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| − | + | The '''Spawn of [[Nyogtha]]''' are from [[Kurt Miller]]'s "[[The Lurker in the Crypt (fiction)]]". | |
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| + | They are the offspring of blasphemous unions between humans, ghouls, and Nyogtha. The children [produced by these matings] swiftly degenerate into shapeless abominations after about three decades. | ||
| + | <br>— [[Kurt Miller]], "[[The Lurker in the Crypt (fiction)]]" | ||
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| + | The Spawn of Nyogtha are the monstrous results of interbreeding between humans, [[Ghoul]]s, and the Great Old One, [[Nyogtha]]. The Spawn spend their childhood looking reasonably human, though photosensitive, pale, sickly, and given to morbid preoccupations. As they grow older, their Ghoulish ancestry becomes more dominant, and the children begin more and more to resemble their Ghoul parent, and the Spawn is tormented by fantastic and horrific dreams of darkly-robed cultists instructing the youth in the worship of the [[Great Old Ones]] psychically from within the [[Hollow Earth]]. Within a decade or so of puberty, however, the curse of Nyogtha takes over, and the child becomes a grotesque, bloated, black parody of even the Ghouls: their blood becomes a slimy black ichor, their bones become flexible and malleable, their bodies become twisted and bloated, their faces and hands skeletal, their skin blackened and oozing with dark slime. By the time this change begins in early adulthood, the Spawn is typically insane, a full-fledged devotee of the cult of [[Nyogtha]], [[Cthulhu]], and [[Tsathoggua]]. | ||
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| + | ==Heresies and Controversies== | ||
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| + | ==Keeper Notes== | ||
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| + | ==Associated Mythos Elements== | ||
| + | * deity: [[Nyogtha]], [[Cthulhu]], and [[Tsathoggua]] | ||
| + | * cult: [[Cult of Cthulhu]], [[Rakes|Cult of the Rakes]] | ||
| + | * race: [[Ghoul]]s, [[Human Cultist]]s | ||
| + | * location: [[Hollow Earth]] | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | * fiction: [[Kurt Miller]]'s "[[The Lurker in the Crypt (fiction)]]" | ||
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Revision as of 13:12, 3 July 2022
The Spawn of Nyogtha are from Kurt Miller's "The Lurker in the Crypt (fiction)".
Description
They are the offspring of blasphemous unions between humans, ghouls, and Nyogtha. The children [produced by these matings] swiftly degenerate into shapeless abominations after about three decades.
— Kurt Miller, "The Lurker in the Crypt (fiction)"
The Spawn of Nyogtha are the monstrous results of interbreeding between humans, Ghouls, and the Great Old One, Nyogtha. The Spawn spend their childhood looking reasonably human, though photosensitive, pale, sickly, and given to morbid preoccupations. As they grow older, their Ghoulish ancestry becomes more dominant, and the children begin more and more to resemble their Ghoul parent, and the Spawn is tormented by fantastic and horrific dreams of darkly-robed cultists instructing the youth in the worship of the Great Old Ones psychically from within the Hollow Earth. Within a decade or so of puberty, however, the curse of Nyogtha takes over, and the child becomes a grotesque, bloated, black parody of even the Ghouls: their blood becomes a slimy black ichor, their bones become flexible and malleable, their bodies become twisted and bloated, their faces and hands skeletal, their skin blackened and oozing with dark slime. By the time this change begins in early adulthood, the Spawn is typically insane, a full-fledged devotee of the cult of Nyogtha, Cthulhu, and Tsathoggua.
Heresies and Controversies
Keeper Notes
Associated Mythos Elements
- deity: Nyogtha, Cthulhu, and Tsathoggua
- cult: Cult of Cthulhu, Cult of the Rakes
- race: Ghouls, Human Cultists
- location: Hollow Earth
References
- fiction: Kurt Miller's "The Lurker in the Crypt (fiction)"
