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* ScaryBlackMan: As the Black Pharaoh, definitely. definitely, with the twist that his skin is actually black as pitch. Averted with his go-to human guise of an Osirian man, where he’s a black dark-skinned man but is trying to appear non-threatening.
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: If you’ve seen a goat that looks like a cloud of mist and flesh that constantly evolves and consumes new appendages and sensory organs, you probably have bigger problems than what it’s called.
* MonsterProgenitor: She has far more than a thousand children.
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: If you’ve seen a goat that looks like a cloud of mist and flesh that constantly evolves and consumes new appendages appendages, orifices and sensory organs, you probably have bigger problems than what it’s called.
* MonsterProgenitor: She has far more than a thousandchildren.children; her cultists often claim she is the origin of all biological life.
* MonsterProgenitor: She has far more than a thousand
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: She’s the bigger fish to things like astradaemons and sahkils. As they prey on souls, Nhimbaloth preys on them in turn.
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* MonsterProgenitor: She's thought to be the source of will-o'-wisps, in part due to their mutual connection with desolate wastelands, despair and pointless death.
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* TimeAbyss: All Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are unimaginably ancient and their age far dwarf that of 'ordinary' gods. As far as anyone can tell, they were just always there.
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* TimeAbyss: All Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are unimaginably ancient and their age far dwarf that of 'ordinary' "ordinary" gods. As far as anyone can tell, they were just always there.
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* TheOldGods: It's in the name; all of them are far older than other gods.
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the oldest beings in existence, predating Pharasma, the qlippoth and the proteans alike.
* OutsideContextProblem: Origins, motives, and links with other powers of the Great Beyond are all things the Outer Gods lack. As best anyone can tell, they just‘’are’’.''are''.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Among these beings, only Nhimbaloth is original to ''Pathfinder'', all others having been created before that by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Among these beings, only Nhimbaloth is original to All Outer Gods were originally created by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors and long predated ''Pathfinder'', all others having been created before that by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors.except Nhimbaloth, a creation of Paizo creative director James Jacobs.
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* TheArtifact: Azathoth retain the title of Daemon Sultan, originally given to it by Lovecraft, despite daemons being a distinct race that have nothing to do with it in ''Pathfinder'' and are in fact mostly unaware of its existence. In-universe, this is considered to be a homonym.
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!!Shub-Niggurath
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* CompleteImmortality: Unlike most gods, who can die despite their divinity, the Outer Gods just cannot die. This is due in large part to the fact that they predate Pharasma, and thus death itself.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Among these beings, only Mhar, Orgesh, Xhamen-Dor and Nhimbaloth are original to ''Pathfinder'', all others having been created before that by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Among these beings, only Nhimbaloth is original to ''Pathfinder'', all others having been created before that by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors.
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->'''The Key and The Gate'''
->'''Outer God of gates, space, and time'''
->'''Alignment: ChaoticNeutral'''
The god of the void between worlds, and perhaps the void itself, Yog-Sothoth is generally believed to be preparing the universe for a new age ruled by him and his kind.
->'''The Key and The Gate'''
->'''Outer God of gates, space, and time'''
->'''Alignment: ChaoticNeutral'''
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->'''Black Goat of the Woods'''
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* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Shub-Niggurath is said to have spawned a thousand young.
* PublicDomainCharacter: She was originally mentioned by Lovecraft and characterized by later writers.
* ReallyGetsAround: Many of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are believed to have mated with Shub-Niggurath.
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[[folder:Yog-Sothoth]]
->'''The Key and The Gate'''
->'''Outer God of gates, space, and time'''
->'''Alignment: ChaoticNeutral'''
The god of the void between worlds, and perhaps the void itself, Yog-Sothoth is generally believed to be preparing the universe for a new age ruled by him and his kind.
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* MonsterProgenitor: She has far more than a thousand children.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Shub-Niggurath is said to have spawned a thousand young.
* PublicDomainCharacter: She was originally mentioned by Lovecraft and characterized by later writers.
* ReallyGetsAround: Many of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are believed to have mated with Shub-Niggurath.
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[[folder:Yog-Sothoth]]
->'''The Key and The Gate'''
->'''Outer God of gates, space, and time'''
->'''Alignment: ChaoticNeutral'''
The god of the void between worlds, and perhaps the void itself, Yog-Sothoth is generally believed to be preparing the universe for a new age ruled by him and his kind.
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[[folder:Nyarlathotep]]
->’’’The Crawling Chaos’’’
->’’’Outer God of conspiracies, dangerous secrets, and forbidden magic’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticEvil’’’
A god with a thousand forms, Nyarlathotep takes pleasure in manipulating and toying with mortals.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Between him and the angel Tabris, one of them pulled this on the other.
* AncientEgypt: He influenced Osirion, the FantasyCounterpartCulture of Egypt on Golarion, in its history. Though Earth does exist somewhere in the setting, so it’s entirely possible he played this straight as well.
* TheChessmaster: He has eons to wait for his plans to pay out, and he has lots of them.
* FantasyGunControl: It was his whisper that led to the invention of the first gun on Golarion.
* ForTheEvulz: Nyarlathotep seems to enjoy toying with and causing discord among mortal races.
* GodIsEvil: He’s one of the only Outer Gods who eschews alien morality for outright malice.
* HumanoidAbomination: He takes human (or dwarf, or elf, etc.) form to further his plans.
* IHaveManyNames: He has many identities, each of which can be worshiped as its own separate being.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: He knows forbidden magic and technology from every culture across the planes.
* NephariousPharaoh: One of his avatars, the Black Pharaoh.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s another Lovecraft creation.
* ScaryBlackMan: As the Black Pharaoh, definitely. Averted with his go-to human guise of an Osirian man, where he’s a black man but is trying to appear non-threatening.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He takes many forms to appear to his worshippers or to subtly tweak the world. Two of his best known forms are the Haunter in the Dark, a bat-like creature with a burning tri-lobed eye, and the Black Pharaoh, a man with skin as dark as pitch.
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[[folder:Yog-Sothoth]]
->’’’The Key and The Gate’’’
->’’’Outer God of gates, space, and time’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticNeutral’’’
The god of the void between worlds, and perhaps the void itself, Yog-Sothoth is generally believed to be preparing the universe for a new age ruled by him and his kind.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Cults often call upon Yog-Sothoth to bless unborn children, turning them into monstrous hybrids.
* InterspeciesRomance: Romance might be overselling it, but cultists can call upon him to transform unborn children into ''his'' children, monsters that will further his goals.
* TheOmnipresent: This... thing exists simultaneously in all of space and time, yet also transcends it.
* PublicDomainCharacter: You guessed it, another Lovecraft creation.
* SpaceMaster: Distance means nothing to it because he ''is'' the very concept of space.
* TimeMaster: Part of his domain.
* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: He seems unable to properly exist in the reality shared by most mortal life and can only partially intrude upon this dimension.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: He appears only as a mass of slithering incandescent spheres or motes of light, and even those may be nothing but his shadow.
[[folder:Nyarlathotep]]
->’’’The Crawling Chaos’’’
->’’’Outer God of conspiracies, dangerous secrets, and forbidden magic’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticEvil’’’
A god with a thousand forms, Nyarlathotep takes pleasure in manipulating and toying with mortals.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Between him and the angel Tabris, one of them pulled this on the other.
* AncientEgypt: He influenced Osirion, the FantasyCounterpartCulture of Egypt on Golarion, in its history. Though Earth does exist somewhere in the setting, so it’s entirely possible he played this straight as well.
* TheChessmaster: He has eons to wait for his plans to pay out, and he has lots of them.
* FantasyGunControl: It was his whisper that led to the invention of the first gun on Golarion.
* ForTheEvulz: Nyarlathotep seems to enjoy toying with and causing discord among mortal races.
* GodIsEvil: He’s one of the only Outer Gods who eschews alien morality for outright malice.
* HumanoidAbomination: He takes human (or dwarf, or elf, etc.) form to further his plans.
* IHaveManyNames: He has many identities, each of which can be worshiped as its own separate being.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: He knows forbidden magic and technology from every culture across the planes.
* NephariousPharaoh: One of his avatars, the Black Pharaoh.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He’s another Lovecraft creation.
* ScaryBlackMan: As the Black Pharaoh, definitely. Averted with his go-to human guise of an Osirian man, where he’s a black man but is trying to appear non-threatening.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He takes many forms to appear to his worshippers or to subtly tweak the world. Two of his best known forms are the Haunter in the Dark, a bat-like creature with a burning tri-lobed eye, and the Black Pharaoh, a man with skin as dark as pitch.
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->’’’The Key and The Gate’’’
->’’’Outer God of gates, space, and time’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticNeutral’’’
The god of the void between worlds, and perhaps the void itself, Yog-Sothoth is generally believed to be preparing the universe for a new age ruled by him and his kind.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Cults often call upon Yog-Sothoth to bless unborn children, turning them into monstrous hybrids.
* InterspeciesRomance: Romance might be overselling it, but cultists can call upon him to transform unborn children into ''his'' children, monsters that will further his goals.
* TheOmnipresent: This... thing exists simultaneously in all of space and time, yet also transcends it.
* PublicDomainCharacter: You guessed it, another Lovecraft creation.
* SpaceMaster: Distance means nothing to it because he ''is'' the very concept of space.
* TimeMaster: Part of his domain.
* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: He seems unable to properly exist in the reality shared by most mortal life and can only partially intrude upon this dimension.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: He appears only as a mass of slithering incandescent spheres or motes of light, and even those may be nothing but his shadow.
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* EldritchAbomination: One and all, with a number of them being lifted directly from Lovecraft’s works.
* GodOfEvil: The majority of these entities are evil, and even the non-evil ones are extremely dangerous.
* {{Immortality}}: Unlike most gods, who can die despite their divinity, the Outer Gods just cannot die. This is due in large part to the fact that they predate Pharasma, and thus death itself.
* TheOldGods: It's in the name; all of them are far older than other gods.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Among these beings, only Mhar, Orgesh, Xhamen-Dor and Nhimbaloth are original to ''Pathfinder'', all others having been created before that by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors.
* OutsideContextProblem: Origins, motives, and links with other powers of the Great Beyond are all things the Outer Gods lack. As best anyone can tell, they just ‘’are’’.
* PhysicalGod: The majority of them dwell on the Material Plane.
* TimeAbyss: All Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are unimaginably ancient and their age far dwarf that of 'ordinary' gods. As far as anyone can tell, they were just always there.
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[[folder:Abhoth]]
->’’’Source of Uncleanness’’’
->’’’Outer god of disease, fecundity, and oozes’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticNeutral’’’
Existing simultaneously in the cavernous depths of every world, Abhoth constantly sloughs off parts off itself which form new life to slither out into the dark. It appears as a lake of amorphous ooze dotted with constantly forming and dissolving eyes, mouths, limbs, and organs.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Abhoth was originally just a Great Old One, but here it’s taken the leap in power to Outer God.
* AsteroidsMonster: Abhoth constantly spawns monsters by fission from itself.
* BlobMonster: Abhoth appears as a vast lake of seething, surging, protoplasmic ooze.
* MonsterProgenitor: It’s the original parent of many, if not all, ooze monsters. Its cultists maintain that all life is descended from its mutated children.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Abhoth is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith, from ''Seven Geases''.
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[[folder:Azathoth]]
->’’’The Daemon Sultan’’’
->’’’Outer God of entropy, madness, and mindless destruction’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticNeutral’’’
The blind idiot god said to lie at the center of the Material Plane, Azathoth gibbers and thrashes to the eerie tunes of its court of lesser gods. It resembles nothing more than a shapeless mass of destruction the size of a star.
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* AlmightyIdiot: It’s debatably the most powerful being in the setting, but it might not even be capable of thought.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It’s not even clear if Azathoth is sentient, much less capable of considering something as complex as morality.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Some have attempted to harness its power, attempts which usually end in the destruction of the entire planet.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite the title, Azathoth takes no more heed of daemons than it does anything else.
* PrimordialChaos: Its general appearance and state of being. It’s chaos without any morality.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Azathoth comes from the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft.
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[[folder:Nhimbaloth]]
->’’’The Empty Death’’’
->’’’Outer Goddess of despair, ghosts, and swamps’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticEvil’’’
Nhimbaloth hunts those who would themselves prey on souls traveling to the afterlife, consuming predator and prey as one. She has no form and is known only by the marks of her passage.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: She’s the bigger fish to things like astradaeomons and sakhils.
* CessationOfExistence: If she consumes a soul, they’re gone for good. No passage onward, no afterlife, nothing but the agony of death and nonexistence.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Predators hunt the metaphysical banks and depths of the River of Souls, eager to pluck out and devour drifting souls before they can be reach Pharasma's Boneyard. In turn Nhimbaloth feeds upon those predators.
* TheGhost: She’s never been seen and only the corrupted land left behind by her passage proves her existence.
* PublicDomainCharacter: She’s the creation of James Jacob from ‘’The Elder Mythos’’.
* SoulEating: Nhimbaloth revels in the digestion of souls already being digested in the gullets of predators.
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!!Outer Gods
[[folder:In General]]
* EldritchAbomination: One and all, with a number of them being lifted directly from Lovecraft’s works.
* GodOfEvil: The majority of these entities are evil, and even the non-evil ones are extremely dangerous.
* {{Immortality}}: Unlike most gods, who can die despite their divinity, the Outer Gods just cannot die. This is due in large part to the fact that they predate Pharasma, and thus death itself.
* TheOldGods: It's in the name; all of them are far older than other gods.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Among these beings, only Mhar, Orgesh, Xhamen-Dor and Nhimbaloth are original to ''Pathfinder'', all others having been created before that by Franchise/CthulhuMythos authors.
* OutsideContextProblem: Origins, motives, and links with other powers of the Great Beyond are all things the Outer Gods lack. As best anyone can tell, they just ‘’are’’.
* PhysicalGod: The majority of them dwell on the Material Plane.
* TimeAbyss: All Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are unimaginably ancient and their age far dwarf that of 'ordinary' gods. As far as anyone can tell, they were just always there.
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[[folder:Abhoth]]
->’’’Source of Uncleanness’’’
->’’’Outer god of disease, fecundity, and oozes’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticNeutral’’’
Existing simultaneously in the cavernous depths of every world, Abhoth constantly sloughs off parts off itself which form new life to slither out into the dark. It appears as a lake of amorphous ooze dotted with constantly forming and dissolving eyes, mouths, limbs, and organs.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Abhoth was originally just a Great Old One, but here it’s taken the leap in power to Outer God.
* AsteroidsMonster: Abhoth constantly spawns monsters by fission from itself.
* BlobMonster: Abhoth appears as a vast lake of seething, surging, protoplasmic ooze.
* MonsterProgenitor: It’s the original parent of many, if not all, ooze monsters. Its cultists maintain that all life is descended from its mutated children.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Abhoth is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith, from ''Seven Geases''.
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[[folder:Azathoth]]
->’’’The Daemon Sultan’’’
->’’’Outer God of entropy, madness, and mindless destruction’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticNeutral’’’
The blind idiot god said to lie at the center of the Material Plane, Azathoth gibbers and thrashes to the eerie tunes of its court of lesser gods. It resembles nothing more than a shapeless mass of destruction the size of a star.
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* AlmightyIdiot: It’s debatably the most powerful being in the setting, but it might not even be capable of thought.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It’s not even clear if Azathoth is sentient, much less capable of considering something as complex as morality.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Some have attempted to harness its power, attempts which usually end in the destruction of the entire planet.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite the title, Azathoth takes no more heed of daemons than it does anything else.
* PrimordialChaos: Its general appearance and state of being. It’s chaos without any morality.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Azathoth comes from the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nhimbaloth]]
->’’’The Empty Death’’’
->’’’Outer Goddess of despair, ghosts, and swamps’’’
->’’’Alignment: ChaoticEvil’’’
Nhimbaloth hunts those who would themselves prey on souls traveling to the afterlife, consuming predator and prey as one. She has no form and is known only by the marks of her passage.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: She’s the bigger fish to things like astradaeomons and sakhils.
* CessationOfExistence: If she consumes a soul, they’re gone for good. No passage onward, no afterlife, nothing but the agony of death and nonexistence.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Predators hunt the metaphysical banks and depths of the River of Souls, eager to pluck out and devour drifting souls before they can be reach Pharasma's Boneyard. In turn Nhimbaloth feeds upon those predators.
* TheGhost: She’s never been seen and only the corrupted land left behind by her passage proves her existence.
* PublicDomainCharacter: She’s the creation of James Jacob from ‘’The Elder Mythos’’.
* SoulEating: Nhimbaloth revels in the digestion of souls already being digested in the gullets of predators.
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