Giant country and The Land of Dreams in The BFG.The Stain itself is probed in Iron Council, and it isn't pretty. There is mention of the city of Seuroch, which was hit with a Fantastic Nuke to cover up what the Torque bombs it was initially hit with did. The primary villains of Perdido Street Station are from the Cacotopic Stain, Bas-Lag's premier Torque locality. Torque is a special kind of magic that, as its name suggests, twists things. Bas-Lag Cycle: Bas-Lag is a strange place to begin with, featuring dozens of sentient races, a city built in the corpse of a dead giant, bears built from flocks of birds and more, but any place that's been touched by the Torque is considered an Eldritch Location in-universe.At the center is the Time Matix itself, which is the key to getting out of there, but time speeds up for all matter that comes close, causing Elfangor and Loren to age five Earth years before they reach it, and are unable to change back after they escape. At the edge of that world, there's nothing but zero space, and Loren's arm gets bent spacially back into her face when she tries to reach out there. The result is a horrifying mishmash of their memories of all three. In Animorphs' The Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor, Loren, and Visser Three get hold of the Time Matrix, a time machine, at the same time and each simultaneously tries to use it to take them back to their home planets.We can at most glimpse it, in those uncanny moments when the world seems wrong. There is something secret, horrible, and cosmic afoot, centered around Santa Teresa (and possibly culminating in the mystical year of the book's title, a date that is referred to in passing in Amulet as well).
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