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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the story where Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith created him, Mordiggian was depicted as a scary and creepy but benign and non-malicious deity. Here his alignment is ChaoticEvil.
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* NightmareSequence: If you’ve ever taken negative energy damage in one of his temples of been raised from the dead by one of his followers, you have a nightmare of spending hundreds of years trapped in a coffin or sarcophagus in total darkness.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he becomes a shapeless shadow that seeks out and possesses an undead creature, bursting forth as Mordiggan 24 hours later. If it can’t find a suitable host or is trapped by light, the shadow fades and Mordiggan is reborn on some distant world at a random point in time, whether the past, present, or future.
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Mordiggian’s primary followers in the modern era are humans who venerate him as a death god, yet to the untrained eye, these people are little more than ghouls themselves.
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* BladeOnAStick: His divinely favored weapon is the ranseur, which his cultists often fashion to resemble his stingered tail.
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* SealedEvilInACan: He’s imprisoned in R’lyeh, a city which is itself sunken deep beneath the ocean and hidden on a distant world.
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* BeastWithAHumanFace: Not intentionally, but Thassilonian mages would reshape its visage to resemble the current Runelord of Greed, whose capitol resided on Mhar Massif. In modern times it looks like Runelord Karzoug, the final Runelord of Greed.
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* BeastWithAHumanFace: Not intentionally, but Thassilonian mages would reshape its visage to resemble the current Runelord runelord of Greed, greed, whose capitol capital resided on Mhar Massif. In modern times it looks like Runelord Since the fall of Thassilon, that face has been of Karzoug, the final Runelord of Greed.person to hold that office.
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* IconicLogo: The Yellow Sign.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Sort of. Most of the Great Old Ones and their worshippers are, in fact, quite evil -- ChaoticEvil and NeutralEvil, specifically. However, a noticeable number of Great Old Ones, such as Mhar, Bokrug and Yig, are ChaoticNeutral, thus not being evil-aligned themselves and being open to worship by ChaoticGood mortals.
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* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Simply ''knowing'' about Xhamen-Dor while in its area of influence is enough to allow the Great Old One to begin corrupting mortal minds, turning them into "seeded" individuals who spread the knowledge (and infection) further until the whole world is fit for Xhamen-Dor's consumption. One heretical group of Xhamen-Dor worshippers are called the Sentinels, who pray to him solely out of fear. Otherwise, they regularly erase their own memories to keep from becoming seeded, and only retain enough knowledge to keep anyone else from being infected.
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* AndIMustScream: In its natural form, Mhar is composed entirely of molten rock. Its most commonly depicted, mountainous appearance is the result of its lava cooling and solidifying in response to less-than-infernal temperatures, a process that causes Mhar agonizing pain. It tries to alleviate its suffering by sleeping within planetary cores, but these inevitably cool and reawaken it to its pain. Its current residence on Golarion is the result of a failed attempt to escape into the Plane of Fire, which left it trapped within Golarion's crust. As a result, Mhar has spent the last several thousand years trapped in a prison it cannot escape, being driven ever more insane by the agony of its solidified state.
* BackFromTheDead: Mhar technically died when Sarenrae cut open Golarion's crust to create Rovagug's prison. This allowed it to escape from its pain for a while, but the near-impossibility of killing a Great Old One meant that it eventually reformed some time later.
* BackFromTheDead: Mhar technically died when Sarenrae cut open Golarion's crust to create Rovagug's prison. This allowed it to escape from its pain for a while, but the near-impossibility of killing a Great Old One meant that it eventually reformed some time later.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Perhaps. Some theorize that it’s trapped as it is until some cosmic alignment or occult ritual free it. Other think it’s not trapped at all, but its “gestation” is simply so long the short lived beings who observe it fail to consider it by the lifespan of Mhar itself.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Mhar is a living cataclysm of planetary proportions -- its past residences within young worlds inevitably resulted in their destruction once it awakened, and its current plan to enter the Plane of Fire will destroy Golarion should it ever come to pass. However, everything it does is motivated by the fact that its nature as a being of elemental fire means that it cannot bear to ever cool enough for its molten body to solidify -- as a result, Mhar has spent the vast majority of its long, long life in indescribable agony, and will do ''anything'' to escape its pain. Its current plan is to escape into the Plane of Fire and all-pervading rock-shattering heat, and it's long past caring about the side effects of creating a planar rift large enough to accommodate its vast form.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Mhar is a living cataclysm of planetary proportions -- its past residences within young worlds inevitably resulted in their destruction once it awakened, and its current plan to enter the Plane of Fire will destroy Golarion should it ever come to pass. However, everything it does is motivated by the fact that its nature as a being of elemental fire means that it cannot bear to ever cool enough for its molten body to solidify -- as a result, Mhar has spent the vast majority of its long, long life in indescribable agony, and will do ''anything'' to escape its pain. Its current plan is to escape into the Plane of Fire and all-pervading rock-shattering heat, and it's long past caring about the side effects of creating a planar rift large enough to accommodate its vast form.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: Certain chants are capable of temporarily stirring Rhan-Tegoth from its eternal hibernation and those with the temerity to rouse it are invariably devoured.
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* ResurectiveImmortality: It transforms into a swarm of spiders upon being killed, which consume each other twenty-four hours later, with the final spider becoming Atlach-Nacha. If all the spiders are killed, which can only be done by allowing them to devour an artifact of good, it is instead reborn from one of countless eggs hidden across countless worlds.
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Entities equivalent to demigods among the worship of the gods of the Dark Tapestry.
!!Great Old Ones
[[folder:In General]]
* BadDreams: The Great Old Ones can inflict nightmares on anyone they wish, but if you meet certain conditions you take hefty penalties on the save. Simply having been in their presence qualifies you for this, but anything from killing a worshipper of that Great Old One to taking a certain kind of damage while within one of their temples might result in a nightmare you have little chance of fighting off.
* EldritchAbomination: Most of them were lifted directly from Lovecraft’s works.
* {{Immortality}}: The exact nature of it varies between individuals, but none of them can truly die. Part of this is because they're older than Pharasma, and thus death itself.
* LordBritishPostulate: Several of the Great Old Ones have stats and can be killed, albeit with extreme difficulty. Being what they are though, they don’t ''stay'' dead.
* PhysicalGod: The Great Old Ones, though powerful, are physical beings.
* TimeAbyss: Technically younger than the outer gods, but still older than the concept of death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Atlach-Nacha]]
!!Atlach-Nacha
->'''The Void Weaver'''
->'''Great Old One of construction, futility, and spiders'''
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
Atlach-Nacha dwells within a cavern large enough to hold continents, perpetually working to connect the two sides with an mindbogglingly complex web. It resembled a titanic spider with a human face.
Its stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: The Whisper out of Time''
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* AmbiguousGender: Played with. It’s referred to as female and male, depending on the source, but in truth it has no gender at all.
* AnimalisticAbomination: An EldritchAbomination in the shape of a spider.
* GiantSpider: Its general form.
* InASingleBound: It’s frighteningly good at jumping.
* MythologyGag: According to the ''In Search of Sanity'' adventure which introduced Atlach-Nacha to ''Pathfinder'', in some tales, he is portrayed as male, but in others she is female. This is a reference to how Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith, its creator, introduced it as male but later writers referred to it as female.
* NoBiologicalSex: Gender is only an afterthought to a being like Atlach-Nacha.
* PublicDomainCharacter: It’s from the same story as Abhoth.
* ResurectiveImmortality: If killed it transforms into a swarm of spiders that consume each other 24 hours later, with the final spider becoming Atlach-Nacha. If all the spiders are killed, which can only be done by allowing them to devour an artifact of good, it is instead reborn from one of countless eggs hidden across countless worlds.
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[[folder:Bokrug]]
!!Bokrug
->'''The Water Lizard'''
->'''Great Old One of revenge, storms, and water'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
A titanic reptilian creature that spends most of his time slumbering at the bottom of a lake within the Dimension of Dreams, Bokrug is occasionally roused into devastating fury.
His stats can be found in ''Bestiary 4''.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: Physically he could pass for some colossal lizard.
* BewareMyStingerTail: His tail ends in a venomous stinger.
* BladeOnAStick: His divinely favored weapon is the ranseur, which his cultists often fashion to resemble his stingered tail.
* BreathWeapon: His exhalations are toxic gas that causes hallucinations and madness.
* CombatTentacles: He has a “beard” of tentacles that he can use to grab and crush foes.
* HumanSacrifice: Although he does not demand the sacrifice of sentient creatures, many of his cults have nonetheless taken to sacrificing prisoners or criminals.
* NightmareSequence: If you ever hurt Bokrug or kill one of his clerics, you’ll get a lovely dream of being consumed by him and remaining alive, aware, and suffering as he digests you while killing everyone you love and destroying everything you care about.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: His body melts into water and evaporates when killed.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from the Lovecraft story ''The Doom That Came to Sarnath''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed, he simply reforms back at the bottom of his lake.
* TakingYouWithMe: If killed, his death throes cause him to thrash and attack before he finally expires, allowing him a few more chances to kill those who struck him down.
* WeatherManipulation: Powerful storms often visit the lands Bokrug dwells within.
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[[folder:Chaugnar Faugn]]
!!Chaugnar Faugn
->'''The Horror from the Hills'''
->'''Great Old One of blood, patience, and remote hill country'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
A being resembling an elephant headed humanoid with bat-like wings for ears and a lamprey-like mouth for a trunk, he has waited untold eons in a cave in a desolate area of hills for some unknown sign to signal his wait to end.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: Elephant-like, in this case.
* LampreyMouth: One on a tentacle that superficially resembles an elephant’s trunk.
* MixAndMatch Critters: This creature looks like a humanoid elephant with a trunk ending in a LampreyMouth.
* OmnicidalManiac: Worship does nothing to deter his hunger; he feeds on zealots and unbelievers with equal disdain.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He sucks the blood of his victims, but he’s something much different than a vampire.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from Frank Long’s ''The Horror from the Hills''.
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[[folder:Cthulhu]]
!!Cthulhu
->'''The Dreamer in the Deep'''
->'''Great Old One of cataclysms, dreams, and the stars'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Yes, ''that'' Cthulhu. A being resembling a dragon winged humanoid with a cephalopodian head imprisoned in a sunken city on a distant world.
His stats can be found in ''Beastiary 4''.
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* CombatTentacles: He has a face full of them.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: As to be expected.
* KnifeNut: His divinely favored weapon is the dagger, particularly those with curving blades.
* PublicDomainCharacter:
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he dissolves into mist and reforms… [[OhCrap exactly where he was when he was killed]]. If he’s killed ''again'' within a minute (or 120 seconds, or 6 seconds depending on chance and how screwed you are) he reforms in R’lyeh instead and is once more imprisoned.
* SealedEvilInACan: He’s imprisoned in R’lyeh, a city which is itself sunken deep beneath the ocean and hidden on a distant world.
* {{Telepathy}}: He is capable of reaching out to touch dreaming minds across the universe.
* WingedHumanoid: He has wings and could be considered humanoid.
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[[folder:Ghatanothoa]]
!!Ghatanothoa
->'''The Eternal Source'''
->'''Great Old One of disasters, lost islands, and sacrifice'''
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
Imprisoned on an island on a distant world, this monstrosity holds no fixed form.
Its stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: Black Stars Beckon''.
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* BrownNote: Ghatanothoa’s form is said to be particularly horrific, and the merest glance is enough to transform the foolish viewer instantly into a desiccated, living mummy.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Looking at Ghatanothoa will make the viewer still capable of observing the world and feeling the endless passage of time, but incapable of moving or otherwise interacting with the world. This form of immortality is said to be among the most horrific fates a mortal mind could endure.
* NightmareSequence: If you’ve every prayed to it or been hurt in a natural disaster, it can send a nightmare of a horrific apocalypse.
* PublicDomainCharacter: It’s from ''Out of the Aeons’’ by Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed, its remains compress and mummify before exploding one minute later. It is then reborn from one of its hidden cysts somewhere in its island prison. Destroying the remains before they explode does nothing to stop this process, but does cause Gatanothoa to become dormant.
* SealedEvilInACan: It’s trapped on an island on a distant world.
* UnknownRival: Ghatanothoa cultists deny that their god is Cthulhu's son and fight against the cult of Cthulhu when they encounter it. Cthulhu’s cult, on the other hand, treats Ghatanothoa's cult as insignificant and not worthy of notice.
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[[folder:Hastur]]
!!Hastur
->'''The King in Yellow'''
->'''Great Old One of decadence, disorder, and nihilism'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Imprisoned on a distant world known as Carcosa, Hastur may form an avatar known as the King in Yellow on any world touched by light from the star of his prison world. Such a feat requires great magic, but not the conscious intent of the one who brings it about.
His stats can be found in ''Beastiary 4''.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: His endgame is to ascend into a full-blown Outer God.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He can grant any creature one wish, but the results always manage to serve his agenda.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the ''Strange Aeons'' adventure path; he isn't directly involved with most of the plot but the majority of the villains are working for him.
* TheHedonist: His worship often involves this mindset.
* HumanoidAbomination: His avatar, the King in Yellow, looks unusually humanoid.
* IconicLogo: The Yellow Sign.
* InTheHood: He wears hooded robes that obscure his face.
* ManipulativeBastard: His cultists are masters of subtle magics that can trick unsuspecting victims into opening the way for the King in Yellow.
* NightmareSequence: Anyone who sees the Yellow Sign has dreams full of decadence and shame, all tinted a nauseating yellow.
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: Hastur's avatar appears clad in what seem to be frayed and tattered yellow robes. Only upon closer inspection are the robes revealed to be the creature's flesh.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from Robert Chambers’ ''The King in Yellow''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed his robes drop empty to the ground. Any who don these garments are destroyed and Hastur is reborn in their place. If no one puts them on they fade away after 24 hours and Hastur is denied physical form until specific conditions are met.
* SealedEvilInACan: He’s imprisoned in the city of Carcosa on a far away world, though he has plenty of ways to manipulate mortals even while imprisoned.
* TheSpook: He’s the most mysterious of the Great Old Ones.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ithaqua]]
!!Ithaqua
->'''The Wind-Walker'''
->'''Great Old One of cannibalism, cold, and the wind'''
->'''Alignment:''' Chaotic Evil
A gaunt giant who wanders the north poles of every world.
His stats can be found in ‘’Strange Aeons: In Search of Sanity’’.
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* AlienAbduction: He’ll sometimes snatch people and take them to other worlds. Of course, being what he is, that just means they die in another world’s artic circle.
* BlowYouAway: He has a number of wind based powers.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: A Great Old One who rules over the cold northern reaches.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Those who encounter him and live often only remember his glowing eyes.
* GrimUpNorth: He basically embodies this, haunting the artic regions of not just Golarion, but ''every'' world.
* HumanoidAbomination: He appears humanoid in form.
* HumanSacrifice: Sacrifices to Ithaqua are traditionally performed by leaving a body draped in the highest possible boughs of a pine tree.
* ImAHumanitarian: He embodies cannibalism and the practice runs rampant before and after his visits.
* LeanAndMean: He’s gaunt to the point that if he needed food, he’d probably have starved to death.
* MakeMeWannaShout: His howl terrifies those who hear it and can reduce them to cowering in terror at close range. Even being immune to fear won’t protect you from its effects.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from August Derleth’s ''The Thing That Walked on The Wind''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he is reborn one year later at the north pole of a random world, though he can’t return to the world where he was killed for another decade or until someone lets him in.
* WasOnceAMan: Some people abducted by Ithaqua are transformed into a wendigo and lose all memories of a previous life.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He doesn’t do to well outside of the artic or on planets without a magnetic north.
* WeatherManipulation: He can change the weather at will, usually calling up blizzards or shutting down attempts by others to calm the storms.
* {{Wendigo}}: He can turn people into these.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mhar]]
!!Mhar
->'''The World Thunder'''
->'''Great Old One of caverns, mountains, and volcanoes'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
A titanic being that attempted to enter Golarion by burrowing from Leng through the crust of the world. The attempt failed, leaving Mhar trapped halfway between planes. The mountain where it nearly emerged was named Mhar Massif and its petrified face reshaped to mask its presence.
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* BeastWithAHumanFace: Not intentionally, but Thassilonian mages would reshape its visage to resemble the current Runelord of Greed, whose capitol resided on Mhar Massif. In modern times it looks like Runelord Karzoug, the final Runelord of Greed.
* {{Egopolis}}: Mhar is said to dwell deep under the tallest mountain in the Inner Sea region, a peak in the Kodar Mountains known as Mhar Massif.
* FetusTerrible: Mhar's birth failed and it was stillborn, slumbering for uncounted ages. Mhar’s cult believes not that their god failed to be born, but rather that its gestation is merely one measured in eons.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mhar was first mentioned in ''Rise of the Runelords: Spires of Xin-Shalast'' with some vague mention of it being a Lovecraftian entity. It wasn’t until later that it was confirmed to be a Great Old One with a more fleshed out history.
* GeniusLoci: In images created by its cult, the Great Old One is generally depicted as a volcano-shaped leviathan.
* SealedEvilInACan: Perhaps. Some theorize that it’s trapped as it is until some cosmic alignment or occult ritual free it. Other think it’s not trapped at all, but its “gestation” is simply so long the short lived beings who observe it fail to consider it by the lifespan of Mhar itself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mordiggian]]
!!Mordiggian
->'''The Charnel God'''
->'''Great Old One of darkness, ghouls, and the voices of the dead'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
One of the oldest Great Old Ones, Mordiggan is a living shadow, though he often takes the form of an enormous worm.
His stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: The Thrushmoor Terror''.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the story where Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith created him, Mordiggian was depicted as a scary and creepy but benign and non-malicious deity. Here his alignment is ChaoticEvil.
* BlobMonster: Mordiggian is a living cloud of darkness, capable of changing all or portions of his form to serve his needs.
* CastingAShadow: He can absorb all light around him.
* CombatTentacles: His main form of attack.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Priests of Mordiggian wear heavy cloaks and silver masks to hide their shapes.
* NightmareSequence: If you’ve ever taken negative energy damage in one of his temples of been raised from the dead by one of his followers, you have a nightmare of spending hundreds of years trapped in a coffin or sarcophagus in total darkness.
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Mordiggian’s primary followers in the modern era are humans who venerate him as a death god, yet to the untrained eye, these people are little more than ghouls themselves.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from Clark Ashton Smith’s ‘’The Charnel God’’.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he becomes a shapeless shadow that seeks out and possesses an undead creature, bursting forth as Mordiggan 24 hours later. If it can’t find a suitable host or is trapped by light, the shadow fades and Mordiggan is reborn on some distant world at a random point in time, whether the past, present, or future.
* TimeMaster: He has a habit of moving back and forth through time, making the matter of his age largely academic.
* ToServeMan: Priests of Mordiggian collect the bodies of the dead and offer them to their god as food.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Orgesh]]
!!Orgesh
->'''The Faceless God'''
->'''Great Old One of alchemy, hunger, and subterranean waterways'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Firstborn from the Black Blood deep within Orv, Orgesh is primarily venerated by the charda.
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* TheBlank: Very nearly. It still has a mouth, but it’s otherwise close enough to earn the appellation The Faceless God.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Some believe that by consuming the flesh and bones of a fellow devotee of the Faceless God, one can take in that devotee’s faith.
* EyelessFace: Orgesh's only facial feature is its mouth.
* FetusTerrible: In charda mythology, Orgesh ate its way out of its mother's womb.
* TheGhost: None alive have seen Orgesh, leaving only statues to describe its appearance. Strangely enough, these statues are impervious to erosion and thus fairly accurate depictions.
* GodIsEvil: It used to hang around the charda, which screwed them up to the point that generations of neglect from it have had a ''positive'' effect on their behavior.
* HumanoidAbomination: Statues depict Orgesh as a vaguely humanoid figure.
* InterserviceRivalry: Orgesh's followers see each other as the greatest threat.
* MonsterProgenitor: It's believed that when but one worshipper remains, Orgesh will return to use this final fanatic to unleash a new race upon the vaults of Orv.
* SlasherSmile: It has a gaping mouth full of shark’s teeth.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rhan-Tegoth]]
!!Rhan-Tegoth
->'''Herald of the End Times'''
->'''Great Old One of hibernation, immortality, and ruin '''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Rhan-Tegoth spends most of its time hibernating as a statue, though legend tells of a time where it was more active and ruled an empire on a far away world. It resembles a six legged creature with a bulbous body and three bulging eyes.
Its stats can be found in ''Beastiary 6''.
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* CosmicKeystone: The ancient texts agree that when Rhan-Tegoth does finally wake of its own accord, the End Times shall be upon all worlds. If Rhan-Tegoth could be eradicated, this apocalypse could be forever avoided.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Certain chants are capable of temporarily stirring Rhan-Tegoth from its eternal hibernation and those with the temerity to rouse it are invariably devoured.
* GodNeedsPrayerBadly: It became a statue when its worshippers abandoned it.
* InsectsAreAbhorrent: It superficially resembles an insect, but closer inspection makes it clear it’s something different, usually by driving you insane.
* MistakenForGranite: A lot of statues of Rhan-Tegoth exist, making it hard to tell which is the real one.
* NightmareSequence: Anyone who’s encountered Rhan-Tegoth (even as a statue),
* SealedEvilInACan: It can’t escape its statue form without others performing a ritual to free it.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed, he simply reverts to being a statue. If the statue is destroyed his consciousness transfers to another statue of his likeness, one in the past or future if necessary.
* {{Telepathy}}: Its mind can reach out and influence lesser intellects than its own.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tawil at’Umr]]
->'''Great Old One'''
->'''Alignment: ChaoticNeutral''
Unusual and unique among the Great Old Ones, Tawil at'Umr is not a being in and of itself but the shadow of Yog Sothoth.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tsathoggua]]
!!Tsathoggua
->'''Father of Night'''
->'''Great Old One of magic, outcasts, and the underworld'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
* AnimalisticAbomination: Tsathoggua appears as a semi-humanoid creature whose features mix those of a toad, a bat, and a sloth.
* BeneathTheEarth: Tsathoggua dwells in the same network of vast caverns where Abhoth, Atlach-Nacha and Orgesh live.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tsathoggua has a strange, almost whimsical nature; while evil and unpredictable, at times he can appear almost benevolent in his dealings with mortals. Yet such dealings are never long-lived as Tsathoggua tires of company and eats those who just treated with him.
* MonsterProgenitor: Formless spawn emerge fully formed and aware from Tsathoggua himself.
* MoodSwinger: Tsathoggua is mercurial and will attempt to eat those he had been aiding only a moment before.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xhamen-Dor]]
!!Xhamen-Dor
->'''The Inmost Blot'''
->'''Great Old One of decay, parasites, and transformation '''
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
* DevourTheDragon: If Hastur successfully transforms into an Outer God, Carcosa and all who dwell there (including Xhamen-Dor, if the Inmost Blot is within the city or its sewers at this time) are consumed in the making of the newest Outer God.
* TheDragon: To Hastur. Xhamen-Dor infests worlds and absorbs them to the parasite city of Carcosa, in the process slowly accelerating Hastur's ascension to an Outer God.
* FromASingleCell: Since some ancient catastrophe or miscalculation nearly destroyed and reduced Xhamen-Dor to a single blot of fungoid sentience, it has been slowly awakening.
* KeystoneArmy: When the Husk of Xhamen-Dor is destroyed, all seeded undead remain animate but become listless and lose their ability to infect other creatures. Those suffering from seedborne consumption are cured immediately.
* RecurringBoss: It's fought three times in total during the Strange Aeons adventure path, as the Husk in the fifth part; the Dream and the Star Seed in the final one.
* TheUndead: Xhamen-Dor usually generates its physical body from the corpse of a massive creature or the scattered bones left across a battlefield.
* TheVirus: When Xhamen-Dor's corrupting knowledge infects a living host, it spreads within flesh and mind alike. In time, these seeded are transformed wholly into undead servants of the Great Old One.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yig]]
!!Yig
->'''Father of Serpents'''
->'''Great Old One of cycles, procreation, and serpents '''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
* AnimalisticAbomination: Yig appears as a scaled humanoid with a serpent’s head and lashing tail, or as an immense rattlesnake with a crescent-shaped mark upon the brow.
* ArchEnemy: Yig has long been at war with the god Ydersius.
* FetusTerrible: When a society has displeased or failed Yig, its children are born with crippling or monstrous deformities that leave mothers dead and fathers insane.
[[/folder]]
!!Great Old Ones
[[folder:In General]]
* BadDreams: The Great Old Ones can inflict nightmares on anyone they wish, but if you meet certain conditions you take hefty penalties on the save. Simply having been in their presence qualifies you for this, but anything from killing a worshipper of that Great Old One to taking a certain kind of damage while within one of their temples might result in a nightmare you have little chance of fighting off.
* EldritchAbomination: Most of them were lifted directly from Lovecraft’s works.
* {{Immortality}}: The exact nature of it varies between individuals, but none of them can truly die. Part of this is because they're older than Pharasma, and thus death itself.
* LordBritishPostulate: Several of the Great Old Ones have stats and can be killed, albeit with extreme difficulty. Being what they are though, they don’t ''stay'' dead.
* PhysicalGod: The Great Old Ones, though powerful, are physical beings.
* TimeAbyss: Technically younger than the outer gods, but still older than the concept of death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Atlach-Nacha]]
!!Atlach-Nacha
->'''The Void Weaver'''
->'''Great Old One of construction, futility, and spiders'''
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
Atlach-Nacha dwells within a cavern large enough to hold continents, perpetually working to connect the two sides with an mindbogglingly complex web. It resembled a titanic spider with a human face.
Its stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: The Whisper out of Time''
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* AmbiguousGender: Played with. It’s referred to as female and male, depending on the source, but in truth it has no gender at all.
* AnimalisticAbomination: An EldritchAbomination in the shape of a spider.
* GiantSpider: Its general form.
* InASingleBound: It’s frighteningly good at jumping.
* MythologyGag: According to the ''In Search of Sanity'' adventure which introduced Atlach-Nacha to ''Pathfinder'', in some tales, he is portrayed as male, but in others she is female. This is a reference to how Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith, its creator, introduced it as male but later writers referred to it as female.
* NoBiologicalSex: Gender is only an afterthought to a being like Atlach-Nacha.
* PublicDomainCharacter: It’s from the same story as Abhoth.
* ResurectiveImmortality: If killed it transforms into a swarm of spiders that consume each other 24 hours later, with the final spider becoming Atlach-Nacha. If all the spiders are killed, which can only be done by allowing them to devour an artifact of good, it is instead reborn from one of countless eggs hidden across countless worlds.
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[[folder:Bokrug]]
!!Bokrug
->'''The Water Lizard'''
->'''Great Old One of revenge, storms, and water'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
A titanic reptilian creature that spends most of his time slumbering at the bottom of a lake within the Dimension of Dreams, Bokrug is occasionally roused into devastating fury.
His stats can be found in ''Bestiary 4''.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: Physically he could pass for some colossal lizard.
* BewareMyStingerTail: His tail ends in a venomous stinger.
* BladeOnAStick: His divinely favored weapon is the ranseur, which his cultists often fashion to resemble his stingered tail.
* BreathWeapon: His exhalations are toxic gas that causes hallucinations and madness.
* CombatTentacles: He has a “beard” of tentacles that he can use to grab and crush foes.
* HumanSacrifice: Although he does not demand the sacrifice of sentient creatures, many of his cults have nonetheless taken to sacrificing prisoners or criminals.
* NightmareSequence: If you ever hurt Bokrug or kill one of his clerics, you’ll get a lovely dream of being consumed by him and remaining alive, aware, and suffering as he digests you while killing everyone you love and destroying everything you care about.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: His body melts into water and evaporates when killed.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from the Lovecraft story ''The Doom That Came to Sarnath''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed, he simply reforms back at the bottom of his lake.
* TakingYouWithMe: If killed, his death throes cause him to thrash and attack before he finally expires, allowing him a few more chances to kill those who struck him down.
* WeatherManipulation: Powerful storms often visit the lands Bokrug dwells within.
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[[folder:Chaugnar Faugn]]
!!Chaugnar Faugn
->'''The Horror from the Hills'''
->'''Great Old One of blood, patience, and remote hill country'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
A being resembling an elephant headed humanoid with bat-like wings for ears and a lamprey-like mouth for a trunk, he has waited untold eons in a cave in a desolate area of hills for some unknown sign to signal his wait to end.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: Elephant-like, in this case.
* LampreyMouth: One on a tentacle that superficially resembles an elephant’s trunk.
* MixAndMatch Critters: This creature looks like a humanoid elephant with a trunk ending in a LampreyMouth.
* OmnicidalManiac: Worship does nothing to deter his hunger; he feeds on zealots and unbelievers with equal disdain.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He sucks the blood of his victims, but he’s something much different than a vampire.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from Frank Long’s ''The Horror from the Hills''.
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[[folder:Cthulhu]]
!!Cthulhu
->'''The Dreamer in the Deep'''
->'''Great Old One of cataclysms, dreams, and the stars'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Yes, ''that'' Cthulhu. A being resembling a dragon winged humanoid with a cephalopodian head imprisoned in a sunken city on a distant world.
His stats can be found in ''Beastiary 4''.
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* CombatTentacles: He has a face full of them.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: As to be expected.
* KnifeNut: His divinely favored weapon is the dagger, particularly those with curving blades.
* PublicDomainCharacter:
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he dissolves into mist and reforms… [[OhCrap exactly where he was when he was killed]]. If he’s killed ''again'' within a minute (or 120 seconds, or 6 seconds depending on chance and how screwed you are) he reforms in R’lyeh instead and is once more imprisoned.
* SealedEvilInACan: He’s imprisoned in R’lyeh, a city which is itself sunken deep beneath the ocean and hidden on a distant world.
* {{Telepathy}}: He is capable of reaching out to touch dreaming minds across the universe.
* WingedHumanoid: He has wings and could be considered humanoid.
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[[folder:Ghatanothoa]]
!!Ghatanothoa
->'''The Eternal Source'''
->'''Great Old One of disasters, lost islands, and sacrifice'''
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
Imprisoned on an island on a distant world, this monstrosity holds no fixed form.
Its stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: Black Stars Beckon''.
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* BrownNote: Ghatanothoa’s form is said to be particularly horrific, and the merest glance is enough to transform the foolish viewer instantly into a desiccated, living mummy.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Looking at Ghatanothoa will make the viewer still capable of observing the world and feeling the endless passage of time, but incapable of moving or otherwise interacting with the world. This form of immortality is said to be among the most horrific fates a mortal mind could endure.
* NightmareSequence: If you’ve every prayed to it or been hurt in a natural disaster, it can send a nightmare of a horrific apocalypse.
* PublicDomainCharacter: It’s from ''Out of the Aeons’’ by Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed, its remains compress and mummify before exploding one minute later. It is then reborn from one of its hidden cysts somewhere in its island prison. Destroying the remains before they explode does nothing to stop this process, but does cause Gatanothoa to become dormant.
* SealedEvilInACan: It’s trapped on an island on a distant world.
* UnknownRival: Ghatanothoa cultists deny that their god is Cthulhu's son and fight against the cult of Cthulhu when they encounter it. Cthulhu’s cult, on the other hand, treats Ghatanothoa's cult as insignificant and not worthy of notice.
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[[folder:Hastur]]
!!Hastur
->'''The King in Yellow'''
->'''Great Old One of decadence, disorder, and nihilism'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Imprisoned on a distant world known as Carcosa, Hastur may form an avatar known as the King in Yellow on any world touched by light from the star of his prison world. Such a feat requires great magic, but not the conscious intent of the one who brings it about.
His stats can be found in ''Beastiary 4''.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: His endgame is to ascend into a full-blown Outer God.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He can grant any creature one wish, but the results always manage to serve his agenda.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the ''Strange Aeons'' adventure path; he isn't directly involved with most of the plot but the majority of the villains are working for him.
* TheHedonist: His worship often involves this mindset.
* HumanoidAbomination: His avatar, the King in Yellow, looks unusually humanoid.
* IconicLogo: The Yellow Sign.
* InTheHood: He wears hooded robes that obscure his face.
* ManipulativeBastard: His cultists are masters of subtle magics that can trick unsuspecting victims into opening the way for the King in Yellow.
* NightmareSequence: Anyone who sees the Yellow Sign has dreams full of decadence and shame, all tinted a nauseating yellow.
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: Hastur's avatar appears clad in what seem to be frayed and tattered yellow robes. Only upon closer inspection are the robes revealed to be the creature's flesh.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from Robert Chambers’ ''The King in Yellow''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed his robes drop empty to the ground. Any who don these garments are destroyed and Hastur is reborn in their place. If no one puts them on they fade away after 24 hours and Hastur is denied physical form until specific conditions are met.
* SealedEvilInACan: He’s imprisoned in the city of Carcosa on a far away world, though he has plenty of ways to manipulate mortals even while imprisoned.
* TheSpook: He’s the most mysterious of the Great Old Ones.
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[[folder:Ithaqua]]
!!Ithaqua
->'''The Wind-Walker'''
->'''Great Old One of cannibalism, cold, and the wind'''
->'''Alignment:''' Chaotic Evil
A gaunt giant who wanders the north poles of every world.
His stats can be found in ‘’Strange Aeons: In Search of Sanity’’.
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* AlienAbduction: He’ll sometimes snatch people and take them to other worlds. Of course, being what he is, that just means they die in another world’s artic circle.
* BlowYouAway: He has a number of wind based powers.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: A Great Old One who rules over the cold northern reaches.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Those who encounter him and live often only remember his glowing eyes.
* GrimUpNorth: He basically embodies this, haunting the artic regions of not just Golarion, but ''every'' world.
* HumanoidAbomination: He appears humanoid in form.
* HumanSacrifice: Sacrifices to Ithaqua are traditionally performed by leaving a body draped in the highest possible boughs of a pine tree.
* ImAHumanitarian: He embodies cannibalism and the practice runs rampant before and after his visits.
* LeanAndMean: He’s gaunt to the point that if he needed food, he’d probably have starved to death.
* MakeMeWannaShout: His howl terrifies those who hear it and can reduce them to cowering in terror at close range. Even being immune to fear won’t protect you from its effects.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from August Derleth’s ''The Thing That Walked on The Wind''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he is reborn one year later at the north pole of a random world, though he can’t return to the world where he was killed for another decade or until someone lets him in.
* WasOnceAMan: Some people abducted by Ithaqua are transformed into a wendigo and lose all memories of a previous life.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He doesn’t do to well outside of the artic or on planets without a magnetic north.
* WeatherManipulation: He can change the weather at will, usually calling up blizzards or shutting down attempts by others to calm the storms.
* {{Wendigo}}: He can turn people into these.
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[[folder:Mhar]]
!!Mhar
->'''The World Thunder'''
->'''Great Old One of caverns, mountains, and volcanoes'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
A titanic being that attempted to enter Golarion by burrowing from Leng through the crust of the world. The attempt failed, leaving Mhar trapped halfway between planes. The mountain where it nearly emerged was named Mhar Massif and its petrified face reshaped to mask its presence.
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* BeastWithAHumanFace: Not intentionally, but Thassilonian mages would reshape its visage to resemble the current Runelord of Greed, whose capitol resided on Mhar Massif. In modern times it looks like Runelord Karzoug, the final Runelord of Greed.
* {{Egopolis}}: Mhar is said to dwell deep under the tallest mountain in the Inner Sea region, a peak in the Kodar Mountains known as Mhar Massif.
* FetusTerrible: Mhar's birth failed and it was stillborn, slumbering for uncounted ages. Mhar’s cult believes not that their god failed to be born, but rather that its gestation is merely one measured in eons.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mhar was first mentioned in ''Rise of the Runelords: Spires of Xin-Shalast'' with some vague mention of it being a Lovecraftian entity. It wasn’t until later that it was confirmed to be a Great Old One with a more fleshed out history.
* GeniusLoci: In images created by its cult, the Great Old One is generally depicted as a volcano-shaped leviathan.
* SealedEvilInACan: Perhaps. Some theorize that it’s trapped as it is until some cosmic alignment or occult ritual free it. Other think it’s not trapped at all, but its “gestation” is simply so long the short lived beings who observe it fail to consider it by the lifespan of Mhar itself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mordiggian]]
!!Mordiggian
->'''The Charnel God'''
->'''Great Old One of darkness, ghouls, and the voices of the dead'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
One of the oldest Great Old Ones, Mordiggan is a living shadow, though he often takes the form of an enormous worm.
His stats can be found in ''Strange Aeons: The Thrushmoor Terror''.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the story where Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith created him, Mordiggian was depicted as a scary and creepy but benign and non-malicious deity. Here his alignment is ChaoticEvil.
* BlobMonster: Mordiggian is a living cloud of darkness, capable of changing all or portions of his form to serve his needs.
* CastingAShadow: He can absorb all light around him.
* CombatTentacles: His main form of attack.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Priests of Mordiggian wear heavy cloaks and silver masks to hide their shapes.
* NightmareSequence: If you’ve ever taken negative energy damage in one of his temples of been raised from the dead by one of his followers, you have a nightmare of spending hundreds of years trapped in a coffin or sarcophagus in total darkness.
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Mordiggian’s primary followers in the modern era are humans who venerate him as a death god, yet to the untrained eye, these people are little more than ghouls themselves.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s from Clark Ashton Smith’s ‘’The Charnel God’’.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed he becomes a shapeless shadow that seeks out and possesses an undead creature, bursting forth as Mordiggan 24 hours later. If it can’t find a suitable host or is trapped by light, the shadow fades and Mordiggan is reborn on some distant world at a random point in time, whether the past, present, or future.
* TimeMaster: He has a habit of moving back and forth through time, making the matter of his age largely academic.
* ToServeMan: Priests of Mordiggian collect the bodies of the dead and offer them to their god as food.
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[[folder:Orgesh]]
!!Orgesh
->'''The Faceless God'''
->'''Great Old One of alchemy, hunger, and subterranean waterways'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Firstborn from the Black Blood deep within Orv, Orgesh is primarily venerated by the charda.
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* TheBlank: Very nearly. It still has a mouth, but it’s otherwise close enough to earn the appellation The Faceless God.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Some believe that by consuming the flesh and bones of a fellow devotee of the Faceless God, one can take in that devotee’s faith.
* EyelessFace: Orgesh's only facial feature is its mouth.
* FetusTerrible: In charda mythology, Orgesh ate its way out of its mother's womb.
* TheGhost: None alive have seen Orgesh, leaving only statues to describe its appearance. Strangely enough, these statues are impervious to erosion and thus fairly accurate depictions.
* GodIsEvil: It used to hang around the charda, which screwed them up to the point that generations of neglect from it have had a ''positive'' effect on their behavior.
* HumanoidAbomination: Statues depict Orgesh as a vaguely humanoid figure.
* InterserviceRivalry: Orgesh's followers see each other as the greatest threat.
* MonsterProgenitor: It's believed that when but one worshipper remains, Orgesh will return to use this final fanatic to unleash a new race upon the vaults of Orv.
* SlasherSmile: It has a gaping mouth full of shark’s teeth.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rhan-Tegoth]]
!!Rhan-Tegoth
->'''Herald of the End Times'''
->'''Great Old One of hibernation, immortality, and ruin '''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
Rhan-Tegoth spends most of its time hibernating as a statue, though legend tells of a time where it was more active and ruled an empire on a far away world. It resembles a six legged creature with a bulbous body and three bulging eyes.
Its stats can be found in ''Beastiary 6''.
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* CosmicKeystone: The ancient texts agree that when Rhan-Tegoth does finally wake of its own accord, the End Times shall be upon all worlds. If Rhan-Tegoth could be eradicated, this apocalypse could be forever avoided.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Certain chants are capable of temporarily stirring Rhan-Tegoth from its eternal hibernation and those with the temerity to rouse it are invariably devoured.
* GodNeedsPrayerBadly: It became a statue when its worshippers abandoned it.
* InsectsAreAbhorrent: It superficially resembles an insect, but closer inspection makes it clear it’s something different, usually by driving you insane.
* MistakenForGranite: A lot of statues of Rhan-Tegoth exist, making it hard to tell which is the real one.
* NightmareSequence: Anyone who’s encountered Rhan-Tegoth (even as a statue),
* SealedEvilInACan: It can’t escape its statue form without others performing a ritual to free it.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If killed, he simply reverts to being a statue. If the statue is destroyed his consciousness transfers to another statue of his likeness, one in the past or future if necessary.
* {{Telepathy}}: Its mind can reach out and influence lesser intellects than its own.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tawil at’Umr]]
->'''Great Old One'''
->'''Alignment: ChaoticNeutral''
Unusual and unique among the Great Old Ones, Tawil at'Umr is not a being in and of itself but the shadow of Yog Sothoth.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tsathoggua]]
!!Tsathoggua
->'''Father of Night'''
->'''Great Old One of magic, outcasts, and the underworld'''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
* AnimalisticAbomination: Tsathoggua appears as a semi-humanoid creature whose features mix those of a toad, a bat, and a sloth.
* BeneathTheEarth: Tsathoggua dwells in the same network of vast caverns where Abhoth, Atlach-Nacha and Orgesh live.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tsathoggua has a strange, almost whimsical nature; while evil and unpredictable, at times he can appear almost benevolent in his dealings with mortals. Yet such dealings are never long-lived as Tsathoggua tires of company and eats those who just treated with him.
* MonsterProgenitor: Formless spawn emerge fully formed and aware from Tsathoggua himself.
* MoodSwinger: Tsathoggua is mercurial and will attempt to eat those he had been aiding only a moment before.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xhamen-Dor]]
!!Xhamen-Dor
->'''The Inmost Blot'''
->'''Great Old One of decay, parasites, and transformation '''
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
* DevourTheDragon: If Hastur successfully transforms into an Outer God, Carcosa and all who dwell there (including Xhamen-Dor, if the Inmost Blot is within the city or its sewers at this time) are consumed in the making of the newest Outer God.
* TheDragon: To Hastur. Xhamen-Dor infests worlds and absorbs them to the parasite city of Carcosa, in the process slowly accelerating Hastur's ascension to an Outer God.
* FromASingleCell: Since some ancient catastrophe or miscalculation nearly destroyed and reduced Xhamen-Dor to a single blot of fungoid sentience, it has been slowly awakening.
* KeystoneArmy: When the Husk of Xhamen-Dor is destroyed, all seeded undead remain animate but become listless and lose their ability to infect other creatures. Those suffering from seedborne consumption are cured immediately.
* RecurringBoss: It's fought three times in total during the Strange Aeons adventure path, as the Husk in the fifth part; the Dream and the Star Seed in the final one.
* TheUndead: Xhamen-Dor usually generates its physical body from the corpse of a massive creature or the scattered bones left across a battlefield.
* TheVirus: When Xhamen-Dor's corrupting knowledge infects a living host, it spreads within flesh and mind alike. In time, these seeded are transformed wholly into undead servants of the Great Old One.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yig]]
!!Yig
->'''Father of Serpents'''
->'''Great Old One of cycles, procreation, and serpents '''
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
* AnimalisticAbomination: Yig appears as a scaled humanoid with a serpent’s head and lashing tail, or as an immense rattlesnake with a crescent-shaped mark upon the brow.
* ArchEnemy: Yig has long been at war with the god Ydersius.
* FetusTerrible: When a society has displeased or failed Yig, its children are born with crippling or monstrous deformities that leave mothers dead and fathers insane.
[[/folder]]
