Voormi
Survivors of Hyperborea
Hairy survivors of lost Hyperborea — sorcerers and cannibals in Clark Ashton Smith's cycle — who crept south into legend as things that should have died with the ice.
Overview
Before Arkham had a map, Hyperborea had the Voormi — not quite ape, not quite man, inventors of sorcery in Smith's prehuman drama and worshippers of Tsathoggua in caverns where ice never fully melts. They are the south-drifting remnant of a world that froze, carrying spells that Eibon would later steal and the Necronomicon would later quote without credit.
Lovecraft admired Smith; readers merge their worlds. The Voormi belong primarily to Smith, secondarily to the shared mythos.
Description
Short, shaggy, long-armed, with faces that suggest bat and sage together. They brew poisons, tame mammoths in legend, and eat what they conquer. Their cities fell; their descendants became folklore in Eibon's tales.
Do not call them cute. Smith never did.
Historical Record
Smith's cycle (Hyperborea, Commoriom, Eibon) predates much mythos gaming. Voormi appear in wiki lists beside Ghouls and Gnoph-kehs as if one bestiary — cross-reference carefully.
Link /archive/tsathoggua and /archive/book-of-eibon.
Archive Notes
Ice-cave surveys: treat hair samples as biohazard until identified. Smith pastiche is not Lovecraft primary; label syllabi accordingly.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record CRT-201. Access subject to institutional review.
Related Records
Cross-References
GOD-005
dormantTsathoggua
The Sleeper of N'kai
A bat-toad god who slumbers in red-litten N'kai beneath Greenland and Yoth, worshipped by serpent-men and named in the Pnakotic Manuscripts as a being of appetite and ancient malice.
TOM-003
fragmentaryBook of Eibon
Hyperborean Grimoire of Zvilpogghua
A sorcerer's book from lost Hyperborea, preserved in worm-eaten Greek and Latin, that names the gods below the earth and teaches travel by dream and by terror.
CON-002
activeForbidden Knowledge
Epistemic Hazard
Information whose acquisition damages the seeker - truths the mind evolved specifically not to accommodate, and that no degree of education prepares one to survive.
CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
Philosophical Classification
Horror arising not from personal evil but from the insignificance of humanity before an indifferent, incomprehensible cosmos - the aesthetic that governs every file in this archive.