Y'golonac

Y'Golonac (AKA: The Defiler)

Origin: "Cold Print (fiction)" (1987), by Ramsey Campbell

In the Mythos

Beyond a deep underground night
A passageway leads to a solid brick wall
And beyond that wall stands Y'golonac
Served by blind creatures of darkness
His tearing morbid perversity
higher than Nyarlathotep

— Putryphemus, "Y'Golonac"

Description:

Y'golonac is a Great Old One and the god of perversion and depravity – not just "average" human perversions or depravities, but any that can be conceived of by a sapient being (sane or otherwise). His demeanor is much like that of Nyarlathotep, but he is much more perverse and sadistic. Y'golonac can sometimes be summoned merely by reading his name in the Revelations of Glaaki.

Y'golonac is imprisoned behind a wall of bricks in unknown ruins. His true form is uncertain, but when he possesses a human host to manifest, he appears as a grotesquely obese man, lacking a head or neck, with a mouth in the palm of each hand.

Unlike most of Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, Y'golonac is clearly capable of understanding humans, to the point of being able to conduct a conversation in English through his human host. Y'golonac seeks humans who read perverse and forbidden literature to become his servants. When Y'golonac is summoned, he offers to grant the summoner the dubious honor of becoming his priest, or simply kills him for food.

Cult

Y'golonac seeks humans who read perverse and forbidden literature to become his servants. When Y'golonac is summoned, he offers to grant the summoner the dubious honor of becoming his priest, or simply kills him for food.

Associated Mythos Elements

Other:

• tome: Revelations of Glaaki
• tome: Liber Tenebrea
• deity: Gla'aki
• race: Servants/Children of Y'Golonac
• race: Servant of Glaaki
• cult: Cenobites
• cult: Cult of Y'Golonac

References

See:

• Discussion:
  • YSDC Discussion: "ygolonac"
• Fiction:
  • "Cold Print (fiction)" (1987), by Ramsey Campbell.
  • "Y'golonac" (1998), by Daniel Harms.
  • "Love's Lonely Children" (2004), by Richard Watts.
• film and popular music:
  • Hellraiser_(1987_franchise) (a similar treatment of the transgressive theme)
  • song/video "Y'Golonac" (2016) by the Bolivian death metal band Putryphemus (lyrics)
  • a cameo reference in the avant-garde filk-rock jam "Cthulhu Dreams" by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets ("...and the other Great Old ones shall stir: Tsathoggua, Y'Golonac, Yig, Glaaki... all will arise!")
• Scenarios:
  • Eternal Lies campaign
  • "The Special Menu" (Fear's Sharp Little Needles)
  • "Loves Lonely Children" (The Stars are Right) (My personal favorite and its been mentioned in this thread before. This one is riff with the sleaze that Ygo deserves and gets the closest to the original Cold Print. - daemonprinceofchaos)
  • "Song and Dance" (Tales of the Crescent City) (Y'go at Mardi Gra whats not to like? Well the scenario is really more focused on two "Muses" who are possessing some girls and which Ygo is trying to take control of. I think if you're daring you could dial up the creep factor of two girls going to a party and being stalked by a fat perverted monster. - daemonprinceofchaos)
  • "Silent Scream" (Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places) (A decidedly mediocre story. The premise is the same as Halloween 4 I think with a bunch of celebrities filling in a haunted house - the Halloween where bustaryhymes tries to use karate on Michael Meyers. The biggest problem is that all the celebrity references are way out of date. Swap out the Eminem parody for someone more relevant. - daemonprinceofchaos) (Y'go haunts a "cursed" film; what happens when they do a remake in the original filming location?)
  • "Two Minute High" (Unspeakable Oath #11) (My least favorite of these. Its really a fight between a Yithian and Ygo cult and that many monsters generally rubs me the wrong way. The scenario didn't leave a lasting impression. It might be useful for ideas but not a whole scenario. - daemonprinceofchaos)
  • "The Auction" (The Asylum and Other Tales, The Cthulhu Casebook) (the tome Liber Tenebrea apparently includes a "Contact Y'Golonac" spell)
  • "Malice Everlasting" (New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley) (a cultist of Y'Golonac summons a Servant of Y'Golonac)
  • "Super 8" (Worlds of Cthulhu) (the scenario references a snuff video that includes Children of Y'Golonac)
  • "The Lock-In" (Dead_Leaves_Fall_(Monograph)) (A group of fat kids are locked into the library during Halloween, where they are menaced by Y'Golonac.)
  • "Halloween Candy" (Halloween Horrors #2) (a cultist possessed by Y'Golonac is among the monsters the investigators might encounter)
  • "Holy War" (Delta Green Eyes Only) (apparently? This scenario has no description in the wiki, and I can't find a review or anything else describing it anywhere else either, but it is marked as a Servant of Y'Golonac scenario.) (two powerful sorcerers - one possessed by Y'golonac, the other a priest of Glaaki - vie for a copy of Volume 12 of the Revelations of Glaaki, with the player characters caught in the middle)
  • "Madness of the Black Opal" (Strange Tales of Dread & Wonder 2) (apparently among the content or spells referenced in a copy of Revelations of Glaaki)
  • "The Warren (Scenario)" (Shadows of Yog Sothoth Bonus Scenario #2) (Y'go is the main baddie, in a scenario derivative of Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear (fiction)")
  • "The Surrey Enigma" (White Dwarf #69) (Investigating strangers leads to a buried Y'go temple complex)
  • "Eat, Pray, Love" (Involves Y'go and ghouls)
• Resources
  • "Paramour of Y’golonac" (The Unspeakable Oath #19) (a new monster)
  • "Unlabeled VHS Cassette" (story seed/random Cthulhoid item)
  • "Y.GOLO.NET" (story seed/microfiction)