Urhag
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.
- Alternative_theory. (source)
Keeper Notes
Optional. Suggestions for using these creatures in the CoC RPG, and in fan-fiction. -->
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
