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It is written on the brick cylinders of Kadatheron that the beings of Ib were in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice.
~ HPL , "The Doom That Came to Sarnath"


This subject contains information from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles, and while guided by HPL are not based on his work alone. This subject contains information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos, and not based on H.P. Lovecraft's works directly. The Thuum'ha were - or possibly are - natives of the land Mnar, seemingly amphibious humanoids who share numerous physical characteristics with Deep Ones and those that have the hybridized Innsmouth look. Though their exact location is not specified they are stated to be as far from the waking lands as they are from the Dreamlands making it is difficult to determine whether they are near other known Deep One cities.

The Thuum'ha - a name apparently given them by the people of Sarnath, and which means no more than 'the Voiceless' - venerated a statue of the great water lizard Bokrug.

However, it is possible that Ibians are merely the name the Deep Ones are given in the Polaris Era, circa 24,000 B.C.

They seem far more docile than Deep Ones of Earth, in any case, being easily overcome by the human people of Sarnath, who routed them to the point of extermination. They are described as "weak, and soft as jelly to the touch of stones and spears and arrows".

According to Chaosium, who included the Beings of Ib in their Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game supplement Ye Booke of Monstres II, they survive to this day on the moon, as only a fraction of their species descended to Earth in prehistory.

Ib[]

Ib was a Thuum'ha settlement by the banks of a giant lake. It was claimed that the ancient stone city had been there as long as had the lake itself. Around ten thousand years ago the city was destroyed and the Thuum'ha driven out by the humans of Sarnath, who found their existence unacceptable.

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