Shugoran

The Shugoran are from T.E.D. Klein's "Black Man with a Horn".

Description

The hide which hung over the bar at the Traders' Club in Singapore, and which, according to tradition, represented the infant of this fabulous creature: its wings were black... [and its face was like a] man wearing a gas mask or scuba outfit.... Near the window they've discovered footprints that may have been made by a heavy man in swim fins. — T. E. D. Klein, “Black Man with a Horn”
— T.E.D. Klein, "Black Man with a Horn"

Shugoran is the name of both a servitor race and an avatar of Nyarlathotep. These creatures look like smaller versions of Nyarlathotep’s Shugoran form: something like manta-winged humanoids with black, catfish-like hides, with webbed feet, fins, and long gas mask-like proboscises.

The creatures are a sort of bogeyman wherever the Tcho-Tcho cults of Nyarlathotep can be found - remote areas of Asia and Africa, where the cult revers the Shugoran as an avatar of their god - the "Death Herald", and are served by the beasts as guardians and hunters. Victims of a Shugoran are pounced upon by the beast, which then cover the victim's nose and mouth with its proboscis, and sucks the victim's lungs out, turning the victim inside-out and leaving grotesque contusions and abrasions on the victim's face.

Associated Mythos Elements

• deity: Nyarlathotep (both a servitor race and an avatar)
• cult: Cult of Nyarlathotep
• cult: Tcho-Tcho Cult of the Death Herald

References

• fiction: T.E.D. Klein's "Black Man with a Horn"
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum