Other Supernatural Beings
| Name | Epithet(s), Other name(s) |
Description | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alala |
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Being made of living sound that dwells in the Gulf of S'glhuo; Possibly unimaginably hideous. | PL, WP |
| Beast of Averoigne |
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A seemingly supernatural being which is recorded as having descended upon the French principality of Averoigne, particularly Vyones and Ximes, from an ominous red comet which appeared in the sky in 1369. It has no true body of its own, but needs to take possession of the body of another to feed, transfiguring and horribly reshaping the host's body. Resulting form is that of a pitch-black semi-humanoid figure, surrounded by a hellish nimbus of changing, fiery light, dimly revealing its shape. The limbs sway and writhe like boneless serpents, and grow sharp, hard claws. The neck similarly extends to a serpentine length and flexibility, whereas the head turns flat and reptilian, earless and noseless. | BA |
| Broodlings of Eihort | Gestalt Servants of the God of the Labyrinth | The Broodlings of Eihort are gestalt beings made up of millions of the tiny white spidery brood of the Great Old One Eihort. A broodling looks like a deathly pale, totally hairless human. | rpg |
| Brown Jenkin |
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A mysterious rat-like creature with a human-like face. The being was said to be the familiar of Keziah Mason. Probably a Rat Thing - see below. | DW, PY |
| Desh (Lesser and Greater) |
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Desh is the name given by Hyperboreans to those creatures living in a near but alternate dimension. Existing in many different forms, these creatures float through the invisible spaces around us, as unaware of our presence as we are of theirs. Although the varieties of Desh may be unlimited, only two forms are described (Lesser and Greater). Although of solid matter, they are semi-transparent, continually fading in and out of view. | rpg |
| Droom-Avista | The Jester | True form not described, but likely a great demon to be invoked as a genie | JD |
| The Dunwich Horror | Son of Yog-Sothoth, Bugg-Shaggog | An invisible egg-shaped monster of a gelatinous consistence, covered in tentacled suckers and "feet like hogsheads", with a mostly human face. | DH, LC |
| Father Dagon and Mother Hydra |
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Both appear as abnormally large Deep Ones. | DA, DB, RD, SI |
| Fthaggua | Lord of Ktynga | Appears as a bluish ball of energy. Fthaggua is the lord and leader of the fire vampires, and dwells with them and their god Cthugha on or near the star Fomalhaut. | FV, HG |
| Fishers from Outside |
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The Fishers from Outside are much more avian in appearance than shantaks, though having one leg and a glaring Cyclopean eye and hideous, hooked, fang-lined beak. They are the servitors of the obscure Great Old One Groth-Golka, acting as proxies for their sire by accepting human sacrifices and worship by cultists. Fishers brood in caverns on the Moon and are also sometimes connected with worship of the lunar Great Old One Mnomquah. Their sire is the hideous Quumyagga. | FO |
| Fosterlings of the Old Ones |
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The Fosterlings of the Old Ones are the mutant offspring of matings with human females and Outer Gods or Great Old Ones. Through a special ritual the Outer God or Great Old One sends a dream which reaches into the womb of a pregnant woman, altering the
genetic structure of the unborn fetus. Born, the child spends many years as a normal human until one day it transforms into something more closely resembling its alien parent. |
FC |
| The Four Horsemen of Nyarlathotep |
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These characters feature in the comics series Fall of Cthulhu as servitors of Nyarlathotep and should thus be regarded as Million Favoured Ones. They are in order: Sysyphyx (The Scourge of Atlantis; she is a multi-eyed shape-shifting worm, but she may also appear as a fat, cyanotic red-headed fat woman); Gr'nuk of Volkunast (a ravenous winged demon), The Masked Mute (She appears as a young girl with innumerable masks to display her mood, since her true face has to be of indescribable horror) and Gith (Father of Pestilence,Champion of Damnation; he appears as a banded man with blue flames in place of the eyes). |
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| Fungus Vile |
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A kind of parasitic life form, neither really plant nor animal in nature, able to infect any organism it comes into contact with. It is suspected that this material originated on cold Yuggoth and subsequently spread through the cosmos with the mi-go. | rpg |
| Gnoph-Keh |
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Appears as huge gnophkeh — possibly an avatar of Rhan-Tegoth or an independent entity. | HM |
| The High Priest Not to Be Described |
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Humanoid wearing a silken mask. | CE, DQ |
| Knygathin Zhaum |
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Appears as a hairless, quasi-humanoid Voormi; Final form of no discernible species. | PN, TM |
| K'thun (female) and Noth-Yidik (male) |
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Abhorrent, malodorous beings whose mating spawned the Hounds of Tindalos. | HM, MT |
| The Lurker in the Star Pool |
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One of the Million Favored Ones of Nyarlathotep, possibly one of the Outer God’s offspring. For aeons it has dwelled in the Star Pools, and today is in the servitude of the Floating Horror cult. Highly mobile, the Star Pool Lurker has large membranous wings for flying and webbed appendages for swimming or walking on land. The creature's full appearance is confusing to behold as it appears to be a mass of multiple independent wriggling and squirming monstrosities. | AP |
| Magnum Innominandum | Great Not-to-Be-Named, The Nameless Mist, N'yog-Sothep, Milk of the Void | According to H. P. Lovecraft, this being is the spawn of Azathoth (making it on par with the Magnum Tenebrosum and Cxaxukluth) and is associated with, and possibly the progenitor of, Yog-Sothoth. It is also associated with Hastur. Little is known about this god, but it is considered to be extremely dangerous to sorcerers, hence its title "the unnameable" (archaic terminology, meaning not to be summoned or ritually named in an incantation. | rpg |
| Million Favored Ones |
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Beings said to be Nyarlathotep's spawn. | MF, WD |
| Mlandoth and Mril Thorion | The Source, The One |
Unknown. | WY |
| Mr. Shiny |
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Mr. Shiny (or Albert Shiny) is a shoggoth lord and an unusually intelligent and purposeful one, capable of controlling his body shape so as to pass for human. Controlling his body in this manner requires continuous mental effort. | rpg |
| Our Ladies of Sorrow |
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Our Ladies of Sorrow-or the Three Mothers-are three powerful entities, and three of Nyarlathotep’s Million Favoured Ones. They are: Mater Lachrymarum ("Our Lady of Tears"), the eldest, followed by Mater
Suspiriorum ("Our Lady of Sighs") and finally the youngest Mater Tenebrarum ("Our Lady of Darkness"). They have inspired many legends, including that of the triple goddess, the fates, the gorgons, and Shakespeare’s three weird sister-daughters of darkness (witches). |
VC, rpg |
| Pharol the Black |
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Appears as a black, fanged demon with tentacles instead of arms. | AG, HY? |
| The Shaping Tree |
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A hideous tree-like horror with branches like rat's tails and weird pustules. It is able to transform human male victims into jelly amorphous vectors of strange broodlings. The Shaping Tree is located in Australia and is likely related to Shub-Niggurath. | FS3 |
| Sho-Gath | The God-Box | A smoky entity with the travesty of a human face, entrapped into a box. | GO |
| Sss'haa |
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Leader of the serpent people of Valusia. | HG, TH, VY |
| Ubb | Father of Worms | Leader of the planarian-like Yuggs. It is a large aquatic, chthonian-like entity, pale gray and slug-like with a large suckermouth full of horn-like teeth and ringed with tentacles. Ubb dwells in the cold fastness of the Pacific Ocean with the rest of its race. The yuggs are said to guard their god, the Great Old One Zoth-Ommog, whose tomb, legend tells, lies at the bottom of an abyssal trench near the island of Ponape. | OA, PI, UV, TP |
| The Five Vaeyen |
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Quintet of vulture-like statues that both guard and sequester the Great Old One Cyäegha | DM |
| Wilbur Whateley |
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Mostly-human twin of the aforementioned Dunwich Horror. | DH, LC |
| The Worm That Walks | The Putrefied Horror | A loathsome being, looking like a human corpse decayed into tones ofgreen, black, and blue, witk dripping pieces offlesh hanging from it. Prodigious claws or talons dangle from this apparition's fingers, and from the undead monster's eye sockets stare lidless, ban, eyeballs. | rpg |
| Wuthoqquan's Bane |
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A large, shapeless beast lurking in the sewers of Commoriom. | WQ |
| Xathagorra | The Chaos Spawn | Vile, multiform creature with a vast wingspan. | CH |
| Xexanoth | Bane of Aforgomon | Unknown. | CM |
| Xiurhn | Guardian of the Dark Jewel | A slothlike, winged thing with a terrible face. | XI |
| Yegg-Ha | Lord of Nightgaunts | A huge, faceless humanoid with tiny wings. | IE, TC, WI |
| Zoth Syra & Yoth Kala | Queen of the Green Abyss | Both appear as shapeless, multi-limbed marine horror, with hypnotic beckon. The latter, Yoth Kala, also bears a whip-like appendage endowed with a single, spherical eye. | GR |
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