The Lomar Region

Lomar is by and large a legend in Rinyldissen.



Lomar is a region in the North besieged by the armies of the Inutos and an encroaching northern ice sheet. It is said the lands of Lomar stood once in the material realms, maybe on Earth yet maybe on another worlds. The Lomari had fled from the land of their forefathers, Zobna in advance of encroaching ice sheets. 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. Finally, as the ice advanced upon the last of their cities, they were invaded by a race of men called the Inutos. Fierce and warlike, the Inutos overwhelmed the Lomarians and destroyed all traces of their society. A few of the Lomarians escaped the destruction of their land and fled into the Dream. They brought with them all their knowledge and their text of the Pnakotic Manuscripts. Then they scattered to the four corners of the Dreamlands and were assimilated into the myriad peoples they encountered.

Lomar, as it stands in the Dreamlands now, is the dream creation of the last survivor of that lost civilization in the waking world. As the Inutos marshaled their forces for their assault upon the last fortress of Lomar, all the men of Lomar prepared to sally forth and meet them in battle. Only one remained behind in the highest watchtower to warn in case the Inutos were to come by way of secret passes through the mountains. As he stood his watch, a strange spell was placed upon him, and he fell into a deep slumber. When he awakened he found the waking world greatly changed. However, his mind had not been idle during all that time, for in his dreams Lomar yet lived on. And so it came to pass that the land of Lomar, as it stood in the waking world of 26000 years ago, rose again fully formed and populated, in the far northern reaches of the Dreamlands.