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| − | Optional. This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos. Suggested Alternative Theories include: Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. | + | Optional. This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos. Suggested Alternative Theories include: Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. |
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==Keeper Notes== | ==Keeper Notes== | ||
Revision as of 02:57, 10 August 2022
Urhags are a Dreamlands monster from H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction), adapted to the Call of Cthulhu RPG from a description provided from August Derleth's The Lurker at the Threshold (fiction).
Lovecraft's Description
High over Mount Ngranek's jagged rim huge ravens flapped and croaked, and vague whirrings in the unseen depths told of bats or urhags or less mentionable presences haunting the endless blackness.
— H.P. Lovecraft, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)
Lovecraft didn't provide much of a description of an urhag, except that these creatures produce a vague whirring sound that might be mistaken for bats, and the implication that it's an unpleasant creature that lives in dark crevasses.
Derleth's Description
A being with wings of dark substance and likewise as it were serpents running forth from Its body but attached to it... from such as it did gibber, it came from Kadath in thee Cold Waste, which is nigh unto that Plateau of Leng.
—August Derleth, The Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)
Chaosium's description of and Urhag is derived from August Derleth, making Urhags vaguely humanoid bat-winged creatures with numerous long tentacles where the legs should be.
Associated Mythos Elements
- setting: Dreamlands
References
- fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)
- fiction: August Derleth, The Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)
- sourcebook: H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands
