Talk:The Bleeding Tree/@comment-24399271-20140116231232/@comment-11170851-20140117001735

@ PyroGothNerd: I'm fairly certain that the Nightlanders have stood by themselves for a while, with some blogs/creepypastas interpreting them as 'this is what happens when folks get stuck in the Empty City and stay there'

And while, yes, a lot of writers do tie the Empty City and the Nightlanders close together, they can both stand as individual entities without relying on ridiculously fancy footwork to explain the existance of one without the existance of the other

Perhaps most importantly, is that the Empty City is also a Fear Mythos creation. It comes from the community, rather than originating from another Mythos and, then, being ported across.