In some of the more obscure bodies of lore on the Upyreshi we find that the term the Dark Country is used for Transylvania. Dark Country is also a reasonable translation of the term Pokol most often read as Black Earth but also mistranslated as Hell in novels like Dracula as one infamous example. If we look carefully at the lore of the Upyreshi and their God the idea of the Dark Country becomes very clear. The word Upyre is an adaptation of the Turkish word for witch and in Turkey we find evidence of the cult of Rimmon as Ba’al Hadad, i.e., Sutekh, going back to when Turkey was part of Syria née Assyria. If we take Transylvania as one pole of the Dark Country and Edom using Petra as the capital as the other pole we have a much clearer idea of what and where the Dark Country is. When it was still Henotheist, Assyria carried on the Typhonian and Draconian traditions of Egypt and Sumer, i.e., the lore and traditions of the Upyreshi. The Dark Country having been defined we can now see Transylvania as being a gate for the Upyreshi into the rest of Europe and the world pointing to Turkey as a crossroads feature. We can now look at the Dark Country as an objective parallel on Earth to Pokol the Black Earth outside of the mundane realm. The dual understanding of Pokol as both the Dark Country and the Black Earth give the Upyreshi access to all of the threads of its lore, if one follows those threads back from the west to the east, i.e., the sinister path, also known as widdershins.

The lore of the Dark Country via Assyria explains one of the key names in The Testament of Shadows and that name is Ash. Ash is a name of the Dark Lord or Set-Sutekh while also evoking the lore of the God Ashur which is another name for Enlil the Dark Lord. Ashur is also a name linked to Nimrod whom The Testament of Shadows sees as an incarnation of Shemyaza. This same persona is linked among the Jews, Muslims and the Church with the Tower of Babel and in the texts of those faiths is titled as the Assyrian. This thread of lore is why the general male face of the Dark Lord is called Ashtaroth, i.e., the covenant of Ash or Ashur. This same thread of lore explains why one of the symbols in the Star of Azoth is called the Crown of Ash. The glyph known as the Crown of Ash is formed by 3 U figures and U is Vau in Hebrew making the Crown of Ash a form of 666. The value of Vau, Vau, and Vau is also the value of the title Nimrod Ben Cush in Hebrew linking the ideas of Nimrod, the Assyrian and the Beast of the Earth whose number is 666. It should be noted in The Testament of Shadows the Beast of the Earth or 666 is symbolic of the true self of an Upyre while evoking the lore of Nimrod being a resurgence of Kane the first Upyre. The link between Kane, Nimrod and Ashur via Ash gives us a clear map of the Dark Country and allows us via the lore of the Assyrian to study the lore of the Upyreshi in accepted history via the Bible, Koran and Torah. The Testament of Shadows gives the missing portion of the saga that the other three texts, and their attending bodies of lore, reveal.

By stating and affirming the Dark Country the self-identified Upyre rejects the pop culture of the vampire and evokes the lore of the Upyreshi being a demigod. The Upyreshi are those demigods that some in the Levant know as the Nephilim which links the Upyreshi to the pre-flood world. The lore of the pre-flood world takes us back to the term Upyre stemming from the term Ubor for witch. The term Ubor is also the name of a place of the same name known also as Irem or the City of Pillars long linked to the Incubi tribe or the nation of the Raphaim. The City of Pillars is in the Empty Quarter of Arabia and it is linked with the Jinn or the Old Ones as the Upyreshi know them to be. The Blood is one though Upyreshi cover the Earth and we are a people of divinity worthy of awe and respect starting with self-respect.