Tarim (Earth-616)

History

Pre-Cataclysmic Age and Great Cataclysm

The Tarim has two known and contradictory origins:

• During the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, before the Great Cataclysm, Tarim was a minor spirit.^[2]
• During the Cataclysm, in Lemuria, a man called Tarim rose and led his tribe to flee aboard ships westward,^[3] on the eastern coast of the Thurian continent^[4] (later known as the eastern shore of the Vilayet).^[3]

The Tarim Incarnate was the living embodiment of the greatest Hyrkanian deities, a man-god for whom a holy war was being waged. He was told by the High Priest Kharam-Akkad about the Mirrors of Thuzun Thune, a tale revolving around King Kull of Valusia.^[5]

Following the Great Cataclysm, circa 18,000 BC, the Tarim brought Erlik worship to the Hyrkanians, who founded the Turanian Empire.^[6]

Hyborian Age

After the invasion of Makkalet, the Living Tarim was discovered by Conan to be in fact a diseased, inbred imbecile. The soldiers of Turan accidentally killed the Tarim with arrows, while the Cimmerian Conan fled his chamber. Prince Yezdigerd nevertheless celebrated his victory with a parade, marching the robed figure of the Tarim through the city, while only he and Sulimar knew underneath the robes a skeleton was all that remained.^[7]

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