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Chthonian

2009-05-18T02:54:07Z

DoubleYuggoth:

A '''chthonian''' is a sentient squidlike creature that lives deep beneath the earth's surface. The being is the creation of [[Brian Lumley]] and was first featured in his short story "Cement Surroundings" (1969)—though the creature never made a direct appearance. The chthonians had a more prominent role in Lumley's [[novel]] ''[[The Burrowers Beneath]]'' (1974).

==Summary==

<blockquote>
Flowing tentacles and pulpy gray-black, elongated sack of a body... no distinguishing features at all other than the reaching, groping tentacles. Or was there—yes—a lump in the upper body of the thing... a container of sorts for the brain, basal ganglia, or whichever diseased organ governed this horror's loathsome life! 
—Brian Lumley, ''The Burrowers Beneath''
</blockquote>

Chthonians are described as immense squids, with elongated worm-like bodies coated with slime. Despite their squid-like appearance, chthonians are land-dwellers and are even harmed by water. Chthonians are powerful burrowers, live for more than a thousand years, and are protective of their young. It is said that a chanting sound accompanies every chthonian, and that by such they can be detected while underground and unseen.

The most important individual chthonian is the gigantic [[Shudde M'ell]], which is worshiped by the rest.

In Charles Stross's "The Jennifer Morgue", the chthonians are long-lasting enemies of the [[Deep Ones]].

In Greek mythology, chthonians and from the root ''chthon'', which means "earth" in Greek) inhabit the underworld and are the dark, shadowy complement to the Olympians.<ref>[http://www.loggia.com/myth/chthonians.html</ref> See [[chthonic]] entry.

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Yuggoth

2009-05-18T02:51:50Z

DoubleYuggoth:

'''Yuggoth''' is the name used by various [[Cthulhu Mythos|Mythos]] beings and scholars of the Mythos to refer to an outer planet in the [[Solar System]]. It is generally believed that Yuggoth is the same world known to humans as Pluto.

[[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s story "The Whisperer in Darkness" introduced Yuggoth to the Mythos. Pluto was actually discovered while the story was being written, making it one of the first works of fiction to include the new planet.

However, conditions on Yuggoth are quite different from those that modern science suggest exist on Pluto. Black tarry rivers flow through the ruins of an ancient civilization, and the planet's surface is inhabited by an outpost of [[Mi-go]], a species of crustacean-like, fungal aliens.

[[Ghatanothoa]] traveled from Yuggoth to the continent of Mu on Earth along with its worshipers.

[[Clark Ashton Smith]], in "The Family Tree of the Gods", said that Hzioulquoigmnzhah, [[Tsathoggua]], [[Cxaxukluth]], and several other Great Old Ones lived on Yuggoth for a time; Cxaxukluth still remains there.

In Richard A. Lupoff's "The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone", Yuggoth is not Pluto, but a larger world even further from the Sun. It is described as twice the mass of Jupiter and possessing four moons - Nithon, Zaman, Thog, and Thok - with the latter moon inhabited by [[shoggoth]]s.

Ghatanothoa

2009-05-18T02:50:36Z

DoubleYuggoth:

'''Ghatanothoa''' the Dark God appears in [[H. P. Lovecraft]] and Hazel Heald's story "Out of the Aeons". It is a huge, misshapen monster whose form is so hideous that merely seeing it transforms the viewer into a petrified body with leathery skin and preserved organs. The victim's brain remains alive, going mad from its confinement.

Ghatanothoa lived in the mountains of Mu when that continent existed, having arrived or been brought there from [[Yuggoth]]. It was worshipped by a hundred priests, who possessed great privileges. The job of these priests was to appease the monster so that it would not emerge from its secret lair, endangering the people.

In the "Year of the Red Moon", T'yog, a priest of [[Shub-Niggurath]], attempted to save mankind from Ghatanothoa. He created a magical scroll to protect him from Ghatanothoa's petrifying power by prayer to Shub-Niggurath, [[Nug and Yeb]], and other deities. With this, he believed he could physically encounter the god and force it to parlay with him. He believed that this could gain him immense power, as well as benefiting the human race.
The priests of Ghatanothoa replaced it secretly with a powerless imitation. Thus, T'yog too was petrified into a half-living statue, which lasted up until the modern era.

According to Colin Wilson's story "The Return of the Lloigor", Ghatanothoa, the "dark one", was the leader of the [[lloigor]], an alien species.

[[Category:Great Old Ones]]

Cthugha

2009-05-13T17:19:38Z

DoubleYuggoth: typos

'''Cthugha''' is a fictional deity in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] genre of horror fiction, the creation of [[August Derleth]]. He first appeared in Derleth's short story "The House on Curwen Street" ([[1944 in literature|1944]]).

==Description==

<blockquote>
He hung motionless in a black, forbidding sky and at first thought he was suspended somewhere in the intrasolar deeps much closer to the Sun than on Earth. But then he realized that the dully gleaming orb which floated before his dreaming vision was not the Sun. Ugly dark blotches mottled the dull orange surface and great columns of spinning flame arced around the rim.... <nowiki>[He watched]</nowiki> the titan sunspots drift slowly across the hideous disc, at times growing larger and merging into great gaping chasms in the fiery atmosphere, while at others dwindling almost to nothingness.... Something was stirring deep within that fiery atmosphere; something monstrous that roared an insatiable anger against the chains of the [[Elder God]] which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utterly powerless to control his movements, he was diving headlong towards that ravening chaos, that age-old intelligence which was Cthugha.
 —John Glasby, "The Dark Mirror"
</blockquote>

Cthugha resembles a giant ball of fire. He is served by the ''Flame Creatures of Cthugha''. [[Fthaggua]], regent of the [[fire vampires]], may be his progeny. He has at least one other known progeny, the being known as [[Aphoom-Zhah]].

Several cults to Cthugha can be found the east including The Nestarian offshoot of Zoarostrianism centered in Bombay (a large number of the members of which are unaware that the entity they worship is Cthugha)and a smaller independent cult known as the Slaves of the Flame Undying based in Egypt.

A large amount of information on Cthugha and his worship can be found in the collection of scrolls known as [[The Letters of Nestar]].

In Derleth's version of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthugha is a [[Great Old One]], an elemental spirit of fire opposed to the [[Elder God]]s.

==Appearances==

In August Derleth's short story "The Dweller in Darkness" ([[1940s|1944]]), the protagonists attempt to summon Cthugha to drive an avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]] out of a forest in northern Wisconsin.

[[Category:Great Old Ones]]

Hastur

2009-05-09T16:56:50Z

DoubleYuggoth:

'''Hastur''' (''The Unspeakable One'', ''Him Who Is Not to be Named''{{Rn|Harms-136a}}, ''Assatur'', ''Xastur'', or ''Kaiwan'') is a [[fictional character]] in the [[Cthulhu mythos]] of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. Hastur first appeared in [[Ambrose Bierce]]'s [[short story]] "Haïta the Shepherd" ([[1893 in literature|1893]]) as a benign god of [[shepherd]]s. [[Robert W. Chambers]] later used Hastur in his own stories to represent both a person and a place.{{Rn|Harms-136b}}

==Hastur in the mythos==

In Bierce's "Haita the Shepherd", Hastur is more benevolent than he would later appear in [[August Derleth]]'s mythos stories. In Chambers' ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' ([[1895 in literature|1895]]), a [[fin de siècle|fin-de-siècle]] collection of horror stories, Hastur is both the name of a city (in "The Repairer of Reputations") and the name of a potentially supernatural servant (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys").

Lovecraft read Chambers' book in youth and was so enchanted by it that he added elements of it to his own creations{{Rn|Pearsall-436}}. There is only one place in Lovecraft's own writings that mentions Hastur (italics added for emphasis):

<blockquote>
I found myself faced by names and terms that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connections — [[Yuggoth]], Great [[Cthulhu]], [[Tsathoggua]], [[Yog-Sothoth]], [[R'lyeh]], [[Nyarlathotep]], [[Azathoth]], ''Hastur'', [[Yian]], [[Leng]], the [[Lake of Hali]], [[Bethmoora]], the [[Yellow Sign]], [[The Whisperer in Darkness#Minor mythos names|L’mur-Kathulos]], [[Bran Mak Morn|Bran]], and the [[Magnum Innominandum]] — and was drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' had only guessed in the vaguest way.... There is a whole secret cult of evil men (a man of your mystical erudition will understand me when I link them with ''Hastur'' and the Yellow Sign) devoted to the purpose of tracking them down and injuring them on behalf of the monstrous powers from other dimensions.
 —H. P. Lovecraft, "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]"
</blockquote>

It is unclear from this quote if Lovecraft's Hastur is a person, a place, an object (such as the Yellow Sign), or a deity. Derleth, however, developed Hastur into a [[Great Old One]]{{Rn|Price-i}}, spawn of [[Yog-Sothoth]], the half-brother of [[Cthulhu]], and theoretically the [[Magnum Innominandum]]. In this incarnation, Hastur has several [[avatar]]s:

* The Feaster from Afar, a black, shriveled, flying monstrosity with tentacles tipped with razor-sharp talons that can pierce a victim's skull and siphon out the brain{{Rn|Brennan-272}}
* The [[King in Yellow]]
* The [[High Priest Not to Be Described]], entity that wears a yellow silken mask (disputed{{Ref|HPNTBD}})

Hastur's form is amorphous, but he is said to appear as a vast, vaguely octopoid being, similar to his half-niece [[Cthylla]].

==Other appearances==

* In the [[PlayStation]] game ''[[Persona 2: Eternal Punishment]]'', Hastur appears as a summoned creature. Hastur can be summoned, even accidentally, merely by saying his name out loud three times.

* In the comic strip ''[http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030508 User Friendly]'', Hastur appears as a sentient blob of very strong coffee. The coffee was originally created using the extra-special ingredient "Distilled Usenet Bitterness" while Hastur was using [[Usenet]] as an avatar.

* Hastur appears as a Duke of Hell in ''[[Good Omens]]'', a novel by [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Terry Pratchett]].

* Hastur is a god and a family in [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s ''[[Darkover series]]''.

* The [[role-playing game]] ''[[Delta Green]]'' uses an alternate image of Hastur, treating him and his counterpart, the King in Yellow, as manifestations of entropy.

* The [[Virgin New Adventures|''Doctor Who'' novel]] ''White Darkness'' equates Hastur with [[The Curse of Fenric|Fenric]].

* In the [[Stephen King]] short story "Gramma", Hastur is the name that the little boy uses to defeat the corpse of his reanimated grandmother.

==References==

*{{Cite book|last=Harms|first=Daniel|chapter=Hastur|pages=pp. 136–7|title=The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana|edition=2nd ed.|year=1998|publisher=Chaosium|location=Oakland, CA|id=ISBN 1-56882-119-0}}

*{{Cite book|last=Pearsall|first=Anthony B.|title=The Lovecraft Lexicon|edition=1st ed.|year=2005|publisher=New Falcon|location=Tempe, AZ|id=ISBN 1-561-84129-3}}

*{{Cite book|last=Price|first=Robert M. (ed.)|title=The Hastur Cycle|edition=2nd ed.|year=1997|publisher=Chaosium|location=Oakland, CA|id=ISBN 1-56882-094-1}}

===Notes===

#{{Note|Harms-136a}}The epithet "Him Who Is Not to be Named" appears in August Derleth's writings; however, the idea that merely speaking Hastur's name brings doom to those who do so first appeared in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' [[role-playing game]] supplement ''Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia'' ([[TSR, Inc.|TSR]], ISBN 0-935-69622-9) and later in the [[Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game)|''Call of Cthulhu'']] role-playing game. (Harms, ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 136.)
#{{Note|Harms-136b}}Harms, ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 136.
#{{Note|Pearsall-436}}Pearsall, "Yellow Sign", ''The Lovecraft Lexicon'', pp. 436.
#{{Note|Price-i}}Derleth once entertained the notion of calling Lovecraft's mythos the ''Mythology of Hastur''—an idea that Lovecraft summarily rejected when he heard it. (Robert M. Price, "The Mythology of Hastur", ''The Hastur Cycle'', pp. i.)
#{{Note|Brennan-272}}Joseph Payne Brenan (1976), "The Feaster from Afar", ''The Hastur Cycle'' (2nd ed.), pp. 272–82.
#{{Note|HPNTBD}}This view conflicts with H. P. Lovecraft's ''[[The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' ([[1926 in literature|1926]]) which links the High Priest to [[Nyarlathotep]].

== External links ==

*[http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1937/ Haita the Shepherd]

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Death Scenes

2009-05-09T16:55:24Z

DoubleYuggoth:

'''The aftermath of kills of various Cthulhoidcreatures.'''

Original by [[Sandy Peterson]]

First published in Different Worlds magazine issue 35, July/August 1984, pp.14-15

From Yog-Sothoth.com

'''Death Scenes: Aftermaths of Cthulhoid Kills'''

Death Scenes Investigators One of the commoner fates of the hapless investigator in Call of Cthulhu is to be slain or devoured by some alien terror. Naturally, this is often a time for sorrow, mourning, and frantic attempts to avoid that same fate for oneself, but it can also be helpful to the survivors. The very manner in which their comrade has met his doom may well provide other investigators with potent clues as to just exactly what they are up against.

Following are a series of 50 scenes, one for every type of monster included in Call of Cthulhu, as well as one for the 11 new deities and alien races included in the Cthulhu Companion. A Keeper may simply read the quote directly, or modify it to suit circumstances. Or he may simply use the information contained to invent his own death scenes. Naturally, not all beings will slay in exactly the same manner, but there will be similarities. In each case, the victim is assumed to be a male investigator.

*[[Azathoth]]: "The entire house was leveled, as though by some vast catastrophe. Even the trees for several hundred yards around were injured and broken. Inside the house's ruins we found his corpse -recognizable only by the twisted gold ring set amidst the ruin of his left hand."

*[[Byakhee]]: "His body lay twisted in the middle of the road. His throat was ripped out, but there was oddly little blood about. The rest of his body was slashed and torn, and his clothes were torn to rags. The corpse seemed strangely shrunken and pale."

*[[Chthonian]]: "There was a great bruise, nearly a foot and a half across, encircling his body. A hole, with ragged edges, was bored into the base of his throat, so deep that I could insert my hand. His whole corpse was coated with a thick layer of putrid slime."

*[[Cthugha]]: "The corpse was burnt to a frazzle. His blackened skull and bones still sat upright on the smoldering car's seat. The forest for an acre about was still aflame."

*[[Cthulhu]]: "All that was visible was a reddish discoloration near the centre of the great green smear across the road. "

*Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath: "Black pus filled the corpse's face and mouth. Open, ulcer-like sores covered half his body, still oozing a greasy clear liquid. The expression on what was left of his face was indescribable."

*[[Deep Ones]]: "Slash marks were neatly incised across the victim's throat, as though someone had drawn four razor blades simultaneously through his neck. Four similar slashes encircled his arm, which was broken, as though some powerful thing had gripped him there unmercifully."

*[[Elder Things]]: "He had been killed with blunt force, in what looked like a panicked struggle. But the strange thing was that, after his death, his body had been delicately but clumsily dissected, with sections of skin and muscle removed randomly but with surgical precision, seeming using a sharp bladed tool. His pockets and his knapsack had been emptied and the contents scattered about, though nothing valuable had been taken."

*Father [[Dagon]] or [[Mother Hydra]]: "The great webbed footprint spread for several feet across the sand. In the middle of the print was our friend's body, torn nearly in half from the crushing weight of the Thing."

*[[Dhole]]s: "A great wad of mucus engulfed the entire front half of the car, and a path was visible through miles of forest. But of our friend, there was no sign."

*Dimensional Shambler: "We heard him scream, and rushed to his room. But when the door opened, all we found was a slight spatter of blood on the carpet and his despairing cry echoing faintly through space."

*Fire Vampire: "The chair he sat in was untouched, but his skull was charred into an awful grimace, as was the upper half of his body. Weirdly, his arms and legs were untouched."

*[[Flying Polyp]]s: "His expression was unendurable, and we covered his face. His corpse was marred with regularly sized circular pockmarks, like hollows in the sand. The flesh seemed slightly desiccated, as though baked in an oven, though it was only slightly reddened."

*Formless Spawn of Tsathogghua: "All we found were his bones, sucked clean of flesh. A wet trail led away from the spot."

*[[Ghouls]]: "The corpse was gnawed and chewed, as though by rats. The eyes had been neatly plucked from the sockets, the long bones cracked for marrow, and the back of the skull broken open to get at the toothsome gray matter. His belly was split open and completely gutted. Whatever had killed had viewed his entrails as quite a delicacy."

*[[Yithian|Great Race of Yith]]: "His body was intact, save that his head was severed cleanly, with surgical precision."

*[[Hastur|Hastur the Unspeakable]]: "Every bone in his body was crushed to a pulp, and his skin was one massive bruise, with dull purplish blood tinging all his features."

*[[Hounds of Tindalos]]: "He lay flat on his back, a thin bluish slime covering his entire body. His head was severed and sat atop his chest."

*Hunting Horrors: "The corpse was mauled as if by a wild animal. Erratically, and with no seeming purpose, portions of his body were curiously missing, as though some being, with alien logic, had selectively mutilated him. "

*Ithaqua the Windwalker: "The body was found frozen solid, buried halfway into the tundra, as though it had been dropped from a great height. When it was unearthed, both feet gave the peculiar appearance as of having been burnt to stumps, though crusts of ice clung to them."

*[[Leech of Yoh-Vombis]]:"The lacerations were mainly self-inflicted. They were mingled with numerous small round wounds, easily distinguished from the knife-slashes, and arranged in regular circles, through which an unknown poison had been injected into his scalp."

*Lesser Other God: "His corpse lay face down. The back was partially dissolved away, eaten by acid, so that his spine and ribs were laid bare. His ribs were visibly cracked and splintered, and his skull broken, as well as corroded. His face and front were intact, though shoved into the earth as though by some great weight."

*[[Mi-Go]]: "The victim's entire abdomen and chest were scissored open with dozens of tiny cuts and deep incisions. Blood pooled redly through the myriad wounds and the corpse lolled sideways on the ground."

*Nightgaunts: "He had been carried off. A frantic sound, half-screaming and half frightened laughter, came from the night sky and we recognized his voice as he was carried away, toward that black mountain from which no man had ever returned alive."

*Nodens: "His corpse was nearly intact, save for the mark of a single blow, breaking his collarbone and neatly sending the splintered end through his heart."

*[[Nyarlathotep]]: "He was sprawled back on his chair, an awful look on his face, with scorch marks over his body. He had evidently been struck by lightning, though how lightning could have entered that windowless room remains a mystery."

*Nyogtha: "His bed was smashed upon the floor, and he was not in it. A trail of destruction led to the window, where the grisly sight of one severed foot, caught in the jamb, met our eyes."

*Old Ones: "His body was literally torn apart, though there were no cuts or punctures. His limbs were ripped from the body, and thrown asunder. Strange annular marks were seen on his limbs and around his torso."

*Sand-Dwellers: "His body looked as though someone with a sharpened garden rake had struck him again and again, without sense nor reason. When we rolled him over, we could see that great hole through his back where whatever had slain him had chewed and clawed its way through to his liver. "

*Serpent People: "He lay dead, two great punctures in his throat, though only a trickle of blood oozed from them. Around the punctures his skin was so eroded that it gave way under the fingers, permitting a trickle of greenish liquid to drip out. This liquid pained the hands, and was quickly washed off, though a tingle persisted for several minutes. His skin was bluish and his face bright blue, his tongue blackened and protruding, and his eyes unrecognizably black."

*Servitors of the Other Gods: "His body was torn and bloodied with strips of skin removed, as though great whips and lashes had beat him with such force as to not only remove the skin, but break the bones underneath. All the whip marks were filled with blood and a thin greenish-clear juice, which stank of swamps."

*Shantaks: "His head and upper chest were removed in a single great semicircular bite."

*[[Shoggoths]]: "The body was covered with putrescent slime, green and yellow shifting in the night air. The head had been literally sucked off the corpse, with ragged fragments of skin spreading all round."

*[[Shub-Niggurath]]: "His entire body was smeared with a black cheesy material. Instead of a face, the front of his head was now a single suppurating sore, red and blue with glistening serum."

*Shudde M'ell: "A hole had been bored completely through his torso, and all the blood and internal organs seemingly sucked out. The corpse was buried under at least a foot of stinking clear translucent sIime."

*Spawn of Cthulhu: "A great spatter of blood and guts lay on the ground, mixed with a pool of green slime. Of our friend, there was no sign, unless the blood and mangled organs signified his doom."

*Star Vampires: "His body was absolutely white, completely drained of blood, and his bones and back were snapped. Great and deep claw-wounds injured his chest and legs, and he lay in a position impossible to an intact human body."

*Tsathogghua: "On the ground was a wrinkled bag, withered, hairless, punctured with scores of holes, and empty of all except bones, which rattled bleakly as we poked it. The bag was our comrade's skin."

*Y'golonac: "His lips and tongue had been methodically bitten out, as were various other parts of his anatomy. The wounds still dripped unclotted blood, though he must have been dead for hours."

*Yig: "His body was swollen and cyanotic, puffed blue-black as with some fearful poison. Even as we watched in horror, the corpse suddenly split down the middle with a sloppy noise, oozing black poison and viscera everywhere

*[[Yog-Sothoth]]: "The right side of his face and his right arm were withered and wrinkled, no more than half their normal size. The rest of his body was scared and scorched to the point that it was dry as dust. It crumbled at a touch."

*[[Yugg]]: "A film of dried slime covered his clothing, and on his torso there were a number of perfectly circular bite-marks, each evidently made by something with no jaws but with very sharp teeth. In addition, there were several dart-like thorns of an unknown substance shallowly embedded in his skin."

*Abhoth: "We never saw him again. The only hint as to his fate were rumours of a particularly horrible worm-thing seen in later weeks on the mountain slopes. The worm-thing was reported to have his face."

*[[Atlach-Nacha]]: "The corpse was covered with a thick, yarn-like material, tough as steel, but soft to the touch, and there were two thin needle-like holes in his face. His entire interior seems to have been liquefied and sucked out, leaving only the shell of a man."

*Cyaegha: "The corpse was nailed upside-down to the front door, the throat slit, and wrists cut open. But no blood marred the clean floor."

*Ghasts: "The body seemed to have been beaten by heavy sticks and then gnawed by wild animals. Great chunks had been chewed out of his side and arms. Whatever had done the deed must have come by night."

*[[Ghatanothoa]]: "His body appeared to be a thousand-year-old mummy, though he could not have been dead more than a few days. His skin was hard as stiffened leather, and his flesh as hard as stone. A look of utmost horror and fear was on the face, whose eyes were closed tightly shut."

*Gnoph-Keh: "The body was frozen solid as ice. But the frozen corpse had been broken-the shoulder and left arm had been snapped off and carried away by the unknown Thing in the Snow."

*Gugs: "His spine was shattered, as from a colossal blow, and a great ragged bite split his body. Tufts of coarse black hair were still spasmodically gripped in his hands."

*[[Lloigor]]: "The body lay face-down in a pool of peculiar blue-green water. He must have died of a heart attack, for no wounds were visible on him. Strangely, the autopsy showed no sign of atherosclerosis."

*Moon Beasts: "Whatever had killed him had tortured him slowly before he died. There were penetrating wounds on his torso, and burns all over his arms. The fire pit next to him gave mute evidence as to the source of the burns."

*Zhar: "Only his watch, rings, and the silver plate from his skull remained. Everything even remotely organic had vanished forever."

*Zoth-Ommog: "His body was peculiarly slouched, as though the entire interior of his torso had been pulped and squeezed together into a single solid mass. A poke showed that his ribs had been pulverized."
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Death Scenes

2009-05-09T16:54:57Z

DoubleYuggoth: more links

'''The aftermath of kills of various Cthulhoidcreatures.'''

Original by [[Sandy Peterson]]

First published in Different Worlds magazine issue 35, July/August 1984, pp.14-15

From Yog-Sothoth.com

'''Death Scenes: Aftermaths of Cthulhoid Kills'''

Death Scenes Investigators One of the commoner fates of the hapless investigator in Call of Cthulhu is to be slain or devoured by some alien terror. Naturally, this is often a time for sorrow, mourning, and frantic attempts to avoid that same fate for oneself, but it can also be helpful to the survivors. The very manner in which their comrade has met his doom may well provide other investigators with potent clues as to just exactly what they are up against.

Following are a series of 50 scenes, one for every type of monster included in Call of Cthulhu, as well as one for the 11 new deities and alien races included in the Cthulhu Companion. A Keeper may simply read the quote directly, or modify it to suit circumstances. Or he may simply use the information contained to invent his own death scenes. Naturally, not all beings will slay in exactly the same manner, but there will be similarities. In each case, the victim is assumed to be a male investigator.

*[[Azathoth]]: "The entire house was leveled, as though by some vast catastrophe. Even the trees for several hundred yards around were injured and broken. Inside the house's ruins we found his corpse -recognizable only by the twisted gold ring set amidst the ruin of his left hand."

*[[Byakhee]]: "His body lay twisted in the middle of the road. His throat was ripped out, but there was oddly little blood about. The rest of his body was slashed and torn, and his clothes were torn to rags. The corpse seemed strangely shrunken and pale."

*[[Chthonian]]: "There was a great bruise, nearly a foot and a half across, encircling his body. A hole, with ragged edges, was bored into the base of his throat, so deep that I could insert my hand. His whole corpse was coated with a thick layer of putrid slime."

*[[Cthugha]]: "The corpse was burnt to a frazzle. His blackened skull and bones still sat upright on the smoldering car's seat. The forest for an acre about was still aflame."

*[[Cthulhu]]: "All that was visible was a reddish discoloration near the centre of the great green smear across the road. "

*Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath: "Black pus filled the corpse's face and mouth. Open, ulcer-like sores covered half his body, still oozing a greasy clear liquid. The expression on what was left of his face was indescribable."

*[[Deep Ones]]: "Slash marks were neatly incised across the victim's throat, as though someone had drawn four razor blades simultaneously through his neck. Four similar slashes encircled his arm, which was broken, as though some powerful thing had gripped him there unmercifully."

*[[Elder Things]]: "He had been killed with blunt force, in what looked like a panicked struggle. But the strange thing was that, after his death, his body had been delicately but clumsily dissected, with sections of skin and muscle removed randomly but with surgical precision, seeming using a sharp bladed tool. His pockets and his knapsack had been emptied and the contents scattered about, though nothing valuable had been taken."

*Father [[Dagon]] or [[Mother Hydra]]: "The great webbed footprint spread for several feet across the sand. In the middle of the print was our friend's body, torn nearly in half from the crushing weight of the Thing."

*[[Dhole]]s: "A great wad of mucus engulfed the entire front half of the car, and a path was visible through miles of forest. But of our friend, there was no sign."

*Dimensional Shambler: "We heard him scream, and rushed to his room. But when the door opened, all we found was a slight spatter of blood on the carpet and his despairing cry echoing faintly through space."

*Fire Vampire: "The chair he sat in was untouched, but his skull was charred into an awful grimace, as was the upper half of his body. Weirdly, his arms and legs were untouched."

*[[Flying Polyps]]: "His expression was unendurable, and we covered his face. His corpse was marred with regularly sized circular pockmarks, like hollows in the sand. The flesh seemed slightly desiccated, as though baked in an oven, though it was only slightly reddened."

*Formless Spawn of Tsathogghua: "All we found were his bones, sucked clean of flesh. A wet trail led away from the spot."

*[[Ghouls]]: "The corpse was gnawed and chewed, as though by rats. The eyes had been neatly plucked from the sockets, the long bones cracked for marrow, and the back of the skull broken open to get at the toothsome gray matter. His belly was split open and completely gutted. Whatever had killed had viewed his entrails as quite a delicacy."

*[[Yithian|Great Race of Yith]]: "His body was intact, save that his head was severed cleanly, with surgical precision."

*[[Hastur|Hastur the Unspeakable]]: "Every bone in his body was crushed to a pulp, and his skin was one massive bruise, with dull purplish blood tinging all his features."

*[[Hounds of Tindalos]]: "He lay flat on his back, a thin bluish slime covering his entire body. His head was severed and sat atop his chest."

*Hunting Horrors: "The corpse was mauled as if by a wild animal. Erratically, and with no seeming purpose, portions of his body were curiously missing, as though some being, with alien logic, had selectively mutilated him. "

*Ithaqua the Windwalker: "The body was found frozen solid, buried halfway into the tundra, as though it had been dropped from a great height. When it was unearthed, both feet gave the peculiar appearance as of having been burnt to stumps, though crusts of ice clung to them."

*[[Leech of Yoh-Vombis]]:"The lacerations were mainly self-inflicted. They were mingled with numerous small round wounds, easily distinguished from the knife-slashes, and arranged in regular circles, through which an unknown poison had been injected into his scalp."

*Lesser Other God: "His corpse lay face down. The back was partially dissolved away, eaten by acid, so that his spine and ribs were laid bare. His ribs were visibly cracked and splintered, and his skull broken, as well as corroded. His face and front were intact, though shoved into the earth as though by some great weight."

*[[Mi-Go]]: "The victim's entire abdomen and chest were scissored open with dozens of tiny cuts and deep incisions. Blood pooled redly through the myriad wounds and the corpse lolled sideways on the ground."

*Nightgaunts: "He had been carried off. A frantic sound, half-screaming and half frightened laughter, came from the night sky and we recognized his voice as he was carried away, toward that black mountain from which no man had ever returned alive."

*Nodens: "His corpse was nearly intact, save for the mark of a single blow, breaking his collarbone and neatly sending the splintered end through his heart."

*[[Nyarlathotep]]: "He was sprawled back on his chair, an awful look on his face, with scorch marks over his body. He had evidently been struck by lightning, though how lightning could have entered that windowless room remains a mystery."

*Nyogtha: "His bed was smashed upon the floor, and he was not in it. A trail of destruction led to the window, where the grisly sight of one severed foot, caught in the jamb, met our eyes."

*Old Ones: "His body was literally torn apart, though there were no cuts or punctures. His limbs were ripped from the body, and thrown asunder. Strange annular marks were seen on his limbs and around his torso."

*Sand-Dwellers: "His body looked as though someone with a sharpened garden rake had struck him again and again, without sense nor reason. When we rolled him over, we could see that great hole through his back where whatever had slain him had chewed and clawed its way through to his liver. "

*Serpent People: "He lay dead, two great punctures in his throat, though only a trickle of blood oozed from them. Around the punctures his skin was so eroded that it gave way under the fingers, permitting a trickle of greenish liquid to drip out. This liquid pained the hands, and was quickly washed off, though a tingle persisted for several minutes. His skin was bluish and his face bright blue, his tongue blackened and protruding, and his eyes unrecognizably black."

*Servitors of the Other Gods: "His body was torn and bloodied with strips of skin removed, as though great whips and lashes had beat him with such force as to not only remove the skin, but break the bones underneath. All the whip marks were filled with blood and a thin greenish-clear juice, which stank of swamps."

*Shantaks: "His head and upper chest were removed in a single great semicircular bite."

*[[Shoggoths]]: "The body was covered with putrescent slime, green and yellow shifting in the night air. The head had been literally sucked off the corpse, with ragged fragments of skin spreading all round."

*[[Shub-Niggurath]]: "His entire body was smeared with a black cheesy material. Instead of a face, the front of his head was now a single suppurating sore, red and blue with glistening serum."

*Shudde M'ell: "A hole had been bored completely through his torso, and all the blood and internal organs seemingly sucked out. The corpse was buried under at least a foot of stinking clear translucent sIime."

*Spawn of Cthulhu: "A great spatter of blood and guts lay on the ground, mixed with a pool of green slime. Of our friend, there was no sign, unless the blood and mangled organs signified his doom."

*Star Vampires: "His body was absolutely white, completely drained of blood, and his bones and back were snapped. Great and deep claw-wounds injured his chest and legs, and he lay in a position impossible to an intact human body."

*Tsathogghua: "On the ground was a wrinkled bag, withered, hairless, punctured with scores of holes, and empty of all except bones, which rattled bleakly as we poked it. The bag was our comrade's skin."

*Y'golonac: "His lips and tongue had been methodically bitten out, as were various other parts of his anatomy. The wounds still dripped unclotted blood, though he must have been dead for hours."

*Yig: "His body was swollen and cyanotic, puffed blue-black as with some fearful poison. Even as we watched in horror, the corpse suddenly split down the middle with a sloppy noise, oozing black poison and viscera everywhere

*[[Yog-Sothoth]]: "The right side of his face and his right arm were withered and wrinkled, no more than half their normal size. The rest of his body was scared and scorched to the point that it was dry as dust. It crumbled at a touch."

*[[Yugg]]: "A film of dried slime covered his clothing, and on his torso there were a number of perfectly circular bite-marks, each evidently made by something with no jaws but with very sharp teeth. In addition, there were several dart-like thorns of an unknown substance shallowly embedded in his skin."

*Abhoth: "We never saw him again. The only hint as to his fate were rumours of a particularly horrible worm-thing seen in later weeks on the mountain slopes. The worm-thing was reported to have his face."

*[[Atlach-Nacha]]: "The corpse was covered with a thick, yarn-like material, tough as steel, but soft to the touch, and there were two thin needle-like holes in his face. His entire interior seems to have been liquefied and sucked out, leaving only the shell of a man."

*Cyaegha: "The corpse was nailed upside-down to the front door, the throat slit, and wrists cut open. But no blood marred the clean floor."

*Ghasts: "The body seemed to have been beaten by heavy sticks and then gnawed by wild animals. Great chunks had been chewed out of his side and arms. Whatever had done the deed must have come by night."

*[[Ghatanothoa]]: "His body appeared to be a thousand-year-old mummy, though he could not have been dead more than a few days. His skin was hard as stiffened leather, and his flesh as hard as stone. A look of utmost horror and fear was on the face, whose eyes were closed tightly shut."

*Gnoph-Keh: "The body was frozen solid as ice. But the frozen corpse had been broken-the shoulder and left arm had been snapped off and carried away by the unknown Thing in the Snow."

*Gugs: "His spine was shattered, as from a colossal blow, and a great ragged bite split his body. Tufts of coarse black hair were still spasmodically gripped in his hands."

*[[Lloigor]]: "The body lay face-down in a pool of peculiar blue-green water. He must have died of a heart attack, for no wounds were visible on him. Strangely, the autopsy showed no sign of atherosclerosis."

*Moon Beasts: "Whatever had killed him had tortured him slowly before he died. There were penetrating wounds on his torso, and burns all over his arms. The fire pit next to him gave mute evidence as to the source of the burns."

*Zhar: "Only his watch, rings, and the silver plate from his skull remained. Everything even remotely organic had vanished forever."

*Zoth-Ommog: "His body was peculiarly slouched, as though the entire interior of his torso had been pulped and squeezed together into a single solid mass. A poke showed that his ribs had been pulverized."
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Flying Polyp

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The Flying Polyps are a species of 'half-polypous entities' that ruled the Earth before the arrival of the [[Yithian]]s around a billion years ago. The Flying Polyps built black basalt structures in which they lived. They fought a war with the newly arrived Yithians and were defeated and forced into subterranean caverns and tunnels, but would eventually re-emerge and destroy the Yithian civilization in that era.

Flying Polyps were only partially material, and thus difficult to harm, but the Yithians found that electrical weapons were effective against them. They could generate powerful winds. Their presence was marked by five-toed footprints.

Hounds of Tindalos

2009-05-09T16:48:21Z

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The '''Hounds of Tindalos''' are monstrous creatures which pursue those who leave their own times. Those who travel too far from their proper time (such as by use of the drug [[Liao]], which allows the mind to wander through time leaving the body behind) will draw the attention of the Hounds. The Hounds will then pursue the person through time, tirelessly, eventually catching up with that person in the present and devouring them.

The Hounds of Tindalos are said to have been created by some nameless, foul deed at the beginning of time. They are derived from the 'angles' of time, while humanity has a "pure" element which derives from the 'curves' of time. The Hounds desire to devour this pure part of humans. Being tied to the angles of time, a Hound of Tindalos pursuing its prey can manifest through any angle -- if its chosen prey is in a round room without angles, the Hound cannot appear.

They are described as looking lean and terrible, embodying all the foulness in the universe.

The Hounds of Tindalos first appeared in the story "The Hounds of Tindalos" by [[Frank Belknap Long]].

The Barrier of Naath-Tith

2009-05-09T16:41:04Z

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The Barrier of Naath-Tith is a fictional incantation which first appeared in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Dylath-Leen. It features heavily in another of his short stories The Horror at Oakdeene.
==Description==
The Barrier of Naath-Tith (also known as the Wall of Naach-Tith or Naath-Tith's Barrier) is a powerful formula which may be used to create a barrier to build an invisible forcefield of great strength.
As well as being used to create protective fields the barrier can also be used as a temporary means of imprisoning an entity. It has even proven capable of holding a [[Great Old One]] captive on several occasions. Casters should be careful lest the Barrier prove a prison as well as a safeguard.

I have been unable to find more than the first few words of the formula used to create this barrier. The words are as follows

''Lethiktros Themiel, phitrithte klep-thos'' -From the [[Cthäat Aquadingen]] - remaining text is corrupt and illegible.

This formula is often employed by the summoners of [[Yibb-Tstll]] to protect those within from the god's possible displeasure. For this reason the Barrier is referred to as Soul Sealing in a number of magical texts (the English Book of Eibon mistranslates this as Soul Searing).

==Locations==
The words required to raise the barrier are relatively obscure and may prove hard for the enterprising sorcerer. The Latin translation of the Cthaat Aquadingen mentions the spell but only in passing. Most copies of the [[The Book of Eibon|Liber Ivonis]] contain the correct formula though it is missing from the English Translation.

The spell may also be found in Chapter Ten of the [[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]]
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Gulf of S'glhuo

2009-05-09T16:40:06Z

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S'glhuo is a fictional dimension which first appeared in [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s short story ''"The Plain of Sound" ''.
==Description==
S'glhuo is another dimension that only exists in our dimension as sound. In certain places, such as the plain in the Severn Valley, the dimension overlaps into our own, creating the effect of walking through jelly. Sounds from our world correspond to objects in S'glhuo, and sounds in our world can create things both living and non-living in S'glhuo. The location in the Severn Valley corresponds to a city of pillars on a planet composed of sound. It is implied there are other planets made of sound in S'glhuo and that the dimension is home to [[Tru'Nembra]], an Outer God made from pure sound. In S'glhuo, our dimension is only perceptible as odour. Details on S'glhuo are given in the [[Revelations of Glaaki]], along with a plans for a machine to contact the S'ghluoans.

== Inhabitants ==
It is not known if the blue skinned reptilians that live near the Severn Valley are the only type of S'glhoans, but it is likely that the dimension is home to other life forms. The denizens of S'glhuo may be friendly or hostile, but seem to have knowledge of both advanced science and the Mythos. In their own world they are blue skinned, tall, boneless reptiloids, but in ours they are beings of pure sound.
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Sisterhood of the Masked Messenger

2009-05-09T16:39:23Z

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The Sisterhood of the Masked Messenger is a fictional society which first appeared in [[David Conyers]]'s short story 'The Faceless Watchers'. The society is discussed further in the [[Secrets of Kenya]] source book.
==Description==

The Sisterhood of the Masked Messenger is a secret society dedicated to the [[Masked Messenger]] avatar of Nyarlathotep. Cult membership is exclusive to women though the Sisterhood has connections to [[The Cult of the Bloody Tongue]] and [[The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh]]. The Sisterhood is active all over Africa despite having relatively few members.

==Practices==
The cult is strongest in Morocco where it's centered in the ancient city of Marrakesh. Small pockets of the cult exist in a number of the larger towns all along the East African Coast (particularly Zanzibar and Mombasa). The High Priestess of the Sisterhood is said to know the location of the Temple of the Masked Messenger; a mysterious building which is said to rise out of the desert sands at times of great significance.

Many of the cult members live double lives - often marrying Arab men who have no idea about their wives' occult activity. Members of the Sisterhood usually carry a small curved dagger designed for carrying out stealthy assassinations.

==Records==
''[[The Masked Messenger]]''; a collection of short stories written by the former cult high priestess Sharinza, is considered particularly important to the cult. The Sisterhood is said to be served by a pair of enigmatic beings known as the Faceless Watchers.
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Mi-go

2009-05-09T16:37:25Z

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The '''Mi-go''' are an alien species of creature that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft story "The Whisper in Darkness", also known as the '''Fungi from Yuggoth'''. The word "Mi-go" actually comes from "Migou", a Tibetan word for Yeti, and while the Mi-go do not actually look like the traditional Yeti, Lovecraft does equate them.

==Description==
While the Mi-go are described being technically fungi, they bear a great resemblance to crustaceans, namely shrimp or crayfish. While the Mi-go are never actually seen by the protagonist in the original story, second-hand reports describe them as elongated creatures with segmented bands of muscles for a body and a mass of sensory cilia for a head, and a pair of ribbed wings that would not function in our atmosphere (in the original story, they allowed them to fly through the ether of outer space, a pre-Einsteinian concept). These creatures are roughly man-sized, and are even capable of disguising themselves as humans via a mask and concealing clothing. The Mi-go are capable of learning and speaking human languages.
==Technology==
The Mi-go have mastered various fields of science, and are especially adept at surgery, as can do things such as extensively modify their own bodies, or remove human brains while keeping both brain and body alive (this allows the Mi-go to transport Human allies off-world, as the brains can be allowed to see and communicate when hooked up to special machines) . The Mi-go apparently visit earth to secretly mine its mineral resources, and have set up outposts on the planet Yuggoth, a planet in our solar system equated with Pluto.

==Leaders==
The Mi-go are said to worship [[Yog-Sothoth]], [[Nyarlathotep]], and [[Shub-Niggurath]], but to have little interest in religion as compared to scientific curiosity.

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Call of Cthulhu (RPG)

2009-05-09T16:35:31Z

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[[Image:call_of_cthulhu_rpg_6th_ed_cover.jpg|thumb|''Call of Cthulhu'' 6th edition rulebook cover]]

'''Call of Cthulhu''' is a [[horror fiction]] [[role-playing game]] based on the [[The Call of Cthulhu (Fiction)|story of the same name]] written by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and the so-called [[Cthulhu Mythos]] the story inspired. The game, often abbreviated as ''CoC'', is published by [[Chaosium]].

==Setting==

"That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die."

The setting of ''Call of Cthulhu'' is a darker version of our world, based on H.P. Lovecraft's observation that, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." There are three primary eras of the original (non d20) game: the 1920s, the setting of many of Lovecraft's stories; the 1890's ''Gaslight'' supplements, a blend of occult and Holmsian mystery and mostly set in England; and modern conspiracy (''Cthulhu Now''). Recent additions include 1000 AD (''Cthulhu: Dark Ages''), and Roman times (''Cthulhu Invictus''). The protagonists may also travel to places that are not of this earth, represented in the Dreamlands.

==Play Experience==

The players take the roles of [[ordinary people]], drawn into the realm of the mysterious: detectives, criminals, scholars, artists, war veterans, etc. Often, happenings begin innocently enough, until more and more of the workings behind the scenes are revealed. As the characters learn more of the true horrors of the world and the irrelevance of humanity, their sanity inevitably withers away (the game actually includes a mechanism for determining how damaged a character's sanity is at any given point). To access the tools they need to defeat the horrors - mystic knowledge and magic - the characters must be willing to give up some of their sanity for the greater good.

''Call of Cthulhu'' has a perhaps-deserved reputation as a game in which it is quite common for a [[player character]] to die in gruesome circumstances or end up in a mental institution, and players must often start again with new characters. While arguably being more realistic, it can also make it hard for players to bond with their characters.

For as long as they stay healthy (or at least functional), characters may be developed. ''Call of Cthulhu'' does not use ''levels'', but is completely ''skill-based'', arguably presenting a more realistic character-development system, as player characters get better with their skills by succeeding at them. Still, it is possible for a well-played character to last a long time, other factors permitting.

==History==

===Origins===

The original conception of ''Call of Cthulhu'' was ''Dark Worlds'', a game commissioned by the publisher [[Chaosium]] but never published. [[Sandy Petersen]], now best known for his work on [[DOOM]], contacted them regarding writing a supplement for their popular fantasy game [[RuneQuest]] set in Lovecraft's [[Dreamlands]]. He took over the writing of ''Call of Cthulhu'', and the game was released in [[1981]], using a simplified version of the [[Basic Role-Playing]] system used in ''RuneQuest''. The game won three major awards in the following year.

The game is now in its sixth edition, but the rules have changed little over the years. In [[2002]], the ''Call of Cthulhu 20th Anniversary Edition'' won the [[Origins Award]] for ''Best Graphic Presentation of a Book Product 2001''.

===Early Releases===

Given its roots in the RPG tradition, many of the early releases for ''Call of Cthulhu'' were still based in the framework of [[Dungeons and Dragons]]. They often involved the characters wandering through caves and fighting different types of horrible monsters. Nonetheless, the emphasis on real-life settings, character research, and thinking one's way around trouble gave it a wide audience.

The first book of ''Call of Cthulhu'' adventures was ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth''. In this work, the characters come upon a secret society's foul plot to destroy mankind, and pursue it first near to home and then in a series of exotic locations. This template was to be followed in many subsequent campaigns, including ''Fungi from Yuggoth'' (later known as ''Curse of Cthulhu'' and ''Day of the Beast''), ''Spawn of Azathoth'', and the most famous, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''. Many of these seem closer in tone to the pulp adventures of [[Indiana Jones]] than H. P. Lovecraft, but they are nonetheless beloved by many gamers.

===Lovecraft Country===

1990 saw the release of the "Lovecraft Country" line of supplements for ''Call of Cthulhu''. Overseen by [[Keith Herber]], this provided background and adventures set in Lovecraft's fictional towns of [[Arkham]], [[Kingsport (Location)|Kingsport]], [[Innsmouth]], and [[Dunwich (H. P. Lovecraft)|Dunwich]], as well as their environs. The emphasis was on providing the investigators with a base from which to investigate, as well as centering the action on well-drawn characters with clear motivations.

With the departure of Herber as an editor at Chaosium, the line eventually came to a close.

===Mythos===

[[Mythos]] was a [[collectable card game]] based on the Cthulhu Mythos that Chaosium produced and marketed during the mid-Nineties. While generally praised for its fast gameplay and unique mechanics, it ultimately failed to gain a very large market presence. It bears mention because its eventual failure brought the company to hard times that affected its ability to produce material for ''Call of Cthulhu''. A second ''Call of Cthulhu'' collectible card game is currently being produced by Fantasy Flight Games.

===Recent History===

Since the collapse of Mythos, Chaosium has only released books sporadically, though it is hoped that this situation will change. Nonetheless, the release of books like ''Unseen Masters'' and ''Beyond the Mountains of Madness'' bodes well for the company.

Chaosium has recently taken to marketing "[[CoC:MULA Monographs|monographs]]" - short books by individual writers with editing and layout provided out-of-house - directly to the consumer. This allows the company to gauge market response to possible new works, though the long-term effects of this program remain uncertain.

==Licensees==

Chaosium has licensed other publishers to create supplements, including [[Delta Green]] by [[Pagan Publishing]]. Other licensees have included [[Theater of the Mind Enterprises]], [[Triad Entertainment]], [[Games Workshop]], [[Fantasy Flight Games]], and [[Grenadier Models]].

On 1 March 2008, [[Pelgrane Press]] released [[Trail of Cthulhu]] (written by [[Kenneth Hite]]) - a licensed variant of the Call of Cthulhu RPG using the GUMSHOE ruleset which is focused on investigative roleplaying.

==d20 Call of Cthulhu==

In [[2001]], a stand-alone version of ''Call of Cthulhu'' was released by [[Wizards of the Coast]], for the [[d20 system]]. Intended to preserve the feeling of the original game, the conversion of the game rules were supposed to make the game easier to play, a claim many doubt. The d20 system also made it possible to use [[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]] characters in ''Call of Cthulhu'', as well as to introduce the Cthulhu Mythos into ''Dungeons & Dragons'' games.

The d20 version of the game is not supported by either Wizards or Chaosium at this time. The reasons for this are unclear, though lack of revenue might be a cause.

==External links==
* [http://www.callofcthulhu.com/ Call of Cthulhu], the videogame
* [http://www.chaosium.com Chaosium]
* [http://yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=31 Call of Cthulhu Products Database] — A mostly-complete listing of all products produced for the game.

Original Wiki source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]

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Yuggoth

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'''Yuggoth''' is the name used by various [[Cthulhu Mythos|Mythos]] beings and scholars of the Mythos to refer to an outer planet in the [[Solar System]]. It is generally believed that Yuggoth is the same world known to humans as Pluto.

[[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s story "The Whisperer in Darkness" introduced Yuggoth to the Mythos. Pluto was actually discovered while the story was being written, making it one of the first works of fiction to include the new planet.

However, conditions on Yuggoth are quite different from those that modern science suggest exist on Pluto. Black tarry rivers flow through the ruins of an ancient civilization, and the planet's surface is inhabited by an outpost of [[Mi-go]], a species of crustacean-like, fungal aliens.

[[Clark Ashton Smith]], in "The Family Tree of the Gods", said that Hzioulquoigmnzhah, [[Tsathoggua]], [[Cxaxukluth]], and several other Great Old Ones lived on Yuggoth for a time; Cxaxukluth still remains there.

In Richard A. Lupoff's "The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone", Yuggoth is not Pluto, but a larger world even further from the Sun. It is described as twice the mass of Jupiter and possessing four moons - Nithon, Zaman, Thog, and Thok - with the latter moon inhabited by [[shoggoth]]s.

Mount Voormithadreth

2009-05-08T23:27:36Z

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Mount Voormithadreth is a mountain in [[Hyperborea]]. During the age of Hyperborea, a variety of monsters and godlike beings lived in the system of caves beneath it - including [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Tsathoggua]], [[Outer God#Abhoth|Abhoth]], and a culture of [[serpent people]]. The outer slopes of the mountain were inhabited by [[voormis]], furry proto-humans.

Mount Voormithadreth and its inhabitants appear in "The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith.

Mount Voormithadreth

2009-05-08T23:27:20Z

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Mount Voormithadreth is a mountain in [[Hyperborea]]. During the age of Hyperborea, a variety of monsters and godlike beings lived in the system of caves beneath it - including [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Tsathoggua]], [[Outer God#Abhoth|Abhoth]], and a culture of [[serpent people]]. The outer slopes of the mountain were inhabited by [[voormi]]s, furry proto-humans.

Mount Voormithadreth and its inhabitants appear in "The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith.

Voormis

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The '''voormis''' are furry hominids that live on the slopes of [[Mount Voormithadreth]] in [[Hyperborea]]. They are aggressive creatures, hunting large and dangerous prey such as saber-toothed tigers; the humans of Hyperborea hunt the Voormis in turn, but they are considered more dangerous than other animals. They possess "quasi-human cunning" and can fight with thrown objects as well as nails and teeth. The natives of Hyperborea believe them to be at least partially descended from humans.

Death Scenes

2009-05-08T22:41:55Z

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'''The aftermath of kills of various Cthulhoidcreatures.'''

Original by [[Sandy Peterson]]

First published in Different Worlds magazine issue 35, July/August 1984, pp.14-15

From Yog-Sothoth.com

'''Death Scenes: Aftermaths of Cthulhoid Kills'''

Death Scenes Investigators One of the commoner fates of the hapless investigator in Call of Cthulhu is to be slain or devoured by some alien terror. Naturally, this is often a time for sorrow, mourning, and frantic attempts to avoid that same fate for oneself, but it can also be helpful to the survivors. The very manner in which their comrade has met his doom may well provide other investigators with potent clues as to just exactly what they are up against.

Following are a series of 50 scenes, one for every type of monster included in Call of Cthulhu, as well as one for the 11 new deities and alien races included in the Cthulhu Companion. A Keeper may simply read the quote directly, or modify it to suit circumstances. Or he may simply use the information contained to invent his own death scenes. Naturally, not all beings will slay in exactly the same manner, but there will be similarities. In each case, the victim is assumed to be a male investigator.

*[[Azathoth]]: "The entire house was leveled, as though by some vast catastrophe. Even the trees for several hundred yards around were injured and broken. Inside the house's ruins we found his corpse -recognizable only by the twisted gold ring set amidst the ruin of his left hand."

*[[Byakhee]]: "His body lay twisted in the middle of the road. His throat was ripped out, but there was oddly little blood about. The rest of his body was slashed and torn, and his clothes were torn to rags. The corpse seemed strangely shrunken and pale."

*[[Chthonian]]: "There was a great bruise, nearly a foot and a half across, encircling his body. A hole, with ragged edges, was bored into the base of his throat, so deep that I could insert my hand. His whole corpse was coated with a thick layer of putrid slime."

*[[Cthugha]]: "The corpse was burnt to a frazzle. His blackened skull and bones still sat upright on the smoldering car's seat. The forest for an acre about was still aflame."

*[[Cthulhu]]: "All that was visible was a reddish discoloration near the centre of the great green smear across the road. "

*Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath: "Black pus filled the corpse's face and mouth. Open, ulcer-like sores covered half his body, still oozing a greasy clear liquid. The expression on what was left of his face was indescribable."

*[[Deep Ones]]: "Slash marks were neatly incised across the victim's throat, as though someone had drawn four razor blades simultaneously through his neck. Four similar slashes encircled his arm, which was broken, as though some powerful thing had gripped him there unmercifully."

*[[Elder Things]]: "He had been killed with blunt force, in what looked like a panicked struggle. But the strange thing was that, after his death, his body had been delicately but clumsily dissected, with sections of skin and muscle removed randomly but with surgical precision, seeming using a sharp bladed tool. His pockets and his knapsack had been emptied and the contents scattered about, though nothing valuable had been taken."

*Father [[Dagon]] or [[Mother Hydra]]: "The great webbed footprint spread for several feet across the sand. In the middle of the print was our friend's body, torn nearly in half from the crushing weight of the Thing."

*[[Dhole]]s: "A great wad of mucus engulfed the entire front half of the car, and a path was visible through miles of forest. But of our friend, there was no sign."

*Dimensional Shambler: "We heard him scream, and rushed to his room. But when the door opened, all we found was a slight spatter of blood on the carpet and his despairing cry echoing faintly through space."

*Fire Vampire: "The chair he sat in was untouched, but his skull was charred into an awful grimace, as was the upper half of his body. Weirdly, his arms and legs were untouched."

*Flying Polyps: "His expression was unendurable, and we covered his face. His corpse was marred with regularly sized circular pockmarks, like hollows in the sand. The flesh seemed slightly desiccated, as though baked in an oven, though it was only slightly reddened."

*Formless Spawn of Tsathogghua: "All we found were his bones, sucked clean of flesh. A wet trail led away from the spot."

*[[Ghouls]]: "The corpse was gnawed and chewed, as though by rats. The eyes had been neatly plucked from the sockets, the long bones cracked for marrow, and the back of the skull broken open to get at the toothsome gray matter. His belly was split open and completely gutted. Whatever had killed had viewed his entrails as quite a delicacy."

*[[Yithian|Great Race of Yith]]: "His body was intact, save that his head was severed cleanly, with surgical precision."

*[[Hastur|Hastur the Unspeakable]]: "Every bone in his body was crushed to a pulp, and his skin was one massive bruise, with dull purplish blood tinging all his features."

*Hounds of Tindalos: "He lay flat on his back, a thin bluish slime covering his entire body. His head was severed and sat atop his chest."

*Hunting Horrors: "The corpse was mauled as if by a wild animal. Erratically, and with no seeming purpose, portions of his body were curiously missing, as though some being, with alien logic, had selectively mutilated him. "

*Ithaqua the Windwalker: "The body was found frozen solid, buried halfway into the tundra, as though it had been dropped from a great height. When it was unearthed, both feet gave the peculiar appearance as of having been burnt to stumps, though crusts of ice clung to them."

*[[Leech of Yoh-Vombis]]:"The lacerations were mainly self-inflicted. They were mingled with numerous small round wounds, easily distinguished from the knife-slashes, and arranged in regular circles, through which an unknown poison had been injected into his scalp."

*Lesser Other God: "His corpse lay face down. The back was partially dissolved away, eaten by acid, so that his spine and ribs were laid bare. His ribs were visibly cracked and splintered, and his skull broken, as well as corroded. His face and front were intact, though shoved into the earth as though by some great weight."

*[[Mi-Go]]: "The victim's entire abdomen and chest were scissored open with dozens of tiny cuts and deep incisions. Blood pooled redly through the myriad wounds and the corpse lolled sideways on the ground."

*Nightgaunts: "He had been carried off. A frantic sound, half-screaming and half frightened laughter, came from the night sky and we recognized his voice as he was carried away, toward that black mountain from which no man had ever returned alive."

*Nodens: "His corpse was nearly intact, save for the mark of a single blow, breaking his collarbone and neatly sending the splintered end through his heart."

*[[Nyarlathotep]]: "He was sprawled back on his chair, an awful look on his face, with scorch marks over his body. He had evidently been struck by lightning, though how lightning could have entered that windowless room remains a mystery."

*Nyogtha: "His bed was smashed upon the floor, and he was not in it. A trail of destruction led to the window, where the grisly sight of one severed foot, caught in the jamb, met our eyes."

*Old Ones: "His body was literally torn apart, though there were no cuts or punctures. His limbs were ripped from the body, and thrown asunder. Strange annular marks were seen on his limbs and around his torso."

*Sand-Dwellers: "His body looked as though someone with a sharpened garden rake had struck him again and again, without sense nor reason. When we rolled him over, we could see that great hole through his back where whatever had slain him had chewed and clawed its way through to his liver. "

*Serpent People: "He lay dead, two great punctures in his throat, though only a trickle of blood oozed from them. Around the punctures his skin was so eroded that it gave way under the fingers, permitting a trickle of greenish liquid to drip out. This liquid pained the hands, and was quickly washed off, though a tingle persisted for several minutes. His skin was bluish and his face bright blue, his tongue blackened and protruding, and his eyes unrecognizably black."

*Servitors of the Other Gods: "His body was torn and bloodied with strips of skin removed, as though great whips and lashes had beat him with such force as to not only remove the skin, but break the bones underneath. All the whip marks were filled with blood and a thin greenish-clear juice, which stank of swamps."

*Shantaks: "His head and upper chest were removed in a single great semicircular bite."

*[[Shoggoths]]: "The body was covered with putrescent slime, green and yellow shifting in the night air. The head had been literally sucked off the corpse, with ragged fragments of skin spreading all round."

*[[Shub-Niggurath]]: "His entire body was smeared with a black cheesy material. Instead of a face, the front of his head was now a single suppurating sore, red and blue with glistening serum."

*Shudde M'ell: "A hole had been bored completely through his torso, and all the blood and internal organs seemingly sucked out. The corpse was buried under at least a foot of stinking clear translucent sIime."

*Spawn of Cthulhu: "A great spatter of blood and guts lay on the ground, mixed with a pool of green slime. Of our friend, there was no sign, unless the blood and mangled organs signified his doom."

*Star Vampires: "His body was absolutely white, completely drained of blood, and his bones and back were snapped. Great and deep claw-wounds injured his chest and legs, and he lay in a position impossible to an intact human body."

*Tsathogghua: "On the ground was a wrinkled bag, withered, hairless, punctured with scores of holes, and empty of all except bones, which rattled bleakly as we poked it. The bag was our comrade's skin."

*Y'golonac: "His lips and tongue had been methodically bitten out, as were various other parts of his anatomy. The wounds still dripped unclotted blood, though he must have been dead for hours."

*Yig: "His body was swollen and cyanotic, puffed blue-black as with some fearful poison. Even as we watched in horror, the corpse suddenly split down the middle with a sloppy noise, oozing black poison and viscera everywhere

*[[Yog-Sothoth]]: "The right side of his face and his right arm were withered and wrinkled, no more than half their normal size. The rest of his body was scared and scorched to the point that it was dry as dust. It crumbled at a touch."

*[[Yugg]]: "A film of dried slime covered his clothing, and on his torso there were a number of perfectly circular bite-marks, each evidently made by something with no jaws but with very sharp teeth. In addition, there were several dart-like thorns of an unknown substance shallowly embedded in his skin."

*Abhoth: "We never saw him again. The only hint as to his fate were rumours of a particularly horrible worm-thing seen in later weeks on the mountain slopes. The worm-thing was reported to have his face."

*[[Atlach-Nacha]]: "The corpse was covered with a thick, yarn-like material, tough as steel, but soft to the touch, and there were two thin needle-like holes in his face. His entire interior seems to have been liquefied and sucked out, leaving only the shell of a man."

*Cyaegha: "The corpse was nailed upside-down to the front door, the throat slit, and wrists cut open. But no blood marred the clean floor."

*Ghasts: "The body seemed to have been beaten by heavy sticks and then gnawed by wild animals. Great chunks had been chewed out of his side and arms. Whatever had done the deed must have come by night."

*[[Ghatanothoa]]: "His body appeared to be a thousand-year-old mummy, though he could not have been dead more than a few days. His skin was hard as stiffened leather, and his flesh as hard as stone. A look of utmost horror and fear was on the face, whose eyes were closed tightly shut."

*Gnoph-Keh: "The body was frozen solid as ice. But the frozen corpse had been broken-the shoulder and left arm had been snapped off and carried away by the unknown Thing in the Snow."

*Gugs: "His spine was shattered, as from a colossal blow, and a great ragged bite split his body. Tufts of coarse black hair were still spasmodically gripped in his hands."

*[[Lloigor]]: "The body lay face-down in a pool of peculiar blue-green water. He must have died of a heart attack, for no wounds were visible on him. Strangely, the autopsy showed no sign of atherosclerosis."

*Moon Beasts: "Whatever had killed him had tortured him slowly before he died. There were penetrating wounds on his torso, and burns all over his arms. The fire pit next to him gave mute evidence as to the source of the burns."

*Zhar: "Only his watch, rings, and the silver plate from his skull remained. Everything even remotely organic had vanished forever."

*Zoth-Ommog: "His body was peculiarly slouched, as though the entire interior of his torso had been pulped and squeezed together into a single solid mass. A poke showed that his ribs had been pulverized."
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Byakhee

2009-05-08T22:32:03Z

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A '''Byakhee''' is a inter-dimensional being described as a combination of bat, bird, and insect, a vaguely humanoid creature with an insectoid, segmented body, membranous batlike wings, and taloned birdlike legs. There are believed to be two separate species named Byakhees (or two sub-species of Byakhees) but there is no confirmation of this. What differences may exist between the two is also unknown. They are servants of [[Hastur]] and are instrumental in many of his rituals. Byakhees can be summoned as a method of interstellar travel. Byakhees have an organ in their abdomens called a Hune. This organ allows the Byakhees to travel vast distances in space so quickly that it may appear to be teleportation to some. It is unknown whether this is done through the opening of a wormhole, bending of time and space or if it gives the Byakhee the ability to break the light-speed barrier.

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Lloigor

2009-05-08T22:31:19Z

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Originally, '''Lloigor''' was a [[Great Old One]] created by [[August Derleth]], said to be the twin of [[Zhar]] and child of [[Shub-Niggurath]].

In Colin Wilson's story "The Return of the Lloigor", the name was used to refer to an alien species. These lloigor were naturally "vortices of energy", but could take monstrous, reptilian physical forms. They could also drain energy from humans. Also, they were skilled at altering bodies, and used this to punish human slaves by removing limbs and replacing them with hideous growths and tentacles. These lloigor were led by [[Ghatanothoa]] and had no relationship to the Derlethian Great Old One Lloigor.

Ghatanothoa

2009-05-08T22:26:35Z

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'''Ghatanothoa''' the Dark God appears in [[H. P. Lovecraft]] and Hazel Heald's story "Out of the Aeons". It is a huge, misshapen monster whose form is so hideous that merely seeing it transforms the viewer into a petrified body with leathery skin and preserved organs. The victim's brain remains alive, going mad from its confinement.

Ghatanothoa lived in the mountains of Mu when that continent existed. It was worshipped by a hundred priests, who possessed great privileges. The job of these priests was to appease the monster so that it would not emerge from its secret lair, endangering the people.

In the "Year of the Red Moon", T'yog, a priest of [[Shub-Niggurath]], attempted to save mankind from Ghatanothoa. He created a magical scroll to protect him from Ghatanothoa's petrifying power by prayer to Shub-Niggurath, [[Nug and Yeb]], and other deities. With this, he believed he could physically encounter the god and force it to parlay with him. He believed that this could gain him immense power, as well as benefiting the human race.
The priests of Ghatanothoa replaced it secretly with a powerless imitation. Thus, T'yog too was petrified into a half-living statue, which lasted up until the modern era.

According to Colin Wilson's story "The Return of the Lloigor", Ghatanothoa, the "dark one", was the leader of the [[lloigor]], an alien species.

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Death Scenes

2009-05-07T08:55:26Z

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'''The aftermath of kills of various Cthulhoidcreatures.'''

Original by [[Sandy Peterson]]

First published in Different Worlds magazine issue 35, July/August 1984, pp.14-15

From Yog-Sothoth.com

'''Death Scenes: Aftermaths of Cthulhoid Kills'''

Death Scenes Investigators One of the commoner fates of the hapless investigator in Call of Cthulhu is to be slain or devoured by some alien terror. Naturally, this is often a time for sorrow, mourning, and frantic attempts to avoid that same fate for oneself, but it can also be helpful to the survivors. The very manner in which their comrade has met his doom may well provide other investigators with potent clues as to just exactly what they are up against.

Following are a series of 50 scenes, one for every type of monster included in Call of Cthulhu, as well as one for the 11 new deities and alien races included in the Cthulhu Companion. A Keeper may simply read the quote directly, or modify it to suit circumstances. Or he may simply use the information contained to invent his own death scenes. Naturally, not all beings will slay in exactly the same manner, but there will be similarities. In each case, the victim is assumed to be a male investigator.

*[[Azathoth]]: "The entire house was leveled, as though by some vast catastrophe. Even the trees for several hundred yards around were injured and broken. Inside the house's ruins we found his corpse -recognizable only by the twisted gold ring set amidst the ruin of his left hand."

*Byakhee: "His body lay twisted in the middle of the road. His throat was ripped out, but there was oddly little blood about. The rest of his body was slashed and torn, and his clothes were torn to rags. The corpse seemed strangely shrunken and pale."

*Chthonian: "There was a great bruise, nearly a foot and a half across, encircling his body. A hole, with ragged edges, was bored into the base of his throat, so deep that I could insert my hand. His whole corpse was coated with a thick layer of putrid slime."

*Cthugha: "The corpse was burnt to a frazzle. His blackened skull and bones still sat upright on the smoldering car's seat. The forest for an acre about was still aflame."

*[[Cthulhu]]: "All that was visible was a reddish discoloration near the centre of the great green smear across the road. "

*Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath: "Black pus filled the corpse's face and mouth. Open, ulcer-like sores covered half his body, still oozing a greasy clear liquid. The expression on what was left of his face was indescribable."

*[[Deep Ones]]: "Slash marks were neatly incised across the victim's throat, as though someone had drawn four razor blades simultaneously through his neck. Four similar slashes encircled his arm, which was broken, as though some powerful thing had gripped him there unmercifully."

*[[Elder Things]]: "He had been killed with blunt force, in what looked like a panicked struggle. But the strange thing was that, after his death, his body had been delicately but clumsily dissected, with sections of skin and muscle removed randomly but with surgical precision, seeming using a sharp bladed tool. His pockets and his knapsack had been emptied and the contents scattered about, though nothing valuable had been taken."

*Father [[Dagon]] or [[Mother Hydra]]: "The great webbed footprint spread for several feet across the sand. In the middle of the print was our friend's body, torn nearly in half from the crushing weight of the Thing."

*Dholes: "A great wad of mucus engulfed the entire front half of the car, and a path was visible through miles of forest. But of our friend, there was no sign."

*Dimensional Shambler: "We heard him scream, and rushed to his room. But when the door opened, all we found was a slight spatter of blood on the carpet and his despairing cry echoing faintly through space."

*Fire Vampire: "The chair he sat in was untouched, but his skull was charred into an awful grimace, as was the upper half of his body. Weirdly, his arms and legs were untouched."

*Flying Polyps: "His expression was unendurable, and we covered his face. His corpse was marred with regularly sized circular pockmarks, like hollows in the sand. The flesh seemed slightly desiccated, as though baked in an oven, though it was only slightly reddened."

*Formless Spawn of Tsathogghua: "All we found were his bones, sucked clean of flesh. A wet trail led away from the spot."

*[[Ghouls]]: "The corpse was gnawed and chewed, as though by rats. The eyes had been neatly plucked from the sockets, the long bones cracked for marrow, and the back of the skull broken open to get at the toothsome gray matter. His belly was split open and completely gutted. Whatever had killed had viewed his entrails as quite a delicacy."

*Great Race of Yith: "His body was intact, save that his head was severed cleanly, with surgical precision."

*Hastur the Unspeakable: "Every bone in his body was crushed to a pulp, and his skin was one massive bruise, with dull purplish blood tinging all his features."

*Hounds of Tindalos: "He lay flat on his back, a thin bluish slime covering his entire body. His head was severed and sat atop his chest."

*Hunting Horrors: "The corpse was mauled as if by a wild animal. Erratically, and with no seeming purpose, portions of his body were curiously missing, as though some being, with alien logic, had selectively mutilated him. "

*Ithaqua the Windwalker: "The body was found frozen solid, buried halfway into the tundra, as though it had been dropped from a great height. When it was unearthed, both feet gave the peculiar appearance as of having been burnt to stumps, though crusts of ice clung to them."

*[[Leech of Yoh-Vombis]]:"The lacerations were mainly self-inflicted. They were mingled with numerous small round wounds, easily distinguished from the knife-slashes, and arranged in regular circles, through which an unknown poison had been injected into his scalp."

*Lesser Other God: "His corpse lay face down. The back was partially dissolved away, eaten by acid, so that his spine and ribs were laid bare. His ribs were visibly cracked and splintered, and his skull broken, as well as corroded. His face and front were intact, though shoved into the earth as though by some great weight."

*[[Mi-Go]]: "The victim's entire abdomen and chest were scissored open with dozens of tiny cuts and deep incisions. Blood pooled redly through the myriad wounds and the corpse lolled sideways on the ground."

*Nightgaunts: "He had been carried off. A frantic sound, half-screaming and half frightened laughter, came from the night sky and we recognized his voice as he was carried away, toward that black mountain from which no man had ever returned alive."

*Nodens: "His corpse was nearly intact, save for the mark of a single blow, breaking his collarbone and neatly sending the splintered end through his heart."

*[[Nyarlathotep]]: "He was sprawled back on his chair, an awful look on his face, with scorch marks over his body. He had evidently been struck by lightning, though how lightning could have entered that windowless room remains a mystery."

*Nyogtha: "His bed was smashed upon the floor, and he was not in it. A trail of destruction led to the window, where the grisly sight of one severed foot, caught in the jamb, met our eyes."

*Old Ones: "His body was literally torn apart, though there were no cuts or punctures. His limbs were ripped from the body, and thrown asunder. Strange annular marks were seen on his limbs and around his torso."

*Sand-Dwellers: "His body looked as though someone with a sharpened garden rake had struck him again and again, without sense nor reason. When we rolled him over, we could see that great hole through his back where whatever had slain him had chewed and clawed its way through to his liver. "

*Serpent People: "He lay dead, two great punctures in his throat, though only a trickle of blood oozed from them. Around the punctures his skin was so eroded that it gave way under the fingers, permitting a trickle of greenish liquid to drip out. This liquid pained the hands, and was quickly washed off, though a tingle persisted for several minutes. His skin was bluish and his face bright blue, his tongue blackened and protruding, and his eyes unrecognizably black."

*Servitors of the Other Gods: "His body was torn and bloodied with strips of skin removed, as though great whips and lashes had beat him with such force as to not only remove the skin, but break the bones underneath. All the whip marks were filled with blood and a thin greenish-clear juice, which stank of swamps."

*Shantaks: "His head and upper chest were removed in a single great semicircular bite."

*[[Shoggoths]]: "The body was covered with putrescent slime, green and yellow shifting in the night air. The head had been literally sucked off the corpse, with ragged fragments of skin spreading all round."

*Shub-Niggurath: "His entire body was smeared with a black cheesy material. Instead of a face, the front of his head was now a single suppurating sore, red and blue with glistening serum."

*Shudde M'ell: "A hole had been bored completely through his torso, and all the blood and internal organs seemingly sucked out. The corpse was buried under at least a foot of stinking clear translucent sIime."

*Spawn of Cthulhu: "A great spatter of blood and guts lay on the ground, mixed with a pool of green slime. Of our friend, there was no sign, unless the blood and mangled organs signified his doom."

*Star Vampires: "His body was absolutely white, completely drained of blood, and his bones and back were snapped. Great and deep claw-wounds injured his chest and legs, and he lay in a position impossible to an intact human body."

*Tsathogghua: "On the ground was a wrinkled bag, withered, hairless, punctured with scores of holes, and empty of all except bones, which rattled bleakly as we poked it. The bag was our comrade's skin."

*Y'golonac: "His lips and tongue had been methodically bitten out, as were various other parts of his anatomy. The wounds still dripped unclotted blood, though he must have been dead for hours."

*Yig: "His body was swollen and cyanotic, puffed blue-black as with some fearful poison. Even as we watched in horror, the corpse suddenly split down the middle with a sloppy noise, oozing black poison and viscera everywhere

*[[Yog-Sothoth]]: "The right side of his face and his right arm were withered and wrinkled, no more than half their normal size. The rest of his body was scared and scorched to the point that it was dry as dust. It crumbled at a touch."

*[[Yugg]]: "A film of dried slime covered his clothing, and on his torso there were a number of perfectly circular bite-marks, each evidently made by something with no jaws but with very sharp teeth. In addition, there were several dart-like thorns of an unknown substance shallowly embedded in his skin."

*Abhoth: "We never saw him again. The only hint as to his fate were rumours of a particularly horrible worm-thing seen in later weeks on the mountain slopes. The worm-thing was reported to have his face."

*Atlach-Nacha: "The corpse was covered with a thick, yarn-like material, tough as steel, but soft to the touch, and there were two thin needle-like holes in his face. His entire interior seems to have been liquefied and sucked out, leaving only the shell of a man."

*Cyaegha: "The corpse was nailed upside-down to the front door, the throat slit, and wrists cut open. But no blood marred the clean floor."

*Ghasts: "The body seemed to have been beaten by heavy sticks and then gnawed by wild animals. Great chunks had been chewed out of his side and arms. Whatever had done the deed must have come by night."

*[[Ghatanothoa]]: "His body appeared to be a thousand-year-old mummy, though he could not have been dead more than a few days. His skin was hard as stiffened leather, and his flesh as hard as stone. A look of utmost horror and fear was on the face, whose eyes were closed tightly shut."

*Gnoph-Keh: "The body was frozen solid as ice. But the frozen corpse had been broken-the shoulder and left arm had been snapped off and carried away by the unknown Thing in the Snow."

*Gugs: "His spine was shattered, as from a colossal blow, and a great ragged bite split his body. Tufts of coarse black hair were still spasmodically gripped in his hands."

*Lloigor: "The body lay face-down in a pool of peculiar blue-green water. He must have died of a heart attack, for no wounds were visible on him. Strangely, the autopsy showed no sign of atherosclerosis."

*Moon Beasts: "Whatever had killed him had tortured him slowly before he died. There were penetrating wounds on his torso, and burns all over his arms. The fire pit next to him gave mute evidence as to the source of the burns."

*Zhar: "Only his watch, rings, and the silver plate from his skull remained. Everything even remotely organic had vanished forever."

*Zoth-Ommog: "His body was peculiarly slouched, as though the entire interior of his torso had been pulped and squeezed together into a single solid mass. A poke showed that his ribs had been pulverized."
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Elder God (Cthulhu mythos)

2009-05-07T08:51:13Z

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The Elder Gods are immortal entities in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are generally distinguished from the [[Outer Gods]] or [[Great Old Ones]] by being less unbearable to behold (some choose to appear as humanlike figures, though their majesty is still awe-inspiring and humbling to mere mortals), and by being less generally inimical to humanity. Some Elder Gods are known to help human beings who have dabbled in the Mythos return to relative safety (though never to an untroubled psyche); it would however be a mistake to assume they are inevitably benevolent. At best, they are still vastly superior to humans and have minds and motivations beyond human understanding; their seeming friendliness may well be coincidental, or due to reasons humans cannot fathom.

The only Elder God described explicitly by [[H. P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] himself was [[Nodens]], "hoary and terrible lord of the primeval [[Abyss]]". This title implies that Lovecraft didn't consider Nodens any friend of humanity; however, later writers including the authors of the [[Call of Cthulhu (RPG)|Call of Cthulhu]] roleplaying game have assumed him to be uninterested in attacking humans and portrayed him as occasionally aiding travelers stranded in alien dimensions to return to Earth or escape marauding monsters.

[[August Derleth]]'s version of the Mythos, being inspired by Christianity and intended to reflect a belief that good can triumph over evil (sharply at odds with Lovecraft's view that the cosmos was too inherently perilous for humans to ever consider themselves safe), used the Elder Gods as his forces of good, manifest primarily through the [[Elder Sign]]s which can keep the Mythos's forces at bay. It is possible that he intended [[Cthugha]] to be an Elder God, as the protagonist of "[[The Dweller in Darkness]]" summons Cthugha to dispatch a manifestation of [[Nyarlathotep]]; however it is more likely that this was due to Derleth's other controversial view of the Great Old Ones, that they were [[elemental]] creatures and could be set against each other due to their polarity. Later writers have invariably described Cthugha as a Great Old One.

[[Brian Lumley]]'s Mythos writings resemble Derleth's in their use of benevolent Elder Gods; his flagship character [[Titus Crow]] makes contact with an Elder God called [[Kthanid]] and is tasked with opposing Cthulhu. Kthanid is Cthulhu's "brother" (whether in the conventional human definition or a more arcane sense) and appears exactly the same as Cthulhu save for having humanlike eyes and a benevolent persona.

Only a few other Elder Gods have been described, notably [[Henry Kuttner]]'s [[Vorvadoss]], a being who appears as a vague, nonhumanlike face behind a wall of fire, and displays a temper only barely less malevolent than that of many Great Old Ones.
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T.E.D. Klein

2009-05-07T08:49:53Z

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'''T. E. D. Klein''' (born [[1947]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[horror fiction|horror]] [[writer]] and [[editor]]. He was born and lives in [[New York City]] and attended [[Brown University]]. He was the editor of ''Twilight Zone'' magazine from its inception in 1981 until 1985.

Klein has published very few works, but all of them are written and constructed with meticulous care. He first attracted notice with the [[novella]] [["The Events at Poroth Farm"]] (1972), in which a college lecturer, isolated in the countryside and reading horror literature for teaching in the next semester, gradually realises that genuine supernatural horror is taking place around him. The story is notable for the insidious way in which the narrator's responses to the works he is reading (including those of [[Charles Robert Maturin]], [[Ann Radcliffe]], [[Monk Lewis]], [[Le Fanu]], [[Bram Stoker]], [[Aleister Crowley]] and [[Shirley Jackson]]) are conflated with his impressions of the supernatural threat.

In 1984 Klein published the [[novel]] ''[[The Ceremonies]]'', which uses the same basic plot as the novella to more expansive ends; the threat this time is not to one man or one community, but to the entire world. A literate, sophisticated and atmospheric work, ''The Ceremonies'' takes up and elaborates imaginatively upon some of the mysteries of [[Arthur Machen]]'s story [["The White People"]].

In 1985 Klein published the [[collection]] ''[[Dark Gods]]'', which includes four novellas: [["Children of the Kingdom"]], about a loathsome horde of creatures which emerge during an electricity blackout in New York; [["Petey"]], about a madman's monstrous "pet" which brings a well-to-do, middle-class housewarming to an unpleasant conclusion; [["Black Man with a Horn"]], a tale in the vein of [[H. P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] which treats of an elderly horror writer (modelled on [[Frank Belknap Long]]) and his discoveries about the dreaded Tcho-Tcho people; and [["Nadelman's God"]], about a man who finds that a poem he wrote as an adolescent has been used as an incantation to bring a monstrous deity to life.

Klein also wrote the [[screenplay]] for [[Dario Argento]]'s 1993 film ''Trauma'', which starred [[Asia Argento]] and [[Piper Laurie]].

A critical essay on Klein's work can be found in [[S.T. Joshi]]'s book ''The Modern Weird Tale'' (2001).

Bibliography: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/T_E_D_Klein.htm

[[Category:Writers|Klein, T.E.D]]

Original Wiki source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]

Azathoth

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'''Azathoth''' is the most powerful god-like being in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. He is sometimes called the "Daemon Sultan". He sits and dreams in a court at the center of infinity, attended by monstrous servitors whose fluting lulls him, as well as by lesser gods.
He is described as a "nuclear chaos", a "blind idiot god" who created the universe without knowledge or caring.

[[Nyarlathotep]] is the primary servant of Azathoth, and perhaps even a manifestation of Azathoth. He often uses his great intelligence to manipulate the mindless god.
[[Category:Outer Gods]]

Nyarlathotep

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'''Nyarlathotep''' (the ''Crawling Chaos'') is a [[fictional character]] in the [[Cthulhu mythos]] of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. He is one of the cosmic [[Outer God]]s and appears in the works of Lovecraft and [[August Derleth]], among others.


==Nyarlathotep in the mythos==
{{SectOR}}
Nyarlathotep differs from the other beings in a number of ways. Most of them are exiled to stars, like [[Yog-Sothoth]] and [[Hastur]], or sleeping and dreaming like [[Cthulhu]]; Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the [[Earth]] in the guise of a human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. Most of them have their own cults serving them, while Nyarlathotep seems to serve them and take care of their affairs in their absence. Most of them use strange alien languages, while Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being. Finally, most of them are all powerful yet purposeless, yet Nyarlathotep seems to be deliberately deceptive and manipulative, and even uses [[propaganda]] to achieve his goals. In this regard, he is probably the most human-like among them.

Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of [[Azathoth]], whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep.{{Rn|Harms-218}}In this sense, he strongly resembles the traditional role of the [[devil]].{{fact}}

According to the Necronomicon, Nyarlathotep will play some part in the End Time. It is stated that he will allow [[Nyogtha]] to wipe the Earth clean in preparation for the return of the Great Old Ones - although it doesn't specify how Nyarlathotep will accomplish this. It also fails to mention any timeframe for this to occur, although it would presumably be after the fall of Zothique some 5,000 years in the future.{{fact}}

==Table of Nyarlathotep's forms==

Nyarlathotep has many forms (some literature refers to these forms as Masks and claims that he has a thousand of them) and is thus known by different avatars.

===Overview===

This table is organized as follows:

* ''Name''. This is the name of Nyarlathotep's form.
* ''Region''. This is the geographical location where Nyarlathotep's form is active.
* ''Description''. This entry describes Nyarlathotep's form.
* ''Notes''. This field contains additional information.
* ''References''. This field lists the sources that contain references to Nyarlathotep's form. If the source is a story, it is denoted by a two-letter code—the key to the codes is found [[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|here]]. Otherwise, the source is denoted as follows:
**''rpg'' means a [[role-playing game]] and includes a footnote to the source.
**''MofN'' means the ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' web site.
:If an entry appears in '''bold''', this means that the reference introduces Nyarlathotep's form.

===Table-a (A–D)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Ahtu || [[Congo]]
| Appears as a gelatinous mass extruding golden tentacles.
| Ahtu 's cult is made of crippled and disfigured natives (though [[European]]s with similar deformities can join). He can be called by a magical, golden bracelet, which is kept separated into two halves to prevent accidental summonings. Also knowns as the Spiralling Worm.
| rpg{{Ref|Ahtu}}, '''UD''', '''SoK'''
|-
| All-Seeing Eye || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Beast || Worldwide
| Manifests through the [[Sphinx]].
| In this form, Nyarlathotep is worshipped by the [[Brotherhood of the Beast]]. This manifestation can only appear in a specific location in [[Egypt]].
| '''rpg{{Ref|TheBeast}}'''
|-
| The Black Demon || <center>—
| Appears as a black, furry, snouted creature which fears light but is not harmed by it.
| Although special [[talisman]]s can be used to control the Black Demon, there is still the risk that the summoner will be attacked.
| '''rpg{{Ref|TheBlackDemon}}'''
|-
| The Black Lion, Destroyer of Egypt || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| {{fact}}
|-
| Black Man || [[England]]
| Appears as a hooved, hairless, [[wikt:swarthy|swarthy]] man.
| Nyarlathotep is worshipped by [[witch]] [[wikt:coven|coven]]s in this form.
| '''DW''', FG
|-
| Black Messenger of Karneter || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Black One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Black Pharaoh || [[Egypt]]
| Appears as a haughty [[Egyptian]] pharaoh wearing a brightly colored robe.
| The [[Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh]] worships Nyarlathotep in this form.
| '''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]''', rpg{{Ref|BlackPharaoh}}
|-
| Black Wind || [[Kenya]]
| Manifests as a devastating storm.
| <center>—
| IK, '''rpg{{Ref|BlackWind}}'''
|-
| Blind Ape of Truth || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Bloated Woman || [[China]]
| Appears as a five-mouthed, morbidly obese woman with numerous tentacles.
| The Bloated Woman hides behind the ''Black Fan'' to conceal its great bulk from unwary victims.
| '''rpg{{Ref|BloatedWoman}}'''
|-
| Bringer of Pests || Egypt
| Appears as a swarm of preternatural [[locust]]s.
| This avatar had a following in Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty. Today it is worshipped by the Knights of the Silver Twilight.
| '''rpg{{Ref|BringerofPests}}'''
|-
| Crawling Mist || [[Dreamlands]]
| Appears as a putrid, living fog.
| <center>—
| '''EL'''
|-
| Dark Demon || <center>—
| Appears as a larger version of the Black Demon yet more treacherous.
| Those who study the black arts are sometimes contacted by this avatar. In return for entering their bodies, the Dark Demon promises them great rewards. Unfortunately, Nyarlathotep never makes good on this promise.
| '''KD'''
|-
| Dark One || [[California]], [[Louisiana]]
| Appears as a pitch-black, eight-foot-tall, faceless man who can walk through any physical barrier.
| <center>—
| '''MK'''
|-
| Demon Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Dweller in Darkness || Wood of N'gai (somewhere in northern [[United States|America]])
| Appears as a hideous, howling giant with a tentacle in place of a face.
| <center>—
| '''DD'''
|}

===Table-b (E–M)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Earth Creature || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Effigy of Hate || [[Africa]]
| A winged creature that manifests through a war [[totem]].
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|EffigyofHate}}'''
|-
| Elder One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Faceless God || [[Ancient Egypt]]
| Appears as a winged, faceless sphinx.
| This avatar has the ability to send its worshippers back through time.
| '''FG'''
|-
| Faceless One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Father of the Million Favored One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN'', '''WD'''(?)
|-
| The Floating Horror{{Ref|Harms-222}} || [[Haiti]]
| Appears as a bluish, red-veined jellyfish-like creature.
| <center>—
| '''AP'''
|-
| God of the Bloody Tongue, Howler in Darkness || [[Kenya]]
| Appears as gigantic monster with a red tentacle in place of a face.
| In this form, Nyarlathotep is worshipped by the [[Cult of the Bloody Tongue]].
| '''rpg{{Ref|GodofBloody}}'''
|-
| God of the Desert || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Green Man || [[Celts]]
| Appears as an animated, man-like [[wikt:effigy|effigy]] made of plant material.
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|GreenMan}}'''
|-
| The Haunter of the Dark || [[Australia]]; [[Providence, Rhode Island]]; [[Yuggoth]]
| A bloated, batlike creature with a single, burning, three-lobed eye which appears able to kill by fear alone. This avatar is destroyed by light.
| Its most important cult is the [[Church of Starry Wisdom]], based in Providence, which can summon the avatar using the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. It is also worshipped by some modern [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]]. Its other epithets include Face Eater, Father of All Bats, Dark Wing, Sand Bat, and Fly-The-Light.
| CD, '''HD''', rpg{{Ref|HaunterofDark}}, S5
|-
| The Horned Man || [[Celt]]s
| Appears as a man with [[stag]]-like horns.
| This avatar can only be viewed while under the influence of certain [[Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants|hallucinogenic]] drugs.
| '''rpg{{Ref|HornedMan}}'''
|-
| The Howler at the Moon, Howler in the Night (?) || ?
| Appearance is the same as the God of the Bloody Tongue.
| <center>—
| '''DD'''(?)
|-
| Lord of the Desert || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| L'rog'g (also Lrogg), Bat God of L'gy'hx || The [[planet]] [[L'gy'hx]] ([[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]])
| Appears as a two-headed bat (debatable).
| Avatar worshipped by the cuboid inhabitants of L'gy'hx and by a group of renegade [[Insect from Shaggai|Shan]].
| '''IS''', rpg{{Ref|Lrogg}}
|-
| Many-legged Goat || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Masked Messenger || [[Morocco]] [[Kenya]]
| Human Female aspect with acid skin.
| Avatar worshipped by the Sisterhood of the Masked Messenger.
| '''SoK''', rpg{{Ref|MaskedMessenger}}
|-
| Master of Evil || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Messenger of the Old Ones ||<center>—
| Appears as an enormous black mass that seems to creep across the sky.
| This form is manifast only during occasions of cosmic importance, such as the awakening of [[Cthulhu]].
| rpg{{Ref|MessengerOldOnes}}, '''WA'''
|-
| Mighty Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Mr. Skin || [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]
| Indistinguishable imitation of an [[African American]] [[pimp]].
| This avatar is closely associated with certain worshippers of [[Shub-Niggurath]].
| '''MK'''
|}

===Table-c (N–W)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Narla || Worldwide
| A [[The Woman in the Red Dress (Matrix character)|Woman in the Red Dress]]-like [[virtual reality]] entity.
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Nyarlatophis, the Sorcerer || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| {{fact}}
|-
| Narlato || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Narlotep || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| N'hyarlothatep || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Night Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Old God || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Pool of Shadow || [[Druid]]s
| ?
| This avatar was worshipped for thousands of years by a small druidic cult.
| '''rpg{{Ref|PoolofShadow}}'''
|-
| Prince of Darkest Dark || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| [[Set (mythology)|Set]] || Egypt
| ?
| This avatar is worshipped by the Majestic Order of the Great Dark One, a cult which may still be active in Egypt.
| '''rpg{{Ref|Set}}'''
|-
| Shugoran || [[Malaysia]]
| Appears as a black human-like creature playing a horn.
| This form is worshipped by the [[Tcho-tcho]] people. They sometimes summon this avatar to punish offenders.
| '''MH''', rpg{{Ref|Shugoran}}
|-
| Skeletal Horror || Egypt
| Manifests as a twelve-foot-tall living skeleton with enormous claws and the head of a human [[embryo]].
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|SkeletalHorror}}'''
|-
| Skinless One, [[Xipe Totec]] || [[Middle East]]
| Appears as a skinned corpse.
| This avatar was worshipped by an abhorrent cult in [[Turkey]] and its environs. The [[Aztecs]] revered this avatar as Xipe Totec.
| '''rpg{{Ref|SkinlessOne}}'''
|-
| The Small Crawler || [[India]]
| A small human figure with four arms and three tentacles for legs.
| This avatar is described in the ''[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]'' and has a small cult in India.
| '''rpg{{Ref|SmallCrawler}}'''
|-
| Stalker Among the Stars || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| [[Tezcatlipoca]] || [[Mexico]]
| Dark-skinned man with a foot that looks like a smoking mirror.
| This avatar was a prominent deity among the Aztecs.
| '''rpg{{Ref|Tezcatlipoca}}'''
|-
| The Thing in the Yellow Mask || Dreamlands
| A creature clothed in yellow [[silk]].
| This avatar is only known to manifest in the city of [['Ygiroth]] in the Dreamlands. Some claim that it is the lone occupant of the remote, unnamed [[monastery]] on the [[Plateau of Leng]] (see [[High Priest Not to Be Described]]).
| '''CE''', FY, YG
|-
| The Tick-Tock Man || Any technologically advanced civilisation
| An advanced piece of machinery for the time period.
| This avatar is most commonly found in technologically advanced races, or at times when science begins to supersede religion. It can manifest itself from something as mundane as a complex carriage clock to an extremely advanced artificial intelligence. Sources claim it was Nyarlathotep that gave humanity the final keys to unlock the atomic age, unwittingly ushering in the time of their own destruction.
| {{fact}}
|-
| The Wailing Writher || ?
| A column of writhing black tentacles and screaming mouths.
| This avatar has no known worshippers.
| '''rpg{{Ref|WailingWrither}}'''
|-
| The White Man || [[New England]]
| Appears as a blonde man in a shiny white robe.
| <center>—
| '''NS'''
|}

==Quotations==
<blockquote>
And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"
</blockquote>

<blockquote>What his fate would be, he did not know; but he felt that he was held for the coming of that frightful soul and messenger of infinity's Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''
</blockquote>

<blockquote>There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers - the 'Black Man' of the witch cult, and the 'Nyarlathotep' of the Necronomicon.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House"
</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are references to a Haunter of the Dark awaked by gazing into the [[Shining Trapezohedron]], and insane conjectures about the black gulfs from which it was called. The being is spoken of as holding all knowledge, and demanding monstrous sacrifices.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
*Outside the Lovecraft mythos, Nyarlathotep appears in the ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series of [[PlayStation]] games as a god symbolic of the destructive potential of [[Carl Jung]]'s collective unconsciousness, humanity's collective soul. He is the ally/enemy/[[doppelganger]] (it is complicated) of the Philemon character, and appears in various forms.
*Nyarlathotep appears as "Nylonathatep, the laddering horror" in the ''[[Discworld]]'' game ''[[Discworld Noir]]''.
*[[Stephen King]]'s character [[Randall Flagg]] was also known as Nyarlathotep; Flagg used a wide variety of names.
*Magic spells in [[Conan the Barbarian]] [[comic book]]s feature [[invocation|invocations]] to "Nyarla Thotep".
*[[Brad Strickland]], a writer of children's stories, used Nyarlathotep as the primary antagonist in his book ''The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost''.
*In an issue of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], the turtles find themself in a tower which inhabits forgotten deities. They found their enemy in the deceitful [[Loki]] who, in an ensuing battle, summons Nyarlathotep, "tearer of souls, ripper of flesh"
*Appears as Nyarlathotep, N., Priest of the Ether, Chaos Made Flesh, etc. as a character in the webcomic [http://www.friendlyhostility.com Friendly Hostility] where he is a friend of several main characters and his entrance preceded (his whereabouts known) by the occurrence of strange, random, usually gruesome events.
* Appears as a God card in the trading card game [http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=ht/welcome Hecatomb] by Wizards of the Coast.

==See also==
*[[References to the Cthulhu Mythos]]

==References==
* {{cite web | title=Masks of Nyarlathotep | url=http://www.psci.net/nyarla/Masks%20of%20Nyarlathotep.htm | accessdate=January 25 | accessyear=2006 }}
*Harms, Daniel. "Nyarlathotep" in ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'' (2nd ed.), pp. 218–222. Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

===Role-playing game material===

* Aniolowski, Scott D.
** "The Sundial of Amen-Tet" in ''Lurking Fears'', Lockport, NY: Triad Entertainments, 1990.
** ''Ye Booke of Monstres'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1994. ISBN 1-568-82019-4.

* Conyers, David. ''Secrets of Kenya'', Chaosium Inc, 2006.

* Detwiller, Dennis, Adam Scott Glancy, and John Tynes. ''Delta Green: A Call of Cthulhu Sourcebook of Modern Horror and Conspiracy'', Tynes Cowan Corp, 1997. ISBN 1-887-79708-4.

* Diaper, John, ''et al''. ''The Arkham Evil'', Theatre of the Mind, 1983.

* DiTillio, Larry and Lynn Willis.
** "City beneath the Sands" in ''Terror Australis'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1987. ISBN 0-933-63540-0.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1996. ISBN 1-568-82069-0.

* Gillian, Geoff.
** "Regiment of Dread" in ''Tales of the Miskatonic Valley'', , Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1991. ISBN 0-933-63583-4.
** —''et al''. ''Horror on the Orient Express'', 1991.

* Hallet, David and L.N. Isinwyll. "Eyes for the Blind" in ''Dark Designs'', 1991.

* Hamblin, William. "Thoth's Dagger" in ''Different Worlds #27'', 1983.

* Herber, Keith.
** "Dead of Night" in ''Arkham Unveiled'', 1990.
** ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'', 1984.
** ''Return to Dunwich'', 1991.

* Johnson, Sam. ''A Resection of Time'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82095-X.

* Lyons, Doug and Isinwyll, L.N. "One in Darkness" in ''The Great Old Ones'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1989.

* Petersen, Sandy
** "The Rise of R'lyeh", 1982) in ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth''.
** —and John B. Monroe. "The Ten Commandments of Cthulhu Hunting" in ''The Cthulhu Casebook'', 1990.

* Ross, Kevin. ''Escape from Innsmouth'' (2nd ed.), Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82115-8.

* Williams, Chris and Sandy Petersen. ''The Complete Dreamlands'' (4th ed.), Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82086-0.

===Notes===


#{{Note|Harms-218}}Harms, "Nyarlathotep", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 218–9.

#{{Note|Ahtu}}Detwiller ''et al'', ''Delta Green''; Herber, "Dead of Night".

#{{Note|TheBeast}}Herber, ''The Fungi from Yuggoth''.

#{{Note|TheBlackDemon}}Lyons & Isinwyll, "One in Darkness".

#{{Note|BlackPharaoh}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''.

#{{Note|BlackWind}}Ibid.

#{{Note|BloatedWoman}}Ibid.

#{{Note|BringerofPests}}Petersen & Monroe, "The Ten Commandments of Cthulhu Hunting".

#{{Note|EffigyofHate}}Gillian, "Regiment of Dread".

#{{Note|Harms-222}}Harms, ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', "The Floating Horror", pp. 222. This name was created by Harms.

#{{Note|GodofBloody}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (first appeared in this scenario?); Johnson, ''A Resection of Time''.

#{{Note|GreenMan}}Hallet & Isinwyll, "Eyes for the Blind".

#{{Note|HaunterofDark}}DiTillio ''et al'', "City beneath the Sands"; Petersen ''et al'', ''The Complete Dreamlands''.

#{{Note|HornedMan}}Herber, ''Return to Dunwich''.

#{{Note|Lrogg}}Aniolowski, ''Ye Booke of Monstres''.

#{{Note|MessengerOldOnes}}Ibid; Petersen, "The Rise of R'lyeh".

#{{Note|PoolofShadow}}Diaper ''et al''. ''The Arkham Evil''.

#{{Note|Set}}Aniolowski, "The Sundial of Amen-Tet".

#{{Note|Shugoran}}Ross, ''Escape from Innsmouth''.

#{{Note|SkeletalHorror}}Hamblin, "Thoth's Dagger" in ''Different Worlds #27''.

#{{Note|SkinlessOne}}Gillan ''et al'', ''Horror on the Orient Express''.

#{{Note|SmallCrawler}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''.

#{{Note|Tezcatlipoca}}Johnson, ''A Resection of Time''.

#{{Note|WailingWrither}}Ross, ''Escape from Innsmouth''.

[[Category:Outer Gods]]

Nyarlathotep

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'''Nyarlathotep''' (the ''Crawling Chaos'') is a [[fictional character]] in the [[Cthulhu mythos]] of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. He is one of the cosmic [[Outer God]]s and appears in the works of Lovecraft and [[August Derleth]], among others.


==Nyarlathotep in the mythos==
{{SectOR}}
Nyarlathotep differs from the other beings in a number of ways. Most of them are exiled to stars, like [[Yog-Sothoth]] and [[Hastur]], or sleeping and dreaming like [[Cthulhu]]; Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the [[Earth]] in the guise of a human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. Most of them have their own cults serving them, while Nyarlathotep seems to serve them and take care of their affairs in their absence. Most of them use strange alien languages, while Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being. Finally, most of them are all powerful yet purposeless, yet Nyarlathotep seems to be deliberately deceptive and manipulative, and even uses [[propaganda]] to achieve his goals. In this regard, he is probably the most human-like among them.

Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of [[Azathoth]], whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep.{{Rn|Harms-218}}In this sense, he strongly resembles the traditional role of the [[devil]].{{fact}}

According to the Necronomicon, Nyarlathotep will play some part in the End Time. It is stated that he will allow [[Nyogtha]] to wipe the Earth clean in preparation for the return of the Great Old Ones - although it doesn't specify how Nyarlathotep will accomplish this. It also fails to mention any timeframe for this to occur, although it would presumably be after the fall of Zothique some 5,000 years in the future.{{fact}}

==Table of Nyarlathotep's forms==

Nyarlathotep has many forms (some literature refers to these forms as Masks and claims that he has a thousand of them) and is thus known by different avatars.

===Overview===

This table is organized as follows:

* ''Name''. This is the name of Nyarlathotep's form.
* ''Region''. This is the geographical location where Nyarlathotep's form is active.
* ''Description''. This entry describes Nyarlathotep's form.
* ''Notes''. This field contains additional information.
* ''References''. This field lists the sources that contain references to Nyarlathotep's form. If the source is a story, it is denoted by a two-letter code—the key to the codes is found [[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|here]]. Otherwise, the source is denoted as follows:
**''rpg'' means a [[role-playing game]] and includes a footnote to the source.
**''MofN'' means the ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' web site.
:If an entry appears in '''bold''', this means that the reference introduces Nyarlathotep's form.

===Table-a (A–D)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Ahtu || [[Congo]]
| Appears as a gelatinous mass extruding golden tentacles.
| Ahtu 's cult is made of crippled and disfigured natives (though [[European]]s with similar deformities can join). He can be called by a magical, golden bracelet, which is kept separated into two halves to prevent accidental summonings. Also knowns as the Spiralling Worm.
| rpg{{Ref|Ahtu}}, '''UD''', '''SoK'''
|-
| All-Seeing Eye || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Beast || Worldwide
| Manifests through the [[Sphinx]].
| In this form, Nyarlathotep is worshipped by the [[Brotherhood of the Beast]]. This manifestation can only appear in a specific location in [[Egypt]].
| '''rpg{{Ref|TheBeast}}'''
|-
| The Black Demon || <center>—
| Appears as a black, furry, snouted creature which fears light but is not harmed by it.
| Although special [[talisman]]s can be used to control the Black Demon, there is still the risk that the summoner will be attacked.
| '''rpg{{Ref|TheBlackDemon}}'''
|-
| The Black Lion, Destroyer of Egypt || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| {{fact}}
|-
| Black Man || [[England]]
| Appears as a hooved, hairless, [[wikt:swarthy|swarthy]] man.
| Nyarlathotep is worshipped by [[witch]] [[wikt:coven|coven]]s in this form.
| '''DW''', FG
|-
| Black Messenger of Karneter || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Black One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Black Pharaoh || [[Egypt]]
| Appears as a haughty [[Egyptian]] pharaoh wearing a brightly colored robe.
| The [[Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh]] worships Nyarlathotep in this form.
| '''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]''', rpg{{Ref|BlackPharaoh}}
|-
| Black Wind || [[Kenya]]
| Manifests as a devastating storm.
| <center>—
| IK, '''rpg{{Ref|BlackWind}}'''
|-
| Blind Ape of Truth || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Bloated Woman || [[China]]
| Appears as a five-mouthed, morbidly obese woman with numerous tentacles.
| The Bloated Woman hides behind the ''Black Fan'' to conceal its great bulk from unwary victims.
| '''rpg{{Ref|BloatedWoman}}'''
|-
| Bringer of Pests || Egypt
| Appears as a swarm of preternatural [[locust]]s.
| This avatar had a following in Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty. Today it is worshipped by the Knights of the Silver Twilight.
| '''rpg{{Ref|BringerofPests}}'''
|-
| Crawling Mist || [[Dreamlands]]
| Appears as a putrid, living fog.
| <center>—
| '''EL'''
|-
| Dark Demon || <center>—
| Appears as a larger version of the Black Demon yet more treacherous.
| Those who study the black arts are sometimes contacted by this avatar. In return for entering their bodies, the Dark Demon promises them great rewards. Unfortunately, Nyarlathotep never makes good on this promise.
| '''KD'''
|-
| Dark One || [[California]], [[Louisiana]]
| Appears as a pitch-black, eight-foot-tall, faceless man who can walk through any physical barrier.
| <center>—
| '''MK'''
|-
| Demon Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Dweller in Darkness || Wood of N'gai (somewhere in northern [[United States|America]])
| Appears as a hideous, howling giant with a tentacle in place of a face.
| <center>—
| '''DD'''
|}

===Table-b (E–M)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Earth Creature || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Effigy of Hate || [[Africa]]
| A winged creature that manifests through a war [[totem]].
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|EffigyofHate}}'''
|-
| Elder One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Faceless God || [[Ancient Egypt]]
| Appears as a winged, faceless sphinx.
| This avatar has the ability to send its worshippers back through time.
| '''FG'''
|-
| Faceless One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Father of the Million Favored One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN'', '''WD'''(?)
|-
| The Floating Horror{{Ref|Harms-222}} || [[Haiti]]
| Appears as a bluish, red-veined jellyfish-like creature.
| <center>—
| '''AP'''
|-
| God of the Bloody Tongue, Howler in Darkness || [[Kenya]]
| Appears as gigantic monster with a red tentacle in place of a face.
| In this form, Nyarlathotep is worshipped by the [[Cult of the Bloody Tongue]].
| '''rpg{{Ref|GodofBloody}}'''
|-
| God of the Desert || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Green Man || [[Celts]]
| Appears as an animated, man-like [[wikt:effigy|effigy]] made of plant material.
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|GreenMan}}'''
|-
| The Haunter of the Dark || [[Australia]]; [[Providence, Rhode Island]]; [[Yuggoth]]
| A bloated, batlike creature with a single, burning, three-lobed eye which appears able to kill by fear alone. This avatar is destroyed by light.
| Its most important cult is the [[Church of Starry Wisdom]], based in Providence, which can summon the avatar using the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. It is also worshipped by some modern [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]]. Its other epithets include Face Eater, Father of All Bats, Dark Wing, Sand Bat, and Fly-The-Light.
| CD, '''HD''', rpg{{Ref|HaunterofDark}}, S5
|-
| The Horned Man || [[Celt]]s
| Appears as a man with [[stag]]-like horns.
| This avatar can only be viewed while under the influence of certain [[Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants|hallucinogenic]] drugs.
| '''rpg{{Ref|HornedMan}}'''
|-
| The Howler at the Moon, Howler in the Night (?) || ?
| Appearance is the same as the God of the Bloody Tongue.
| <center>—
| '''DD'''(?)
|-
| Lord of the Desert || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| L'rog'g (also Lrogg), Bat God of L'gy'hx || The [[planet]] [[L'gy'hx]] ([[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]])
| Appears as a two-headed bat (debatable).
| Avatar worshipped by the cuboid inhabitants of L'gy'hx and by a group of renegade [[Insect from Shaggai|Shan]].
| '''IS''', rpg{{Ref|Lrogg}}
|-
| Many-legged Goat || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Masked Messenger || [[Morocco]] [[Kenya]]
| Human Female aspect with acid skin.
| Avatar worshipped by the Sisterhood of the Masked Messenger.
| '''SoK''', rpg{{Ref|MaskedMessenger}}
|-
| Master of Evil || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Messenger of the Old Ones ||<center>—
| Appears as an enormous black mass that seems to creep across the sky.
| This form is manifast only during occasions of cosmic importance, such as the awakening of [[Cthulhu]].
| rpg{{Ref|MessengerOldOnes}}, '''WA'''
|-
| Mighty Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Mr. Skin || [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]
| Indistinguishable imitation of an [[African American]] [[pimp]].
| This avatar is closely associated with certain worshippers of [[Shub-Niggurath]].
| '''MK'''
|}

===Table-c (N–W)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Narla || Worldwide
| A [[The Woman in the Red Dress (Matrix character)|Woman in the Red Dress]]-like [[virtual reality]] entity.
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Nyarlatophis, the Sorcerer || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| {{fact}}
|-
| Narlato || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Narlotep || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| N'hyarlothatep || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Night Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Old God || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Pool of Shadow || [[Druid]]s
| ?
| This avatar was worshipped for thousands of years by a small druidic cult.
| '''rpg{{Ref|PoolofShadow}}'''
|-
| Prince of Darkest Dark || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| [[Set (mythology)|Set]] || Egypt
| ?
| This avatar is worshipped by the Majestic Order of the Great Dark One, a cult which may still be active in Egypt.
| '''rpg{{Ref|Set}}'''
|-
| Shugoran || [[Malaysia]]
| Appears as a black human-like creature playing a horn.
| This form is worshipped by the [[Tcho-tcho people]]. They sometimes summon this avatar to punish offenders.
| '''MH''', rpg{{Ref|Shugoran}}
|-
| Skeletal Horror || Egypt
| Manifests as a twelve-foot-tall living skeleton with enormous claws and the head of a human [[embryo]].
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|SkeletalHorror}}'''
|-
| Skinless One, [[Xipe Totec]] || [[Middle East]]
| Appears as a skinned corpse.
| This avatar was worshipped by an abhorrent cult in [[Turkey]] and its environs. The [[Aztecs]] revered this avatar as Xipe Totec.
| '''rpg{{Ref|SkinlessOne}}'''
|-
| The Small Crawler || [[India]]
| A small human figure with four arms and three tentacles for legs.
| This avatar is described in the ''[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]'' and has a small cult in India.
| '''rpg{{Ref|SmallCrawler}}'''
|-
| Stalker Among the Stars || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| [[Tezcatlipoca]] || [[Mexico]]
| Dark-skinned man with a foot that looks like a smoking mirror.
| This avatar was a prominent deity among the Aztecs.
| '''rpg{{Ref|Tezcatlipoca}}'''
|-
| The Thing in the Yellow Mask || Dreamlands
| A creature clothed in yellow [[silk]].
| This avatar is only known to manifest in the city of [['Ygiroth]] in the Dreamlands. Some claim that it is the lone occupant of the remote, unnamed [[monastery]] on the [[Plateau of Leng]] (see [[High Priest Not to Be Described]]).
| '''CE''', FY, YG
|-
| The Tick-Tock Man || Any technologically advanced civilisation
| An advanced piece of machinery for the time period.
| This avatar is most commonly found in technologically advanced races, or at times when science begins to supersede religion. It can manifest itself from something as mundane as a complex carriage clock to an extremely advanced artificial intelligence. Sources claim it was Nyarlathotep that gave humanity the final keys to unlock the atomic age, unwittingly ushering in the time of their own destruction.
| {{fact}}
|-
| The Wailing Writher || ?
| A column of writhing black tentacles and screaming mouths.
| This avatar has no known worshippers.
| '''rpg{{Ref|WailingWrither}}'''
|-
| The White Man || [[New England]]
| Appears as a blonde man in a shiny white robe.
| <center>—
| '''NS'''
|}

==Quotations==
<blockquote>
And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"
</blockquote>

<blockquote>What his fate would be, he did not know; but he felt that he was held for the coming of that frightful soul and messenger of infinity's Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''
</blockquote>

<blockquote>There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers - the 'Black Man' of the witch cult, and the 'Nyarlathotep' of the Necronomicon.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House"
</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are references to a Haunter of the Dark awaked by gazing into the [[Shining Trapezohedron]], and insane conjectures about the black gulfs from which it was called. The being is spoken of as holding all knowledge, and demanding monstrous sacrifices.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
*Outside the Lovecraft mythos, Nyarlathotep appears in the ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series of [[PlayStation]] games as a god symbolic of the destructive potential of [[Carl Jung]]'s collective unconsciousness, humanity's collective soul. He is the ally/enemy/[[doppelganger]] (it is complicated) of the Philemon character, and appears in various forms.
*Nyarlathotep appears as "Nylonathatep, the laddering horror" in the ''[[Discworld]]'' game ''[[Discworld Noir]]''.
*[[Stephen King]]'s character [[Randall Flagg]] was also known as Nyarlathotep; Flagg used a wide variety of names.
*Magic spells in [[Conan the Barbarian]] [[comic book]]s feature [[invocation|invocations]] to "Nyarla Thotep".
*[[Brad Strickland]], a writer of children's stories, used Nyarlathotep as the primary antagonist in his book ''The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost''.
*In an issue of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], the turtles find themself in a tower which inhabits forgotten deities. They found their enemy in the deceitful [[Loki]] who, in an ensuing battle, summons Nyarlathotep, "tearer of souls, ripper of flesh"
*Appears as Nyarlathotep, N., Priest of the Ether, Chaos Made Flesh, etc. as a character in the webcomic [http://www.friendlyhostility.com Friendly Hostility] where he is a friend of several main characters and his entrance preceded (his whereabouts known) by the occurrence of strange, random, usually gruesome events.
* Appears as a God card in the trading card game [http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=ht/welcome Hecatomb] by Wizards of the Coast.

==See also==
*[[References to the Cthulhu Mythos]]

==References==
* {{cite web | title=Masks of Nyarlathotep | url=http://www.psci.net/nyarla/Masks%20of%20Nyarlathotep.htm | accessdate=January 25 | accessyear=2006 }}
*Harms, Daniel. "Nyarlathotep" in ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'' (2nd ed.), pp. 218–222. Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

===Role-playing game material===

* Aniolowski, Scott D.
** "The Sundial of Amen-Tet" in ''Lurking Fears'', Lockport, NY: Triad Entertainments, 1990.
** ''Ye Booke of Monstres'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1994. ISBN 1-568-82019-4.

* Conyers, David. ''Secrets of Kenya'', Chaosium Inc, 2006.

* Detwiller, Dennis, Adam Scott Glancy, and John Tynes. ''Delta Green: A Call of Cthulhu Sourcebook of Modern Horror and Conspiracy'', Tynes Cowan Corp, 1997. ISBN 1-887-79708-4.

* Diaper, John, ''et al''. ''The Arkham Evil'', Theatre of the Mind, 1983.

* DiTillio, Larry and Lynn Willis.
** "City beneath the Sands" in ''Terror Australis'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1987. ISBN 0-933-63540-0.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1996. ISBN 1-568-82069-0.

* Gillian, Geoff.
** "Regiment of Dread" in ''Tales of the Miskatonic Valley'', , Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1991. ISBN 0-933-63583-4.
** —''et al''. ''Horror on the Orient Express'', 1991.

* Hallet, David and L.N. Isinwyll. "Eyes for the Blind" in ''Dark Designs'', 1991.

* Hamblin, William. "Thoth's Dagger" in ''Different Worlds #27'', 1983.

* Herber, Keith.
** "Dead of Night" in ''Arkham Unveiled'', 1990.
** ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'', 1984.
** ''Return to Dunwich'', 1991.

* Johnson, Sam. ''A Resection of Time'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82095-X.

* Lyons, Doug and Isinwyll, L.N. "One in Darkness" in ''The Great Old Ones'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1989.

* Petersen, Sandy
** "The Rise of R'lyeh", 1982) in ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth''.
** —and John B. Monroe. "The Ten Commandments of Cthulhu Hunting" in ''The Cthulhu Casebook'', 1990.

* Ross, Kevin. ''Escape from Innsmouth'' (2nd ed.), Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82115-8.

* Williams, Chris and Sandy Petersen. ''The Complete Dreamlands'' (4th ed.), Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82086-0.

===Notes===


#{{Note|Harms-218}}Harms, "Nyarlathotep", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 218–9.

#{{Note|Ahtu}}Detwiller ''et al'', ''Delta Green''; Herber, "Dead of Night".

#{{Note|TheBeast}}Herber, ''The Fungi from Yuggoth''.

#{{Note|TheBlackDemon}}Lyons & Isinwyll, "One in Darkness".

#{{Note|BlackPharaoh}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''.

#{{Note|BlackWind}}Ibid.

#{{Note|BloatedWoman}}Ibid.

#{{Note|BringerofPests}}Petersen & Monroe, "The Ten Commandments of Cthulhu Hunting".

#{{Note|EffigyofHate}}Gillian, "Regiment of Dread".

#{{Note|Harms-222}}Harms, ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', "The Floating Horror", pp. 222. This name was created by Harms.

#{{Note|GodofBloody}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (first appeared in this scenario?); Johnson, ''A Resection of Time''.

#{{Note|GreenMan}}Hallet & Isinwyll, "Eyes for the Blind".

#{{Note|HaunterofDark}}DiTillio ''et al'', "City beneath the Sands"; Petersen ''et al'', ''The Complete Dreamlands''.

#{{Note|HornedMan}}Herber, ''Return to Dunwich''.

#{{Note|Lrogg}}Aniolowski, ''Ye Booke of Monstres''.

#{{Note|MessengerOldOnes}}Ibid; Petersen, "The Rise of R'lyeh".

#{{Note|PoolofShadow}}Diaper ''et al''. ''The Arkham Evil''.

#{{Note|Set}}Aniolowski, "The Sundial of Amen-Tet".

#{{Note|Shugoran}}Ross, ''Escape from Innsmouth''.

#{{Note|SkeletalHorror}}Hamblin, "Thoth's Dagger" in ''Different Worlds #27''.

#{{Note|SkinlessOne}}Gillan ''et al'', ''Horror on the Orient Express''.

#{{Note|SmallCrawler}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''.

#{{Note|Tezcatlipoca}}Johnson, ''A Resection of Time''.

#{{Note|WailingWrither}}Ross, ''Escape from Innsmouth''.

[[Category:Outer Gods]]

Mount Voormithadreth

2009-05-07T08:34:47Z

DoubleYuggoth:

Mount Voormithadreth is a mountain in [[Hyperborea]]. During the age of Hyperborea, a variety of monsters and godlike beings lived in the system of caves beneath it - including [[Atlach-Nacha]], [[Tsathoggua]], [[Outer God#Abhoth|Abhoth]], and a culture of [[serpent people]]. The outer slopes of the mountain were inhabited by voormis, furry proto-humans.

Mount Voormithadreth and its inhabitants appear in "The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith.