History
Origins[]
Dar was a mad magician of ancient Atlantis.
He unlocked mystic secrets so horrible that even the Dark Gods had cause to shudder. Dar carefully recorded all of his forbidden knowledge within a single volume: the Book of Dar. The Book would crumble to dust if held.[1]
Legacy[]
The Book of Dar survived the destruction of Atlantis. For two centuries, all magicians searched for the book, who was supposedly protected by a mystic guardian, due to its properties preventing people from acquiring it (the "mystic guardian" being the Book itself).
The Book laid in the third chamber of the Temple of Keeno, at the edge of the Forbidden Wastes. It was guarded by the priests of the Temple of Keeno who worshiped it, but didn't dare trying to unlock its secrets.
Circa 17,800 BC (presumably, see notes), Dar was still considered the greatest of all wizards. the wizard Ealsmann hired the barbarian mercenaries Titonix and Pendog to retrieve the Book. The two mercenaries finally found it, but the Book crumbled to dust in their hands, and they abandoned it, and it reformed itself as they left, unaware.[1]Attributes
Powers
Dar was a magician. Circa 17,800 BC, he was still considered the greatest of all wizards.[1]
Notes
- Dar was presumably based on the likes of other eldritch knowledge tomes' authors such as Abdul Alhazred, author of the Necronomicon, from the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Though no date is given to Dar's disappearance nor for the start of the search for the Book of Dar, it can be assumed that Dar met his end during the Great Cataclysm (the destruction of Atlantis), and that the search began afterwards, circa 18,000 BC. The search having lasted for two centuries by the events of "The Sorcerer's Prize" (Conan Saga #14; June, 1988), those events would occur circa 17,800 BC.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Conan Saga #14 ; The Sorcerer's Prize