Miskatonic Arcihves

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Places

Lomar

Lomar is the northern country remembered or dreamed by the narrator of Polaris. Its marble city Olathoë faces an invasion while its people preserve traditions of an earlier migration before advancing ice. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath later associates Lomar with the transmission of the Pnakotic Manuscripts into dreamland. These accounts overlap without supplying one fully consistent historical atlas.

4 min read · 660 words

Places

Sarnath

Sarnath is the wealthy human city beside the still lake of Mnar whose inhabitants destroy Ib and celebrate the massacre for a millennium. The Doom That Came to Sarnath describes its trade, architecture, religion and imperial power before showing the terror that precedes its disappearance. Its splendor and its violence are inseparable parts of the same history.

4 min read · 815 words

Literature

The Doom That Came to Sarnath

The Doom That Came to Sarnath recounts the rise and disappearance of a human city built beside the older settlement of Ib. Its founders destroy their nonhuman neighbors and celebrate that extermination for a thousand years. On the great anniversary, signs from the lake and reports from the royal banquet overturn the city’s confidence in its permanent supremacy.

6 min read · 1,055 words