Dossier · Entity of uncertain order, beyond the Archive's usual classification tiers
'Umr at-Tawil
Also on file as: The Most Ancient One · The Prolonged of Life
A veiled, seated presence encountered at the threshold beyond the Silver Key, said to interpret between Yog-Sothoth and whoever has come far enough to need an interpreter. The Archive's single account describes every version of a person across every span of time as one and the same underlying entity — a claim it is filing as testimony rather than fact, pending a source able to explain it in fewer than several thousand words.