Scion of Tsathoggua

The Scions of Tsathoggua ("Children of Tsathoggua") are from Robert E. Howard's "The Thing on the Roof (fiction)".

Description

I heard from within a hideous high-pitched tittering and then the disgusting squashy sound as if a great, jelly-like bulk was being forced through the window. I could have sworn I heard a faint swish of gigantic wings.... A foul, unspeakable slime smeared the window sill, and in the center of the room lay [a victim], his head crushed and fattened and on the red ruin of skull and face, the plain print of an enormous hoof.
— Robert E. Howard, "The Thing on the Roof (fiction)"

Scions of Tsathoggua are enormous, bloated, greasy, stinking, leathery, slimy black toad-things with four or more thick legs terminating in hooves, dozens of tentacles, and a pair of huge, tattered, membranous wings which sprout from their slimy backs. Curving fangs extend from bony ridges in a wide mouth, and their numerous unblinking, throbbing eyes are milky white, and the creatures produce an unnerving, child-like tittering sound, possibly for bat-like echolocation and navigation in the deep, black caverns and subterranean temples where they nest and normally dwell, acting as guardians and accepting sacrifices on behalf of the Great Old Ones.

Associated Mythos Elements

• deity: Tsathoggua
• tome: Unaussprechlichen Kulten

References

• fiction: Robert E. Howard's "The Thing on the Roof (fiction)"
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum