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This subject contains information from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles, and while guided by HPL are not based on his work alone. Zar is a fictional coastal region in the Dreamlands of Earth and home to "the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten".

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Its green shore is bright and beautiful with verdant tree-studded terraces rising up from the sea. The temples have gleaming white roofs and colonnades and stand amoungst a beautiful landscape of "forms and fantasies more splendid than any I had ever known; the visions of young poets who died in want before the world could learn of what they had seen and dreamed". However those who go there can never return home.

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