Robert Olmstead

Robert Olmstead is the unseen narrator of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
== Biography ==
Robert was born in . In his twenties, he set out to the town of , , in order to discover why it was rumored as such an odd place. Naturally, as a historian, he gradually dug further and further into the town's history, discovering that it had always been a profitable lobster-fishing settlement.
Robert eventually met an old man - seemingly in his eighties - named Zadok, who drunkenly gave him a long run-down on the town's history and dark mishaps, before running away as the sun set over the horizon. Weirded out, Robert went to the town's hotel, where he was later attacked in his bedroom by the Deep Ones, who had attempted to capture him. However, he luckily managed to climb out from his window and escape town.
However, a while later, once he was in a safe place, in the story's final few pages, he learns the hard way that he himself is the great-great-grandson of Obed Marsh and is therefore a Deep One. Therefore, in time, he will become one of the amphibious monsters that he'd witnessed in Innsmouth. He eventually transforms into a Deep One and, accepting the reality of his identity, swims out to sea.
==Appearance==
It is made clear that his eyes have the same strange quality seen in descendants of Obed Marsh.
==Gallery==
MarshFamilyTree.png|Marsh family tree.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Robert Olmstead" article on the Lovecraft Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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