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They were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland, for they were larger than elephants and had heads like a horse's. Carter knew that they must be the shantak-birds of ill rumour, and wondered no more what evil guardians and nameless sentinels made men avoid the boreal rock desert. | They were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland, for they were larger than elephants and had heads like a horse's. Carter knew that they must be the shantak-birds of ill rumour, and wondered no more what evil guardians and nameless sentinels made men avoid the boreal rock desert. | ||
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Revision as of 22:38, 26 September 2018
Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction) (1926).
Description
They were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland, for they were larger than elephants and had heads like a horse's. Carter knew that they must be the shantak-birds of ill rumour, and wondered no more what evil guardians and nameless sentinels made men avoid the boreal rock desert.
- —H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)
A shantak is a huge, scaly, birdlike creature with a horselike head, batlike wings, slimy skin, and two strong talons. Shantaks lives in the Cold Waste of Earth's Dreamlands, serving Nyarlathotep. Shantaks are sometimes summoned to serve as steeds. They are hunted by the Elder God Nodens and greatly fear Nightgaunts.
Associated Mythos Elements
- deity: Nyarlathotep
- race: Men of Leng
- location: Leng, Plateau of
References
- fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- scenarios: The Curse of Chaugnar Faugn, Shadows Over Hollywood (Rulebook Scenario).
