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| − | + | The '''Miri Nigri''' are from [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s "[[The Horror from the Hills]]". | |
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| + | [Chaugnar Faugn] made from the flesh of toads a race of small dark shapes to serve it. In bodily contour these shapes resembled men, but they were incapable of speech and their thoughts were the thoughts of Chaugnar. | ||
| + | <br>— [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s "[[The Horror from the Hills]]" | ||
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| + | Cruel, dark, mute, toad-like, amphibious dwarven creatures created to serve [[Chaugnar Faugn]], sent down in small mobs from their Pyrenees mountain-temples twice a year to kidnap young men and maids to feed to their vampiric god on the days when it awakens from its inert, stone-like slumber. | ||
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| + | The Tcho-Tchos are said to have been fashioned or evolved from the Miri Nigri, and the two races are allied and often accompany each other. | ||
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| + | ==Heresies and Controversies== | ||
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| + | ==Keeper Notes== | ||
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| + | ==Associated Mythos Elements== | ||
| + | * location: Pyrenees mountain range (in western Europe on the border of Spain and France) | ||
| + | * deity: [[Chaugnar Faugn]] | ||
| + | * race: [[Tcho-Tcho]]s | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | * fiction: [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s "[[The Horror from the Hills]]" | ||
| + | * sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:32, 4 July 2022
The Miri Nigri are from Frank Belknap Long's "The Horror from the Hills".
Description
[Chaugnar Faugn] made from the flesh of toads a race of small dark shapes to serve it. In bodily contour these shapes resembled men, but they were incapable of speech and their thoughts were the thoughts of Chaugnar.
— Frank Belknap Long's "The Horror from the Hills"
Cruel, dark, mute, toad-like, amphibious dwarven creatures created to serve Chaugnar Faugn, sent down in small mobs from their Pyrenees mountain-temples twice a year to kidnap young men and maids to feed to their vampiric god on the days when it awakens from its inert, stone-like slumber.
The Tcho-Tchos are said to have been fashioned or evolved from the Miri Nigri, and the two races are allied and often accompany each other.
Heresies and Controversies
Keeper Notes
Associated Mythos Elements
- location: Pyrenees mountain range (in western Europe on the border of Spain and France)
- deity: Chaugnar Faugn
- race: Tcho-Tchos
References
- fiction: Frank Belknap Long's "The Horror from the Hills"
- sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum
