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Mhur was a being of unspecified nature and origin, and whose teachings were to be found in ancient incantations books.
At some point in the Pre-Cataclysmic Age (see notes), the Captain Ehestes Rhan possessed a few ancient incantations books (though he claimed to have never dabbled in black magic). Rhan was marooned on an isle west of Grebuhl by his mutinied crew. Stranded on the isle (that he named Zahrahn), Rhan decided to punish the mutineers and to force them to respect the Ancients they despised. He studied the teachings of Set and Mhur in his books. He prayed to the Dark Ones, and to the Great Goat Gods and their brethren, unwillingly summoning a terrible creature only named as "the were-god". The creature seemingly forced Rhan to mate, and later spawned the monstrous Children of Rhan, rapidly aging girls that eventually transform into massive feral creatures if taken away from their birthplace, and causing the weariness of men.[1]Notes
- Mhur was created in "The Children of Rhan" (Savage Sword of Conan #64; May, 1981), written by Bruce Jones, seemingly as a pastiche for either the scholars, occultists, and sorcerers, or the eldritch horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos, creators, collectors or translators of evil tomes of ancient knowledge.
- The era of those events are never detailed in names or dates, but it is safe to assume that they are set in the Pre-Cataclysmic Age (100,000 BC-18,000 BC), before the Great Cataclysm which would be the cause of the geological changes mentioned (the ocean in a valley of Vanaheim, the isle of Zahrahn in the ravines of Pictish Wilderness, which is attested as being fully formed after the Lesser Cataclysm, circa 17,500 BC). The other possibilities could be that those geological changes occurred during the Lesser Cataclysm or even afterwards).
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- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #64 ; The Children of Rhan