Tindalosian Hybrid

Tindalosian Hybrids are from Roger Zelazny's "The Changing Land"

Description

The figure that appeared was sharp and angular and unrecallable as a burst of static electricity. It was dark and it stood upright, and there was a vaguely lupine air about it as it sprang forward... also something cold and partaking of primal hunger which nothing in the new universe might fully satisfy.
— Roger Zelazny, "The Changing Land"

Tindalosian Hybrids are extra-dimensional creatures, typically assuming on earth a roughly humanoid form as a disguise or form that is possibly meant to make it easier to walk among normal humans, though the hyperdimensional nature of these entities means that even their humanoid forms are unsettling to look at, formed from strange angles, shapes, and planes of living matter, constantly shifting and distorting along strange, angular lines. The hybrids will generally try to conceal their dimensional abnormalities behind cloaks, hoods, coats, wide-brimmed hats, veils and billowy dresses, flowing robes, and other costumes that cover as much of their bodies as possible, but when they drop their disguise to pursue their quarry, the pretense of humanity vanishes, revealing lean, rapidly-shifting, wolfish lines and long, jagged claws.

Heresies and Controversies

• Tindalosian Hybrids are one of many Mythos creatures that might be described by witnesses as a "Werewolf".

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Hounds of Tindalos
• race: Lord of Tindalos
• 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: Roger Zelazny's "The Changing Land"
• race: Werewolf, Hellhound - some ways that witnesses might describe encounters with a Tindalosian Hybrid
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum