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
...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)"
[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes....
— H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (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: H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)
- fiction: August Derleth's "Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)"
- sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum
