Servitor of Outer Gods

Servitors of the Outer Gods (AKA "Demon Flautists and Drummers", "Amorphous Idiot Flute-Players") originate in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)" (1924).

Description

...Those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players....
— H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)"

Toad-like creatures which seemed constantly to be changing shape and appearance, and from whom emanated, by some means I could not distinguish, a ghastly ululation, a piping.
— August Derleth's "Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)"

Amorphous idiot, frog-octopus creatures which attend the Outer Gods at the court of Azathoth in the center of creation, playing hellish, daemoniac music on flutes, gongs, and drums.

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Outer Gods

References

• fiction: H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)"
• fiction: August Derleth's "Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)"
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum