Terms Used in the Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith

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unnamed Abbot of Cordeliers -- slain by the flying monster in Vyones. MakerGargoyles

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unnamed beings with access to Ydmos -- ``ten feet tall'' -- ``their bodies were bright and shining, as if encased in some sort of armour, and their heads were equipped with high, curving appendages of opalescent hues which nodded above them like fantastic plumes, but may have been antennae or other sense-organs of a novel type''. CitySingingFlame

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unnamed beings with access to Ydmos -- ``creatures with long, translucent, blood-coloured wings, intricately veined and ribbed'' --can fly -- ``Their faces, featured with organs of unsurmisable use, were not those of animals''. CitySingingFlame

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unnamed beings with access to Ydmos -- a ``gorgeous creatures with golden and cerulean wings like those of giant lepidoptera, and scintillating, jewel-like eyes'' was seen by Giles Angarth. CitySingingFlame

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unnamed beings with access to Ydmos -- ``shone with all the hues of the opal''. CitySingingFlame

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unnamed family that bought Judge Peter Larcom's Auburn, California, mansion from his son -- later ``fled'' to San Francisco and sold the mansion to Jean Averaud. DevoteeEvil

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unnamed intern at a Martian hospital, some time in the future -- Rodney Severn told the story of the discovery of Yoh-Vombis to him, shortly before disappearing. YohVombis

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unnamed moneylender of Psiom -- pointed out Beldith to Valzain. Morthylla

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unnamed necromancer of Zothique -- ``born in that realm where the dawn and the sunset come together, and the moon is equal in brightness to the sun'' -- reanimated the gazolba on Euvoran's crown. Euvoran

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unnamed old woman of a village in a valley of the river Vos -- grandmother of Rubalsa -- sold Rubalsa to Cushara, Zobal, and Simban for a large sum. AbbotPuthuum

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unnamed woman loved by Uldor before he took his vows of celibacy -- a succubus in her guise seduced Uldor and gave birth to Ujuk -- presumably of Ilcar. AbbotPuthuum

Abhoth

dwells on the same underground level as the Cavern of the Archetypes -- spawns anatomical horrors from Its body by fission; the horrors grow as they leave Abhoth; those that do not swim quickly out of the pool are devoured by Abhoth -- ``the coeval of the oldest gods''. Geases

Abnon-Tha

``sorcerer and necromancer'' of Zhu-Bha-Sair -- made a bargain with the priests of Mordiggian to practice his necromancy on corpses recently brought to the temple, as long as he returned them there in time -- slew Arctela with a subtle spell, intending to resurrect her as his slave and abduct her from Mordiggian's temple -- came to Zhu-Bha-Sair from Sotar. CharnelGod

Acharnil

father of Agmeni -- former king of Tasuun. WeaverVault

Achernar

the astrologers of Zothique claimed the Silver Death came from here . IsleTorturers

Acromi

keeper or designer of an adamantine box ``in which were all the medallions of an early dynasty of Hyperborean kings'' -- the medallions were stolen from the box of Acromi by Satampra Zeiros and Tirouv Ompallios and sold to a Lemurian sea captain. Satampra

Adompha

king of Sotar -- kept ``a garden secret from all men except himself and ... Dwerulas'' -- a ``legend of unnatural infamy .. had surrounded the king from childhood'' -- died in his garden . Adompha

Aglone, Roger

First mate of the Black Falcon, under Captain Barnaby Dwale -- drowned . VintageAtlantis

Agmeni

King of Tasuun -- the last king to rule in Chaon Gacca -- by one story, he left Chaon Gacca when a Shadow, cast by no visible being, fell on his throne and rotted his right hand to the wrist -- by another story, he became mad from vapors from a rift formed in the palace at Chaon Gacca by an earthquake. WeaverVault

Agor

``a graybeard from Yoros ... who had sailed the ocean for 40 summers'' -- captain of the merchant ship bound for Yoros Yadar took -- shipwrecked and died on Naat. NecromancyNaat

Ahoom

Martian outpost near the Chaur . GulfDweller

Aihais

inhabitants of Mars -- at sunset, have their ``hour of worship'' and ``gather in their roofless temples to implore the return of the passing sun'' -- sail barges ``with immense rhomboid sails of mauve and scarlet'' -- use songs in their worship -- ``friendly enough in their taciturn way'' -- their civilization was old ``before the foundering of Lemuria; its sciences, arts, religions, were hoary with inconceivable age'' -- average almost 7 feet high with a ``massively bulging chest and bony, many-angled limbs. The head was featured with high-flaring ears and pit-like nostrils that narrowed and expanded visibly. ... The eyes were sunken in profound orbits, and were wholly invisble, save for tiny reddish sparks that appeared to burn suspended in the sockets of a skull.'' -- wear no clothing by custom; neck circlets indicate servants ``of some noble lord'' -- all doors are ``drawn upward'' -- capable of tones beyond the range of human hearing -- ``double rows of snaggy teeth'' -- modern Aihais don't believe in Vulthoom, but ``there is still a sort of devil-cult among the pariahs and low-castes'' -- ``have a taste for high-sounding metaphors and fantastic titles'' -- use kulpai; Vulthoom's servants eat possibly synthetic food, molded into ``various geometric forms'', from kulpai. Vulthoom -- tell of ``millipedal underground monsters, half a mile long'', which no ``terrestrial has ever seen'' -- yellowish-red ``blood''. GulfDweller -- believed to have wiped out the Yorhis ``at least forty thousand years ago'' from the date of the story -- ``no Aihai had set foot among the ruins [of Yoh-Vombis] for ages'' -- use bassa-cloth as protection against the chill of the Martian night [in the deserts?] -- ``great, bellows-like chests'' -- ``high, conical craniums'' -- ``sinuous, four-jointed fingers'' -- store ``the cremated remains of whole families in single urns''. YohVombis

Alastor

``demon of revenge'' -- rumored to be Nathaire's father. Colossus

Alila

``queen of perdition and goddess of all iniquities'' in Tasuun. Ulua

Alos

young noble of Zhu-Bha-Sair -- betrothed to Arctela. CharnelGod

Altath

king of Yoros, father of Fulbra. IsleTorturers

Amalzain

great-nephew of Sabmon, ``the son of a niece that Sabmon had loved dearly'' before he became a hermit -- named to the post of cup-bearer to King Famorgh. Ulua

Ambrose, Brother

``sent to Ximes by the Archbishop of Averoigne ... to gather proof'' of Azéderac's association with evil forces --nephew of Archbishop Clément --less than 30 in 1175 -- stayed with Moriamis. Holiness

Ambrosius, Archbishop

Archbishop of Vyones in 1138 -- art lover. MakerGargoyles

Amdok

sorcerer of King Hoaraph's court -- gave Zobal some enchanted arrows which proved useful on Uldor and against Ujuk. AbbotPuthuum

Amero

``young king of Calyz''. Xeethra

Anakim

real? -- Rodney Severn compared Yoh-Vombis's buttresses to Anakim's stairways. YohVombis

Angarth, Giles

had ``considerable ... fame as a writer of fantastic fiction'', novels -- left Philip Hastane his journal of his adventures in Ydmos -- ``not very sensitive to music'' -- had written one or two transdimensional stories, including one where the hero visits the Fifth Dimension -- wrote a story where the hero visits ``the worlds of Algol''. CitySingingFlame -- ``in flourishing circumstances'' in his career when he went to Ydmos -- returned to Earth after the Singing Flame was destroyed. BeyondSingingFlame

Angelique

maid of Fleurette Cochin -- survived an encounter with Sieur Hugh du Malinbois. Rendezvous

Ansarath

``the canine star'' presumably in the constellation of the Great Dog as known in Zothique -- also a dog Nushain named after the star. LastHieroglyph

Antillia

contemporary with Hyperborea. WhiteSybil

Antoinette, Mère

witch of Averoigne -- ``La Mère des Crapauds'', ``Mother of Toads'' -- toads said to be her familiars -- lives in an ``osier-hidden hut'' near marshes and Les Hiboux in Averoigne. MotherToads

apha

a strong wood of Hyperborea. Testament

Apollonius of Tyana

Nycea was among the lamias he exorcised. EndStory

Aquil

Hyperborean tropical valley fronting on the sea -- blasted by the cold of Yikilth. Worm

Aramoam

city of Ustaim, site of Euvoran's palace -- on the eastern seacoast -- its chief deity is Geol. Euvoran

Archain

King of Tasuun -- husband of Queen Xantlicha -- believed poisoned by Queen Xantlicha. Ilalotha

Archetypes

the two originals of humanity -- dwell in the Cavern of the Archetypes -- are dismayed by such coarse copies of themselves as human beings. Geases

Arctela

daughter of Quaos -- died on the same day Elaith was taken to Mordiggian's temple -- of Zhu-Bha-Sair -- betrothed to Alos. CharnelGod

Askli

mother of Xeethra, sister of Pornos, wife of Outhoth. Xeethra

Athammaus

chief headsman of Uzuldaroum, formerly chief headsman of Commoriom -- last to leave Commoriom -- had eleven lustrums of public service when he wrote his testament, when he was old -- beheaded Knygathin Zhaum, to no avail. Testament

Athlé

Tiglari's ``beloved and the fairest of his tribe'' --taken as tribute by Maal Dweb -- saw herself in Maal Dweb's mirror of Eternity and was paralyzed, the last woman to be so treated by Maal Dweb. MaalDweb

Atlach-Nacha

spider-god -- spins eternal webs over a bottomless gulf beneath Mount Voormithadreth -- cannot spend time to eat anything but the easiest meal; won't extract a man from armor to eat him -- his webs are strong enough to hold a man. Geases

Atlantis

-- gave tribute to Hyperborea. Testament -- a certain wine, presumably from Atlantis, stirred an ancestral memory and longing for the cities of Atlantis in its drinkers. VintageAtlantis -- ``fathers'' of the Poseidoniseans -- ``had known the road between the atoms and had held speech with the spirits of the sun''. DoubleShadow -- gradually sunk ``age by age, eon by eon'' beneath successive cataclysms -- ``Various types of air-vessels had been used in Atlantis for epochs'' -- ``members of an aboriginal race of Atlantis'' survived on Poseidonis as slaves. Sfanomoe

Augustin, Abbot

abbot of Perigon in 1550. DisinterVenus

Augustin, Brother

monk at the abbey of Perigon in 1369 -- slain by the Beast of Averoigne. BeastAveroigne

Avaina

Queen of Tasuun -- famed for her golden mirror -- buried beneath the palace in Chaon Gacca where her mummy ``sits enthroned in her separate tomb, holding her mirror in her withered hand''. WeaverVault

Averaud, Jean

of New Orleans -- bought the Judge Peter Larcom mansion in Auburn, California, from a family in San Francisco -- an ``extravagantly rich'', eccentric recluse -- Creole -- believes evil is a dark vibration -- of ``an old Louisiana family, long departed'' --once married, but his wife is dead: ``doubly dead to me''; Philip Hastane surmised her death is connected with Jean Averaud's study of evil -- believing the Judge Peter Larcom mansion to have evil influences, built a machine designed to cancel out all vibrations but that of evil -- not a sorcerer. DevoteeEvil

Averoigne

the river Isoile flows through ``the heart of the wild woodland of Averoigne'' -- from the Isoile-fed pool near Anselme du Framboisier's hermit hut, a little used path winds through the wood and climbs ``a densely wooded hill'' -- at the top of the hill, the trees thin ``to straggly, stunted pines, encircling a brown, open moorland ... studded with Druidic monoliths.'' -- in the center of the moor towers ``a massive cromlech, consisting of two upright slabs that supported a third like the lintel of a door''; the cromlech is a door to Sylaire. EnchantressSylaire -- ``remote province''. MotherToads -- has an Archbishop -- a road runs through the forest between Ximes and Vyones -- Inn of Bonne Jouissance (``good use''): a wayside tavern in the forest of Averoigne on the road between Ximes and Vyones, located on the former site of a Druid altar; becomes the Inn of Haute Espérance (``high hope'') after the taverner's son takes over following his father's death in 1200. Holiness -- ``oaks and beeches'' -- vipers said to lurk here -- holds the double tomb of Sieur Hugh du Malinbois and his court, and the ruins of Chateau des Faussesflammes. Rendezvous -- region in France, heavily forested -- located somewhere between Tours and Moulins; a ``main highway'' between those two cities goes through it. EndStory -- once occupied by the Romans, who built altars to Venus -- ``province''. DisinterVenus -- various legends claim an elder portion of ``the wood was haunted by some entity inimical to man, some primordial spirit of all that was ancienter than Christ or Satan''. Satyr -- ``the great, lowering forest, which approached the very walls of Vyones on the eastern side and ran in a somber arc through Averoigne to the mouth of the rocky valley below Ylourgne''; ``this valley was the fountainhead of the Isoile'' (which runs ``a few miles'' from Vyones) and is at the edge of ``the wildest and oldest portion of the immemorial wood''. Colossus -- marshes in lower Averoigne, where the Isoile leaves the forest. Mandrakes

Avyctes

took pupils in sorcery, the last of whom was Pharpetron -- lived in a marble house on the northern coast of Poseidonis, not near a city -- ``sole surviving pupil'' of Malygris -- perished when a second shadow touched his own. DoubleShadow

Azathoth

-- reproduced only by fission -- gave birth to androgenous progeny -- Cthulhu is ``somewhat closer to the Azathothian archetype'' than is Hzioulquoigmnzhah. FamilyTree

Azéderac

bishop of Ximes in 1175 -- ``hedge-sorcerer'' and lover of Moriamis in 475 -- ``the wisest and mightiest of sorcerers, and the most secret withal; for no one knew the time and manner of his coming into Averoigne [in 475], or the fashion in which he had procured the immemorial Book of Eibon, whose runic writings were beyond the lore of all other wizards. He was master of all enchantments and all demons, and likewise a compounder of mighty potions.'' -- had potions to send the drinker forward or backward in time: ``the usual period of transportation in time is exactly seven hundred years; but the philtre can be strengthened or lessened a little'' -- disappeared sometime between 1176 and 1197, and popularly believed to have been carried bodily into heaven -- canonized in 1198. Holiness

Baaras

root growing in Thasaidon's garden. Adompha

Basatan

sea-god of Zothique -- the signet-ring of Basatan: ``closed in a cylinder of unknown metal, together with a scroll that inform[s] of the ring's uses. ... He who looks long and deeply into the emerald may behold distant scenes and happenings at will. He who wears the ring can exert control over the winds and currents of the sea and over the sea's creatures, by describing certain signs in the air with his finger.'' -- an ``immense emerald, set ... in a ring that was wrought with the tentacles of kraken clasping the orblike gem.''. MasterCrabs

bassa-cloth

used by the Aihais as protection against the chill of the Martian night [in the deserts?]. YohVombis

Baudin, Pierre

apothecary's apprentice of Les Hiboux -- rejected the advances of Mère Antoinette, with fatal results. MotherToads

Beast of Averoigne

came from the red comet which visited the Earth in 1369 -- ``belonged to a race of stellar devils that had not visited the Earth since the foundering of Atlantis'' -- ``in its own proper form, was invisible and intangible to men'' -- possessed Abbot Theophile -- slain by a demon. BeastAveroigne

Beldith

wealthy woman of Psiom -- bored with her life of pleasure, she wandered the necropolis between Umbri and Psiom and, as the lamia ``Morthylla'', briefly loved Valzain. Morthylla

Bellman

prospector -- while exploring the Chaur on Mars with Maspic and Chivers, was caught by the Yorhis and the Dweller. GulfDweller

Bernard, Brother

a Cistercian monk who, investigating the unholy activities at Ylourgne, is driven away by animated corpses. Colossus

Bhlemphroims

torso-headed people of Cykranosh. Saturn

birds

the isle of Ornava is rules by a gigantic bird who claims to be monarch of all birds. Euvoran

Black River

an ocean current moving westward from Zothique to Naat --only the ships of Naat's sorcerers and the dead men swimming on their errands can go against it. NecromancyNaat

Blois

rumors said Gilles Grenier had been driven out of Blois, ``where all persons bearing the name Grenier were popularly believed to be werewolves''. Mandrakes

Book of Eibon

-- originally written in the lost language of Hyperborea -- medieval French version, ``Liber Ivonie'', derived from a Greek manuscript -- ``collection of dark and baleful myths, of liturgies, rituals and incantations, both evil and esoteric'' -- has ``a brief, casual reference'' to the crystal of Zon Mezzamalech. Ubbo -- ``The Coming of the White Worm'' is from the Book of Eibon. Worm -- contains ``the secret, man-forgotten lore of Iog-Sotôt and Sodagui'' -- Azéderac had a copy, in Hyperborean script and with ``dragon's-blood illuminations'' which was bound in ``aboriginal, sub-human skin'', until he replaced its binding ``with the sheep-leather of a Christian missal'' -- ``whose runic writings were beyond the lore of all other wizards''. Holiness

Caleppos

reigning emperor in Xylac in Phariom's time. CharnelGod

Calyz

kingdom by the orient sea in Zothique -- ``fierce southern tribesmen'' in the desert south of Calyz -- easternmost realm of Zothique -- high western boundary marked by a stone lion -- ``the black girls of the north'' -- desert to the south -- its capital is Shathair. Xeethra

Carnamagos

``evil sage and seer'' -- Graeco-Bactrian? -- author of The Testaments of Carnamagos. TreaderDust

Carnby, Helman

twin brother of John -- Satanist and demonist. ReturnSorcerer

Carnby, John

scholarly recluse of the suburbs of Oakland, California -- knows little Arabic but has a copy of Al Azif -- Satanist and demonist -- twin brother of Helman. ReturnSorcerer

catoblepas

bellowing alpine animal hunted by the Voormis. Geases

Cavern of the Archetypes

below the dwellings of the Serpent-People under Mount Voormithadreth -- a steamy, primordial realm, mostly insubstantial. Geases

Celotian Waste

red sands -- ``Beyond the borders of Xylac'', to the south -- Zhu-Bha-Sair is on its ``southwestern verge''. CharnelGod

Cerngoth

city of Mhu Thulan, by the Hyperborea sea -- mts. of Polarion north of it. WhiteSybil

Cerngoth

blasted by the cold of Yikilth. Worm

Cerngoth

city of Mhu Thulan -- ``shell-shaped domes''. IceDemon

Chalmers, John

archaeologist -- captured by the Yorhis and ultimately eaten by the Dweller. GulfDweller

Chanler, Paul Septimus

``professional writer of interplanetary fiction'' -- his curiosity regarding Mars made him a friend of Bob Haines -- caught in the vapors of the Bottles of Sleep with Haines. Vulthoom

Chaon Gacca

``the long-forsaken seat of the kings of Tasuun, lying more than 90 miles to the north of Miraab -- no one has entered it for centuries before Famorgh's time -- a legend of Tasuun says that here ``Death has made his capital, and has gathered all the ghouls to do him homage'' --burial vaults below the palace -- ``Strange devils came there long ago from the mad, unholy desert of Dloth'' -- according to one story, ``the kings forsook Chaon Gacca because of certain Shadows, that appeared at full noon in the palace halls, with no visible form to cast them, and would not depart thereafter, being changeless amid all the changings of the light, and wholly undimmed by the exorcisms of priests and sorcerers. Men say the flesh of any who dared touch the Shadows, or to tread upon them, became black and putrid like the flesh of month-old corpses, all in a mere instant. And because of such testing, when one of the Shadows came and sat upon his throne, the right hand of King Agmeni rotted to the wrist, and fell away like the sloughing of a leper. . . . And after that, no man would dwell in Chaon Gacca.'' -- according to another story, ``The town's abandonment was due mainly to the failure of the wells and cisterns, from which the water vanished following an earthquake that left the land riven with hell-deep chasms. The palace of the kings was sundered to its nethermost vault by one of the chasms; and King Agmeni was seized by a violent madness when he inhaled the infernal vapors issuing from the rent.'' -- earthquake has shattered the city in Famorgh's time. WeaverVault

Chaur

uninhabited desert region of Mars -- rumors say its dry river-beds contain heaps of pale gold -- the ruins of some Yorhis ``cities are still extant in the Chaur'' -- a cave in an old river-bank, some 5 days out of Ahoom, leads after half a mile to a precipice too wide to see across by flashlight; a ramp slopes downward from here, slowly spiralling around the sides of the gulf and leading to the underground caverns of the Yorhis and the remnant of the ebbing underground lake that once carved the passage. GulfDweller

Chivers

prospector -- while exploring the Chaur on Mars with Bellman and Maspic, was caught by the Yorhis and the Dweller. GulfDweller

Cincor

country of Zothique -- west of Zhel -- contains the village of Cith -- the Mykrasian Mountains are in the east. Xeethra

Cincor

``a desert of the south, which was peopled only by the bones of mummies of a race that pestilence had slain in former time'' by Mmatmuor and Sodosma's time -- a great highway once ran between Tinarath and Cincor -- south of Tinarath? -- Yethlyreom was its capital. EmpireNecromancers

Cincor

``where Yethlyreom was later built by the Nimboth dynasty'' some time after Ossaru's death. TombSpawn

Cith

village of Cincor east of Pornos's hut -- an eastern road leads to the border of the lowlands of Zhel. Xeethra

Clément, Archbishop

Archbishop of Averoigne in 1175 -- uncle of Brother Ambrose -- died sometime between 1176 and 1197. Holiness

Cochin, Fleurette

daughter of Guillaume -- kept a rendezvous with Gerard de L'automne and met Sieur Hugh du Malinbois. Rendezvous

Cochin, Guillaume

``a well-to-do mercer'' of Vyones -- father of Fleurette Cochin. Rendezvous

cockodrill

animal of Poseidonis -- Malygris used its teeth and bones to make crotali to accompany certain incantations. LastIncantation

Commoriom

capital city of Hyperborea -- a day's fast march from the Eiglophians; a jungle lies between. Geases

Commoriom

a jungle lies to the east. Weird

Commoriom

jungles to the south of it. WhiteSybil

Commoriom

seat of the king of all Hyperborea -- chief headsman is an hereditary position. Testament

Commoriom

in a fertile inland valley a day's journey to the north from Uzuldaroum. Satampra

Constantin, Brother

monk at the abbey of Perigon in 1369 -- cellarer at Perigon -- saw the Beast of Averoigne. BeastAveroigne

Cordeliers (``Franciscans'')

monastery in Vyones -- its abbot is slain by a flying monster in 1138. MakerGargoyles

Coupain, Raoul

assistant to a mercer of Vyones -- ``a personable youth and a newcomer in the neighborhood'' of Jean Villom's tavern in mid 11/1138 -- slain by a flying monster. MakerGargoyles

Crater Ridge

in the Sierras, near Summit, California -- not of volcanic origin, yet has that appearance -- some stones suggest prehistoric sculptures -- ``there is a little tarn lying on one end of the long, dry Ridge -- a tarn that has never been fathomed'' -- Castle Peak, Donner Peak, and the remote Nevada Mountains are visible -- in the center of ``a clear space amid the rubble, in which nothing grew ... round as an artificial ring'' are ``two isolated boulders, queerly alike in shape, and lying about five feet apart'' -- the boulders are made of ``a dull, greenish-grey stone ... smooth, soapy ... the perfect roundness and uniformity of the boulders was peculiar'' -- resemble the worn ends of what had been two pedestals for columns. CitySingingFlame

Crater Ridge

Giles Angarth's cabin is south of Crater Ridge. BeyondSingingFlame

Cunambria

queen of Hyperborea in Satampra Zeiros's day -- her jewels were stolen by Satampra Zeiros and Tirouv Ompallios. Satampra

Cushara

pike-bearer in King Hoaraph's army -- friend of Zobal -- left King Hoaraph's service following an adventure at the ruined abbey of Puthuum --took up with Rubalsa. AbbotPuthuum

Cxaxukluth

androgenous spawn of Azathoth -- parent of Hzioulquoigmnzhah and Ghizguth -- cannibalistic. FamilyTree

Cykor

reigning emperor of the Aihais in Paul Septimus Chanler's day. Vulthoom

Cykranosh

name for Saturn in Mhu Thulan -- inhabitants in Eibon's time worshipped relatives of Tsathoggua. Saturn

Cyntrom

southern isle in the Indaskian Sea -- paid tribute to the king of Yoros, on Zothique to the north -- west of Uccastrog. IsleTorturers

Cyntrom

once, ``a huge meteor ... fell in the southern isle of Cyntrom, shaking the isle from shore to shore with calamitous earthquake''; from this meteor, gold ``harder and brighter than any native gold of Earth, and ... changeable in color from a flamelike red to the yellow of young moons'' was extracted and formed into the circlet of the crown of the kings of Ustaim. Euvoran

Dagon

``By the Tail of Dagon'' is used by Azéderac as an oath. Holiness

Dalili

betrothed of Yadar -- taken from her tribe, a nomad people of Zyra, by the slave-traders of Sha-Karag -- shipwrecked on Naat -- reanimated by Vacharn, Vokal, and Uldulla. NecromancyNaat

dedaim

a purple fruit or plant whose juice ``induces profound trance'' from which a lesser adept might never awaken. MasterCrabs

dedaim

``A plant known as the dedaim, with a bulbous, pulpy, whitish-green bole from whose center rose and radiated several leafless reptilian boughs'', grew in Adompha's garden -- produces a ``drowsy and overpowering juice''. Adompha

de la Frênaie, Adèle, Comtesse

wife of Raoul, Comte de la Frênaie -- lover of Olivier du Montoir -- kidnapped by a satyr. Satyr

de la Frênaie, Comte

has a ``high castle'' near the wood of Averoigne and Vyones which ``held dominion over half the surrounding forest''. Rendezvous

de la Frênaie?, Pierre

Lord of la Frênaie in 1281 -- smashed against the walls of his chateau by Nathaire's colossus. Colossus

de la Frênaie, Raoul, Comte

Comte de la Frênaie in the late 16th century. Satyr

de L'automne, Gerard

troubadour of Averoigne -- kept a rendezvous with Fleurette Cochin and met Sieur Hugh du Malinbois. Rendezvous

des E'maux, Sieur

alias taken by Jehan Mauvaissoir in his pursuit of Brother Ambrose -- supposedly from Touraine. Holiness

des Flèches, Dorothée

only daughter of the Sieur des Flèches -- pursued Anselme du Framboisier to Sylaire but was driven away. EnchantressSylaire

des Flèches, Sieur

father of Dorothée des Flèches. EnchantressSylaire

des Lys, Eleanor

betrothed to Gerard, Comte de Venteillon -- a ``renowned and beautiful demoiselle'' -- waited in vain for Gerard on her wedding day. EndStory

de Vaillantcoeur, Bernard

author of ``the somewhat infamous Histoire d'Amour ... which was destroyed immediately upon publication, and of which only one other [than the copy at Perigon] copy is known to exist''. EndStory

de Venteillon, Gerard, Comte

on the eve of his marriage to Eleanor des Lys, met in the woods near his chateau a satyr who told him of a lovely pagan survival beneath the ruins of Chateau des Faussesflammes -- ``a true Christian'' -- the first victim of Nycea. EndStory

Dhir

country to the east of Ymorth -- ``salt-pale desert''. Xeethra

djal

a large silver coin of Hyperborea. Weird

Djhenquomh

title meaning the ``national mother'' of the Bhlemphroims -- gives birth to the entire next generation. Saturn

Djhibbis

``apterous and Stylitean bird-people'' of Cykranosh. Saturn

djongua

beans of Hyperborea. Testament

Dloth

``the mad, unholy desert'' near Tasuun. WeaverVault

Dooni

magician of Thulask -- Rlim Shaikorth acclimated him to the intense cold of Yikilth. Worm

Dooza Thorn

land to the north of Tasuun, home of a black-skinned people. Ulua

Druids

inhabiited the forest of Averoigne inthe years prior to the arrival of Christian missionaries -- savage, with a gutteral language -- in 475, fear the magic of Moriamis -- either forgot or never knew the worship of the ``Old Ones'' (i.e., the Great Old Ones) as practiced by Azéderac. Holiness

Druids

reared the cromlech in Averoigne that leads to Sylaire. EnchantressSylaire

du Framboisier, Anselme

second son of the Comte du Framboisier -- ``an addle-headed dreamer'' -- a romantic and would-be poet -- became a hermit after being rejected by Dorothée des Flèches -- met Sephora and lived the rest of his life in Sylaire. EnchantressSylaire

du Malinbois, Agathe

wife of Sieur Hugh -- vampire -- destroyed by Gerard de L'automne. Rendezvous

du Malinbois, Sieur Hugh] [``of the malignant/devil wood''] -- ``notorious for sorcery'' in his time -- his chateau is near a dark tarn and cypresses -- ``the last of the name and the most evil'' -- vampire -- destroyed by Gerard de L'automne. Rendezvous

du Marais, Malachie

``a sorcerer and the one-time lover of Sephora'', turned into a werewolf by Sephora because she both feared and was tired of him -- slain as a wolf by Anselme du Framboisier. EnchantressSylaire

du Montoir, Olivier

``young poet'' -- lover of Adèle, Comtesse de la Frênaie, whom he tried to run off with. Satyr

du Nord, Gaspard

of Vyones -- ``a student of the proscribed sciences'' and a pupil of Nathaire's for one year before he learned what further initiati on would require of him -- ``of a well-to-do family, his father, mot her, and sister -- ``lived in much honor to a ripe age, being the one sorcerer of that region who at no time incurred the disapprobation of the Church'' because of his defeat of Nathaire's colossus. Colossus

Dwale, Barnaby

``Red Barnaby'', Captain of the Black Falcon, a pirate vessel with 37 buccaneers under him -- kept his treasure on ``a remote isle on the eastern verge of the West Indies'' -- drowned while under the influence of a wine from Atlantis. VintageAtlantis

Dweller in the Gulf

a ``weird monster that lives in [a sub-Martian] lake ... the Dweller ... the thing that walks on the cliff'' -- lives at the bottom of a gigantic pit beneath the Chaur -- ``a humped animal with a smooth and overhanging carapace from beneath which its head and members issued in tortoise fashion. The head was venomously flat, triangular -- and eyeless. From the drooping corners of the cruelly slitted mouth, two long proboscides curved upward, hollow and cup-like at the ends. The thing was furnished with a series of short legs, issuing at uniform intervals from beneath the carapace; and a curious double tail was coiled and braided beneath its crouching body. The feet were round, and had the shape of small, inverted goblets.'' -- feeds on the Yorhis and those they capture -- can walk up sheer cliffs with its suction-cup-like feet -- ``carapace, vaguely recalling the armor of the glyptodon'' -- ``a neck that arched obscenely'' -- ``A dozen or more of short legs'' -- ``two proboscides, yard-long'' -- ``it reared suddenly erect, revealing its ridged belly and the queer double tail'' -- its presence projects the same narcotic eletricity as the idol worshipped by the Yorhis -- the proboscides can pull eyes from their sockets. GulfDweller

Dwerulas

magician in Adompha's court -- ``had reputedly been sold to the Archdemon before birth by his haggish mother'' -- conjured both alien plants and a fiery globe to sun them from hell for Adompha's garden -- grafted various body parts to plants in Adompha's garden. Adompha

Ebbonly, Felix

``Californian artist'' -- ``well-known for his imaginative paintings and drawings, and had illustrated more than one of Giles Angarth's novels'' -- of San Francisco. CitySingingFlame

Ebbonly, Felix

``in flourishing circumstances'' in his career when he went to Ydmos -- died in the ruins of Ydmos when the Singing Flame was destroyed. BeyondSingingFlame

Eibon

a great Hyperborean wizard. Ubbo

Eibon

conjured the spirit of Evagh to learn how Rlim Shaikorth and Yikilth were destroyed. Worm

Eibon

infamous heretic of Mhu Thulan -- built a house of black gneiss, in the form of a pentagonal tower, on a headland above the northern main of Mhu Thulan; house had five stories, of which two were underground -- devotee of Zhothaqquah -- fled to Cykranosh when his capture and torture for heresy was impending. Saturn

Eibon

once owned an oracular ring which held an imprisoned demon who would answer questions; he imprisoned the demon himself. BeastAveroigne

Eibur Tsanth

jeweler of Iqqua -- partner of Hoom Feethos -- died in Mhu Thulan. IceDemon

eighon

wood used for the executioner's block in Hyperborea. Testament

Eiglophian Mountains

black mountians of Hyperborea, west of Commoriom. Geases

Elaith

bride of Phariom -- subject to spells in which she lies as if dead for a few days -- of Xylac. CharnelGod

Eldamaque

King of Calyz -- father of Amero. Xeethra

Ephiqhs

pygmy people of Cykranosh. Saturn

Esrit

weasel-like creature, familiar of Vacharn, Vokal, and Uldulla -- drinks, ``at the full of each moon, the blood of a living man chosen for redoubtable strength and valor'' -- it is not told what happened to him after the others died. NecromancyNaat

Euvoran

king of Ustaim -- son of Karpoom -- ninth king to wear the crown of Ustaim. Euvoran

Evagh

warlock of Mhu Thulan -- dwelt beside the boreal sea in a house on a cliff -- perished in the slaying of Rlim Shaikorth. Worm

Evidon

younger brother of Hotar -- scientist of Poseidonis, living in Lephara -- travelled to Sfanomoë and never returned. Sfanomoe

Ezdagor

Hyperborean sorcerer who lived on Mount Voormithadreth -- placed Ralibar Vooz under a geas for interrupting an important conjuration. Geases

Famorgh

59th king of Tasuun -- ``utterly besotted and befooled'' by his marriage to Lunalia. WeaverVault

Famurza

aging poet of Umbri -- gave orgiac parties. Morthylla

Faraad

city -- location of a temple to a Moon-God -- the temple held many ``books of eldrich elder magic'' which ``even the priests had never dared to copy''. MasterCrabs

Faraad

site of King Hoaraph's palace -- in eastern Yoros. AbbotPuthuum

Faraad

on the river Voum and the Indaskian Sea. IsleTorturers

Faussesflammes, Chateau des (``false flames'')

ruins on a hill about a mile from the abbey of Perigon -- a story about it is told in a thin, six-page, bound but untitled volume, written in a French ``not only old but well-nigh barbarous in its quaint singularity'' to a late 18th century reader -- ``For untold years ... they have been the haunt of unholy spirits, of witches and demons; and festivals not to be described or even named are held within their walls. No weapon known to man, no exorcism or holy water, has ever prevailed against these demons; many brave cavaliers and monks have disappeared amid the shadows of Faussesflammes, never to return; and once, it is told, an abbot of Perigon went thither to make war on the powers of evil; but what befell him at the hands of the succubi is not known or even conjectured.''. EndStory

Fifine

mute ``mulatress'' servant and lover of Jean Averaud -- ``the one human being who is really attached to'' Jean Averaud. DevoteeEvil

Fitzgerald, Marta

half-Irish, half-Italian -- served as a model for some of Cyprian Sincaul's later sculptures -- captured by the Hunters from Beyond and returned as a sort of zombie -- loved Sincaul. HuntersBeyond

foum

crimson wine of Hyperborea. Testament

Fulbra

young king of Yoros, newly ascended to the throne when the Silver Death struck -- son of Altath -- slain by the Silver Death on Uccastrog. IsleTorturers

Fustules

one of the twelve sorcerers summoned by King Gadeiron to act on the death of Malygris -- one of the five sorcerers who chose not to so act -- brother of Nygon -- went to loot Malygris's tower but died there instead. DeathMalygris

Gadeiron

King of Poseidonis in Malygris's day -- with Maranapion and seven other wizards, fell victim to Malygris after his death. DeathMalygris

gazolba

a bird reputed to be the last of its kind, which, stuffed, formed part of the crown of the kings of Ustaim for nine generations -- ``the kings looked upon it as the sacred emblem of their fortunes'' -- from Ornava. Euvoran

Geol

``a terrestrial god and the chief deity of Aramoam'' -- ``the utterances of the god were deemed infallable''. Euvoran

Gerome, Brother

monk at the abbey of Perigon in 1369 -- was the first to see the Beast of Averoigne and was slain by it soon afterwards. BeastAveroigne

Ghizguth

father of Tsathoggua. FamilyTree

Ghlomph

town built by the Ydheems after the arrival of Eibon and Morghi. Saturn

Ghlonghs

mysterious, underground people of Cykranosh. Saturn

Ghorii

``a wild and half-bestial people'' -- ``Akin to the ghouls and jackals, they were eaters of carrion; and also they were anthropophagi, subsisting by preference on the bodies of travellers, and drinking their blood in lieu of water or wine'' -- live in the desert north of Yoros -- ``dreaded by all who had occasion to journey between Yoros and Tasuun''. TombSpawn

Grenier, Gilles

sorcerer -- husband of Sabine -- had a hut in lower Averoigne -- renowned for his love-philtres, which used mandrakes, but also did other work in ``drugs and simples, in charms and divinations'' -- rumors linked him with the werewolf Greniers of Blois, but he never displayed any traits of lycanthropy other than an excessive hairiness -- hung for the murder of his wife. Mandrakes

Grenier, Sabine

wife of Gilles -- assisted Gilles in his sorcery -- much younger than Gilles and of a sharp temper -- slain by Gilles when she attacked him. Mandrakes

griffins

live on one of the half-legendary islands of the Ilozian Sea. Euvoran

Grotara

warrior of King Famorgh's -- died in the tombs of Chaon Gacca. WeaverVault

Haalor

king of Iqqua -- went to make war against the polar ice in Mhu Thulan and never returned -- descendant of kings of Mhu Thulan. IceDemon

Haines, Bob

``third assistant pilot of an ether-liner'' -- ``charged with insubordination by his superiors, and ... left behind in Ignarh. ... The charge ... was wholly a matter of personal spite'' -- his curiosity regarding Mars made him a friend of Paul Septimus Chanler -- summoned to aid Vulthoom, he instead smashed the Bottles of Sleep, sending Vulthoom and his Aihais into sleep for another thousand years and dooming himself to death while asleep. Vulthoom

Halgren, Jonas

archaeologist -- had previously worked with Allan Octave on Mars -- part of Octave's expedition to find Yoh-Vombis. YohVombis

Haon-Dor

dwells in an underground palace beneath Mount Voormithadreth -- at least one stairway leads to the gulf Atlach-Nacha wants to span, and that is guarded at the bottom by a giant snake -- ``the thousand-columned palace of Haon-Dor'' -- ``antehuman sorcerer'' -- allied to the serpent-people. Geases

Harper, William

archaeologist -- had previously worked with Allan Octave on Mars -- part of Octave's expedition to find Yoh-Vombis. YohVombis

Hastane, Philip

narrator -- distant cousin of Cyprian Sincaul -- writer of weird fiction -- well known to the clerks at Toleman's bookstore in San Francisco -- ``never used narcotic drugs or abused alcohol''. HuntersBeyond

Hastane, Philip

friend of Giles Angarth. CitySingingFlame

Hastane, Philip

of Auburn, California -- travelled to Crater Ridge, and then to Ydmos, in pursuit of Giles Angarth -- returned to Earth after the Singing Flame was destroyed. BeyondSingingFlame

Hastane

though writing about fantastic themes, is not morbid. DevoteeEvil

Hestaiyon

``earliest of the Nimboth line, who had ruled in half-mythic years'' -- ``famed as a great wizard in fable and was reputed to have known the secret lore of antiquity''. EmpireNecromancers

Hilaire, Abbot

abbot of Perigon in 1789 -- scholar and connoisseur of books. EndStory

Hinnom

``With a fair chance of unlimited gold at the journey's end, they would have gone down through Hinnom.'' -- a place of torment? real?. GulfDweller

Hoaraph

King of Yoros in Cushara and Zobal's time. AbbotPuthuum

Homquat

a king of Hyperborea. Geases

Hoom Feethos

jeweler of Iqqua -- partner of Eibur Tsanth -- died in Mhu Thulan. IceDemon

Hotar

elder brother of Evidon -- scientist of Poseidonis, living in Lephara -- travelled to Sfanomoë and never returned. Sfanomoe

Hughes, Brother

a monk of Perigon c.~1550 -- affected by the statue of Venus found there. DisinterVenus

Hunters from Beyond

``a forward-slouching, vermin-gray figure, wholly devoid of hair or down or bristles, but marked with faint, etiolated rings like those of a serpent that has lived in darkness. It possessed the head and brow of an anthropoid ape, a semi-canine mouth and jaw, and arms ending in twisted hands whose black hyena talons nearly scraped the floor. ... its parchment skin was shriveled, corpselike, mummified ... from eye sockets well-nigh deep as those of a skull, there glimmered evil slits of yellowish phosphorescence. ... Fangs that were stained as if with poison or gangrene, issued from the slavering, half-open mouth'' -- ``a gray-green slime drooling from its mouth'' -- ``They aren't material beings, in the sense that we are, and they really have no physical power outside their own plane. All that they do have is a sort of snaky mesmerism, and they'll always try to drag you down to their own dimension by means of it.'' -- ``bodies aren't what they want ... The brain itself -- and the soul, too -- is their food: they are the creatures who prey on the minds of madmen and madwomen, who devour the disembodied spirits that have fallen from the cycles of reincarnation, have gone down beyond the possibility of rebirth.''. HuntersBeyond

huusim

bright colored bird of Hyperborea with yards-long plumes. WhiteSybil

Hyperborea

``supposed to have corresponded roughly with modern Greenland, which had formerly been joined as a peninsula to the main continent'' -- in Miocene times. Ubbo

Hyperborea

Malygris counted among his books ``runes from a lost language of Hyperborea, which, when uttered aloud, were more deadly than poison or more potent than any philtre''. LastIncantation

Hziulquoigmnzhah

paternal uncle of Tsathoggua -- most powerful of the relatives of Tsathoggua worshipped on Cykranosh. Saturn

Hzioulquoigmnzhah

uncle of Tsathoggua -- Cthulhu is ``somewhat closer to the Azathothian archetype'' than he is -- ``a rather reflective and philosophic deity''. FamilyTree

Iffibos

sorcerer of Sotar, living ``in a retired vale among the mountains at the island's core''. Euvoran

Ignarh

``the commercial metropolis of Mars, and the port of all space-traffic'' -- old Ignarh is called ``Ignar-Vath'' by the Aihais, and the modern city ``Ignar-Luth''; the purple marble Yahan Canal separates the two. Vulthoom

Ignarh

a ``flat, treeless, orange-yellow desolation to the southwest of Ignarh'' holds Yoh-Vombis. YohVombis

Ignar-Luth

the modern portion of Ignarh ``in which were the terrestrial consulates and shipping-offices and hotels'' -- ``the piratic rates of the Tellurian Hotel'' -- ``top-heavy towers and pagoda-angled pyramids'' -- ``ten colossal statues of Martian heroes'' stand in warlike poses at the entrance to the bridge across the Yahan Canal to Ignar-Vath -- on the western ``side of the great Yahan Canal'' and separated from Ignar-Vath by a mile-long bridge. Vulthoom

Ignar-Vath

the Aihais name for old Ignarh, ``on the eastern side of the great Yahan Canal'' and separated from Ignar-Luth by a mile-long bridge -- ``incredibly crooked streets'' -- across the pavement from the entrance to the bridge is an alley formed by high mansions and warehouses; a doorway in the alley opens into an elevator that leads to Ravormos. Vulthoom

Ilalotha

lady-in-waiting to Queen Xantlicha -- rumored to be a witch -- of Tasuun. Ilalotha

Ilap

locale on Xiccarph -- its small people ``have the tones of newly greening bronze''. MaalDweb

Ilcar

``black empire to the north'' of Yoros -- its emperor drove the monks of Ojhal into Yoros. AbbotPuthuum

Ildrac

king of the Torturers of Uccastrog in Fulbra's day -- slain by the Silver Death. IsleTorturers

Illara

maiden of the mountain people of of Mhu Thulan -- became Tortha's wife after his return from the White Sybil's realm. WhiteSybil

Illeiro

``Youngest and last of the Nimboth emperors ... had died in the first month of the plague'' that doomed Cincor ``two hundred years before the coming of the necromancers'' Mmatmuor and Sodosma. EmpireNecromancers

Ilozian Sea

far to the east of Zothique and the atolls of Yumatot -- griffins live on one of the half-legendary islands of the Ilozian Sea. Euvoran

Iluac

elder brother of Quanga -- huntsman of Iqqua -- discovered the frozen tomb of King Haalor and Ommum-Vog -- killed by a white bear. IceDemon

Ilvaa

by her account, daughter of a woman of Yoros who married a Torturers to escape torture -- slain by the Silver Death. IsleTorturers

Indaskian Sea

sea to the south of Zothique. AbbotPuthuum

Indaskian Sea

the River Voum empties into it from Zothique. IsleTorturers

Inner Dimension

``a higher sphere of space and energy and matter'' from Ydmos's realm -- ``the only entrance is through the Singing Flame in the city of Ydmos'' -- ``the Inner Dimension is born of the fiery fountain and sustained by it; and those who fling themselves into the Flame are lifted thereby to this superior plane of vibration.'' -- ``There is a way ... from the Inner Sphere to another and remoter Cosmos in a second infinity . ... The majority of the pilgrims, after a term of sojourn here, have gone on to the worlds of this other universe'' -- the land clouds and brightens with the waning and waxing of the Singing Flame -- ``passage to the further Cosmos ... was difficult and dangerous for anyone who had not lived a certain length of time in the Inner Dimension. Likewise, ... no one could return to [the Inner Dimension] from the higher Cosmos, even as no one could go backward through the Flame into Ydmos.''. BeyondSingingFlame

Iog-Sotôt

version of ``Yog-Sothoth'' used by Azéderac (and thus possibly called so in the Book of Eibon). Holiness

Iqqua

city at least two weeks' foot-travel south of Mhu Thulan. IceDemon

Iribos

``Island of Crabs'' -- ``due westward from Mirouane'' -- Omvor's hiding-place for the treasures of the Moon-God of Faraad -- ``at a distance of only 2 days voyaging. There are no other islands within a hundred leagues, north or south, excepting a few desolate rocks and small atolls.'' -- ``northern headland'' -- ``There is a small cove amid the western cliffs, entered only through a sea-cavern. It is there that the treasure lies.'' -- ``unpeopled'' -- ``shunned by sailors and even the sea-fowl. Men say that the curse of the maritime gods was laid upon it long ago, forbidding it to any but the creatures of the submarine deep. Its coves and caverns are haunted by crabs and octopi . . . and perhaps by stranger things.'' -- the ruins of shipwrecks can be seen ``[h]igh up in the clefted rocks, where it seemed that no natural tide or tempest could have flung them.''. MasterCrabs

Isoile

far from the abbey of Perigon. BeastAveroigne

Isoile

river of Averoigne -- flows through ``the heart of the wild woodland of Averoigne''. EnchantressSylaire

Isoile

forms marshes where it leaves the forest of Averoigne -- mandrakes grow ``more plentiful and of greater size'' than elsewhere in Averoigne. Mandrakes

Isoile

flows past Ximes and ``a few miles'' from Vyones -- hamlets and villages along the Isoile -- ``the fountainhead of the Isoile'' is in a steep-sided rocky valley over 40 miles east of Vyones ``beyond the werewolf-haunted forest, in the outlying, semi-mountainous hills of Averoigne''. Colossus

Ispazars

seven formidable sorcerers, winged and reptilian, of Votalp -- can cast ``great bolts of livid flame, python-shaped'' and chant ``evil, sibilant runes that were designed to charm away the [opposing] magician's memory, and cause him to forget his magic'' -- devolved into small fen-snakes by Maal Dweb. FlowerWomen

Istanam

country to the east of Zhel -- ``of the myriad cities''; Sha-Karag may be one of them. Xeethra

Izdrel

``clove the western part of Yoros asunder with its rusty-colored wedge of desolation'' -- reputedly inhabited only by goblins -- a footpath from Faraad to the Vos crosses Izdrel where it is only 30 miles wide. AbbotPuthuum

jaar

``cruel desert wind'' of Mars ``that always blows from the east before dawn''. YohVombis

Jupiter

``in the ivory-sheeted books of Thule there were blood-writ runes that would call the demons of the fifth and seventh planets, if spoken aloud in the hour of their ascent''. DoubleShadow

Karpoom

king of Ustaim -- father of Euvoran -- eighth king to wear the crown of Ustaim -- died ``from a surfeit of stuffed eels and jellied salamander eggs''. Euvoran

Knygathin Zhaum

a Voormi -- leader of a band which terrorized the settlements closest to the Eiglophian Mountains -- related on his maternal side to Tsathoggua. Testament

Knygathin Zhaum

``reverted to the most primitive Azathothian characteristics following the stress of his numerous decapitations'' -- repopulated Commoriom by fission; his spawn ``possessed no vestige of anything human or even earthly''. FamilyTree

Kthulhut

alternate spelling of ``Cthulhu'' in the medieval French version of the Book of Eibon. Ubbo

kulpai

``curious Martian utensils ... large platters of semi-metallic earthenware, fitted with removable cups and rotating carafes, in which an entire meal of liquids and solids could be served''. Vulthoom

la Frênaie (``the ash-grove'')

walled town -- far from the abbey of Perigon. BeastAveroigne

la Frênaie

produces a red wine. Holiness

la Frênaie

produces a ``fierey, blood-dark wine''. MakerGargoyles

la Frênaie

home of Comte de la Frênaie -- 3 miles from the tomb of Sieur Hugh du Malinbois in Averoigne. Rendezvous

Larcom, _____

a daughter of Judge Peter -- went insane. DevoteeEvil

Larcom, _____

the one survivng son of Judge Peter Larcom -- sold his father's mansion in Auburn, California, to some people who later ``fled'' to San Francisco. DevoteeEvil

Larcom, Judge Peter

of Auburn , California -- built a mansion behind Auburn's Chinatown -- in 1870s, murdered by a Chinese cook. DevoteeEvil

le Chaudronnier, Luc

``astrologer and sorcerer'' -- in his old age, wrote an account of the slaying of the Beast of Averoigne which he placed in a secret room in his house at Ximes -- inherited from his wizard fathers an oracular ring once the property of Eibon which was destroyed while battling the Beast of Averoigne. BeastAveroigne

Le Dindon, Alain

apothecary of Les Hiboux -- occasionally dealt in secret with Mère Antoinette. MotherToads

Le Loupgarou, Jacques

notorious outlaw of Averoigne, slain by the constabulary in the early summer of 1281. Colossus

Lemuria

contemporary with, but remote from, Hyperborea. Satampra

Lemuria

``there was an old Lemurian formula, recondite and uncertain, by which the shadow of a dead man could be sent into years posterior to those of his own life-time, and could be recalled after an interim by the wizard. And the shade, being wholly insubstantial, would suffer no harm from the temporal transition and would remember, for the information of the wizard, that which he had been instructed to learn during the journey.''. DoubleShadow

Leniqua

moon god of Hyperborea -- served by thirty-nine temple ``virgins'', chosen for their beauty and retired at 31, who wore chastity girdles whose keys were, on certain nights, rented by Leniqua's high-priest ``at a high price to the richer gallants of the city'' of Uzuldaroum as a sacrifice. ThirtyNineGirdles

Lephara

city of Poseidonis, home of mariners who sail to Umb and Pneor -- on the northern coast?. DoubleShadow

Lephara

port of Susran, to the east. Sfanomoe

Leqquan

Hyperborean city -- blasted by the cold of Yikilth. Worm

Les Hiboux (``the owls'')

village of Averoigne -- a path leads from here through the marshes to Mère Antoinette's ``osier-hidden hut'' -- near Ximes?. MotherToads

Loithé

capital city of Sotar and site of Adompha's palace and garden -- ``sea-bordering''. Adompha

Loquamethros

king of Hyperborea when Commoriom was abandoned. Testament

Louis, Brother

a monk of Perigon c.~1550 -- died April, 1550, while trying to destroy a statue of Venus. DisinterVenus

Ludar

author of Ludar's Litany to Thasaidon. Ilalotha

Lunalia

princess of Xylac -- reputed to be ``a harlot and a witch'' -- asked Famorgh to send men to Chaon Gacca to fetch the remains of King Tnepreez -- known to take lovers. WeaverVault

Lunalia

presumably died in the earthquake that destroyed Miraab. Ulua

Maal Dweb

lives in a house atop a mountain on Xiccarph -- from a writhings'' -- a ``high causey of white corundum ... spanned the fen'' of Soorm lead ``pale porphyry stairs that wound heavenward'' to his house -- ``the causey and the house were guarded by ... the silent, colossal iron servitors of Maal Dweb, whose arms ended in long crescent blades of tempered steel'' -- ``ape-like creatures'' roam his gardens and halls -- ``half-demoniac sorcerer and scientist'' -- gardens of flowers and ``baneful trees from outlying worlds'' -- took the fairest maidens of the tribes of Xiccarph and kept them, paralyzed in various emotions, in a harem; ``had chosen no less than 50 girls during the 3 decades of his tyranny'' -- ``spoke with an iron voice that was audible at will in the far cities or the outmost jungles'' -- ``punished the rebellious and the disobedient with a doom of falling fire that was swifter than the thunderstone'' -- ruler of Xiccarph -- keeps the mirror of Eternity in his garden: those who see themselves in it pass from the changes of time -- certain flowers in his garden produce a liquid whose touch turns human flesh into that of the hairy ape-men of Maal Dweb's garden: the nectar of the blossoms of primordial life. MaalDweb

Maal Dweb

``the ruler of 6 worlds and all their moons'', all in Xiccarph's star-system -- built a drawbridge of light to take him from his maze to the other worlds -- owns two amulets, one to shrink himself, the other to grow again -- by ``repeating aloud, in low, even tones, a word of sovereign power'', can shield himself within ``a sphere of unseen force''. FlowerWomen

Magbane, Stephen

Puritan and teetotaler: ``a staunch Rechabite'' [when was teetotaler coined?] -- one of the last surviving members of the pirate crew of the Black Falcon, under Captain Barnaby Dwale. VintageAtlantis

Malygris

at the full moon, all the cities of Poseidonis bring him tribute; he takes a tithe of every galley's cargo and claims a share of all precious substances in Poseidonis -- servants are half-ape, half-man -- his spirit continued to inhabit his body for some time after his death. DeathMalygris

Malygris

``lay dead for years while men believed him living''. DoubleShadow

Malygris

magician of Susran -- feared by ``kings and prelates'' -- before he became a sorcerer, loved Nylissa. LastIncantation

Mandis

King of Tasuun 200 years before Famorgh. WeaverVault

Manghai Thal

father of Athammaus -- once chief headsman of Commoriom. Testament

Manthar

narrator -- apprentice to Mior Lumivix -- of Mirouane. MasterCrabs

Marabac

brother of Milab -- jewel-merchant from Ustaim -- perished in the desert between Yoros and Tasuun. TombSpawn

Maranapion

arch-sorcerer of Susran and councillor to King Gadeiron -- with Gadeiron and seven other wizards, fell victim to Malygris after his death. DeathMalygris

Marquanos

high-priest of Leniqua in Satampra Zeiros's day. ThirtyNineGirdles

Mars

Ignarh is ``the commercial metropolis of Mars, and the port of all space-traffic'' -- inhabited by the Aihais -- ether-lines sail between Earth and Mars in _____. Vulthoom

Mars

coats and helmets of fur must always be worn at night [presumably just in the desert, as the Aihais customarily went naked]. YohVombis

Maspic

prospector -- while exploring the Chaur on Mars with Bellman and Chivers, was caught by the Yorhis and the Dweller. GulfDweller

Maspier, Guillaume

``respectable clothier'' of Vyones in 1138 -- attacked by a flying monster and lived to tell the tale. MakerGargoyles

Mauvaissoir, Jehan

servant of Azéderac -- known in the 5th century as Melchire. Holiness

Mayapan

lost land -- had sorcerers. DoubleShadow

Mazzal, Gerome

``reputable cooper'' of Vyones in 1138, slain by a flying monster. MakerGargoyles

Melchire

name used by Jehan Mauvaissoir in the 5th century. Holiness

Meros

``myrtle-shaded valley'' of Poseidonis through which the stream Zemander ran -- home of Malygris and Nylissa. LastIncantation

Mhu Thulan

an area of Hyperborea -- topaz may be found there. Weird

Mhu Thulan

north of Commoriom. WhiteSybil

Mhu Thulan

isles to its north are the havens of fowl. Worm

Mhu Thulan

``walled on the north with unknown ice'' -- ``utmost Thulan'' -- the ``Ultima Thule'' of legend?. Testament

Mhu Thulan

a broad isthmus. IceDemon

Milab

brother of Marabac -- jewel-merchant from Ustaim -- perished in the desert between Yoros and Tasuun. TombSpawn

Mior Lumivix

sorcerer of Mirouane -- makes love-potions for others -- rival of Sarcand. MasterCrabs

Miraab

capital city of Tasuun -- site of Queen Xantlicha's palace. Ilalotha

Miraab

built after the desertion of Chaon Gacca, during King Agmeni's rule -- fields of sesame and crofts of apricot and pomegranate lie for miles around the city -- over 90 miles south of Chaon Gacca. WeaverVault

Miraab

its women are renowned as ``witches and harlots'' in Ulua's day -- destroyed in an earthquake. Ulua

Mirouane

city on western shore of Zothique -- close to the Tropic of Capricorn -- ``fields and orchards and desert kingdoms'' to the east. MasterCrabs

Mmatmuor

necromancer of Naat. EmpireNecromancers

Mocair

warrior of Tiglari's tribe and his rival for Athlé -- fell victim to the flowers of primordial life. MaalDweb

Mong Lut

one of the sickle-armed, iron automatons of Maal Dweb who always agreed with him. MaalDweb

Morand, _____

father of Christophe Morand -- kept an estate near Moulins in the late 18th century. EndStory

Morand, Christophe

``a young law student of Tours'' who disappeared in November, 1789. EndStory

Mordiggian

the sole god of Zhu-Bha-Sair -- ``all who die within the walls of the city are sacred to'' him -- ``worshipped in former continents, before the lifting of Zothique from out the sea'' -- his worshippers see him as delivering them from the terrors of corruption and the tomb -- priests wear silver skull-masks, fingerless gloves, and covering robes; they take the dead to his temple; they defend themselves from ``the frenzy ... of the newly bereaved'' but show mercy and do not kill -- it is ill to follow his priests and worse to enter the temple -- ``the invisible eater of the dead, who was believed to share his provender with the shrouded priests'' -- temple ``at the city's core'' is ``open at all hours'' but little visited, ``because of a superstition that any living person who intruded upon its gloom would return to it shortly as the provender of the god.'' -- ``no definite personal attributes were ascribed to him'' -- a minor heresy of later years holds that Mordiggian does not exist, and only the priests consume the dead -- ``By the black altar of Mordiggian'' -- his priests are actually the half-canine ghouls -- a form-shifting column of blackness. CharnelGod

Morghi

high-priest of Yhoundeh in Mhu Thulan -- pursued Eibon to Cykranosh. Saturn

Moriamis

enchantress of Averoigne c.~475 -- ``the Druids fear my magic, which is more sovereign and more excellent than theirs, though I use it only for the welfare of men and not for their bale or bane'' -- fell in love with Brother Ambrose. Holiness

Mornoth

first planet in Xiccarph's system. FlowerWomen

Morthylla

princess -- her spirit haunts the old necropolis halfway between Umbri and Psiom as a lamia -- of ``an extinct royal family that had ruled over the twin cities Umbri and Psiom in former centuries''. Morthylla

moth-like beings

beings with access to Ydmos -- ``bright, luminous wings'' -- ``supporting themselves on queer, delicate legs that branched at the knee-joints in floating antennae and waving tentacles. Their wings were sumptuously mottled webs of pearl and madder, opal and orange; their heads were circled by a series of convex and concave eyes, and fringed with coiling, horn-like organs from whose hollow ends there hung aerial filaments.''. BeyondSingingFlame

Mouzda

``one-eyed negro'' Nushain bought in Zhu-Bha-Sair -- name comes from ``a word signifying darkness''. LastHieroglyph

Mu

gave tribute to Hyperborea. Testament

Mu

contemporary with Hyperborea. WhiteSybil

Mu

``the sorcerers of Mu had left record of a process whereby the doors of far-future time could be unlocked''. DoubleShadow

Mykrasian Mountains

``in wild easternmost Cincor'' -- ``dun hills'' before them. Xeethra

Naat

``the Isle of Necromancers'' -- believed to be the last land between Zothique and the world's rim -- the sorcerers sail ships, and send dead men on errands to swim, against the Black River, which flows westward across the ocean from Zothique to Naat -- also inhabited by cannibals -- ``black woods of pine and cypress'' -- ``there was no other necromancer'' left after Uldulla's death. NecromancyNaat

Naat

has ``vein-colored irises''. DarkEidolon

Namirrha

sorcerer of Ummaos -- ruled Xylac -- believed to be a native of Tasuun, but actually known in his youth in Ummaos as Narthos -- killed in the trampling of Ummaos. DarkEidolon

Namirrha

once prophesied ``that certain travelers, passing through the desert, would some day come upon'' the tomb of Ossaru and Nioth Korghai unaware. TombSpawn

Narghai

assistant to Abnon-Tha -- helped in the planned theft of Arctela's corpse from Mordiggian's temple -- of Naat -- slain by the priests of Mordiggian. CharnelGod

Narthos

beggar boy of Ummaos -- following an encounter with Zotulla, in which he was trampled by the prince's horse, left Ummaos for Tasuun -- in the desert, met and became the pupil of Ouphaloc -- after Ouphaloc's death, took the name Namirrha and returned to Ummaos. DarkEidolon

Nathaire

``the Thrice-infamous'', ``alchemist, astrologer, and necromancer'' -- had ``ten devil-given pupils'' -- of Vyones, in a tall, gloomy house near the cathedral -- according to rumor, his father was ``Alastor, demon of revenge; and his mother a deformed and dwarfish sorceress'' --spiteful and malign, with a ``squat, puny physique'' -- travelled in the Orient and learned necromancy ``from Egyptian or Saracenic masters'' -- created a colossus out of corpses which his spirit briefly animated. Colossus

Naz Orbbamar

sea captain of Ullotroi -- cast ashore on the island of the gazolbas. Euvoran

Necronomicon

Olaus Wormius's Latin translation omits a passage regarding sorcerers reanimating their bodies after death, a formula for exorcising the dead, and possibly other items. ReturnSorcerer

Neptune

``in the ivory-sheeted books of Thule there were blood-writ runes that would call the demons of the fifth and seventh planets, if spoken aloud in the hour of their ascent''. DoubleShadow

Neptune

see Yaksh. FamilyTree

Nimboth

the dynasty of emperors which reigned over Cincor for 2,000 years, until a pestilence wiped out the capital. EmpireNecromancers

Nioth Korghai

monster ``who came down to Earth from an alien world, riding a fire-maned comet'' which landed in a desert -- brought to Ossaru's palace and kept in a vault beneath the throne-room -- sent sacrifices by Ossaru in exchange for advice and learning -- eventually ``sickened with a strange malady'' and died and was buried in the vault, his body protected by Ossaru's spells -- no one but Ossaru ever saw him -- after Ossaru's death, joined with Ossaru's body and half-lived -- destroyed by the spell that protected his tomb. TombSpawn

Nouph

fourth planet in Xiccarph's system. FlowerWomen

Nushain

astrologer, latterly of the rebuilt Ummaos -- wandered from realm to realm -- born under the sign of the Great Dog -- at the end of his life, Vergama called him to him. LastHieroglyph

Nycea

her palace is furnished in ``the period of Greek decadence, with its intermingling of Oriental influences'' -- is aware of what goes on in Averoigne -- a lamia -- ``How she came to take up her abode at Faussesflammes is not known, for her coming antedates the memory of men.'' -- ``she was exorcised by Apollonius of Tyana''. EndStory

Nygon

one of the twelve sorcerers summoned by King Gadeiron to act on the death of Malygris -- one of the five sorcerers who chose not to so act -- brother of Fustules -- went to loot Malygris's tower but died there instead. DeathMalygris

Nylissa

a girl of Poseidonis loved by Malygris before he became a sorcerer -- ``died of a sudden mysterious fever on the very eve of their marriage-day''. LastIncantation

Obexah

Zotulla's favorite concubine -- of Uccastrog -- found her first lover on the shores of Uccastrog, from a shipwreck, and later delivered him to the Torturers -- killed by Namirrha. DarkEidolon

Octave, Allan

archaeologist -- knew ``more about Martian archaeology than any other Terrestrial on the planet'' -- led an expedition to find Yoh-Vombis. YohVombis

Ogden

narrator -- has knowledge of Arabic -- temporarily the secretary of John Carnby. ReturnSorcerer

ogga

a black wood of Hyperborea. Weird

Oggon-Zhai

city of Mhu Thulan -- ``high, keen spires''. IceDemon

Oigos

Atlantean warrior -- Avyctes and Pharpetron used his mummy in the invocation of the spell from the serpent-people's tablet. DoubleShadow

Ojhal

maiden goddess of Ilcar -- her cult of celibate monks was hateful to the emperor of Ilcar, who drove them into Yoros. AbbotPuthuum

Ommum-Vog

wizard of Iqqua -- went to make war against the polar ice in Mhu Thulan and never returned. IceDemon

Ommu-Zain

locale on Xiccarph -- its people are ``whiter than desert salt''. MaalDweb

Omvor

``an ancient pirate still renowned'' in Manthar's time -- ``looted the fane of the Moon-God in Faraad'' and, among other treasures, carried away rare books of elder magic -- made a chart showing where his loot was buried and gave it to a former comrade -- believed to have been caught in the Black River and swept past Naat to the world's rim. MasterCrabs

Ones

``the noisome, necromantic Ones'' who yet dwell in Yoh-Vombis -- control the leech-like disk creatures. YohVombis

Ornava

``isle that is sacred to the birds'' -- seat and capital of the gigantic monarch of all birds -- about 6 months sail to the east from Ustaim -- the birds apparently do not bring news of the outside world to Ornava. Euvoran

Oroth

``a western seaport of the land of Xylac''. NecromancyNaat

Ossaru

king and wizard -- ``ruled over half the continent of Zothique'' -- ``lived from age to age'' -- worshipper of Thasaidon -- ``during his latter years, he was accompanied by the monster Nioth Korghai'', whose coming he foresaw -- kept Nioth Korghai in a vault beneath his throne-room -- sent sacrifices to Nioth Korghai in exchange for advice and learning -- died some time after Nioth Korghai died and was buried in the vault with Nioth Korghai -- after Nioth Korghai died, cast a circle of enchantment around Nioth Korghai's body, to preserve it, and another circle around that, to instantly age anyone entering the tomb from the doors -- the location of his palace is lost to history --legend says anyone entering the tomb by the door falls to dust. TombSpawn

Oumor

``we had traced on the floor an infrangible ellipse, made by an endless linked repetition of the twelve unspeakable Signs of Oumor, to which we could retire if the visitant should prove inimical or rebellious'' -- the ellipse of Oumor is drawn with blood and ashes. DoubleShadow

Outer Cosmos

``There is a way ... from the Inner Sphere [i.e., Inner Dimension] to another and remoter Cosmos in a second infinity . ... The majority of the pilgrims, after a term of sojourn here, have gone on to the worlds of this other universe'' -- ``passage to the further Cosmos ... was difficult and dangerous for anyone who had not lived a certain length of time in the Inner Dimension. Likewise, ... no one could return to [the Inner Dimension] from the higher Cosmos, even as no one could go backward through the Flame into Ydmos.''. BeyondSingingFlame

Outer Lands

areas around Ydmos -- their rules destroyed Ydmos with their legged war towers and force-bolts ``because so many of their people have obeyed the lure of the singing fountain and vanished into the higher sphere.'' -- ``There are many legends in the Outer Lands concerning the Flame and the fate of those who succumb to its attraction, but the truth is not known, or is guessed only by a few ... ''. BeyondSingingFlame

Outhoth

father of Xeethra, husband of Askli -- ``died of a dysentery'' before Xeethra was born. Xeethra

Parchments of Pnom

written in the Elder Script -- tells how Knygathin Zhaum repopulated Commoriom by fission. FamilyTree

Paul, Brother

a monk of Perigon c.~1550 -- affected by the statue of Venus found there. DisinterVenus

pazoor

a small coin of Hyperborea. Weird

Perigon

in the forest of Averoigne -- site of a Benedictine abbey -- their library contains many rare books, including a copy of Bernard de Vaillantcoeur's Histoire d'Amour and an untitled, short book about the Chateau des Faussesflammes. EndStory

Perigon

until 1550, the vegetable garden was on the southeast side of the abbey; in April of 1550, it was moved to the northwest side. DisinterVenus

Pharaad

``the capital of Yoros, which lies near to the southern sea''. CharnelGod

Phariom

husband of Elaith -- of Xylac -- ``impoverished youth of noble blood ... exiled because of the political and religious tenets of his family''. CharnelGod

Pharnoc

``an evil king of Tasuun'' -- the desert has buried the ruins of his palace -- Namirrha found and raised a statue of Thasaidon from the ruins. DarkEidolon

Pharpetron

``the last and most forward pupil of the wise Avyctes''. DoubleShadow

Phenquor

king in Zhu-Bha-Sair in Phariom's day. CharnelGod

Pierre, Brother

a monk of Perigon c.~1550 -- affected by the statue of Venus found there. DisinterVenus

Pithaim

emperor of Xylac -- father of Zotulla -- died from ``the sting of a small adder''; some said Zotulla put it in his bed. DarkEidolon

Pneor

city (?) visited by mariners from Lephara -- not on Poseidonis. DoubleShadow

Pnom

``collected'' many powerful exorcisms against polar spirits. Worm

Pnom

chief geneologist (of Hyperborea?) and a noted prophet. FamilyTree

Polarion

desert plateau north of Mhu Thulan, with mts. between it and Mhu Thulan -- glacial. WhiteSybil

Polarion

``isle of snow''. Testament

Polarion

nearer to the North Pole than Thulask -- their sorcery and speech are foreign to Hyperboreans. Worm

Pornos

uncle of Xeethra, brother of Askli. Xeethra

Poseidonis

contemporary with Tartessos -- after the sinking of Atlantis -- isle. DeathMalygris

Poseidonis

``a large isle'', ``the last isle of foundering Atlantis'' -- ``with its opulent seaports, its eon-surviving monuments of art and architecture, its fertile inland valleys, and mountains lifting their spires of snow above semi-tropic jungles'' -- ``mountains of the interior'' -- people thought of themselves as Atlanteans -- ``members of an aboriginal race of Atlantis'' survived on Poseidonis as slaves. Sfanomoe

Psiom

``sister city of the delta'' -- around 6 miles west of Umbri -- halfway between it and Umbri is the necropolis home of Morthylla. Morthylla

Puthuum

monastery in the northern reaches of the Izdrel -- fell into ruin after Uldor's imprisonment by Ujuk. AbbotPuthuum

Quachil Uttaus

``. . . The olden wizards knew him, and named him Quachil Uttaus. Seldom is he revealed: for he dwelleth beyond the outermost circle, in the dark limbo of unsphered time and space. Dreadful is the word that calleth him, though the word be unspoken save in thought: For Quachil Uttaus is the ultimate corruption, and the instant of his coming is like the passage of many ages; and neither flesh nor stone may abide his treading, but all things crumble beneath it atom from atom. And for this, some have called him The Treader of the Dust.'' -- ``Though Quachil Uttaus cometh but rarely, it hath been well attested that his advent is not always in response to the spoken rune and the drawn pentacle. . . . Few wizards, indeed, would call upon a spirit so baleful. . . . But let it be understood that he who readeth to himself, in the silence of his chamber, the formula given hereunder, must incur a grave risk if in his heart there abide openly or hidden the least desire of death and annihilation. For it may be that Quachil Uttaus will come to him, bringing that doom which toucheth the body to eternal dust, and maketh the soul as a vapor for evermore dissolved. And the advent of Quachil Uttaus is foreknowable by certain tokens: for in the person of the evocator, and even perchance in those about him, will appear the signs of sudden age; and his house, and those belongings which he hath touched, will assume the marks of untimely decay and antiquity. . . .'' -- ``a rough, irregular gap had appeared in the room's outer wall, high up in the north corner. Through it, a single star shone into the chamber ... a beam of livid radiance, wan and deadly, was hurled ... there came something that glided stiffly and rapidly into the room ... along the beam'' -- ``a figure no larger than a young child, but sere and shriveled as some millennial mummy. Its hairless head, its unfeatured face, borne on a neck of skeletal thinness, were lined with a thousand reticulated wrinkles. The body was like that of some monstrous, withered abortion that had never drawn breath. The pipy arms, ending in bony claws, were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal groping. The legs, with feet like those of a pygmy Death, were drawn tightly together as though confined by the swathings of the tomb; nor was there any movement of striding or pacing. Upright and rigid, the horror floated swiftly down the wan, deathly gray beam ... ''. TreaderDust

Quanga

huntsman of Iqqua -- led Hoom Feethos and Eibur Tsanth onto the glacier of Polarion in search of the rubies of King Haalor -- died in Mhu Thulan. IceDemon

Quaos

father of Arctela -- ``a high noble and magistrate of Zhu-Bha-Sair''. CharnelGod

Ralibar Vooz, Lord

high magistrate of Commoriom -- third cousin to King Homquat -- interrupted a conjuration of Ezdagor's and had a geas put on him. Geases

Raoul

man-servant of Fleurette Cochin -- survived an encounter with Sieur Hugh du Malinbois. Rendezvous

Raphtontis

archaeopteryx -- familiar of Ezdagor. Geases

Ravormos

``the Martian underworld, where Vulthoom, the evil god, is supposed to lie asleep for a thousand years amid his worshippers'' -- ``a great cavern lit by crimson hemispheres embedded in the roof. The cavern was circular, with passages that ramified from it in every direction, like the spokes of a wheel from the hub. ... The strange, muted clangors and thunder-like rumblings of hidden machinery throbbed in the air, vibrated in the shaken floor'' --located miles beneath Ignar-Vath -- a chemical laboratory holds ``the Bottles of Sleep'', ``filled with a rare, invisible gas'' used to put Vulthoom's worshippers into suspended animation with him -- Vulthoom's newly-constructed ether-ship lies in a mile-wide gulf of fire directly below Ignar-Luth; when the ship is used, Ignar-Luth will be consumed by the planet's internal fires thus released -- beyond the gulf, little-used outer caverns lead to an underground dry river-bed which ``emerges in a sunken desert far below sea-level, and lying to the west of Ignarh''. Vulthoom

Reynard, Blaise

stonecarver of Vyones -- ``returned from a long sojourn in the cities of Provence'' -- created two gargoyles for the cathedral of Vyones that unknowingly personified his strongest emotions -- enamored of Nicolette Villom -- hated, and had always been hated by, the people of Vyones -- lived at the other end of an alley from the tavern of Jean Villom -- fell from the cathedral while trying to smash a gargoyle. MakerGargoyles

Rhul

fifth planet in Xiccarph's system. FlowerWomen

Rlim Shaikorth

``From spaces beyond the north he has come'' -- collects powerful sorcerers as the only suitable food -- ``the White Worm'' -- those he acclimates to his cold can never live in normal climates again. Worm

Rubalsa

young woman of a village on the Vos -- lived with her grandmother -- bought for King Hoaraph's harem -- took up with Cushara. AbbotPuthuum

saber-tooth tiger

inhabited Hyperborea. Geases

Sabmon

anchorite of Zothique -- famed for piety, prophetic wisdom, ``and knowledge of the dark art of sorcery'' -- built a house of bones ``on the rim of the northern desert of Tasuun''. Ulua

Sainte Zenobie

village of Averoigne near the abbey of Perigon -- a road leads to Vyones. DisinterVenus

Sainte Zenobie

has a cemetary -- near Perigon. BeastAveroigne

Sainte Zenobie

Nathaire's colossus buried its Church ``with its priest and congregation beneath a mountain or ordure made by the gathering of all the dungheaps from neighboring farms''. Colossus

Sarcand

sorcerer -- rival of Mior Lumivix -- said to be the child of a cannibal of Naat and a sorcerer -- ``his demons are of a kind that cannot cross water, being entirely earthbound''. MasterCrabs

Satampra Zeiros

thief of Uzuldaroum -- life-long friend of Tirouv Ompallios. Satampra

Saturn

see Cykranosh. Saturn

Sebastian, John

studied The Testaments of Carnamagos -- inherited a mansion and ``a generous income'' from a relative -- died upon the arrival of Quachil Uttaus -- could read Greek. TreaderDust

Sephora

enchantress of Sylaire -- no one can find her realm unless she permits it -- the last of her family -- her servants are vampires who leave Sylaire via the Druid portal at night ``to prey on the people of Averoigne'' -- she is ``an ancient lamia, well-nigh immortal, who feeds on the vital forces of young men'' -- her youth and beauty are illusions which a mirror can dispel. EnchantressSylaire

serpent-people

allied to Haon-Dor -- scientists -- thoroughly understood human anatomy by Ralibar Vooz's time -- their ``chemistry is devoted almost wholly to the production of powerful toxic agents'' -- in Ralibar Vooz's time, eat only synthetic food -- live far below Haon-Dor's palace. Geases

serpent people

existed before the dinosaurs -- built cities of black gneiss and fought wars on the world's first continent. Ubbo

serpent-people

left a triangular tablet of polished metal, inscribed on one side with their characters, which contained a spell that conjured a doom unforseeable by normal mantic means -- their ``primordial continent had sunk aeons before the lifting of Hyperborea from the ooze. DoubleShadow

Severn, Rodney

archaeologist -- has worked on digs on Venus, such as Uogam -- visited Machu Picchu -- narrator -- part of Octave's expedition to find Yoh-Vombis. YohVombis

Sfanomoë

Atlantean name for the planet Venus -- plants grow, blossom, and decay as you watch, and even take root in animals. Sfanomoe

Sfaticllp

daughter of Zvilpogghua -- mated with Voormi. FamilyTree

Sha-Karag

city of Zothique -- somewhere between Dhir and Calyz -- ``several hundred leagues'' west of Calyz -- in Istanam?. Xeethra

Sha-Karag

locale of Zothique -- home of slave-traders. NecromancyNaat

Shathair

``high city'' and capital of Calyz, 3/4 day's walk from Calyz's western border. Xeethra

Shathak

mate of Tsathoggua, parent of Zvilpogghua. FamilyTree

Shub-Niggurath

``the Ram with a Thousand Ewes'' is used by Azéderac as an oath. Holiness

Siloar

city of Yoros devastated by the Silver Death. IsleTorturers

Silpun

city of Yoros devastated by the Silver Death. IsleTorturers

Silver Death

mysterious disease that ravaged Yoros -- astrologers said it came from Achernar and would pass on into space -- ``sealed the flesh of ... men with its bright, metallic pallor'' -- ``Those who were smitten felt an icy, freezing cold, an instant rigor ... Their faces and bodies whitened strangely, gleaming with a wan luster, and became stiff as long-dead corpses, all in an interim of minutes.'' -- once it's touched you, you ever bear the contagion, even if protected for the moment. IsleTorturers

Simban

eunuch and ``chief purveyor to Hoaraph's well-replenished harem'' -- slain by Ujuk. AbbotPuthuum

Sincaul, Cyprian

sculptor of San Francisco -- ``studio only a block from Toleman's'' -- distant cousin of Philip Hastane, whom he admires -- years before ``The Hunters from Beyond'', had sculpted tame and mediocre but polished subjects; now works in diabolism -- learned to summon, through sheer will-power, ``the innumerable malignities and grotesqueries that people other planes than ours, or mingle unperceived with humanity'' -- even in his ``stodgy phase'', had always wanted to do macabre sculpture. HuntersBeyond

Singing Flame

in a square in the center of the city of Ydmos is a temple for the Singing Flame -- emits a hypnotic, alluring music that increases and decreases in power as the flame increases or decreases in height -- has a ten-minute cycle of ebb and flow -- ``green and dazzling'' -- none of Ydmos's natives are affected by the Singing Flame -- ``the hall ended in a chamber of immense, indefinite scope, whose walls and roof were doubtful with unremoving shadows. In the centre, amid the pavement of mammoth blocks, there was a circular pit, above which seemed to float a fountain of flame that soared in one perpetual, slowly lengthening jet. This flame was the sole illumination, and also, was the source of the wild, unearthly music.'' -- ``transdimensional ... pilgrims ... gathered before the flame in various attitudes of worship'' -- ``The fountain rose and rose, until its light flickered on the limbs and features of enthroned, colossal statues behind it -- of heroes, gods or demons from the the earlier cycles of alien time''. CitySingingFlame

Singing Flame

has no heat -- ``the Inner Dimension is born of the fiery fountain and sustained by it; and those who fling themselves into the Flame are lifted thereby to this superior plane of vibration.'' -- ``The nature of the Flame itself is not known, except that it is a fountain of pure energy springing from the central rock beneath Ydmos, and passing beyond mortal ken by virtue of its own ardency.'' -- ``no one could go backward through the Flame into Ydmos.''. BeyondSingingFlame

Sodagui

version of ``Tsathoggua'' used by Azéderac (and thus possibly called so in the Book of Eibon). Holiness

Sodosma

necromancer of Naat. EmpireNecromancers

Soorm

bottomless swamp on Xiccarph ``wherein no reptile dwelt ... but where the pitch-black ooze was alive with continual heavings and writhings'' -- a ``high causey of white corundum ... spanned the fen'' and led to Maal Dweb's house -- sedgy isles shudder gelatinuously under foot. MaalDweb

Sotar

``the infamous, half-mythic isle'' -- ``lying somewhere to the east'' of Zothique. CharnelGod

Sotar

has ``blood-red lilies''. DarkEidolon

Sotar

``the wide orient isle'' of Zothique -- Loithé is its capital. Adompha

Sotar

``whose low-lying coast of cassia and sago barred the sea for a hundred leagues from north to south'' -- ``excels all other orient lands'' in the production of a ``sovereign arrack'' -- island, mountains in its center -- ``bright-plumaged vultures peculiar to that region'' -- east of Ustaim, west of Tosk. Euvoran

Stephane, Brother

a Cistercian monk who, investigating the unholy activities at Ylourgne, is driven away by animated corpses. Colossus

Sun

Atlantean sorcerers ``had held speech with the spirits of the sun''. DoubleShadow

Susran

capital of Poseidonis -- Malygris's tower tops ``a conical hill above the heart of Susran''. LastIncantation

Susran

east of the ``mountains of the interior''. Sfanomoe

suvana

fruit of Hyperborea. Testament

suvana-palm

tree of Hyperborea -- its (fruit's?) juice used as ink. Satampra

Sylaire

the tower-dwelling of Sephora and the lands around it, existing in ``a land lying outside of time and space'' as we know them yet within Averoigne -- ages ago, a great castle stood where only the tower stands now -- the water of an enchanted pool turns its drinker into a werewolf; only a rare plant resmbling wild garlic can temporarily reverse the spell; a second drink can drive the werewolf mad. EnchantressSylaire

Taaran

god of evil in Poseidonis. DeathMalygris

Taranit

the Druids of Averoigne sacrificed Christian missionaries to Taranit. Holiness

Tasuun

country of Zothique -- custom makes obsequies ``an occasion of much merrymaking and prolonged festivity''; ``funeral orgies'' -- Lord Thulos has a ``domain on the western border'' -- believes a witch who dies frustrated can become a lamia and thus achieve satisfaction -- Miraab is its capital. Ilalotha

Tasuun

dromedaries and camels used -- desert to the north (Dloth?) -- tomb lintels are set low, by custom, so that one enters bowing to death -- Chaon Gacca is its former capital. WeaverVault

Tasuun

its people often consulted Sabmon, despite his tendency to ignore material questions -- Sabmon built a house of bones ``on the rim of the northern desert of Tasuun'' -- ``an aging, semi-desert land'' -- ``women of the royal family seldom attended the banquets or appeared in public'' -- south of Dooza Thorn. Ulua

Tasuun

between Xylac and Yoros -- ``an empire famed for the number and antiquity of its mummies''. CharnelGod

Tasuun

north of Yoros. TombSpawn

Tasuun

devastated by the Silver Death before Yoros. IsleTorturers

Ta-Vho-Shai

an Aihai servitor of Vulthoom. Vulthoom

The Testaments of Carnamagos

: ``Subtle and manifold are the nets of the Demon, who followeth his chosen from birth to death and from death to birth, throughout many lives.''. Xeethra

The Testaments of Carnamagos

heavy -- in ``covers of shagreen with clasps of human bone'' -- ``the writings of that evil sage and seer, Carnamagos, which had been recovered a thousand years agone from some Graeco-Bactrian tomb, and transcribed by an apostate monk in the original Greek, in the blood of an incubus-begotten monster'' -- ``In that volume were the chronicles of great sorcerers of old, and the histories of demons earthly and ultra-cosmic, and the veritable spells by which the demons could be called up and controlled and dismissed.'' -- believed to be a legend -- ``It was said that only two copies had ever existed, and that the other had been destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition early in the Thirteenth Century.'' -- John Sebastian found a copy ``on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula''. TreaderDust

The Testaments of Carnamagos

: ``. . . The olden wizards knew him, and named him Quachil Uttaus. Seldom is he revealed: for he dwelleth beyond the outermost circle, in the dark limbo of unsphered time and space. Dreadful is the word that calleth him, though the word be unspoken save in thought: For Quachil Uttaus is the ultimate corruption, and the instant of his coming is like the passage of many ages; and neither flesh nor stone may abide his treading, but all things crumble beneath it atom from atom. And for this, some have called him The Treader of the Dust.''. TreaderDust

The Testaments of Carnamagos

: ``Though Quachil Uttaus cometh but rarely, it hath been well attested that his advent is not always in response to the spoken rune and the drawn pentacle. . . . Few wizards, indeed, would call upon a spirit so baleful. . . . But let it be understood that he who readeth to himself, in the silence of his chamber, the formula given hereunder, must incur a grave risk if in his heart there abide openly or hidden the least desire of death and annihilation. For it may be that Quachil Uttaus will come to him, bringing that doom which toucheth the body to eternal dust, and maketh the soul as a vapor for evermore dissolved. And the advent of Quachil Uttaus is foreknowable by certain tokens: for in the person of the evocator, and even perchance in those about him, will appear the signs of sudden age; and his house, and those belongings which he hath touched, will assume the marks of untimely decay and antiquity. . . .''. TreaderDust

Thamogorgos

``lord of the abyss'' -- the coursers of Thamogorgos: ``the clouds took the form of colossal monsters with heads and members somewhat resembling those of stallions''. DarkEidolon

Thasaidon

``lord of the bottomless underworlds'' -- his demons wear black armor -- ``king of the seven underworlds'' -- his gardens ``lie near to the earth's surface'' in Cincor -- sends an emissary ``in due season to all who have passed the nether portals and have tasted the fruit of His garden. No man, having eaten the fruit, shall remain hereafter as he was before; but to some the fruit brings oblivion, and to others, memory.'' -- ``the maker of all sorceries, and a giver of magic gifts to those who serve him and acknowledge him their lord'' -- ``the Demon'' -- ``he sits aloft on his throne of ever-burning brass''. Xeethra

Thasaidon

``Black lord of bale and fear, master of all confusion'' -- grants new powers to witches and sorcerers after their death. Ilalotha

Thasaidon

after death, witches go to him in the seventh hell. Ulua

Thasaidon

``dark Thasaidon, prince of all turpitudes''. DarkEidolon

Thasaidon

according to Ludar, keeps a garden with ``orchards sunned by hell's unsetting flame!'' and ``Tree which bears / Unnumbered heads of demons for its fruit'' and the root Baaras and ``forky, pale mandragoras / Self-torn from out the soil, [which] go to and fro''. Adompha

Theophile, Abbot

abbot of Perigon until 1369 -- possessed by a ``stellar devil'' from a comet, became the Beast of Averoigne, and was slain -- no one was told of his involvement with the Beast of Averoigne until after Luc le Chaudronnier's death -- canonized for his ``martyrdom'' in the course of killing the Beast of Averoigne. BeastAveroigne

Theophile, Brother

a Cistercian monk -- in early summer, 1281, while drunk, fell from a precipice and broke his neck -- his funeral Mass was interrupted when he sat up on his bier and fled to the castle of Ylourgne. Colossus

Therese, Sister

``young and beloved niece of Theophile'' -- nun at the Benedictine convent of Ximes -- killed by the Beast of Averoigne. BeastAveroigne

Thirlain Ludoch

warrior of King Famorgh's -- died in the tombs of Chaon Gacca. WeaverVault

Thulask

Hyperborean isle north of Mhu Thulan -- inhabited until Rlim Shaikorth came on his floating citadel. Worm

Thule

gone in Avyctes's time -- ``in the ivory-sheeted books of Thule there were blood-writ runes that would call the demons of the fifth and seventh planets, if spoken aloud in the hour of their ascent''. DoubleShadow

Thuloneah

an odalisque favored by Adompha ``for the seldom-equalled period of eight nights'', after which Adompha had Dwerulas make her join his garden. Adompha

Thulos, Lord

lover of Queen Xantlicha -- has a ``domain on the western border'' -- former lover of Ilalotha -- slain by a lamia. Ilalotha

Tiglari

jungle hunter -- native of Xiccarph -- attempted to assassinate Maal Dweb and retrieve Athlé but was caught by the flowers of primordial life and turned into an ape-man from the neck down -- Mocair was his rival for Athlé's affections. MaalDweb

Timmers

manservant of John Sebastian -- died while perusing The Testaments of Carnamagos -- could read Greek. TreaderDust

Tinarath

``that gray country'' -- ``death was deemed a holy thing'' and necromancy an abomination -- a great highway once ran between Tinarath and Cincor -- north of Cincor?. EmpireNecromancers

Tinarath

``far to the east'' of Ummaos. DarkEidolon

Tirouv Ompallios

thief of Uzuldaroum -- life-long friend of Satampra Zeiros -- died in Commoriom. Satampra

Tnepreez

former king of Tasuun -- ``founder of the dynasty to which Famorgh belonged'' -- ``a great wizard in his time''. WeaverVault

Toleman

proprietor of a San Francisco bookstore, a block from Cyprian Sincaul's studio -- knows Philip Hastane. HuntersBeyond

Tolometh

``black god of the abyss'' in Poseidonis -- its ``one eye is a moon-bright gem / Found in a monstrous meteor'' -- ``The star-born evil that I brought / Through all that ancient land was wrought: / All women took my yoke of shame'' -- unknowingly worshipped today by those whose actions may lead to nuclear armageddon -- statue sunk with Poseidonis. Tolometh

Tortha

poet of Cerngoth -- followed the White Sybil to Polarion -- tried to embrace the White Sybil and lost paradise -- dazed, he wed Illara thinking she was the White Sybil. WhiteSybil

Torturers

a Mongoloid people of Uccastrog, led by King Ildrac -- believed to be great magicians who cause ships to be wrecked on the shore of Uccastrog -- tortured everyone who came to their isle, keeping some alive for years -- a bronze statue tells their victims what their fate for the day will be -- many Torturers were slain by the Silver Death. IsleTorturers

Tosk

island east of Sotar ``whose people were more akin to apes and lemurs than men'' -- west of the atolls of Yumatot. Euvoran

translucent-bodied creatures

beings with access to Ydmos. CitySingingFlame

Tregardis, Paul

owned the medieval French version of the Book of Eibon -- read the Necronomicon -- of London -- discovered the crystal of Zon Mezzamalech in a London curio shop -- amateur anthropologist and occultist. Ubbo

Tsathoggua

sluggish and baleful -- came down from Saturn in years immediately following Earth's creation -- bat-like furriness -- has the look of a sleepy black toad. Geases

Tsathoggua

``By the black altar of Tsathoggua ... !''. Weird

Tsathoggua

long discredited in Hyperborea in Eibon's time -- relatives still living on Cykranosh in Eibon's time -- maintains a close surveillance of all underground doings, even those in subterranean chambers or cellars -- his form on Earth ``was not altogether that which he had worn on Cykranosh'' -- once gave Eibon a panel that became a door to Cykranosh. Saturn

Tsathoggua

in Satampra Zeiros's day, no longer worshipped by humans -- his temple in Commoriom contained a large basin of a living black liquid. Satampra

Tsathoggua

non-anthropomorphic. Testament

Tsathoggua

child of Ghizguth and Zstylzhemgni, mate of Shathak, parent of Zvilpogghua. FamilyTree

Tscho Vulpanomi

an area of Hyperborea -- tourmaline may be found there. Weird

Tscho Vulpanomi

south of Commoriom -- ``diamond-sanded, ruby-graveled shores''. WhiteSybil

Tscho Vulpanomi

southern realm in Hyperborea -- ends in a lake of boiling asphaltum. Testament

Tulu

name of Cthulhu in the Parchments of Pnom -- according to Pnom, a cousin of Hzioulquoigmnzhah, but ``somewhat closer to the Azathothian archetype''. FamilyTree

Ubbo-Sathla

``dwelt in the steaming fens of the new-made Earth'' ''?b?efore the coming of Zhothaqquah or Yok-Zothoth or Kthulhut from the stars'' -- source of all earthly life -- ``formless, idiotic demiurge''. Ubbo

Uccastrog

has orchids as ``purple as the bruises of love'' -- ``Isle of the Torturers''. DarkEidolon

Uccastrog

``far to the east of Cyntrom'' -- ``the Isle of the Torturers'' --home of a Mongoloid people. IsleTorturers

Ujuk

abbot of Puthuum in King Hoaraph's time -- ``half-human fiend'' -- incubus son of Uldor and a succubus -- peopled the monastery of Puthuum with 12 duplicates of himself, which faded when he died. AbbotPuthuum

Ulassa

third planet in Xiccarph's system. FlowerWomen

Uldor

original abbot of Puthuum -- came with his monks from Ilcar, because their celibate worship of Ojhal was hateful to Ilcar's emperor --outlived all the other monks through his sorcery -- seduced by a succubus who later gave birth to Ujuk -- imprisoned, decaying yet alive, in a tomb by Ujuk -- ultimately slain by Zobal. AbbotPuthuum

Uldulla

necromancer of Naat -- son of Vacharn and brother of Vokal -- kills himself out of loneliness. NecromancyNaat

Ullotroi

``far southwestern land'', possibly an island. Euvoran

Ulua

``sole daughter of Famorgh and Queen Lunalia'' -- witch -- slain in the earthquake that destroyed Miraab. Ulua

Umb

city (?) visited by mariners from Lephara -- not on Poseidonis. DoubleShadow

Umbri

``City of the Delta'' -- around 6 miles east of Psiom -- halfway between it and Psiom is the necropolis home of Morthylla. Morthylla

Ummaos

chief town of Xylac, site of the emperor's palace -- palace stands at the center, with the imperial gardens to the north, west, and south -- to the east of the palace was an open space ``between the palace and the mansions of high optimates'', until Namirrha built his palace there -- west of Tinarath. DarkEidolon

Ummaos

capital of Xylac -- ``built above the shards of an elder city of the same name, long since destroyed by a sorcerer's wrath''. LastHieroglyph

unicorns

found on Poseidonis or Atlantis -- Malygris's familiar lived in a unicorn's head hanging above his door. LastIncantation

Uogam

``frozen, giant-builded battlements .. on the glacial tundras of the nightward hemisphere of Venus''. YohVombis

Ustaim

``by the orient sea''. TombSpawn

Ustaim

its kings at one time wore a crown ``fashioned only from the rarest materials that could be produced anywhere'' -- in the east of Zothique -- necromancy is a capital crime -- Aramoam is its capital -- west of Sotar. Euvoran

Uthmai

locale on Xiccarph -- its people are slim and figuratively ``moulded from breathing, palpitating jet''. MaalDweb

Ux Loddhan

magician of Thulask -- Rlim Shaikorth acclimated him to the intense cold of Yikilth. Worm

Uzuldaroum

far to the south of Iqqua. IceDemon

Uzuldaroum

south of Commoriom. Satampra

Vacharn

necromancer of Naat -- father of Yokal and Uldulla -- uses a ``powerful formula which requires no use of circle or pentacle'' to chant the dead ashore -- slain by Vokal and Uldulla. NecromancyNaat

Valzain

``pupil of Famurza and renowned both as poet and voluptuary'' -- his later work took a morbid tone -- carried on a long flirtation with a woman whom he thought was Morthylla; killed himself in disillusionment. Morthylla

Veezi Phenquor

alchemist of Uzuldaroum in Satampra Zeiros's day. ThirtyNineGirdles

Vemba-Tsith

assistant to Abnon-Tha -- helped in the planned theft of Arctela's corpse from Mordiggian's temple -- of Naat. CharnelGod

Vemdeez

``old astrologer and sorcerer'' to the court of Fulbra -- had served Altath as well -- made a ring to protect Fulbra from the Silver Death, but ``did not tell the origin of the red metal and the dark gem, nor the price at which the protective magic had been purchased'' -- died of the Silver Death. IsleTorturers

Venus

the planet Venus was known as Sfanomoë in Atlantis and on Poseidonis. Sfanomoe

Venus

Rodney Severn has worked on some archaeological digs here, such as Uogam -- ``the glacial tundras of the nightward hemisphere of Venus''. YohVombis

Vergama

``throughout the whole continent of Zothique, was deemed the most powerful and mysterious of the genii, and was thought to rule over the heavens as well as the earth'' -- ``whom some considered the most secret of all the gods, and others the most cryptical of demons'' -- his ``other name is Destiny'' -- he keeps a book in which the fate of all is written, a page for each, in hieroglyphs. LastHieroglyph

Vhlorrh

chief town of the Bhlemphroims. Saturn

Villom, Jean

father of Nicolette Villom -- kept a tavern at the other end of an alley from the lodgings of Blaise Reynard. MakerGargoyles

Villom, Nicolette

daughter of Jean -- loved by Blaise Reynard but did not feel the same for him -- ravaged by a flying monster. MakerGargoyles

Vixeela

thief of Uzuldaroum -- the one true love of Satampra Zeiros -- once a temple virgin of Leniqua. ThirtyNineGirdles

Vokal

necromancer of Naat -- son of Vacharn and brother of Uldulla -- slain by Esrit. NecromancyNaat

Voormis

sub-human savages of Hyperborea -- live in caves on the heights of the Eiglophians -- hunted by Hyperboreans as a dangerous sport -- of quasi-human cunning -- flesh-eaters -- popularly believed to be the offspring of women and certain creatures from a cavern-world in Voormithadreth -- ignorant of fire. Geases

Voormithadreth, Mount

highest and most formidable of the Eiglophians -- named after the Voormis -- volcanic, though its four craters are extinct -- Tsathoggua resides inside it. Geases

vortlups

mammals of Mars, ``with their elongated legs and necks, and horny-plated bodies'' like ``some fabulous combination of llama and saurian'' -- can ``go without water for months at a time'' -- used as beasts of burden for desert travel -- only iron-pointed goads can ``elicit any increase of speed from these sluggish monsters'' -- even ``wild vortlups avoid the Chaur''. GulfDweller

Vos

river in western Yoros -- its ``middle meanderings'' are through low valleys in green pasture-lands west of Izdrel -- empties into the Indaskian Sea in the south -- a road used by herders to avoid Izdrel follows the Vos to where it meets the Indaskian Sea -- Rubalsa came from a village on the Vos. AbbotPuthuum

Votalp

sixth and outermost planet in Xiccarph's system -- inhabited by gigantic wyverns, half-vegetable monsters, labyrinth-building algae, and ``the remarkable spawn of certain polar glaciers'' -- no moons -- vampire flower-women, bird-people, and the Ispazars. FlowerWomen

Voum

river of Zothique -- empties into the Indaskian Sea near Faraad. IsleTorturers

Vulthoom

``the evil god'', devil-god of the Aihais -- lives in Ravormos, served by giant Aihais from nine to eleven feet in height -- ``came to Mars from another universe''; when humans ``were still the blood-brothers of the ape,'' Vulthoom was banished from his own world and landed on Mars in an ether-ship; the Aihais say he ``fell from heaven like a fiery meteor'' -- not immortal, just extraordinarily long-lived -- gave his followers ``a longevity ... almost equal to'' his own remains awake for another thousand; his Aihais followers breathe a gas to put them in suspended animation at the same time, awakening when he awakes -- ``the kings and hierarchs'' of Mars tried to drive him away, but he gained followers and equipped them ``with weapons superior to those of Martian science''; a great war followed, after which Vulthoom-worship was firmly established, and Vulthoom, not wishing to rule Mars, retired to Ravormos for ages -- has triple-faced fire-breathing dragons, somehow projected, as Guardians of the ways out of Ravormos -- brought a garden of alien flowers with him from his home planet, including certain fossil blossoms which, when heated, emit a perfume that causes its breathers to deem all else worthless, whereupon they serve Vulthoom willingly to be able to smell it again; this craving can be beaten -- his ``perceptions, or will, can be extended over large areas of space, or even time'' -- wants to establish himself on Earth -- ``Vulthoom and his people had gone beyond the spectrum, and beyond the audible vibrations of sound, and had compelled the hidden forces of the universe to appear and obey them'' -- ``like a gigantic plant, with innumerable roots, pale and swollen, that ramified from a bulbular bole. This bole, half-hidden from view, was tipped with a vermilion cup like a monstrous blossom; and from the cup there grew an elfin figure, pearly-hued, and formed with exquisite beauty and symmetry; a figure that turned its Lilliputian face ... and spoke in the sounding voice of Vulthoom'' -- neither good nor evil -- bore no rancor to Bob Haines for defeating his plans -- can resist the Bottles of Sleep but saw no need to with all his followers asleep. Vulthoom

Vyones

near Perigon. BeastAveroigne

Vyones

the principal town of Averoigne -- cathedral. EndStory

Vyones

Nathaire kept ``a tall, gloomy house ... built in blasphemous proximity to the great cathedral''. Colossus

Vyones

``the principal town of the province of Averoigne'' -- ``On two sides the great, shadow-haunted forest ... approached to the very walls and flung its umbrage upon them at early forenoon and evening'' [so it's on the southeast and southwest walls?] -- ``On the other sides there lay cultivated fields, and gentle streams that meandered among willows and poplars, and roads that ran through an open plain to the high chateaux of noble lords and to regions beyond Averoigne'' -- ``prosperous, and had never shared in the ill-fame of the bordering forest'' -- ``two nunneries and a monastery'' -- ``a street that skirted the cathedral square''. MakerGargoyles

Vyones

``chief city of the province''. DisinterVenus

Vyones

``quaint cathedral town ... which lies so near the ancient wood of Averoigne''. Rendezvous

Vyones

a day and a half's slow ride from Ximes through the forest of Averoigne -- city. Holiness

Weaver

``A coldly shining, hueless globe ... large as a human head'' -- hummings and bright light accompany it -- it magically melts and absorbs the bodies of the dead, turning red as it feeds and spinning pearly ropes and filaments about itself, thicker and thicker -- when it is done feeding, the color fades and it retracts the web -- possibly released from an underground cavern by the earthquake that sundered Chaon Gacca. WeaverVault

West Indies

Captain Barnaby Dwale kept his treasure on ``a remote isle on the eastern verge of the West Indies, far from the common course of maritime traffic, and ... not known to maps or other mariners'' -- ``the soil beneath many a coco-tree was heavy with our hidden trove'' -- ``placid harbor'' -- ``a cool sweet spring that ran from beneath the palmy hill not far inland''. VintageAtlantis

White Sybil

of Polarion -- utters prophesies in the cities of Hyperborea -- may be ghost or woman, goddess or spirit -- dwells in a paradise of snow and ice in the clouds above Polarion -- so cold, her touch burns. WhiteSybil

``winged colossi''

beings with access to Ydmos. CitySingingFlame

Wuthoqquan, Avoosl

richest and most avaricious money-lender in Commoriom. Weird

Xala

equatorial locale on Xiccarph -- its people are ``amber''. MaalDweb

Xantlicha

Queen of Tasuun -- ``the self-widowed'' -- former wife of Archain -- fled mad from Ilalotha's tomb. Ilalotha

Xeethra

goatherd boy of Zothique -- nephew of Pornos, son of Askli -- the reincarnation of King Amero of Calyz -- ate of Thasaidon's fruit and went off in search of Calyz. Xeethra

Xiccarph

planet -- has ``four diminutive moons'' [because of their size or because each is ``decrescent''?] -- ``the juice of a jungle plant [is] repugnant to all the fauna of Xiccarph'' -- chimera-skin used as leather -- has reptiles, dragons, pterodactyls, chimeras, poisonous ``winged vipers'', ape-like creatures -- three suns, all dawn in the east, set in west: the earliest sun is ``gamboge-yellow'', second is emerald, third is carmine. MaalDweb

Xiccarph

one of 6 planets in a system with 3 suns and 13 moons -- second planet of the system. FlowerWomen

Ximes

walled town -- far from the abbey of Perigon -- has a Benedictine convent and a marshal -- home of Luc le Chaudronnier -- ``from Ximes toward Perigon, ... a direct and little-used way ... ran through the werewolf-haunted forest''. BeastAveroigne

Ximes

has a Bishop -- a day and a half's slow ride from Vyones through the forest of Averoigne -- town -- after Azéderac's supposed death, a great mausoleum is reared for him here. Holiness

Ximes

makes a red wine. MotherToads

Xylac

an empire of Zothique, on the west coast -- seaport of Oroth. NecromancyNaat

Xylac

caravans from here to Tasuun pass beyond the northern desert. WeaverVault

Xylac

``far in the north'' from Zhu-Bha-Sair -- north of Tasuun and the Celotian Waste. CharnelGod

Xylac

west of Tinarath -- Ummaos is its chief city. DarkEidolon

Xylac

its ``liberal laws ... permitted all the sorceries and mantic arts'' in Nushain's time -- Ummaos is its capital. LastHieroglyph

Xylac

``fierce mercenaries'' from here served in Euvoran's army. Euvoran

Yadar

``prince of a nomad people'' of Zyra -- shipwrecked on Naat -- killed in his attempt to slay Vacharn and reanimated by Uldulla. NecromancyNaat

Yahan Canal

bordered by a wide pavement of blockless marble -- barges ``with immense rhomboid sails of mauve and scarlet'' sail ``on the somber green waters'' -- built of purple marble and lined ``at frequent intervals'' by ``huge solar gnomons'' -- flows through Ignarh separating Ignar-Vath from Ignar-Luth and joining them by a mile-long, railless bridge. Vulthoom

Yaksh

Neptune -- inhabited by beings of ``peculiar religious devotions'' who worshipped Hzioulquoigmnzhah before Tsathoggua came to Cykranosh. FamilyTree

Yamur

warrior of King Famorgh's -- died in the tombs of Chaon Gacca. WeaverVault

Yarak

vast and steep mountain at the North Pole during Hyperborean times. Worm

Yashta pestilence

``a kind of green mold that ate all the bones of the body, starting with the teeth'' -- once a ``terrible epidemic'' on Mars. YohVombis

Ybith

``a sorcerer from prehistoric years'' before Poseidonis -- his shadow was sent by Avyctes and Pharpetron into the past to learn the language of the serpent-people. DoubleShadow

Ycnagnnisssz

``fissionary being from the dark star Zoth'' -- parent of Zstylzhemgni. FamilyTree

Ydheems

people of Cykranosh who are neighbors of the Bhlemphroims -- worship Hziulquoigmnzhah. Saturn

Ydmos

in a land of ``violet grass'' and ``high, stately forests of ... purple and yellow''; on the horizon, ``a wall of impenetrable, golden-brown mist'' beneath ``a sky of luminescent amber in which there were no sun'' -- a city of ``massive towers and mountainous ramparts of red stone'' -- a double line of nine-foot tall monolithic stones marks a path from the boulders, through the forest, towards Ydmos; within the forest, ``a road paved with stupendous blocks of stone at least twenty feet square'' leads to Ydmos -- its ``people are giants. ... Their bodies are nude and swart, and their limbs are those of carytides''; description would make them sound ``monstrous and uncouth, and these beings are not monstrous''; ``jet-like orbs of their huge eyes ... heavy, straight, expressionless lips ... devoid of ... ears''; take the presence of alien visitors for granted -- in a square in the center of the city is a temple, inside which is a fountain of flame above a circular pit: the Singing Flame -- people are slow-moving and silent -- none of the city's people are affected by the Singing Flame -- ``Everywhere there were columns, obelisks, and the perpendicular pylons of fane-like structures that would have dwarfed those of Thebes and Heliopolis.'' -- walled, with a gate -- ``rectangular structures that hung above me, tier upon tier, at an awful height'' -- ``a great square, in whose centre was a temple-like building more immense than the others''; ``many-columned entrance''; ``the walls of that building ... titanic collonades, whose pillars were graven with indecipherable runes and enigmatic bas-reliefs''. CitySingingFlame

Ydmos

``no one could go backward through the Flame into Ydmos.'' -- its people are weaponless and resigned themselves to the city's destruction. BeyondSingingFlame

Yethlyreom

former capital of Cincor -- behind a door in the deepest crypt of the Nimboth emperors are a thousand steps leading to an abyss ``where the sunken fires of earth still burned''. EmpireNecromancers

Yhoundeh

elk-goddess of Hyperborea. Saturn

Yikilth

ice-mountain and floating citadel of Rlim Shaikorth -- vaster and steeper than Yarak -- radiates an exceeding coldness -- an intense light from it turns humans into frozen corpses as hard as marble, whom even fire cannot harm -- floated to earth from ``transpolar gulfs''. Worm

Ylourgne

a ``ruinous castle'' over 40 miles east of Vyones ``beyond the werewolf-haunted forest, in the outlying, semi-mountainous hills of Averoigne'' -- ``built by a line of evil and marauding barons'' extinct in 1281 -- ``the nearest abode of living men was a small Cistercian monastery, more than a mile away on the opposite slope of the valley''; ``this valley was the fountainhead of the Isoile''. Colossus

Ymorth

country to the east of Istanam and west of Dhir -- high passes. Xeethra

Yoh-Vombis

an ``ancient, aeon-deserted city'' on Mars -- in a ``flat, treeless, orange-yellow desolation to the southwest of Ignarh'' -- no other Martian city had been laid out in an arc -- ``far from the life-giving canals'' -- built by Yorhis -- ``no Aihai had set foot among the ruins for ages'' -- ``triangular, terraced buildings'' -- ``zigzag streets'' -- on ``a low, gneissic, league-long elevation of bare, eroded stone'' -- three-sided towers -- home of leech-like disk creatures of black leather; they eat at the brain of their victims and imprint their desires on ``the half-eaten brains of the dead''; servants of ``the noisome, necromantic Ones'' who yet dwell in Yoh-Vombis; ``could not endure the sun''. YohVombis

Yok-Zothoth

alternate spelling of ``Yog-Sothoth'' in the medieval French version of the Book of Eibon. Ubbo

Yorhis

the race which preceded the Aihais on Mars -- resembles Aihais but are smaller, averaging 5 feet high, and eyeless either by birth or by removal -- ``fungus-like pallor'' -- talk by ``shrill, cheeping sounds that bore little likeness to the Martian language'' -- ``long, four-jointed fingers'' -- believed to be extinct, but live underground -- ``The ruins of some of their cities are still extant in the Chaur'' -- ``driven underground by the dehydration of the Chaur, and they followed the ebbing waters of a sub-Martian lake'' and now ``worship a weird monster that lives in the lake ... the Dweller'' -- a statue of the Dweller they worship emits a soporific electricity to the touch. GulfDweller

Yorhis

built Yoh-Vombis -- believed to have been wiped out by the Aihais ``at least forty thousand years ago'' from the date of the story -- ``great, bellows-like chests'' -- ``high, conical craniums'' -- ``sinuous, four-jointed fingers'' -- ``ears and nostrils ... not so huge and flaring as those of the'' Aihais. YohVombis

Yoros

southern kingdom of Zothique, far from Xylac, on the west coast. NecromancyNaat

Yoros

wine from Yoros is sold in Tasuun -- ``fervent ruby wine''. WeaverVault

Yoros

land south of Tasuun -- Pharaad, its capital, ``lies near to the southern sea''. CharnelGod

Yoros

``the tract known as Izdrel'' in the west -- few blacks in the kingdom in King Hoaraph's time -- ``a chapter of negro monks ... had flourished in Yoros many centuries ago'' -- south of Ilcar. AbbotPuthuum

Yoros

produces ``black sapphires and winy garnets'' -- desert on its northern border; a two day ride eastward from the trail between Yoros and Tasuun, through a ravine and across a sunken plain, leads to Nioth Korghai's tomb. TombSpawn

Yoros

practically the entire realm fell to the Silver Death including the cities of Siloar and Silpun -- north of isle of Cyntrom. IsleTorturers

Yos Ebni

``sage and archimage, who won supremacy over men and demons in elder years by defying all mortal temptation and putting down the insubordination of the flesh'' -- Sabmon gave Amalzain an amulet containing ``a pinch of ashes from the pyre of Yos Ebni'' to protect him ``from such evils as were overcome by Yos Ebni''. Ulua

Yuckla

``the small and grotesque god of laughter'' of Zothique -- a wayside shrine to him is located less than 5 leagues to the south of Chaon Gacca. WeaverVault

Yululun

god of Zothique, known as ``keeper of the tombs''. WeaverVault

Yumatot

seven atolls east of Tosk -- beyond them lies the Ilozian Sea. Euvoran

Zemander

stream of Poseidonis flowing through the valley of Meros. LastIncantation

Zhel

country to the east of Cincor and west of Istanam -- ``far-stretching fruitful vineyards''. Xeethra

Zhothaqquah

alternate spelling of ``Tsathoggua'' in the medieval French version of the Book of Eibon. Ubbo

Zhothaqquah

alternate spelling of Tsathoggua in Eibon's time. Saturn

Zhu-Bha-Sair

caravans from here to Tasuun pass beyond the northern desert. WeaverVault

Zhu-Bha-Sair

``a walled metropolis on the southwestern verge of the'' Celotian waste -- men wear ``voluminous robes of red, black and violet'' -- Mordiggian is the sole god here. CharnelGod

Zhu-Bha-Sair

a ``desert town'' in Nushain's time. LastHieroglyph

Zobal

archer in King Hoaraph's army -- friend of Cushara -- left King Hoaraph's service following an adventure at the ruined abbey of Puthuum. AbbotPuthuum

Zon Mezzamalech

wizard of Mhu Thulan -- acquired a cloudy crystal globe which showed visions of Earth's past -- vanished soon after. Ubbo

zoorth

Aihai name for a cyclonic sandstorm in the Chaur. GulfDweller

Zoth

dark star, home of Ycnagnnisssz. FamilyTree

Zothique

inhabited isles far to the east -- continent -- many think ``madness is a sacred thing'' and give hospitality to crazed wanderers -- probably in the southern hemisphere. Xeethra

Zothique

``the last continent''. EmpireNecromancers

Zothique

many capitals -- the Black River flows westward across the ocean from Zothique to Naat. NecromancyNaat

Zothique

southern isles are the home of a golden-skinned people. Ulua

Zothique

a southern continent -- ``Achernar ... presided over all the lands''. IsleTorturers

Zotulla

prince of Xylac -- of Ummaos -- once trampled the beggar boy Narthos under his horse's hooves -- only son of Pithaim. DarkEidolon

Zstylzhemgni (or Zstulzhemgni)

mother of Tsathoggua, wife of Ghizguth -- child of Ycnagnnisssz. FamilyTree

Zvilpogghua

child of Tsathoggua and Shathak, parent of Sfaticllp. FamilyTree

Zyra

``half-desert region'' of Zothique -- black gazelles hunted by a nomad people. NecromancyNaat