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 '''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic, 26,000 years ago. It was destroyed by fierce invading warrior-tribes of Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.  The Lomarians were great statesmen, scholars, and warriors, but all of their might and wisdom could not save them from the relentless flow of the ice from the north, which drove their civilization steadily southward, to is last great outpost at Olathoe. Finally, as the ice advanced upon the last of their cities and the invading Inutos conquered Olathoe, the last traces of Lomarian civilization destroyed.
 While the location of Lomar is not given in the sources, the only place in the arctic region that has significant mountains and a present-day ice sheet is Greenland. During the time when Lomar flourished, the Wisconsin glaciation had not yet reached its fullest extent, and it is possible that southern Greenland was still unglaciated at that time. Investigators who hope to find the buried remains of Lomarian civilization might be well advised to look there.
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 * The Dreamlands angle is tenuous; the characters in "Quest of Iranon" and "The Other Gods" seem to be referring to Lomar as if it were a far and distant memory of the waking world accessed over the thin borders between the waking world and the Dreamlands (in much the same way that Randolph Carter was able to remember waking lands and cross physically between worlds via the Silver Key), rather than an actual location in the Dreamlands; "Polaris" and ''The Shadow Out of Time'' seem to clearly place Lomar in the waking world.  Chaosium seems to have split the difference, placing it both in the waking world, and a copy of the land in Dream.  The exact location is not explicit, though, and the early Dreamlands stories might have been indecisive about exactly how the Dreamlands relate to the waking world, with some possibility that Lovecraft was willing to place the same city in either world as necessary; much the same approach was used on the Plateau of Leng, which seems to exist in both worlds.

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-'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic, 26,000 years ago. It was destroyed by fierce invading warrior-tribes of Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.  The Lomarians were great statesmen, scholars, and warriors, but all of their might and wisdom could not save them from the relentless flow of the ice from the north, which drove their civilization steadily southward, to is last great outpost at Olathoe. Finally, as the ice advanced upon the last of their cities, they were invaded by a race of men called the Inutos, who destroyed the last traces of Lomarian civilization.
+'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic, 26,000 years ago. It was destroyed by fierce invading warrior-tribes of Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.  The Lomarians were great statesmen, scholars, and warriors, but all of their might and wisdom could not save them from the relentless flow of the ice from the north, which drove their civilization steadily southward, to is last great outpost at Olathoe. Finally, as the ice advanced upon the last of their cities and the invading Inutos conquered Olathoe, the last traces of Lomarian civilization destroyed.
+==Daylands==
 While the location of Lomar is not given in the sources, the only place in the arctic region that has significant mountains and a present-day ice sheet is Greenland. During the time when Lomar flourished, the Wisconsin glaciation had not yet reached its fullest extent, and it is possible that southern Greenland was still unglaciated at that time. Investigators who hope to find the buried remains of Lomarian civilization might be well advised to look there.

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-'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic. It was destroyed by invading tribes 26,000 years ago, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.  Lomar was destroyed by the Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, who invaded from the west.
+'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic, 26,000 years ago. It was destroyed by fierce invading warrior-tribes of Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.  The Lomarians were great statesmen, scholars, and warriors, but all of their might and wisdom could not save them from the relentless flow of the ice from the north, which drove their civilization steadily southward, to is last great outpost at Olathoe. Finally, as the ice advanced upon the last of their cities, they were invaded by a race of men called the Inutos, who destroyed the last traces of Lomarian civilization.
 ==Location==
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 ==Cities==
 ===Olathoe===
 The capital of Lomar was the lonely marble city of Olathoe, which lay on the plateau of Sarkia between the peaks Noton and Kadiphonek. Few have visited the city, as it has no ports and little to offer in trade, but it is nonetheless legendary for its beauty, with great houses of marble, and marble pillars in the streets carved at the top to represent grave bearded men.

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-'''Lomar''' was a human civilization in the arctic. It was destroyed by invading tribes 26,000 years ago, and the land was later buried under a glacial ice sheet.
+The Land of Lomar appears in detail Lovecraft's ''[[Polaris (fiction)]]'', and makes cameo appearances in a couple other stories as well.
 The people of Lomar dwelt in a land further north named Zobna, until they were driven out by spreading ice sheets, and they expected one day to have to depart Lomar for the same reason. They brought copies of [[The Pnakotic Fragments]] with them from Zobna, though no known copies of their translation are recorded. The date of the fall of Zobna is not recorded, but Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, while his mind was inhabiting a [[Yithian]] body, conversed with the captive mind of a king of Lomar who reigned one hundred thousand years before the fall of Lomarian civilization.
-The capital of Lomar was the city of Olathoe, which lay on the plateau of Sarkia between the peaks Noton and Kadiphonek. One account of Olathoe describes it as a city of marble, with marble pillars in the streets carved at the top to represent grave bearded men.
+===Diakos===
-Lomar was destroyed by the Inutos, distant ancestors of the Inuit, who invaded from the west.
+==Heresies and Controversies==
 ==References==
 The following stories by H.P. Lovecraft include references to Lomar:
 * "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/p.aspx Polaris]" (1918)
 * "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx The Other Gods]" (1921)
 * "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/qi.aspx The Quest of Iranon]" (1935)
 * "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx The Shadow Out of Time]" (1936)
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 The following stories by H.P. Lovecraft include references to Lomar:
-*"Polaris" (1918)
+* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/p.aspx Polaris]" (1918)
-*"The Other Gods" (1921)
+* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx The Other Gods]" (1921)
-*"The Quest of Iranon" (1935)
+* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/qi.aspx The Quest of Iranon]" (1935)
-*"The Shadow Out of Time" (1936)
+* "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx The Shadow Out of Time]" (1936)
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