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One of Lovecraft's Dreamlands, described in the most detail in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)", as a desert region consisting of the River Ai with a caravan route nearby, a Nameless Lake beside the ruined alien City of Ib, and several human cities, such as ruined Sarnath, Ilarnek, Thraa, and Kadatheron.

Gary Myers would later add Cuppar-Nombo, a nearby land, as a sort of Dreamlands Egypt, adding a number of Egyptian-themed details like pyramids, mummies, sphinxes, and the like.

Mnar

Mnar is a land that exists in the Dreamlands, although it is possible it also may have existed in the Middle East at one time. The Beings of Ib had their city established in the lands of Mnar. The people of Sarnath destroyed the race and their city and cast their bodie into a lake. That night of conquest had been celebrated ever since, with the spoils of war including an altar of Chyrsalite depicting the god Bokrug, the Water Lizard. During one of these celebrations, the high priest of Sarnath was found dead, with DOOM scrawled on the altar.

The city of Sarnath came to dominate Mnar, establishing a large kingdom. Mnar had many victories, both political and military, and became a great power. On a celebration of the destruction of Ib, all the nobles of Mnar and beyond traveled to Sarnath to celebrate. After the city was indeed destroyed by the resurrected Beings of Ib, all the lands of Mnar turned to worship of Bokrug.

River Ai

Along the River Ai, betwixt Sarnath and the city of Ilarnek arose a caravan route, and the precious metals from the earth were exchanged for other metals and rare cloths and jewels and books and tools for artificers and all things of luxury that are known to the people who dwell along the winding river Ai and beyond. So Sarnath waxed mighty and learned and beautiful, and sent forth conquering armies to subdue the neighbouring cities; and in time there sate upon a throne in Sarnath the kings of all the land of Mnar and of many lands adjacent.

Sarnath

See Sarnath for more details; Sarnath is an ancient city that was destroyed long ago. Sarnath was built on a nameless lake near Ib. In its time it was famed as the most splendid in Mnar a region of the Dreamlands.

Sarnath was founded when dark skinned explorers ventured out past the Ai River and came to a quiet lake "fed by no stream and out of which no stream flows." The men of Mnar built Sarnath not far from Ib, hating the beings of Ib they marched on the city and destroyed it. Sarnath was by far the richest of the cities of Mnar, and traded precious metals and gems with Thraa, Ilarnek and Kadatheron. Ilarnek is the closest city to Sarnath.

Ib

The City of Ib features in the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Doom that came to Sarnath." The city was built by strange amphibian beings, who may have dwelt on the moon, in the land of Mnar, possibly located in the Dreamlands. The beings of Ib worshipped a Great Old One called Bokrug, a water lizard deity. The city was destroyed by the men of neighboring Sarnath some time after Ib was built. The Beings of Ib would have their revenge on the men of Sarnath years later. Today Ib is nothing but ruins.

It is not made explicit whether the city is truly in the Dreamlands, or in the ancient Middle East. However in the Dream-Quest of Unkown Kadath locations near Sarnath and Ib, Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron, are mentioned as being prosperous trading ports in the Dreamlands.

Ilarnek

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Kadatheron

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Thraa

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