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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