History EldritchAbomination / TableTopGames

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' both have the Chaos gods. Residing in the deepest layers of [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the warp]], composed of [[TheHeartless every sapient thought and emotion]], they personify things like rage, scheming, despair and lust, but also things like honour, hope, resilience and love. They are so powerful and so incomprehensibly vast that they are utterly incapable of influencing anything outside of the warp, requiring their [[TheLegionsOfHell daemon hordes]] (all of whom are both separate individuals and aspects of the respective god) to recruit and kill in the material plane in their name.

*** The 360th issue of ''Dragon'' magazine, the last of the 3.5 edition era, had an article about her most (in)famous offspring, the {{Demon Lord|s And Archdevils}} Graz'zt, including allusions to [[MultipleChoicePast many possibilities]] besides the "official" one concerning who his father was. One of those possibilities? [[CthulhuMythos The Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep]].

*** Of the three Titans, Emrakul is the most eldritch. Ulamog and Kozilek have vaguely humanoid features (limbs, torsos, heads, etc.). Emrakul looks like a jellyfish from hell, as can be seen on the main page.

*** Of the three Titans, Emrakul is the most eldritch. Ulamog and Kozilek have vaguely humanoid features (limbs, torsos, heads, etc.). Emrakul looks like a jellyfish from hell.

*** The purest Fair Folk horror would be the hannya - a special kind of Unshaped that is formed from a narrative of predation. Even ''the other Fair Folk'' are afraid of the hannya.

** One of the various backstories of [[{{Satan}} Asmodeus]], the Lord of Nessus and King of Hell, is that he is actually one of these. What others see when dealing with him [[FightingAShadow is actually an advanced illusion]]. Asmodeus' real body is that of a titanic, ''hundreds of miles long'' serpentine creature named Ahriman who is still injured from his crash landing in Hell. He was some sort of [[TimeAbyss primordial entity who predated the Gods]] and either was thrown into Baator by the gods or crashed there after his struggle with his twin sister Jazirian (who seems to have become the god of the Couatls -AlwaysLawfulGood winged serpents- since then). In the latter case he somehow fell so hard he hit the bottom of the seventh layer (Baator initially had seven layers), fell ''through'' and created the eight layer, only to fall through ''that'' as well and landing on the ninth layer, where he came to a stop at the bottom of an impossibly deep canyon created by his fall.

** Before Asmodeus even landed in the Nine Hells, they were inhabited by the Ancient Baatorians. Hardly anything is known about them, since they appear to be resistant to both scrying and divine magic, and because Asmodeus has done his best to remove record of their existence from existence. They still occasionally manifest as indestructible, shapeless forms that breathe in light and breathe out darkness. Some of them even ''breathe life'' rather than light. Some say the Ancient Baatorians aren't even alive in the same way that both devils and mortals are - they're more some kind of formless primordial entity that can only partially manifest under certain conditions and in certain places. More strangely, the realm of Baator itself seems to be involved in their generation - nupperibo [[note]]the weakest type of devil[[/note] will evolve into an Ancient Baatorian over a very long period of time, which is why more powerful devils destroy nupperibo when they can.

** The sourcebook ''Second Sight'' has a pretty good chapter on building your own abomination, a MisanthropeSupreme or FallenHero to serve as their high priest, and a cult to worship them. The creation example is a being of dissonant sound. (Although one suggested weakness for this being -- music of unity -- seemed uncannily reminiscent of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 2''.)

* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' has the Cold Ones, entities living at the end of time, who'd like to go back and experience things like heat and movement.

*** The Neverborn are ''dead'' Primordials that you have to meet face to architecture. Killing them broke the universe and shat the entire Underworld into being. ''Their'' goal is to drag the whole of creation into Oblivion so that they can finally [[DeadedThanDead actually die]].

** The Obyrith were the demons who ruled the Abyss before the Tanar'ri; they existed [[TimeAbyss since before the dawn of time]] or at least conventional mortal life, often have incomprehensible biologies, and just glancing at one is enough to induce new phobias or temporary insanity. One of the oldest still extant, [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Pale Night]], horrifies ''reality itself'' to the point where reality hides it behind a series of ripples in existence [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith making her seem like an otherworldly woman hidden behing a series of veils]] and can ''kill'' [[BrownNote if you get a glance]] at [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm her true form]].

** The more mundane ones, which have been around for some time, have the "Horror" or "Nightmare" creature types. Not all of them fall under this trope, but a fair number do. For example, the [[http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/tcg/products/alarareborn/oz5ev5t1ru_EN.jpg Nemesis of Reason]]. Many of them either kill creatures simply by being them (in a way reminescent of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202486 Terror]], an old and classic spell for killing creatures), or attack the cards in your hand (representing your thoughts) or deck (representing your memories), which can eventually kill you.
** [[http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/mtgcom/arcana1000/1119_maritlagetoken.jpg Marit Lage]] is an ancient, betentacled SealedEvilInACan. The card [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=121155 Dark Depths]] allows you to ''unseal'' her. She's strong enough to kill a player in one hit if you manage to do so.

* ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill'' has, as one of its 'haunt' scenarios, 'The Stars are Right'. Just guess what survivors are trying to stop and what the traitor is trying to do.

** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' gives us the Fomorians, ancient, formless primordials and lords over winter and dark dreams. They were banished to the depths of the Dreaming by the Tuatha de Danaan, but as Winter approaches, they've started to make their way back...

* The darkness in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' is an unstoppable force that eats planets and turns everything on them into it's dark servants. It is locked out of the Milky Way Galaxy for now, but it still manages to get it's servants in from time to time so they can get it in.
** Also whatever The Caretaker of[[FateWorseThanDeath the death beyond death]] is for Ghosts
** The caretaker is actually implied to be the Darkness itself, and is described as being "a massive field of liquid darkness, made of thousands of mouths and eyes", it presides over an [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Location]] where ghosts go when they die, they feel eternal pain, but can never actually go insane from it.

* While [[HumansAreCthulhu our nature]] in ''{{Kult}}'' allows us to kick most super beings with ease once awakened, the Forgotten Gods are different stories. These beings represent principles incomprehensible to humanity and are powerful enough that they do not even care about the plans of the [[{{God}} Demiurge]] or [[{{Satan}} Astaroth]].
* ''MagicTheGathering'' has several kinds of those:

* The Lords of Cthul from ''{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' are the Cthulhu-esque, Godzilla-sized avatars of powerful extradimensional monsters... who get [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu bodyslammed]] regularly.
* In the TabletopGame ''MonstersAndOtherChildishThings'', one of the types of monsters used in its dark and twisted take on {{Mons}} are Eldritch Abominations. The non-statted sample monster Dewdrop is an Eldritch Abomination take on a unicorn, while one of the statted sample monsters is a Lovecraftian monstrosity merged with a teddy bear named [[ShoutOut Yog-So`Soft]]. Both these and the more "normal" monsters tend to cause bouts of panic and madness in people who see them as well, further adding to it. There are also a few non-{{Mon}} antagonists that are also abominations.
* Well, though the RPG of {{Mortasheen}} isn't out yet, there are three creatures in the setting so powerful they might as well be these. Called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Destroyers]], these unfathomably powerful weapons are as follows.

*** The [[BeneathTheEarth Vaults of Orv]] hold their fair share of abominations, such as the Neothelids and their minions (giant [[PsychicPowers psionic]] worm-things who worship the aforementioned DarkTapestry's CthulhuMythos), the [[PuppeteerParasite Intellect Devourers]], and the Ghorazaghs, also known as Gore Weavers because they use the blood of their victims as building materials for their bizarre hive cities.

** The Qlippoth in the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' setting are Obyrith with the SerialNumbersFiledOff (or rather [[OlderThanTheyThink the reverse]]; it's complicated), and cosmology-wise, the Abyss is a cancerous sore that's wrapped itself around reality. And the qlippoth may just originate from whatever is beyond it...

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** The [[http://www.rpgnow.com/product/3481/Immortals-Handbook--EPIC-BESTIARY-Volume-One?it=1 Immortals Handbook: Epic Bestiary]] 3rd-Party rulebook designed to make the best of the {{Absurdly High Level Cap}} features the 'Nehaschimic Dragons', beings who are described as 'nightmarish interdimensional creatures extraneous to the universe itself... transdimensional tapeworms writhing within the body of the [universe], a surreal symbiosis of reality and unreality'. In the rules, all Nehaschimic Dragons have the '[[RealityWarper Alter Reality]]' power, stupidly high {{Damage Reduction}}, [[AntiMagic immunity to all but a few]] [[AchillesHeel specific types]] [[AntiMagic of magic]] [[ElementalRockPaperScissors and elemental damage]], can travel at the speed of light ([[FasterThanLightTravel or faster]]), [[SuperSenses see all the way to the edge of their]] [[AnotherDimension current universe]], [[{{Sizeshifting}} grow to become bigger than]] [[AlienGeometries the universe]] ([[YourMindMakesItReal at least from your perspective]]) and their very presence causes [[GoMadFromTheRevelation permanent insanity]] for everything within miles. They also far exceed most other monsters in sheer size; the largest are well over a quarter mile long, [[AlienGeometries at least as far as their stats are concerned]]. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, there was only one Nehaschimic Dragon ever published, the Nexus or Wormhole Dragon. It has a BreathWeapon with a [[NoSavingThrow flat 50% chance]] (or higher) to shunt you into an AlternateUniverse, [[BornLucky power over probability]], and an aura of '[[PowerNullifier Unknowing]]' which can even cause the universe to [[RetGone forget you]] if you're weak enough. A few other have been [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?268666-3-5E-Nehaschimic-Dragons unofficially published online]], and are just as weird, if not more so, than the nexus dragon
* In the world of ''EarthDawn'', the cyclical ebb and flow of magic periodically allows Horrors to slip from their own dimension into the world and devour anything that moves. If you're lucky, they will devour your body before they start on the good stuff. Luckily for the world, [[TheMagicGoesAway magic energies are on the decline]], so the survivors the last cataclysm the Horrors caused have just to outlast their ability to keep existing in our world for a generation or two before they're all gone.

* WhiteWolf's ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has some bizarre entitites which originated in the [[PrimordialChaos chaotic non-place]] outside of reality itself.

*** The Neverborn are ''dead'' Primordials that you have to meet face to architecture. Killing them broke the universe and shat the entire Underworld into being.

** The various Obyrith subspecies existed [[TimeAbyss since before the dawn of time]], often have incomprehensible biologies, and just glancing at one is enough to induce new phobias or temporary insanity. One of the oldest horrifies ''reality itself'' and can ''kill'' [[BrownNote if you get a glance]] at [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm its true form]].

** The [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} Daelkyr]]. Extradimensional invaders who mess with the fabric of reality [[ForTheEvulz for shits and giggles]]. They also like to [[EvilutionaryBiologist mess with mortal biology like a kid plays with Play-Doh]].
*** For some reason, all of the six Daelkyr who were trapped on Eberron look like [[HumanoidAbomination unnaturally handsome male humans]] [[RedRightHand with one feature changed]]. The Master of Silence, the Daelkyr BigBad in ''Literature/TheDragonBelow'' Trilogy, has smooth skin where his mouth should be. According to WordOfGod, however, the question is not to ask why daelkyr look so humanoid, but to ask why ''humanoids'' look so ''daelkyr''...

** The Qlippoth in the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' setting, created third-party company (a WhiteWolf subsidiary, unsurprisingly) are Obyrith with the SerialNumbersFiledOff (or rather [[OlderThanTheyThink the reverse]]; see the Obyrith entry above), and cosmology-wise, the Abyss is a cancerous sore that's wrapped itself around reality. And the qlippoth may just originate from whatever is beyond it...
*** The Far Realms equivalent, called the Dark Tapestry, isn't very far, relatively speaking - it's actually ''The Void Between The Stars'', and to top it off, it's the domain of Lovecraftian entities, Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth included.

** One of the various backstories of [[Satan Asmodeus]], the Lord of Nessus and King of Hell, is that he is actually one of these. What others see when dealing with him [[FightingAShadow is actually an advanced illusion]]. Asmodeus' real body is that of a titanic, ''hundreds of miles long'' serpentine creature named Ahriman who is still injured from his crash landing in Hell. He was some sort of [[TimeAbyss primordial entity who predated the Gods]] and either was thrown into Baator by the gods or crashed there after his struggle with his twin sister Jazirian (who seems to have become the god of the Couatls -AlwaysLawfulGood winged serpents- since then). In the latter case he somehow fell so hard he hit the bottom of the seventh layer (Baator initially had seven layers), fell ''through'' and created the eight layer, only to fall through ''that'' as well and landing on the ninth layer, where he came to a stop at the bottom of an impossibly deep canyon created by his fall.

** The [[CollectibleCardGame CCG]] based on Call of Cthulhu (also by Fantasy Flight) has loads as well, although it's actually possible to see a game played in which they don't appear. Just not likely. (Sanity is too valuable as an attack vector.)

** Balor, the god of darkness. A humanoid being, but of such immense size and power that he can rampage across the world unstoppably. It's a good thing that he's [[SealedEvilInACan entombed in magical ice.]] His cultists, [[ElementalPowers the Darkness Elementalists,]] are granted some of the best elemental spells.
** From the same setting, the ''Blood Sword'' campaign/series reveals there are others, such as a trio of truly hideous demon-things that were worshipped in the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Middle-East equivalent]] before the spread of their [[CrystalDragonJesus Crystal Dragon Islam]] and [[EvilSorcerer the Archmagi of Krarth]], whose return from the void between the stars to their ruined fortress of Spyte heralds TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt; the battle againt just ''ONE'' is [[ClimaxBoss the hardest fight in the series]].

** One of the various backstories of Asmodeus, the Lord of Nessus and King of Hell, is that he is actually one of these. What others see when dealing with him [[FightingAShadow is actually an advanced illusion]]. Asmodeus' real body is that of a titanic, ''hundreds of miles long'' serpentine creature named Ahriman who is still injured from his crash landing in Hell. He was some sort of [[TimeAbyss primordial entity who predated the Gods]] and either was thrown into Baator by the gods or crashed there after his struggle with his twin sister Jazirian. In the latter case he somehow fell so hard he hit the bottom of the seventh layer (Baator initially had seven layers), fell ''through'' and created the eight layer, only to fall through ''that'' as well and landing on the ninth layer, where he came to a stop at the bottom of an impossibly deep canyon created by his fall.

* In ''TheWhisperingVault'', the player characters are all minor Eldritch Abominations who act as a "police force" that apprehends and retrieves other abominations who have illicitly made their way to Earth. [[spoiler:Reality is also AllJustADream cooked up by those abominations who haven't gone rogue.]]
* The {{Mad God}}s from ''{{Witchcraft}}''. When they intrude on our reality, they spread [[TheCorruption taint]], which causes [[BodyHorror mutations]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madness]], and [[RealityIsOutToLunch a weakening of the veil separating universes]], potentially allowing more to come through. In the follow-up game ''Armageddon'', a ReligionOfEvil dedicated to one of them called the Leviathan is currently trying to conquer the world in its name; it's about halfway done. You know it's bad when most angels and demons get to the conclusion that [[EnemyMine they have to work together if they want any chance of stopping it.]]

** While the Tyranids may seem more like a HordeOfAlienLocusts, the quintillions upon quintillions of ravenous beasts it unleashes are not actually individual beings, but merely a tiny part of the unimaginably vast single organism that is the Tyranid HiveMind. Utterly alien and of a near unprecedented power, capable of screwing with psykers and daemons within hundreds of light years of it, even people who have regularly fought and bested the horrors of the warp are terrified of such an implacable force.