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| − | + | The '''Lords of Tindalos''' are from [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s "[[Gateway to Forever (fiction)]]". | |
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| + | ...Monstrous shapes were now moving, with a rapidity that seemed in some quite terrible way unnatural. In aspect they were vaguely wolflike, with blazing eyes and clashing jaws. But their contours kept shifting as they advanced, as if all the evil in the universe were reshaping them, from instant to instant, to make them increasingly more frightful in their destructiveness. | ||
| + | <br>— [[Frank Belknap Long]], "[[Gateway to Forever (fiction)]]" | ||
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| + | Strange, extradimensional beings that are perceived as a conglomeration of jagged, angular, ever-shifting distortions of space-time, somehow "wolfish" to humans in that a predatory nature is instinctively recognized in their alien forms, made up not of matter as we understand it, but instead are otherworldly presences akin to spirit. | ||
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| + | ==Heresies and Controversies== | ||
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| + | ==Keeper Notes== | ||
| + | Optional. Suggestions for using these creatures in the CoC RPG, and in fan-fiction. | ||
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| + | ==Associated Mythos Elements== | ||
| + | * race: [[Hound of Tindalos]] | ||
| + | * race: [[Tindalosian Hybrid]] | ||
| + | * location: [[Tindalos]], a bizarre, alien city, of twisting, spiraling angles built on the edge of an alien world on the brink of a gigantic wound in space-time | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | * fiction: [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s "[[Gateway to Forever (fiction)]]" | ||
| + | * fiction: [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s "[[The Hounds of Tindalos]]" | ||
| + | * sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:27, 7 July 2022
The Lords of Tindalos are from Frank Belknap Long's "Gateway to Forever (fiction)".
Description
...Monstrous shapes were now moving, with a rapidity that seemed in some quite terrible way unnatural. In aspect they were vaguely wolflike, with blazing eyes and clashing jaws. But their contours kept shifting as they advanced, as if all the evil in the universe were reshaping them, from instant to instant, to make them increasingly more frightful in their destructiveness.
— Frank Belknap Long, "Gateway to Forever (fiction)"
Strange, extradimensional beings that are perceived as a conglomeration of jagged, angular, ever-shifting distortions of space-time, somehow "wolfish" to humans in that a predatory nature is instinctively recognized in their alien forms, made up not of matter as we understand it, but instead are otherworldly presences akin to spirit.
Associated Mythos Elements
- race: Hound of Tindalos
- race: Tindalosian Hybrid
- location: Tindalos, a bizarre, alien city, of twisting, spiraling angles built on the edge of an alien world on the brink of a gigantic wound in space-time
References
- fiction: Frank Belknap Long's "Gateway to Forever (fiction)"
- fiction: Frank Belknap Long's "The Hounds of Tindalos"
- sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum
