Ancient Ones

It is unknown so far if the Ancient Ones are related to the Ancients, to the Old Ones, to another group or race, or even if they are a group or race on their own and not a term for various entities and groups. This page could consequently be split or merged into other pages in the future depending on the publication of new material (Discuss).

Ancient Ones
Name	Ancient Ones
Aliases	Ancients
Affiliation and Identity
Identity	Secret
Affiliation	Umir
Origin and Status
Reality	Earth-616
Creators and Appearances
Creators	H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price, Larry Yakata
First	Conan the Barbarian #164 (August, 1984) (Mentioned)
First	Conan the Barbarian #164 (August, 1984) (Mentioned)

The Ancient Ones were a group of (or many) ancient beings who were more or less active on Earth.

Their alignment remains unclear, they've been described as dreaded by Humans and associated with dark magic, but have also entombed (for unrevealed motives) the evil Dark Angels.

They have also been called the Ancients, while Shuma-Gorath, one of the Great Old Ones, was called an Ancient One. The Proemial Gods have also been mentioned as the Ancient Ones.

History

Early Years

For unrevealed motives, the Ancient Ones (allegedly the only beings powerful enough to do so) entombed the evil Dark Angels, Atyah and her sister, going through great trouble to produce the Jewelled Sword of Tem which maintained them dormant in ice. Their resting place became known as the Tomb of the Dark Angels, in the Valley of Eternal Darkness, in Aesgaard.

Hyborian Age of Conan

In the city of Kadath, in Hyboria, Manu-Kaleem, seemingly connected to the Ancients, invoked the Ancient Ones.

Each year, at nightfall on the harvest day of Sultas, the Umir Monks of the Umir Monastery in Western Shem on the Western Seacoast used Sacred Scrolls to ask Umir to send their prayers to the dreaded Ancient Ones, before Umir would spew liquid gold from the Umir Fountain as a reward for the monks' year of penance and devotion.

Modern Age

The Ancient Ones slumbered in the void beyond the stars, where the archaic god and demon Gathonagog resided in the depths of a black dimension, a realm of chaos and madness, It isn't revealed if Gathonagog is himself one of the Ancient Ones.

Miscellaneous

Representatives

Shuma-Gorath, one of the Great Old Ones.

Notes

• The Ancient Ones were created by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (July, 1934).
  • The Keepers of the Great Silver Gate mentioned in Marvel Fanfare #52 (August, 1990) were seemingly inspired by the Ancient Ones, guardians of the Ultimate Gate.
• "Ancient One(s)" is also a term used to refer to elders among human groups, for the collective name of those who held the title of Ancient One, such as Yao, master of Doctor Strange. In an unidentified reality, the Consquitadores were known as such as well by the Natives in the Modern Age.

See Also

• 2 mention(s) of Ancient Ones
• 2 invocation(s) of Ancient Ones