The Outer Gods
Abhoth, Source of Uncleanness
A dark, protean resident of N'kai, the underground realm of the
Cthonian pantheon, Abhoth may even be a reinterpretation of the demon
lord Juibilex. Abhoth is described as the ultimate source of all miscreation
and abomination.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Animal, Chaos, Water
Worshippers: Any non-good, non-lawful.
Favored Weapon: None
Azathoth, Ruler of the Outer Gods
Azathoth is the ruler of the Outer Gods. Its amorphous body
writhes unceasingly to the monotonous piping of a flute at the center of
creation. He is described as both blind and idiotic, his almost random
urges fulfilled immediately by Nyarlathotep. Direct worshippers of Azathoth
are both rare and insane, calling upon him brings disasters and horror.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Luck
Worshippers: Criminally insane
Favored Weapon: None
Daoloth, the Render of Veils
Daoloth s shape is a vast and complex structure of glass and
metals. Daoloth's astrologer-priests are said to see the past and future
and even how objects extend to and travel between different dimensions.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Domains: Knowledge, Law, Travel
Worshippers: Mages, sages
Favored Weapon: None
Lesser Other Gods
Other mindless gods dance at the centre of creation beside
Azathoth. They are often worshipped as personal deities to clerics who
understand the true danger of imploring Azathoth for aid. Although as
mindless as Azathoth, they can provide magic and protection to their
servants
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Protection
Worshippers: Clerics
Favored Weapon: None
Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss
Nodens takes the form of a human, gray-bearded and hoary,
often riding in a chariot formed from a huge sea shell. Nodens is said to
protect and aid some who are pursued or harassed by the Great Old Ones
or Nyarlathotep.
Alignment: Neutral Good
Domains: Good, Protection, Water
Worshippers: Any non-evil
Favored Weapon: None
Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos
Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods. He is their
messenger, heart and soul. He usually appears as a tall, slim, joyous
man, to whom causing madness is more important and enjoyable than
death and destruction. Nyarlathotep may grant worshippers spells, servitor
creatures or knowledge that can destroy minds.
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Domains: Earth, Evil, Knowledge
Worshippers: Mages and sages
Favored Weapon: None
Shub-Niggurath, Dark Goat of the Woods
Shub-Niggurath is a perverse fertility deity, said to be an
enormous cloudy mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping
mouths and short writhing goat legs. She is worshipped extensively by
druidic and barbaric cults.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Animal, Air, Chaos, Evil, Plant, Water
Worshippers: Druidic and Barbarian cults
Favored Weapon: None
Tulzscha, the Green Flame
A few pockets of cultists worship this obscure entity composed
of sick greenish flame. In its seething combustion lies no warmth, just the
clamminess of death and corruption.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Chaos, Death, Destruction, Fire
Worshippers: Cultists
Favored Weapon:None
Ubbo-Sathla, the Unbegotten Source
A black formless mass resting in its grotto deep beneath the
frozen earth, Ubbo-Sathla is said to have spawned the prototypes of all
forms of life. Now it is said that wherever its pseudopods touch is forever
devoid of life. Within the grotto are the Elder Keys, tablets which contain
great knowledge and secrets of the Elder Gods.
Alignment: Neutral
Domains: Animal, Destruction, Knowledge
Worshippers: Any, druids.
Favored Weapon: None
Yibb-Tstll, the Patient One
A twisted, winged reptilian humanoid, Yibb-Tstll sees all time
and space as it slowly turns in the center of the Ethereal plane. His touch
brings instant change, sometimes useful, usually deadly. Its blood is
known as 'The Black' and is a weapon of its own, appearing as black
snowflakes that stick to and smother a victim.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Chaos, Evil, Magic
Worshippers: Northern tribes
Favored Weapon: None
Yog-Sothoth, the All-In-One
Yog-Sothoth dwells in the spaces between the planes where it
manifests as a conglomeration of iridescent globes. It holds the power to
travel within and through the planes. Yog-Sothoth is a preeminent deity of
Sorcerers and Wizards, and grants the ability to travel between the planes
and to control creatures from other planes. It is seen as the opener of the
ways and is often invoked as such in ceremonies for the other Outer
Gods and even some of the Great Old Ones.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Domains: Magic, Mind, Travel
Worshippers: Any
Favored Weapon: None
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Atlach-Nacha, the Spider
A fearsome form, big as a crouching man but with long spider-like
members... Atlach-Nacha superficialy resembles a huge and hideous
black hairy spider with a strange, remotely human face and little red eyes
rimmed with hair. It is believed to rule all spiders. It lives underground,
eternally spinning a fantastic web, bridging an unguessably-deep chasm.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Domains: Animal, Death, Law
Worshippers: Drow, Any non-good.
Favored Weapon: Net, Poison
Bokrug, Destroyer of Sarnath
Borkug is a greenish-blue, iguana-like creature about twelve feet
long. It is known as the destroyer of Sarnath. His wrath may not descend
for many centuries, but his utterly destructive anger expunged Sarnath in a
single night. He is always shown accompanied by the ghosts of his pre-human
worshippers
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Domains: Destruction, Evil, Water, War
Worshippers: Evil fighters, Coastal dwellings
Favored Weapon: None
Chaugnar-Faugn
Worshipped by a branch of the Tcho-Tcho peoples, Chaugner-Faugn
squats in a cave, guarded day and night by sub-human thralls only
vaguely man-like. He usually remains still on his pedestal, a grotesque
statue of a humanoid-formed elephant. Day or night he may lurch from his
pedestal to destroy heretics. He occasionally chooses a human 'companion' whom he controls directly on earth, driving him insane.
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Domains: Evil, Law, Protection, Strength
Worshippers: Evil fighters, monks, sages.
Favored Weapon: None
Cthugha, the Living Flame
Cthugha resembles an enormous burning mass continually
varying in shape. It is a remote God, hard to reach or worship.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Fire, Sun
Worshippers: Mages, sages
Favored Weapon: None
Cthulhu, the Sleeping God
Great Cthulhu s form is never fixed, able to be adjusted in scale
and shape as needed. At its heart is an anthromorphic form with
tentacular mouth and bat wings. Cthulhu dwells in the sunken corpse city
of black R'lyeh. Though asleep, he manifests in dreams and in madness
and one day will awaken from his own death and destroy all again.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Chaos, Death, Evil, Water, Madness
Worshippers: Cultists, Seamen
Favored Weapon: None
Cyaegha, the Destroying Eye
Cyaegha is an enormous black mass with one huge spherical
eye surrounded by a mass of tentacles. Its worshippers offer it human
sacrifices until the day it can be released from its underground tomb,
when it will float over the lands, seeing all, randomly picking human
targets to crush.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Knowledge, War
Worshippers: Any non-good
Favored Weapon: None
Eihort, the Pale Beast
A pale, overgrown legged maggot. Eihort lives in a labyrinthine
network of tunnels. Those who refuse his offer to bear his young in their
bodies are smashed to a pulp by it s huge form. The young shatter their
hosts sanity and slowly destroy his body until they hatch into small grubs
or spiders.
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Domains: Animal, Law, Strength
Worshippers: Labyrinth dwellers, Cultists
Favored Weapon: None
Ghatanothoa, the Volcano God
Ghatanothoa is known to be exceedingly horrible. Priests
usually offer periodic human sacrifices to Ghatanothoa, lest he rise from
his extinct volcano and work great carnage. When the ancient continent
upon which he was originally worshipped sank, he was trapped beneath
the waves in his volcanic prison.
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Domains: Earth, Evil, Fire
Worshippers: Chosen champions, Rare cultists
Favored Weapon: None
Glaaki, Lord of Dead Dreams
Glaaki heads a particularly loathsome cult in which many
members are undead slaves. Glaaki supposedly dwells in the bottom of a
lake from whence it summons cultists in their dreams. Glaaki is usually
portrayed as a loathsome metal spine-covered anemone.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Chaos, Death, Trickery, Water
Worshippers: Undead, chosen cultists
Favored Weapon: Spear / Javelin (the spines of Glaaki)
Hastur the Unspeakable
Hastur is worshipped under many names, although usually he is
known as 'he who is not to be named'. It is a loathsome cult, that
believes that Hastur lives somewhere beyond the stars themselves and
conduct sacrifices and loathsome ceremonies to summon him from
beyond.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Chaos, Evil, Luck, Magic, Travel
Worshippers: Any
Favored Weapon: None
Ithaqua the Wind-Walker
Reportedly a deity of the cold lands to the North and deep
South, Ithaqua is known to stalk the snowy wastes tracking hapless
travelers and carrying them off. Sacrifices to Ithaqua are often left frozen
in the wastes to protect the Clerics of the north and their followers.
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Domains: Air, Protection, Tric kery
Worshippers: Northern tribes
Favored Weapon: None
Nyogtha
A great wave of iridescent blackness, neither liquid nor solid, a
frightful gelatinous mass. Nyogtha inhabits underground caverns, and is a
cruel, blind creature that sometimes teaches magic to sorcerers and magi.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Earth, Evil, Magic
Worshippers: Evil Cultists, underground races
Favored Weapon: None
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