Yidhra
Yidhra (The Dream Witch) usually appears as a youthful, attractive, earthly female, though her shape may vary.
Yidhra has been on Earth since the first microorganisms appeared and is immortal. To survive in a changing environment, she gained the ability to take on the characteristics of any creature that she devoured. Over time, Yidhra split herself into different aspects, though each part shares her consciousness.
Yidhra is served by devoted cults found in such widely separated places as Burma, Chad, Laos, Sumer, New Mexico, and Texas. Members of Yidhra's cult can gain immortality by merging with her, though they become somewhat like Yidhra as a consequence. Those who serve her are also promised plentiful harvests and healthy livestock. She usually conceals her true form behind a powerful illusion, appearing as a comely young woman; only favored members of her cult can see her as she actually is.
One of her avatars is Madam Yi, appearing as a human female dressed in beautiful white and black robes which constantly billow on some unseen wind, on which she may hover or fly. Her beautiful face is like the painted face of a porcelain doll and her bloodred lips and closed almond-shaped black eyes are forever frozen on a smooth and bone-white face. Long black hair is braided into a single ponytail. The avatar’s hands both end in very long, razor-like black fingernails.
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WY, rpg
Yomagn'tho
Yomagn’tho (The Feaster from the Stars, That Which Relentlessly Waits Outside) is a malevolent being who wishes nothing more than the destruction of mankind for unknown reasons. It waits in its home dimension of Pherkard until it is summoned to Earth. When first summoned, Yomagn’tho appears as a small ball of fire that quickly expands to a large circle of fire with three flaming inner petals.
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FS, SN6
Elder Gods
In post-Lovecraft stories, the Elder Gods oppose the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones. Some consider them to be non-Lovecraftian because they employ a good versus evil dichotomy which some see as contrary to the cosmic indifference of Lovecraft's fiction[citation needed]. Derleth attempted to retroactively group the benevolent deity Nodens in this category (who acts as deus ex machina for the protagonists in both The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and "The Strange High House in the Mist").
As for Great Old Ones, Joseph S. Pulver mentions in his Nightmare Disciples (2006) a series of original Elder Gods, though lacking of any description about their true form. The stories introduces entities as Adaedu, Alithlai-Tyy, Dveahtehs, Eyroix, Ovytonv, Urthuvn, Xislanyx and Xuthyos-Sihb’Bz'. Others have a cult title as Othkkartho (Sire of the Four Titans of Balance and Order), which is said to be Nodens's son, and Zehirete, who is The Pure and Holy Womb of Light. Sk’tai and Eppirfon are brothers and the former (female) has been Cthulhu's second bride who bore him a son, T'ith, now dead.
Another Elder God with no description is Walter C. De Bill jr.'s Paighon, an extra-galactic entity which now dwells in Earth's core, said to be inimical of the Outer God Ngyr-Korath and its servitor 'Ymnar.
List
Bast
Bast (Goddess of Cats or Pasht) appears as a female human with a cat's head.
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BR, MA, SU
Drazet
Drazet[37] (The Unformed) is known only to those with access to the secrets found in the Ta’ge Fragments. It is said to be responsible for the legendary city upon which the fragments were first inscribed. Its servants are purportedly symbiotic creatures and more than likely the creatures that come down to bond with mortals in the Rite of Sacred Union.
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PV
Kthanid
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HP
See Brian Lumley deities.
Myrovh
Myrovh is inferred to be the great manipulator, pitting pawns against each other so that they will grow and change through conflict. Stories say that it maintains a Darwinistic view of life, believing that only the strong should survive, and that it takes a personal hand in those species to which it administers. Furthermore, they say that Myrovh is in some way linked with Yog-Sothoth.
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PV
Orryx
Orryx[38] (The Bright Flame) manifests as a giant pillars of blinding white and purple flames. Although its expression is bright and blinding, no one feels its heat. No one can look at Orryx more than a few seconds since the first assault, the eyes of anyone who looks sore and watery.
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LS, CC13
Oztalun
Oztalun (Golden and Shimmering One) is an Elder God introduced by James Ambuehl. It is symbolized by a seven-pointed star symbol, which is its own Seal.
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AH, BB3, SS4,
Nodens
Nodens (Lord of the Great Abyss) appears as a human male riding a huge seashell pulled by legendary beasts. In CthulhuTech supplement Nodens is said to be the avatar of the Forgotten One Savty'ya.
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DQ, GM, HW , NE, PN2, HH, PV
Shavalyoth
Shavalyoth (Shadowy and Shapeless One) is an Elder God introduced by James Ambuehl, supposed to be dark and formless.
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AH, BB3
Ulthar
Ulthar (or Uldar) is a deity sent to Earth to hold vigil over the Great Old Ones.
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GC, SX
Vorvadoss
Vorvadoss* (The Flaming One, Lord of the Universal Spaces, The Troubler of the Sands, Who Waiteth in the Outer Dark) appears as a cloaked, hooded being, enveloped in green flames, with fiery eyes. It is son of Nodens and the Great Old One Lythalia and has a twin brother, Yaggdytha.
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EA, IN, AE, WH
Yad-Thaddag
See Brian Lumley deities.
Yaggdytha
Yaggdytha (The Incandescent One) is an Elder God introduced by James Ambuehl, manifesting as a great amorphous, incandescent ball of cyan living energy, spread itself into a web of giant talons of light. It is twin brother of Vorvadoss.
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SS4, AH, BB3
Great Ones
The Great Ones are the "weak gods of earth" that reign in the Dreamlands. They are protected by Nyarlathotep.
Great Ones Name Description References
Hagarg Ryonis,
The Lier-in-Wait Usually appears as a huge, reptilian monster. DL, WH
Karakal An elf-like humanoid. DL, WH
Lobon Appears as ivy-crowned youth bearing a spear. DC, DL, WH
Nath-Horthath Chief god of Celephaïs. CE, DL, DQ, KA
Oukranos River god DQ
Tamash Appears as a short, silver-skinned, ebon-haired, and bearded man. DC, DL, MG, WH
Zo-Kalar God of birth and death. DC, WH
See also
Cthulhu Mythos
Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture
References
^ Bloch, "Heritage of Horror", p. 8.
^ Price, "H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos", Crypt of Cthulhu #35, p. 5.
^ Harms, "A Brief History of the Cthulhu Mythos", p. viii.
^ This entity is introduced as a Great Old One in Call of Cthulhu roleplay game scenario "Twilight Memories" (2005), by Clint Krause.
^ Scott D. Aniolowski, "Mysterious Manuscripts" in The Unspeakable Oath #3, John Tynes (ed.), Seattle, WA: Pagan Publishing, August 1991. Periodical (role-playing game material). Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg first appeared in this gaming supplement.
^ It does not appear in Chaosium's Malleus Monstrorum
^ When Brian Lumley read David Sutton's short story "Demoniacal", he wrote a sequel entitled "The Kiss of Bugg-Shash". Lumley expanded Sutton's tale and gave his unnamed entity its name—Bugg-Shash—which effectively tied Sutton's creation to the mythos. (Price, "Introduction", The New Lovecraft Circle, pp. xx–xxi). The name "Bugg-Shash", however, appeared earlier in Lumley's short story "Rising with Surtsey" (Harms, "Bugg-Shash", Encyclopedia Cthulhiana, p. 41).
^ As in James Ambuehl's short poem "Dythalla", featured in Etchings & Odysseys, issue #7 (October 1985). Available online at
http://www.oocities.org/area51/rampart/4059/jamb03.html ^ He is first mentioned in Dawid Lewis' short novel "Etepsed Egnis" and cited again in Cthulhu Cultus #11, in the novel A Core Unto Itself.
^ This entity is introduced in the role-play game Call of Cthulhu. The name is fictional, H.P. Lovecraft has not described it in the original story "The Temple".
^ Kag'Naru of the Air and Rh'Thulla of the Wind are mentioned in the comic book Challengers of the Unknown #83 (which also added "the Eternal" to M'Nagalah's name).
^ M'Nagalah first appeared in the comic book Swamp Thing #8 (1974) in a story by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson (Harms, "M'nagalah", Encyclopedia Cthulhiana, p. 196). The being has since shown up in stories in Challengers of the Unknown, The Trenchcoat Brigade, and The All-New Atom. His siblings, Rh’Thulla of the Wind and Kag’Naru of the Air, debuted in Challengers of the Unknown #83 (which also added "the Eternal" to M'Nagalah's name).
^ Mormo is informally introduced in H.P. Lovecraft's "Horror at Red Hook". Kenneth Hite's "Trail of Cthulhu" RPG material lists her as a Great Old One and relates her to the Moon-beasts.
^ This Great Old One has been created for Call of Cthulhu French role-play game website Tentacles.net. URL at
http://www.tentacules.net/toc/toc/tocyclo_fiche.php?type=crea&id=402 ^ This entity has been mentioned in R.H. Barlow and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Hoard of Wizard-Beast" (1933).
^ Carter, "Shaggai", The Book of Eibon, p. 206.
^ Carter, "Shaggai", The Book of Eibon, 207.
^ Harms, "Pharol", p. 238, The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana. Daniel Harms believes that Pharol was invented by C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner's wife, since the being appears in many of her stories.
^ It is mentioned in Eldritch Tales issue #7, in Crispin Burnham's Temple of the Demon.
^ Kag'Naru of the Air and Rh'Thulla of the Wind are mentioned in the comic book Challengers of the Unknown #83 (which also added "the Eternal" to M'Nagalah's name).
^ "Selected Letters vol. 4", 633rd letter, April 2th, 1933
^ This entity is introduced as a Great Old One in Call of Cthulhu roleplay game scenario "Once Men" (2008), by Michael Labossiere.
^ This entity is introduced as a Great Old One in Call of Cthulhu roleplay game scenario "Cthulhu Britannica: Avalon - The County of Somerset" (2010), by Paul Wade-Williams.
^ This entity is part of Call of Cthulhu RPG French edition.
^ This entity is introduced in German Pegasus Press roleplay game magazine Cthulhu. Berlin. Im Herzen der großen Stadt. Rollenspiel in der Welt des H. P. Lovecraft, in Jan Christoph Steines' scenario "Jahrhundertsommer" (i.e. "The Millennium Summer").
^ This entity features in Gareth Hanrahan Warpcon XII Call of Cthulhu supplement "Verboten: Operation Faust"
^ Pulver, "Nightmare's Disciple"
^ Harms. The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana, "Azathoth", pp. 16; "Nyarlathotep", pp. 218; "Shub-Niggurath", pp. 275; "Tulzscha", pp. 304; Yog-Sothoth, p. 346.
^ This entity is introduced in "Eyes Between the Worlds", roleplay game scenario featuring in Kevin T. McKinnon and Dylan K. Sharpe's Call of Cthulhu RPG monograph "Tales of Dread and Wonder #1"
^ This entity is a creation of TOC website (
http://www.tentacules.net) and officially employed in Call of Cthulhu RPG supplement "Cthulhu Rising"
^ This entity is part of Call of Cthulhu RPG French edition.
^ Translated from French Le Interieur, referring to her location in the depths of Earth's mantle
^ This entity is part of Call of Cthulhu RPG French edition.
^ This entity is introduced in "Full de Drames", a French "Call of Cthulhu"-type role-play game scenario available at
http://www.tentacules.net/toc/toc_/scen/full_de.pdf.zip ^ This entity is introduced in "Le Regard Dans L’Abime", a French "Call of Cthulhu"-type role-play game scenario available at
http://www.tentacules.net/toc/toc_/scen/cb_leregard.pdf.zip ^ See James Ambuehl & E.P. Berglund's "Whiteout" (2006).
^ This entity is treated in CthulhuTech RPG supplement as one of the "Forgotten One" along with Myrovh, entities likely coinciding with the Elder Gods
^ This entity has been introduced without name in August Derleth's "The Lair of the Star-Spawn" (1932). The name Orryx is given in Call of Cthulhu RPG suppelement "The Creature Companion"
Bibliography
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Lovecraft, Howard (1982). The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1st edition ed.) (1st ed. ed.). Ballantine Books. ISBN ISBN 0-345-35080-4.
Price, Robert M. (1996). The New Lovecraft Circle. New York, N.Y.: Random House. ISBN ISBN 0-345-44406-X.
Thompson, C. Hall (1946). Spawn of the Green Abyss (3rd ed. ed.). Robert M. Price, Fedogan & Bremer, 1992. ISBN 1-878252-02-X.
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