EARTH-BRAK
(Earth-73012)

Type: Parallel Earth

Environment: Essentially Earth-like

Usual means of access: Unknown (vibrational attunement?)

Dominant Life Form: Similar to Earth-616 (early Roman Empire)

Prominent Characters: Ariane, Brak the Barbarian, the Darters, Friar Jerome, Jonel, Nestoriamus, Septegundus, Tyresias, Valena, Yob-Haggoth

First Appearance: Chamber of Chills#2 (January, 1973)

History: (Savage Tales I#7/2-8/2) - The Earth where Brak walked had a level of civilization similar to Eearth-616 at the early Roman Empire. Many tribes and nations were present. Some were believed to be barbarians, others believed to be more civil, because they lived in large cities or great state-towns like Kambda Kai in the Ice Marches or Khurdisan the Golden, in the warm south. The coin commonly used for change was the Dinsha.
    Many religions were followed and many gods were worshipped, but the two forces who influenced men's destiny were the dark, evil Yob-Haggoth and the nameless god, its fiercest foe, in their struggle for the dominion over humanity. Northern tribes worshipped the gods of war.
    Some forms of arts were practiced and appreciated, like singing, playing and composing verses. The man known as Tyresias was claimed the Minstrel Supreme.
    Also magic, or sorcery, was present on Earth, usually granted by gods or demons to worshippers like priests and witches. But in other cases, other forms of magic were used by shamans and alchemists.

(Savage Tales I#8/2 (fb) - BTS) - Yob-Haggoth's emyr upon Earth was Septegundus, powerful, evil sorcerer. The nameless god had had as first worshipper Nestoriamus, who created the symbol of the stone cross and an order of friars who always wore it and could cast enchantments praying to their god.

(Savage Tales I#7/2) - The celebrations in honor of Yob-Haggoth performed by his priests involved slavery, blasphemy, depravity and sometime blood sacrifices. Feasts in his name involved enchanted goats and plump young girls, and, two times per year the god granted his power to the one who conducted the rite of blood: Septegundus.

(Savage Tales I#8/2) - Septegundus' power grew, and so grew Yob-Haggoth's power till the point to claim, through his followers, the nameless god dead. But in Kambda Kai, where the Cult of Yob-Haggoth had its northernmost shrine, a barbarian from the northern tribes named Brak was involved in the periodic thrice-blooded sacrifice, and, with the strength of his arm and the survival instinct typical of his race, Brak managed to kill Ariane, the Daughter of Hell, Septegund''s daughter, and also to destroy the temple of Yob-Haggoth, thirty times as high as a man.

(Chamber of Chills#2) - Yob-Haggoth's influence, however, had spawned over other lands, and a lot of other sorcerers and witches invoked him as source of power. In a land raided by a cursed creature, a dragon, Valena the Witch used Yob-Haggoth's power for his master and her evil purposes. Also there went Brak, who, with the help of Jonel, avoided the curse on his broadsword, killed the dragon and also the witch.

Comments: Parallel Earth created John Jakes.
    Adapted to comics by John Jakes (plot), Dan Adkins (script), Val Mayerik (pencils), Joe Sinnott (inks).

    Per Savage Tales#7, Brak dwells in a parallel universe, which is about on the level of the time of the early Roman empire--Snood

    Kambda Kai was also called Kamda Kai in Savage Tales I#7/2.

    Néstore (in Italian) is the elder of a group, for age or wisdom.

    Further information about the parallel Earth of Brak  taken from the novels of John Jakes.

(The Barge of Souls) - The throne of Phrixos was inherited by Rhea, helped by Brak, who gave her the Shield of the Horned Lady.

(The Sorceress) - The known world finished at the Smoking Mountains at east and at the Columns of Ebon at west.

    An alchemist named Celso Hyrkano, discovered the secret of the transformation of common metals in gold.
    Yob-Haggoth's power let Septegundus revive his daughter, sending her spirit to possess Nordica, the body of Celso's daughter. In the Mountains of the Four Winds, the battle among Yob-Haggoth and the nameless god continued. Ambrosio the Stilites, worshipper of the nameless god, helped Brak the Barbarian in defeating the Manworm, Yob-Haggoth's creation, and Nordica.

Some strange creatures populated this world:

• The Darters seemed humans, probably mutated by sorcery the origin of which was Septegundus or Yob-Haggoth itself. They were boys with sharp teeth and the power to launch sizzling rays of light from the fingers;
• In the Ice Marches lived a race of snow camels, similar to the camels of the desert but probably more fitted to survive in cold, frozen regions;
• Dragons existed. They looked like a T-Rex, they had no wings nor fire- breath;
• The Manworm was an ancient creature, the last of his race, possibly generated by Yob-Haggoth. Enormous, with a serpentine body, sharp claws, huge red eyes, it lived in deep, dark pits beneath the surface;
• Some families of bats could be so big that their wing span was as large as a man with open arms. They could extract blood from their victims using fingers endowed of little sticking, sucker mouths. They feared fire and light;
• carnivorous trees could eat men after entangling them with their branches and prehensile lianas. They were the "cursed crabs".

Profile by Spidermay.

Clarifications:
No known connection to any other parallel Earth.

Yob-Haggoth has no known connections to:

• Yog Sotath, demon, @ Savage Sword of Conan#152
• Yog-Sokot, demon invoked by Grim Reaper and Lilith, @ [Avengers I#352]
• Yog-Sothoth, evil divinity who only sees and hears in darkness, @ not MU
• Yuggoth, planet always into darkness, @ The Whisperer in Darkness - Savage Tales (August; 1931); not MU
• Hoggoth of the Vishanti, @ Dr. Strange III#43
• any other character with a similar name.

Nestoriamus has no known connections to:

• Nestor, @ 500BC, former Inhuman ruler, directed construction of anti-gravity city for Bird People, @ Thor Annual#12/2
• Nestor, enigmatic cloaked man, gave assistance and moral advice to Quicksilver, @ Quicksilver#8
• Garcia Nestor, bartender for Cerveza Fria, old friend of Wolverine, @ Wolverine III#7
• Néstor, king of Pilo, hero and sage, @ Homeric Epic, not MU
• Nestórios, African theologia, @451 AD, promoter of a doctrine similar to Pelagianesism @ not MU
• any other character with a similar name.

images:
Savage Tales I#7/2, p2 panel 1 (procession in honor of Yob-Haggoth)
Savage Tales I#8/2, p9 panel 4 (the Idol of Yob-Haggoth)

Other Appearances:
Savage Tales I#7 (November, 1974) - John Jakes (plot), Doug Moench (script), Steve Gan (pencils and inks)
Savage Tales I#8 (January, 1975) - John Jakes (plot), Doug Moench (script), Steve Gan (pencils and inks)

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

Last Updated: 09/22/04

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