and in Ulthar they whisper of a strange city which once was called Zoog, or the City of Zoogs. Some say it was a swarthy city of evil mists in the Westward Sea, and legend says it was burnt when the gray gods struck it with their meteor. No man treads it now, for the stones are too tarnished for walking. Those who have dwelt in Ulthar say Zoogs is but a fancy name for such a place; though they are fair in Ulthar to accost one who ventures to climb up the aela-roofed steps to the top. So it was not by luck...