Entities & creatures’Umr at-Tawil
’Umr at-Tawil, rendered in the story as the Prolonged of Life, is the veiled Guide who receives Carter beyond the first threshold in Through the Gates of the Silver Key. Feared in the Necronomicon, he nevertheless offers Carter a welcome and a choice. His role is to prepare and guide passage toward a reality more disturbing than an ordinary encounter with a monster.
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