Klarek-Yam

Klarek-Yam is one of the First Ones who secretly sought out Cthulhu and other Great Old Ones in the Dreamlands. Eventually he lost his mind and became a minion of Cthulhu, set out to perform certain tasks for the great demon god. He stole from one of the Keeps of the First Ones the three Wands of Power, one of which eventually fell into Thinistor Udd's hands. Without that wand and its lost companions, the remaining nine masters of the Keep became marooned in the Dreamlands.
Klarek-Yam had heard of Soomus and knew him for a mighty magician. He determined to seek him out and ask his aid in the performance of the blackest rite of all: he wished to free Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones from their prisons. He came to Soomus with his wand and his blasphemous proposition. In the wand he already controlled the power to seek out and find Cthulhu and his ilk, so that all he needed from Soomus was a key to their prisons (of course, Soomus and Klarek-Yam themselves would not be harmed, for they would be first-loved amongst all Cthulhu's human priests and acolytes). In reply, Soomus shrank him down, and prisoned him in a glass sphere.
Many centuries later, Klarek-Yam was freed from his imprisonment with the help of the three Wands of Power. However, it turned out that Soomus took precautions against such an event. While Klarek-Yam remained inside the sphere, he was almost immortal, but the moment he left it, all the years overtook him, and he disintegrated into a cloud of dust.
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