In the Mouth of Madness
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Great Old Ones Name Epithet(s), other name(s) Description References Ammutseba Devourer of Stars A dark, cloudy mass with tentacles which absorbs falling stars. LO, SK Aphoom-Zhah The Cold Flame, Lord of the Pole Appears much like Cthugha but grey, and cold. AF, HG, LP Arwassa The Silent Shouter on the Hill A humanoid torso with tentacles instead of limbs, and a short neck ending in a toothless, featureless mouth. AY4 Atlach-Nacha The Spider God, Spinner in Darkness A giant spider with a human-like face. PS, AT,SG Ayi'ig The Serpent Goddess, Aeg, Aega Daughter of Yig and the Outer Goddess Yidhra, appearing as a gigantic octopus-like horror with serpentine eyes and detachable tentacles which may move independently. She dwells in the cavern of a deep canyon somewhere in Texas. ME Aylith[4] The Widow in the Woods, The Many-Mother A tall, shadowy humanoid figure with yellow glowing eyes and strange protrusions like the branches of dead trees. She serves Shub-Niggurath. TT13 Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg The Bringer of Pestilence A huge, flying scorpion with an ant-like head. MT4[5] Basatan Master of the Crabs Not described, probably a humanoid crab or a gigantic crab.[6] MC B’gnu-Thun The Soul-Chilling Ice-God Appears as a cyanotic humanoid followed by an eerie blizzard. CC2, SS2 Bokrug The Great Water Lizard, The Doom of Sarnath Appears as a gigantic water lizard. DC, SC Bugg-Shash[7] The Black One, The Filler of Space, He Who Comes in the Dark Appears as a black, slimy mass covered in eyes and mouths, much like a Shoggoth. DI, EL, KB, RS Byatis The Berkeley Toad, Serpent-Bearded Byatis Appears as a gigantic, multicolored toad with one eye, a proboscis, crab-like claws, and tentacles below the mouth. BY, RC, SF Chaat The Dark Water God A formless mass of shape-shifting water. PS4, DV Chaugnar Faugn Horror from the Hills, The Feeder, Caug-Narfagn A vampiric elephant-like humanoid with a mouth on the end of its trunk. HF, HM, FO, RH Cthaeghya — (Half-)sister of Cthulhu, which spawned the Star-Spawn of Cthulhu. OO Cthugha The Living Flame, The Burning One Appears as a living conflagration. DD, EL, HC, LM Cthylla Secret Daughter of Cthulhu Appears as a huge winged octopus-like creature with six eyes. ID, TC Ctoggha The Dream-Daemon No description available. GD4 Cyäegha The Destroying Eye, The Waiting Dark Appears as a gigantic black mass of tentacles with a single green eye at the centre. DM Cynothoglys The Mortician God, She Whose Hand Embalms Appears as a formless mound with one arm-like appendage. PR The Dweller in the Gulf Eidolon of the Blind Appears as a huge, eyeless, black, soft-shelled tortoise with a triangular head and two whip-like tails, and suckers on the end of each tail. WL Dygra The Stone-Thing A jewel-facetted, semi-crystalline entity, with geodic tentacles. CC2, SS2 Dythalla Lord of Lizards A gigantic saurian creature similar to Bokrug but with a mane of tentacles.[8] LD5, BB3, SS2, TH4 Eihort The Pale Beast, God of the Labyrinth Appears as a huge, pallid, gelatinous oval with a myriad legs and multiple eyes. BS, FP Ei'lor The Star-Seed A plant-like, parasitic horror dwelling on a jungle planet revolving around the green star Yifne and the dead star known as Baalblo (perhaps a white dwarf, a neutron star or another kind of stellar remnant). CC2, EO, SS4, SS8 Etepsed Egnis[9] — A formless monstrosity with a huge, arm-like appendage. EE, GS2 Ghadamon A Seed of Azathoth A bluish-brown, slimy monstrosity riddled with holes, and an occasional malformed head. CD2 Ghisguth The Sound of the Deep Waters A titanic mass of jelly material. PN, OO Glaaki The Inhabitant of the Lake, Lord of Dead Dreams Appears as a giant three-eyed slug with metallic spines, and tiny, pyramid-like feet underneath. GL, IB, IL Gloon[10] The Corrupter of Flesh, Master of the Temple, Glhuun Usually manifests through a Dionysian sculpture, but its true form is that of a gigantic wattled slug-thing. TE, MM, II God of the Red Flux — A vaporous red entity haunting the rainforest of Central Africa. It has the power to turn humans in zombie-like servants, the Tree-Men of M'bwa. MW Gog-Hoor Eater on the Insane A giant entity dwelling in some reverse dimension, resembling a huge bullet with a long proboscis. SC6 Gol-goroth Golgoroth, Gol-Goroth, The Forgotten Old One, God of the Black Stone, Golgoroð Appears as a gigantic, black, toad-like creature with an impossibly malevolent glare, or a tentacled, scaled, bat-winged entity. BP, FO, FR, GB Golothess — An entity cut in ten pieces by Yig during a time of great battle (one of these pieces is an alabaster dish found in Egypt, dated back 1,300 BC). It resembles and has a similar domain as Greek god Bacchus. YV The Green God The Horror Under Warrendown A sentient plant-entity dwelling in subterranean caverns where it is always served by mutant rabbit-like worshipers. HW2 Groth-Golka The Demon Bird-God, The Bird-God of Balsagoð A monstrous bird-like fiend with sharp teeth, dwelling beneath Antarctica, vaguely resembling an extinct Pterosaur. FO, BP Gtuhanai The Destroyer God of the Aartna A destructive entity manifesting as a ravenous metallic vortex. He seems to be another half-brother of Cthulhu like Hastur and related to the slug-like Glaaki too. He dwells somewhere in the Pleiades stellar region and when summoned he brings devastation. FN Gurathnaka Eater of Dreams, Shadow of Night A shadowy incorporeal entity dwelling in Dreamlands. PV Gzxtyos — The consort of Othuyeg, very similar to her bridegroom. SD14, GS2 Han The Dark One A being made of cold, howling mist, bound to Yig's worship SF Hastalÿk The Contagion A microbial entity, responsible for plagues. rpg Hastur The Unspeakable, He Who is Not to be Named, Lord of Interstellar Spaces, The King in Yellow Its true form is unknown, but usually manifests either as a polypous, ravenous floating mass endowed with tentacles, drills and suckers or, more frequently, as the King in Yellow, a humanoid being wearing tattered, yellow clothes and a mask hiding the face. It is said to be Cthulhu's (half-)brother. FA, HS, LT, RH, SS, WD, YS H’chtelegoth The Great Tentacled God A towering greenish trunk with a crown of tentacles, a row of multiple eyes and a couple of additional, lateral grasping appendages. HL Hziulquoigmnzhah The God of Cykranosh, Ziulquag-Manzah Has spheroid body, elongated arms, short legs, and a pendulum-like head dangling underneath. It is the brother of Ghisguth, and uncle of Tsathoggua. DS, PN, TA, DR14 Idh-yaa Cthulhu's Mate, Xothic Matriarch A gigantic, pale, worm-like horror dwelling beneath the crust of star Xoth. She has been Cthulhu's first bride, which spawned the three main sons Ghatanotoa, Ythogtha and Zoth Ommog. O
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