Green God

The Green God (AKA "The Horror", "The Warrendown Horror", or "The Horror Under Warrendown") is from Ramsey Campbell's "The Horror Under Warrendown (fiction)".

In the Mythos

[It] towered from the moist earth, an idol not unlike a greenish Easter Island statue overgrown almost to featurelessness, its apex lost in the darkness overhead.... It unfurled part of itself towards me, a glimmering green appendage which might have been a gigantic wing emerging from a cocoon, and as it reached for me it whispered seductively with no mouth.
— Ramsey Campbell, "The Horror Under Warrendown"

The Horror, which lives under Ramsey Campbell's fictional village of Warrendown in the Severn Valley setting, resembles one of the giant, cephalic statues of Easter Island, though actually a subterranean vegetable completely covered with vines which are actually part of the Horror itself, which can be extended like tentacles to capture victims, or to give a communion offering to The Green God's worshipers.

The Horror possesses a strange mutagenic ability: Anyone who partakes of its flesh (i.e., the vegetables that grow from its plant-like overgrowth) will eventually transform into a grotesque, rabbit-like mutant. These mutants worship and serve the Horror, and are dedicated to tricking others into joining their cult by offering them fresh vegetables harvested from it. (Campbell, The Horror Under Warrendown, Made in Goatswood, pp. 253–68).

While the Horror is unnamed in Campbell's story, it was given the name "The Green God" in the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

Cult

The Green God has no organized cult outside of Warrendown; the Warrendown cult acquires new followers by feeding bits of the Green God to victims, either willing or unsuspecting, who then become rabbit-like Children of the Green God.

Heresies and Controversies

• A similar plant-like deity named E'ilor is mentioned in the short story "Correlated Contents" by James Ambuehl. Like the Green God, E'ilor dwells in a large cavern deep beneath a small farming village in the Severn Valley, and possesses vine-like tentacles which can be used for capturing prey or offering communal sacrifices.

Children of the Green God

The Horror possesses a strange mutagenic ability: Anyone who partakes of its flesh (i.e., the vegetables that grow from its plant-like overgrowth) will eventually transform into a grotesque, rabbit-like "Children of the Green God", who worship and serve the Horror, and are dedicated to tricking others into joining their cult by offering them fresh vegetables harvested from it.

Associated Mythos Elements

• tome: Revelations of Glaaki
• race: Children of the Green God
• location: Severn Valley, Warrendown

References

• fiction: Ramsey Campbell's "The Horror Under Warrendown (fiction)"