Lomar

An ancient land in the far north.

Origins and Age

Lomar was not as old as the cities of the Antarctic Old Ones, [HPL Mountains (online text)], nor as old as Rhan-Tegoth's worshippers of three million years ago. [Museum (online text)] Lomar rose out of the sea, perhaps around the time the Winged Ones came to earth to teach the Elder Lore to man [Gates (online text)].

The men of Lomar had previously dwelt in Zobna until the advance of a great ice-sheet forced them to migrate southward. Arriving in Lomar, they victoriously swept aside the hairy, long-armed, cannibal Gnophkehs. [Polaris (online text)] Men dwelt in Lomar for at least 100,000 years [Time (online text)].

Nearby Kingdoms

From the wanderings of the poet Iranon, we know that the Lomarian city of Olathoë was contemporary with several outside cities including Teloth and Oonai. In Iranon's time, the city of Sarnath in Mnar had already fallen, but it seems that other cities of Mnar still existed (Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron). [Iranon (online text)]

Cults

There was a shrine to Tsathoggua in Olathoë, housing a small image brought from Yoth. [Mound (online text)]

According to the Wampanaug wizard Misquamacus, the old tribes of Lamah (presumably Lomar) knew how to manage Ossadagowah in all ways. [Sorceries (online text)]

Downfall

There are varied accounts of how the kingdom of Lomar came to end.

The Polaris narrator believed that later generations would need to flee the advance of the great ice-sheet [Polaris (online text)]. Similarly, William Dyer believed that an ice age put an end to the fabled land of Lomar [Mountains (online text)].

However, before the ice-sheet arrived, we know that the squat, hellish, yellow Inutos invaded from the west, and took the city of Daikos. Alos, leader of the soldiers of the Plateau of Sarkis, which included the city Olathoë, sent his friend the Polaris narrator to stand watch at the tower of Thapnen and signal if the Inutos approached by the narrow pass behind the peak of Noton. There it seems the Polaris narrator fell asleep while on watch, but we do not know the immediate result of his lapse. [Polaris (online text)] Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, during his captivity among the Great Race, heard that Lomar was engulfed by the Inutos [Time (online text)].

However, the people of K’n-yan believed that Lomar was destroyed by the great ice-sheet and the hairy Gnophkehs [Mound (online text)]. A similar view was held by one of the zoogs of the dreamlands, who said that "the hairy cannibal Gnophkehs overcame many-templed Olathoë and slew all the heroes of the land of Lomar."

Misquamacus said that the tribes of Lamah were anciently destroyed for their wickedness. [Sorceries]

Manuscripts

The Pnakotic Manuscripts originated in Lomar [Kadath (online text), Other (online text)].

In Olathoë, the Polaris narrator studied manuscripts of the wisdom of the Zobnarian fathers.

In modern times, Georg Reuter Fischer heard voices that mentioned the litanies of Lomar [FL Terror2].

Incl: Alos; Banof, valley of; Daikos; Gnophkehs; Inutos; Kadiphonek, Mt.; Noton, Mt.; Olathoë; Polaris narrator; Pnakotic Manuscripts; Pole Star; Sarkis, Plateau of; Thapnen; Zobna; Zobnarians.

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