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*** There are also two more derived games - ''Mansions of Madness'' and ''Eldritch Horror''; while the original takes place in LovecraftCountry, the followup games have creepy old houses and the entire world as settings, respectively.
** 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.
* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. An RPG set about 80 years in the future after the Mi-go (or rather, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]) have attacked Earth and the Great Old Ones are stirring. It combines Creator/HPLovecraft with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (what with the gigantic biological weapons called Engels that pilots mentally sync to and ride in their spines). It also throws ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' into the mix, with abominable {{Exp|y}}ies of Guyvers and Zoanoids (you can actually play the former - and the latter, with the advent of later books).
** 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.
* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. An RPG set about 80 years in the future after the Mi-go (or rather, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]) have attacked Earth and the Great Old Ones are stirring. It combines Creator/HPLovecraft with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (what with the gigantic biological weapons called Engels that pilots mentally sync to and ride in their spines). It also throws ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' into the mix, with abominable {{Exp|y}}ies of Guyvers and Zoanoids (you can actually play the former - and the latter, with the advent of later books).
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*** There are also two more derived games - -- ''Mansions of Madness'' and ''Eldritch Horror''; while the original takes place in LovecraftCountry, the followup games have creepy old houses and the entire world as settings, respectively.
** 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.
* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. An RPG set about 80 years in the future after the Mi-go (or rather, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]) have attacked Earth and the Great Old Ones are stirring. It combines Creator/HPLovecraft with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (what with the gigantic biological weapons called Engels that pilots mentally sync to and ride in their spines). It also throws ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' into the mix, with abominable {{Exp|y}}ies of Guyvers and Zoanoids (you can actually play the former- -- and the latter, with the advent of later books).
** 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
* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. An RPG set about 80 years in the future after the Mi-go (or rather, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]) have attacked Earth and the Great Old Ones are stirring. It combines Creator/HPLovecraft with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (what with the gigantic biological weapons called Engels that pilots mentally sync to and ride in their spines). It also throws ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' into the mix, with abominable {{Exp|y}}ies of Guyvers and Zoanoids (you can actually play the former
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** 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.
** Expanded upon in ''TabletopGame/TheGatesOfHell'' fan supplement. Asmodeus is the Prime Force of Lawful Evil, who initially was part of a circle of three beings. Once their disagreements on how to arrange the multiverse caused them to separate, Lawful Good was flung up and created Heaven, Lawful Neutral was flung sideways and became the cogs of Mechanicus, and Lawful Evil was flung down. That fall didn't create two of Hell's circles, it created all of them. The Ancient Baatorians, the Malefircareim, were formed out of his blood, each a demigod. Then, a trillion or so years later, the Overlord awoke, found his "children" to be too independent, and created an avatar to put them in place. That wasn't Asmodeus; he was named Lucifer. The final battle was Lucifer against ''nine million'' of the demigods, and it was a CurbStompBattle. He spared a few to become the Lords of Nine and other noblemen, and created a hierarchy of weaker devils, from lemures to pit fiends [[note]]some Malefircareim did flee or were spared for the Overlord's own reasons, and yes, the nupperibo, who, unlike the lemures, are born from the very ground of Hell, will eventually evolve into them - with an intermediate stage called barregons[[/note]]. A couple trillion years later, the Overlord grew wary of gods opposing him, so he created a second avatar, Asmodeus, and [[XanatosGambit "overthrew" Lucifer, to make Hell appear less threatening]]. When a devil who aided Asmodeus, who also happened to be his wife, suspected something and wanted to know more about him... well, she was never the same after he showed her, ultimately getting killed while attempting a literal BrainBleach. Now, what is the Overlord doing with his time? He feeds upon mortal souls in order to heal his real body. How big is the body? Not hundreds of miles. It is a winged serpent ''which can fit the entire Earth on a single one of its scales''.
** Expanded upon in ''TabletopGame/TheGatesOfHell'' fan supplement. Asmodeus is the Prime Force of Lawful Evil, who initially was part of a circle of three beings. Once their disagreements on how to arrange the multiverse caused them to separate, Lawful Good was flung up and created Heaven, Lawful Neutral was flung sideways and became the cogs of Mechanicus, and Lawful Evil was flung down. That fall didn't create two of Hell's circles, it created all of them. The Ancient Baatorians, the Malefircareim, were formed out of his blood, each a demigod. Then, a trillion or so years later, the Overlord awoke, found his "children" to be too independent, and created an avatar to put them in place. That wasn't Asmodeus; he was named Lucifer. The final battle was Lucifer against ''nine million'' of the demigods, and it was a CurbStompBattle. He spared a few to become the Lords of Nine and other noblemen, and created a hierarchy of weaker devils, from lemures to pit fiends [[note]]some Malefircareim did flee or were spared for the Overlord's own reasons, and yes, the nupperibo, who, unlike the lemures, are born from the very ground of Hell, will eventually evolve into them - with an intermediate stage called barregons[[/note]]. A couple trillion years later, the Overlord grew wary of gods opposing him, so he created a second avatar, Asmodeus, and [[XanatosGambit "overthrew" Lucifer, to make Hell appear less threatening]]. When a devil who aided Asmodeus, who also happened to be his wife, suspected something and wanted to know more about him... well, she was never the same after he showed her, ultimately getting killed while attempting a literal BrainBleach. Now, what is the Overlord doing with his time? He feeds upon mortal souls in order to heal his real body. How big is the body? Not hundreds of miles. It is a winged serpent ''which can fit the entire Earth on a single one of its scales''.
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** 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.
** Expanded upon in ''TabletopGame/TheGatesOfHell'' fan supplement. Asmodeus is the Prime Force of Lawful Evil, who initially was part of a circle of three beings. Once their disagreements on how to arrange the multiverse caused them to separate, Lawful Good was flung up and created Heaven, Lawful Neutral was flung sideways and became the cogs of Mechanicus, and Lawful Evil was flung down. That fall didn't create two of Hell's circles, it created all of them. The Ancient Baatorians, the Malefircareim, were formed out of his blood, each a demigod. Then, a trillion or so years later, the Overlord awoke, found his "children" to be too independent, and created an avatar to put them in place. That wasn't Asmodeus; he was named Lucifer. The final battle was Lucifer against ''nine million'' of the demigods, and it was a CurbStompBattle. He spared a few to become the Lords of Nine and other noblemen, and created a hierarchy of weaker devils, from lemures to pit fiends [[note]]some Malefircareim did flee or were spared for the Overlord's own reasons, and yes, the nupperibo, who, unlike the lemures, are born from the very ground of Hell, will eventually evolve into them- -- with an intermediate stage called barregons[[/note]]. A couple trillion years later, the Overlord grew wary of gods opposing him, so he created a second avatar, Asmodeus, and [[XanatosGambit "overthrew" Lucifer, to make Hell appear less threatening]]. When a devil who aided Asmodeus, who also happened to be his wife, suspected something and wanted to know more about him... well, she was never the same after he showed her, ultimately getting killed while attempting a literal BrainBleach. Now, what is the Overlord doing with his time? He feeds upon mortal souls in order to heal his real body. How big is the body? Not hundreds of miles. It is a winged serpent ''which can fit the entire Earth on a single one of its scales''.
** Expanded upon in ''TabletopGame/TheGatesOfHell'' fan supplement. Asmodeus is the Prime Force of Lawful Evil, who initially was part of a circle of three beings. Once their disagreements on how to arrange the multiverse caused them to separate, Lawful Good was flung up and created Heaven, Lawful Neutral was flung sideways and became the cogs of Mechanicus, and Lawful Evil was flung down. That fall didn't create two of Hell's circles, it created all of them. The Ancient Baatorians, the Malefircareim, were formed out of his blood, each a demigod. Then, a trillion or so years later, the Overlord awoke, found his "children" to be too independent, and created an avatar to put them in place. That wasn't Asmodeus; he was named Lucifer. The final battle was Lucifer against ''nine million'' of the demigods, and it was a CurbStompBattle. He spared a few to become the Lords of Nine and other noblemen, and created a hierarchy of weaker devils, from lemures to pit fiends [[note]]some Malefircareim did flee or were spared for the Overlord's own reasons, and yes, the nupperibo, who, unlike the lemures, are born from the very ground of Hell, will eventually evolve into them
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** The Qlippoth in the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' setting are Obyrith with the SerialNumbersFiledOff (or rather [[OlderThanTheyThink the reverse]]; [[RecursiveAdaptation 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...
*** The Far Realm's 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. Many other Franchise/CthulhuMythos-related entities make an appearance as well.
*** And there also is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Dominion of the Black]], an entire organization whose rank-and-file are apparently purpose-bred lesser abominations (a less-powerful version of the Neh-Thalggu brain collectors among them), who also hail from the dark recesses of the cosmos and may be linked to the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods; they may be preparing an invasion of Golarion (Pathfinder's main setting/world), and one of their supposed leaders is... [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Tychilarius THIS thing]].
*** The Aboleth also hold an important role in the setting and its history.
*** 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 Dark Tapestry's Franchise/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.
*** There are a few gods in the setting who can also be considered abominations such as Rovagug the Rough Beast, a titanic [[OmnicidalManiac world-destroying]] alien monstrosity which had to be [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in either]] [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a demiplane, Golarion's core, or a demiplane at Golarion's core]] by an alliance of of often [[EnemyMine otherwise opposed]] major gods at the dawn of creation, who still manages to unleash its spawn, titanic {{kaiju}} sized abominations from time to time (including the Tarrasque) and who is worshipped by nihilistic doomsday cults all over the world; he may have ties to either the lovecraftian Outer Gods of the Dark Tapestry, the abyssal Qlippoth, or both.
*** Long ago, the god Dou-Bral shared the portfolio of his half-sister Shelyn, that is to say, beauty, art, love, and joy. Then they had some sort of conflict, and Dou-Bral left reality to explore the dark places beyond and in-between the planes... When he came back, ''something'' [[EldritchAbomination from out there]] [[DemonicPossession was along for the ride]], and he became the god of pain, darkness and loss. Oh, and he now looks like [[https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Shelyn_vs_Zon-Kuthon.jpg this]].
*** The Far Realm's 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. Many other Franchise/CthulhuMythos-related entities make an appearance as well.
*** And there also is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Dominion of the Black]], an entire organization whose rank-and-file are apparently purpose-bred lesser abominations (a less-powerful version of the Neh-Thalggu brain collectors among them), who also hail from the dark recesses of the cosmos and may be linked to the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods; they may be preparing an invasion of Golarion (Pathfinder's main setting/world), and one of their supposed leaders is... [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Tychilarius THIS thing]].
*** The Aboleth also hold an important role in the setting and its history.
*** 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 Dark Tapestry's Franchise/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.
*** There are a few gods in the setting who can also be considered abominations such as Rovagug the Rough Beast, a titanic [[OmnicidalManiac world-destroying]] alien monstrosity which had to be [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in either]] [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a demiplane, Golarion's core, or a demiplane at Golarion's core]] by an alliance of of often [[EnemyMine otherwise opposed]] major gods at the dawn of creation, who still manages to unleash its spawn, titanic {{kaiju}} sized abominations from time to time (including the Tarrasque) and who is worshipped by nihilistic doomsday cults all over the world; he may have ties to either the lovecraftian Outer Gods of the Dark Tapestry, the abyssal Qlippoth, or both.
*** Long ago, the god Dou-Bral shared the portfolio of his half-sister Shelyn, that is to say, beauty, art, love, and joy. Then they had some sort of conflict, and Dou-Bral left reality to explore the dark places beyond and in-between the planes... When he came back, ''something'' [[EldritchAbomination from out there]] [[DemonicPossession was along for the ride]], and he became the god of pain, darkness and loss. Oh, and he now looks like [[https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Shelyn_vs_Zon-Kuthon.jpg this]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has inherited many of D&D's aberrations, and also includes a number of actual monsters from the Literature/CthulhuMythos, but it still has a few unique horrors of its own.
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of Oblivion]] in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of Oblivion]] in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has inherited many of D&D's ''D&D''[='=]s aberrations, and also includes a number of actual monsters from the Literature/CthulhuMythos, but it still has a few unique horrors of its own.
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God ofOblivion]] Oblivion]], Rovagug the Rough Beast, in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of
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** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessed him.]] If it is the latter, than the entity that returned and became Zon-Kuthon almost certainly applies.
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** Rovagug himself is a titanic [[OmnicidalManiac world-destroying]] alien monstrosity which had to be [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in either]] [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a demiplane, Golarion's core, or a demiplane at Golarion's core]] by an alliance of of often [[EnemyMine otherwise opposed]] major gods at the dawn of creation, who still manages to unleash its spawn through the gaps in his cage and who is worshipped by nihilistic doomsday cults all over the world; he may have ties to either the lovecraftian Outer Gods of the Dark Tapestry, the abyssal Qlippoth, or both.
** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessedhim.]] him]]. If it is the latter, than the entity that returned and became Zon-Kuthon almost certainly applies.applies.
** The qlippoth are the ''D&D'' obyrith with the SerialNumbersFiledOff (or rather [[OlderThanTheyThink the reverse]]; [[RecursiveAdaptation it's complicated]]). The qlippoth themselves are far more alien and monstrous than the demons, and predate any mortal concepts of forms and sanity, and the demon lords who started out as qlippoth are invariably the most monstrous and least humanoid ones. 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...
** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessed
** The qlippoth are the ''D&D'' obyrith with the SerialNumbersFiledOff (or rather [[OlderThanTheyThink the reverse]]; [[RecursiveAdaptation it's complicated]]). The qlippoth themselves are far more alien and monstrous than the demons, and predate any mortal concepts of forms and sanity, and the demon lords who started out as qlippoth are invariably the most monstrous and least humanoid ones. 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 Realm's 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. Many other Franchise/CthulhuMythos-related entities make an appearance as well. Aucturn may have links to this, as well -- like a lot of things concerning it, not much is very clear.
** And there also is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Dominion of the Black]], an entire organization whose rank-and-file are apparently purpose-bred lesser abominations (a less-powerful version of the Neh-Thalggu brain collectors among them), who also hail from the dark recesses of the cosmos and may be linked to the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods; they may be preparing an invasion of Golarion (''Pathfinder''[='=]s main setting/world), and one of their supposed leaders is... [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Tychilarius THIS thing]].
** 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 Dark Tapestry's Franchise/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. Most of the creatures living here worship either the Great Old Ones, the Dominion of the Black, Rovagug or some combination thereof.
** And there also is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Dominion of the Black]], an entire organization whose rank-and-file are apparently purpose-bred lesser abominations (a less-powerful version of the Neh-Thalggu brain collectors among them), who also hail from the dark recesses of the cosmos and may be linked to the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods; they may be preparing an invasion of Golarion (''Pathfinder''[='=]s main setting/world), and one of their supposed leaders is... [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Tychilarius THIS thing]].
** 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 Dark Tapestry's Franchise/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. Most of the creatures living here worship either the Great Old Ones, the Dominion of the Black, Rovagug or some combination thereof.
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*** The purest Fair Folk horror would be the hannya - a special kind of Unshaped that is formed from a narrative of predation, and serves as an UltimateLifeForm of the Fair Folk ecosystem. Even ''the other Fair Folk'' are afraid of the hannya, which is why they cannot return to the Deep Wyld - they will either be devoured by the hannya or ''become'' hannya through victories in the constant feeding frenzy.
* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Void]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean Krakens]], who dwell in interstellar space and are [[NothingIsScarier never actually physically described]]. The only sign of their existence is the frequent loss of ships that don't use the [[PortalNetwork Jumpgate system]] and instead rely on conventional, non-FTL propulsion (such as First Republic generation ships), which sometimes arrive at their (long since settled, due to Jumpgates) destination with ruptured hulls and ''gigantic sucker marks'' on them, as well as distress calls mentioning unimaginable, horrific ''things'' before being cut off in mid-sentence. The alien races of the setting seem to have had trouble with the Void Krakens as well in the past. The good thing? Apparently the beings cannot enter star systems - it's theoretized in-universe that either the Jumpgates or the stars themselves repel them. The bad thing, which incidentally lends credence to the second theory? Since the fading suns phenomenon began, Void Kraken attacks have again begun after millenia of inactivity. And not only begun, but increased exponentially...
* The ''Gumshoe System'' has openly embraced the concept for its first settings - there is ''Trail Of Cthulhu'', their own take on the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mythos]], but there is also the basic campaign world for ''Esoterrorists'' and ''Fear Itself'', which they have given the [[SarcasmMode cutesy moniker]] of '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast World of Unremitting Horror]]'''. The monsters, most of them described in the supplement ''The Book of Unremitting Horror'', are, for the most part, ghastly {{humanoid abomination}}s that seem straight out of one of Creator/CliveBarker's more horrifying stories, many also blurring the line with other monster types such as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[TheUndead undead]], and [[TheFairFolk fairies]], the worst being {{Reality Warper}}s from "The Outer Black"; many others [[TheHeartless feed on and/or are created by the worst aspects of human nature]] (for example, [[SnuffFilm the Snuff Golem]]). The entries, which include numerous fiction pieces and detailed descriptions of how to identify the things' depredations through forensic sciences, all add up to some serious NightmareFuel.
* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Void]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean Krakens]], who dwell in interstellar space and are [[NothingIsScarier never actually physically described]]. The only sign of their existence is the frequent loss of ships that don't use the [[PortalNetwork Jumpgate system]] and instead rely on conventional, non-FTL propulsion (such as First Republic generation ships), which sometimes arrive at their (long since settled, due to Jumpgates) destination with ruptured hulls and ''gigantic sucker marks'' on them, as well as distress calls mentioning unimaginable, horrific ''things'' before being cut off in mid-sentence. The alien races of the setting seem to have had trouble with the Void Krakens as well in the past. The good thing? Apparently the beings cannot enter star systems - it's theoretized in-universe that either the Jumpgates or the stars themselves repel them. The bad thing, which incidentally lends credence to the second theory? Since the fading suns phenomenon began, Void Kraken attacks have again begun after millenia of inactivity. And not only begun, but increased exponentially...
* The ''Gumshoe System'' has openly embraced the concept for its first settings - there is ''Trail Of Cthulhu'', their own take on the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mythos]], but there is also the basic campaign world for ''Esoterrorists'' and ''Fear Itself'', which they have given the [[SarcasmMode cutesy moniker]] of '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast World of Unremitting Horror]]'''. The monsters, most of them described in the supplement ''The Book of Unremitting Horror'', are, for the most part, ghastly {{humanoid abomination}}s that seem straight out of one of Creator/CliveBarker's more horrifying stories, many also blurring the line with other monster types such as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[TheUndead undead]], and [[TheFairFolk fairies]], the worst being {{Reality Warper}}s from "The Outer Black"; many others [[TheHeartless feed on and/or are created by the worst aspects of human nature]] (for example, [[SnuffFilm the Snuff Golem]]). The entries, which include numerous fiction pieces and detailed descriptions of how to identify the things' depredations through forensic sciences, all add up to some serious NightmareFuel.
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*** The purest Fair Folk horror would be the hannya - -- a special kind of Unshaped that is formed from a narrative of predation, and serves as an UltimateLifeForm of the Fair Folk ecosystem. Even ''the other Fair Folk'' are afraid of the hannya, which is why they cannot return to the Deep Wyld - -- they will either be devoured by the hannya or ''become'' hannya through victories in the constant feeding frenzy.
* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Void]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean Krakens]], who dwell in interstellar space and are [[NothingIsScarier never actually physically described]]. The only sign of their existence is the frequent loss of ships that don't use the [[PortalNetwork Jumpgate system]] and instead rely on conventional, non-FTL propulsion (such as First Republic generation ships), which sometimes arrive at their (long since settled, due to Jumpgates) destination with ruptured hulls and ''gigantic sucker marks'' on them, as well as distress calls mentioning unimaginable, horrific ''things'' before being cut off in mid-sentence. The alien races of the setting seem to have had trouble with the Void Krakens as well in the past. The good thing? Apparently the beings cannot enter star systems- -- it's theoretized in-universe that either the Jumpgates or the stars themselves repel them. The bad thing, which incidentally lends credence to the second theory? Since the fading suns phenomenon began, Void Kraken attacks have again begun after millenia of inactivity. And not only begun, but increased exponentially...
* The ''Gumshoe System'' has openly embraced the concept for its first settings- -- there is ''Trail Of Cthulhu'', their own take on the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mythos]], but there is also the basic campaign world for ''Esoterrorists'' and ''Fear Itself'', which they have given the [[SarcasmMode cutesy moniker]] of '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast World of Unremitting Horror]]'''. The monsters, most of them described in the supplement ''The Book of Unremitting Horror'', are, for the most part, ghastly {{humanoid abomination}}s that seem straight out of one of Creator/CliveBarker's more horrifying stories, many also blurring the line with other monster types such as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[TheUndead undead]], and [[TheFairFolk fairies]], the worst being {{Reality Warper}}s from "The Outer Black"; many others [[TheHeartless feed on and/or are created by the worst aspects of human nature]] (for example, [[SnuffFilm the Snuff Golem]]). The entries, which include numerous fiction pieces and detailed descriptions of how to identify the things' depredations through forensic sciences, all add up to some serious NightmareFuel.
* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Void]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean Krakens]], who dwell in interstellar space and are [[NothingIsScarier never actually physically described]]. The only sign of their existence is the frequent loss of ships that don't use the [[PortalNetwork Jumpgate system]] and instead rely on conventional, non-FTL propulsion (such as First Republic generation ships), which sometimes arrive at their (long since settled, due to Jumpgates) destination with ruptured hulls and ''gigantic sucker marks'' on them, as well as distress calls mentioning unimaginable, horrific ''things'' before being cut off in mid-sentence. The alien races of the setting seem to have had trouble with the Void Krakens as well in the past. The good thing? Apparently the beings cannot enter star systems
* The ''Gumshoe System'' has openly embraced the concept for its first settings
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** The game has a few more from different settings and splatbooks: ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: Cabal'', with its cosmology based on the qabbalah's Sephirot, has the creatures of Qlipoth and its Ur-Lords; ''Creatures of the Night'' has the godlike Betweeners, the force called "[[DarkIsEvil the darksome]]", which is responsible for the creation of the literal organ-farmer [[SplitPersonality Darklings]], and many of the non-undead creatures described; a few licenced settings (like ''Cthulhupunk'' and ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'') have their own native abominations; and ''Infinite Worlds'', the meta-setting that ties TheMultiverse together, not only makes ''all'' the previous settings inter-accessible, but also has at least one world (Taft-7) where humanity never evolved in the first place because of Great Old One (or similar) influence 50 million years back - and although they're long gone, they left enough "Fun Stuff" behind (and the risk of attracting their attention is great enough) for the agencies overseeing interdimensional travel to quarantine the world from any travel there whatever the reason.
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** The game has a few more from different settings and splatbooks: ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: Cabal'', with its cosmology based on the qabbalah's Sephirot, has the creatures of Qlipoth and its Ur-Lords; ''Creatures of the Night'' has the godlike Betweeners, the force called "[[DarkIsEvil the darksome]]", which is responsible for the creation of the literal organ-farmer [[SplitPersonality Darklings]], and many of the non-undead creatures described; a few licenced settings (like ''Cthulhupunk'' and ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'') have their own native abominations; and ''Infinite Worlds'', the meta-setting that ties TheMultiverse together, not only makes ''all'' the previous settings inter-accessible, but also has at least one world (Taft-7) where humanity never evolved in the first place because of Great Old One (or similar) influence 50 million years back - -- and although they're long gone, they left enough "Fun Stuff" behind (and the risk of attracting their attention is great enough) for the agencies overseeing interdimensional travel to quarantine the world from any travel there whatever the reason.
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* The Unspeakable One from the Freedom City ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' setting. (It also provides Golden Age stats for an eldritch entity, although that barely qualifies - it may ''look'' like Cthulhu, but it doesn't drive you mad simply from looking at it.)
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* The Unspeakable One from the Freedom City ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' setting. (It also provides Golden Age stats for an eldritch entity, although that barely qualifies - -- it may ''look'' like Cthulhu, but it doesn't drive you mad simply from looking at it.)
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' has three main types. First, the True Gods - some of the earliest gods to come into being, to be found below the world in an enormous mass of tentacles and weirdness, [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence simultaneously fighting and mating with each other]]. Next, the Excrucians, beings of not-being from outside reality who aim to destroy the universe, and finally, the Actuals, the precursors to the True Gods - the movement like life, before it learned to live. The Actuals are vital to the existence of reality - but if one is summoned into the world, it will consume ''everything'' in a futile attempt to attain self-awareness if it isn't stopped. The True Gods, on the other hand, could quite possibly be the guys who empower the [=PCs=].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' has three main types. First, the True Gods - -- some of the earliest gods to come into being, to be found below the world in an enormous mass of tentacles and weirdness, [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence simultaneously fighting and mating with each other]]. Next, the Excrucians, beings of not-being from outside reality who aim to destroy the universe, and finally, the Actuals, the precursors to the True Gods - -- the movement like life, before it learned to live. The Actuals are vital to the existence of reality - -- but if one is summoned into the world, it will consume ''everything'' in a futile attempt to attain self-awareness if it isn't stopped. The True Gods, on the other hand, could quite possibly be the guys who empower the [=PCs=].
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** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', most of the Antediluvians are still quite humanoid - in appearance, at least. But then you've got people like Ennoia (the Gangrel Antediluvian, a mass of animalistic features who is believed to have melded with the earth itself, rocked to sleep by its rotations like a babe in the cradle), Malkav (the Malkavian Antediluvian, willingly diablerized by his clan, existing in their head as a madness-linked HiveMind, and sometimes appearing in forms such as twelve identical little girls), Lasombra (believed destroyed, but instead he became one with the lightless Abyss that helps power [[CastingAShadow Obtenebration]]) and Tzimisce (a gigantic mass of sculpted flesh).
*** Which, in the case of V:TM, makes it only scarier, seeing as the central theme of the game is how a human is transformed into a monster and to what extent this transformation can go (and how it can be fought). Usually, the transformation is psychological - holding on to the last shreds of humanity is a necessity for a player character (unless he/she chooses a vampiric Path). But, with the Tzimisce, it is also physical, and ''willingly self-inflicted''. The scary thing about powerful Tzimisce, especially the Antediluvian itself, ''is'' that they were human once, and are Eldritch Abominations now.
*** Which, in the case of V:TM, makes it only scarier, seeing as the central theme of the game is how a human is transformed into a monster and to what extent this transformation can go (and how it can be fought). Usually, the transformation is psychological - holding on to the last shreds of humanity is a necessity for a player character (unless he/she chooses a vampiric Path). But, with the Tzimisce, it is also physical, and ''willingly self-inflicted''. The scary thing about powerful Tzimisce, especially the Antediluvian itself, ''is'' that they were human once, and are Eldritch Abominations now.
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** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', most of the Antediluvians are still quite humanoid - -- in appearance, at least. But then you've got people like Ennoia (the Gangrel Antediluvian, a mass of animalistic features who is believed to have melded with the earth itself, rocked to sleep by its rotations like a babe in the cradle), Malkav (the Malkavian Antediluvian, willingly diablerized by his clan, existing in their head as a madness-linked HiveMind, and sometimes appearing in forms such as twelve identical little girls), Lasombra (believed destroyed, but instead he became one with the lightless Abyss that helps power [[CastingAShadow Obtenebration]]) and Tzimisce (a gigantic mass of sculpted flesh).
*** Which, in the case of V:TM, makes it only scarier, seeing as the central theme of the game is how a human is transformed into a monster and to what extent this transformation can go (and how it can be fought). Usually, the transformation is psychological- -- holding on to the last shreds of humanity is a necessity for a player character (unless he/she chooses a vampiric Path). But, with the Tzimisce, it is also physical, and ''willingly self-inflicted''. The scary thing about powerful Tzimisce, especially the Antediluvian itself, ''is'' that they were human once, and are Eldritch Abominations now.
*** Which, in the case of V:TM, makes it only scarier, seeing as the central theme of the game is how a human is transformed into a monster and to what extent this transformation can go (and how it can be fought). Usually, the transformation is psychological
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*** The Baali have strong connections with a group of horrors called the Children of the Outer Dark, believed to have originated either before the universe came into existence or during its birth. Most of the time they're asleep, but should one begin to wake, all sapient minds around it will be driven to ever-greater acts of depravity - and in at least one case where one started waking up, reality warped and twisted around it to the point of breaking. Some of the Baali have taken it upon themselves to keep the Children asleep through the use of sacrifices and atrocities, which soothe the Children in their slumber.
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*** The Baali have strong connections with a group of horrors called the Children of the Outer Dark, believed to have originated either before the universe came into existence or during its birth. Most of the time they're asleep, but should one begin to wake, all sapient minds around it will be driven to ever-greater acts of depravity - -- and in at least one case where one started waking up, reality warped and twisted around it to the point of breaking. Some of the Baali have taken it upon themselves to keep the Children asleep through the use of sacrifices and atrocities, which soothe the Children in their slumber.
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* The Greater Titans of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' are beyond mortal ken. They're beyond ''divine'' ken. They are so divorced from reality [[LogicBomb (despite being incarnations of its primal concepts)]] that they had to divide their power among Avatars just to have a clue what they were doing. Each one is its own internal world. Worst of the lot, though, is Hundun, the Titan of Chaos. It alone of the Titans couldn't be bound, for doing so requires definition - and Hundun ''cannot be defined''. An easy way to enter Hundun is to have a God become the Void, the living embodiment of chaotic... and then jump in.
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* The Greater Titans of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' are beyond mortal ken. They're beyond ''divine'' ken. They are so divorced from reality [[LogicBomb (despite being incarnations of its primal concepts)]] that they had to divide their power among Avatars just to have a clue what they were doing. Each one is its own internal world. Worst of the lot, though, is Hundun, the Titan of Chaos. It alone of the Titans couldn't be bound, for doing so requires definition - -- and Hundun ''cannot be defined''. An easy way to enter Hundun is to have a God become the Void, the living embodiment of chaotic... and then jump in.
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** [[Metaplot/YuGiOhHiddenArsenal Worm Zero]] is a giant, moon-sized thing that looks like it has multiple heads sprouting out of itself, going by its effects, it can erase monsters by assimilating them, implant some hive mind knowledge into its user, or give birth to a worm. Said worms could also qualify, given their origins. it gets even worse [[AllThereInTheManual when you read the Master Guide explaining the Duel Terminal storyline]]. He's a huge mass of combined Worms - not because [[FusionDance they merged into one]], but because ''[[DevourTheDragon he devoured his own ranks]]''. He's so powerful its mere existence warped time and space in the Duel Terminal world.
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** [[Metaplot/YuGiOhHiddenArsenal Worm Zero]] is a giant, moon-sized thing that looks like it has multiple heads sprouting out of itself, going by its effects, it can erase monsters by assimilating them, implant some hive mind knowledge into its user, or give birth to a worm. Said worms could also qualify, given their origins. it gets even worse [[AllThereInTheManual when you read the Master Guide explaining the Duel Terminal storyline]]. He's a huge mass of combined Worms - -- not because [[FusionDance they merged into one]], but because ''[[DevourTheDragon he devoured his own ranks]]''. He's so powerful its mere existence warped time and space in the Duel Terminal world.
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** The God-Emperor of Mankind, amazingly enough. Even though he ''looks'' human, he's actually a living violation of physics so absurdly powerful that he serves as a navigation beacon in in the Warp, a chaotic dimension which is constantly shifting. In the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novels, it's shown that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the Emperor's appearance varies between who views him]]: for example, Lorgar saw him as a tall man with sun-kissed skin and black hair in a long ponytail, while Horus saw an old man with glowing wheels of fire for eyes, and Corax actually saw him as the latter first and then the former. It's speculated that if the Emperor ever dies then he will become a Chaos god himself, a Chaos god ''[[MindScrew of]]'' ''[[LightIsNotGood order]]''.
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** The God-Emperor of Mankind, amazingly enough. Even though he ''looks'' human, he's actually a living violation of physics so absurdly powerful that he serves as a navigation beacon in in the Warp, a chaotic dimension which is constantly shifting. In the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novels, it's shown that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the Emperor's appearance varies between who views him]]: for example, Lorgar saw him as a tall man with sun-kissed skin and black hair in a long ponytail, while Horus saw an old man with glowing wheels of fire for eyes, and Corax actually saw him as the latter first and then the former. It's speculated that if the Emperor ever dies then he will become a Chaos god himself, a Chaos god ''[[MindScrew of]]'' ''[[LightIsNotGood order]]''.
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*** WordOfGod later clarified that this was a joke and that [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith nonhumans see them as looking similar to themselves.]]
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** The D20 setting ''DragonMech'' has the lunar gods, mysterious entities from the [[ColonyDrop rapidly-descending moon]]. There are three main ones: Andakakilogitat, lunar god of dragons, a squirming mass of dragon parts; Erefiviviasta, lunar goddess of flight[[note]]"goddess" because there are ''slightly'' more female characteristics than male ones[[/note]], who is not described; and Seroficitacit, god of change, which is a perpetually mutating and somewhat insane mass of flesh.
** 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.
*** On [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?304-Eternity-Publishing-Hosted-Forum the forum which discusses possible ideas for these books]], one person suggested an adventure where a planet needs to be evacuated because it's a dragon egg about to hatch. The poster eventually made the idea into dragons[[note]]called Muhlatimic, after the Hebrew word for ''ultimate''[[/note]] which are the nerves of the AkashicRecords (the one power above God, basically). Their flavor text is about a MultiversalConqueror who has just crushed the God of another universe... and then he sees one of these dragons. It ends with him realizing that [[spoiler:the almighty artifact around which he built his empire is merely a scale said dragon lost]]. No attempts to stat the dragons have been made as of fall 2017.
** 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.
*** On [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?304-Eternity-Publishing-Hosted-Forum the forum which discusses possible ideas for these books]], one person suggested an adventure where a planet needs to be evacuated because it's a dragon egg about to hatch. The poster eventually made the idea into dragons[[note]]called Muhlatimic, after the Hebrew word for ''ultimate''[[/note]] which are the nerves of the AkashicRecords (the one power above God, basically). Their flavor text is about a MultiversalConqueror who has just crushed the God of another universe... and then he sees one of these dragons. It ends with him realizing that [[spoiler:the almighty artifact around which he built his empire is merely a scale said dragon lost]]. No attempts to stat the dragons have been made as of fall 2017.
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** The D20 setting ''DragonMech'' has the lunar gods, mysterious entities from the [[ColonyDrop rapidly-descending moon]]. There are three main ones: Andakakilogitat, lunar god of dragons, a squirming mass of dragon parts; Erefiviviasta, lunar goddess of flight[[note]]"goddess" because there are ''slightly'' more female characteristics than male ones[[/note]], who is not described; and Seroficitacit, god of change, which is a perpetually mutating and somewhat insane mass of flesh.
** 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.
*** On [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?304-Eternity-Publishing-Hosted-Forum the forum which discusses possible ideas for these books]], one person suggested an adventure where a planet needs to be evacuated because it's a dragon egg about to hatch. The poster eventually made the idea into dragons[[note]]called Muhlatimic, after the Hebrew word for ''ultimate''[[/note]] which are the nerves of the AkashicRecords (the one power above God, basically). Their flavor text is about a MultiversalConqueror who has just crushed the God of another universe... and then he sees one of these dragons. It ends with him realizing that [[spoiler:the almighty artifact around which he built his empire is merely a scale said dragon lost]]. No attempts to stat the dragons have been made as of fall 2017.
** 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.
*** On [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?304-Eternity-Publishing-Hosted-Forum the forum which discusses possible ideas for these books]], one person suggested an adventure where a planet needs to be evacuated because it's a dragon egg about to hatch. The poster eventually made the idea into dragons[[note]]called Muhlatimic, after the Hebrew word for ''ultimate''[[/note]] which are the nerves of the AkashicRecords (the one power above God, basically). Their flavor text is about a MultiversalConqueror who has just crushed the God of another universe... and then he sees one of these dragons. It ends with him realizing that [[spoiler:the almighty artifact around which he built his empire is merely a scale said dragon lost]]. No attempts to stat the dragons have been made as of fall 2017.
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*** Aboleths themselves are very strange creatures. Though they look like sea monsters, the three eyes arranged vertically tell you they are something much more alien. Their species is [[TimeAbyss older than the gods]] and all of them can remember all the way back then because they have perfect memory and receive all of their parent's memories when they are born.
*** The only thing that Aboleths are really disturbed by are the brain eating {{Cthulhumanoid}}s known as Illithids, simply because Aboleths have no idea where they came from.
*** The only thing that Aboleths are really disturbed by are the brain eating {{Cthulhumanoid}}s known as Illithids, simply because Aboleths have no idea where they came from.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has inherited many of D&D's aberrations, and also includes a number of actual monsters from the Literature/CthulhuMythos, but it still has a few unique horrors of its own.
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of Oblivion]] in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
*** Festering Ulunat, The Unholy First -- An immense ten-limbed three-eyed beetle-monster that sprayed gouts of acid, chewed its way through mountains and could [[AntiMagic absorb spells]] before returning necrotic energies that drove spell-wielders into insanity.
*** Great Doom Chemnosit, The Monarch Worm -- A {{kaiju}}-sized SandWorm with DisintegratorRay EyeBeams and the ability to MindRape people into insane, ravening cannibals who [[AutoCannibalism will devour their own flesh if nothing else is available]].
*** Unyielding Kothogaz, the Dance of Disharmony -- A horrific slug-beetle abomination that spawned countless abominations in its wake and which reanimated its victims as a ravening ZombieApocalypse.
*** Wrath-Blazing Xotani, the Firebleeder -- An immense dragon-centipede made of [[MagmaMan living volcanic rocks and flames]].
*** Volnagur, The End-Singer -- A star-shaped monster suspended by an endless array of eternally rotting and regrowing random wings, which sings a ceaseless cry that drives the listeners into madness.
** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessed him.]] If it is the latter, than the entity that returned and became Zon-Kuthon almost certainly applies.
** The literally biggest one (so far) would be Aucturn, an entire living planet roughly ''twice'' the size of the Earth-like Golarion with rubbery soil and vast seas and rivers of black ooze beneath. Populated by... pretty much everything mentioned above. Features of the planet are literally rotting temples of flesh-stone blocks, citadels of insane cultists, a valley full of cloying mists that make the inhabitants impregnate any outsiders(as opposed to eating or sacrificing them elsewhere) and a massive mound that contains Aucturn's gestating offspring. Oh, did we mention this horrible, horrible planet is '''''pregnant?'''''
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of Oblivion]] in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
*** Festering Ulunat, The Unholy First -- An immense ten-limbed three-eyed beetle-monster that sprayed gouts of acid, chewed its way through mountains and could [[AntiMagic absorb spells]] before returning necrotic energies that drove spell-wielders into insanity.
*** Great Doom Chemnosit, The Monarch Worm -- A {{kaiju}}-sized SandWorm with DisintegratorRay EyeBeams and the ability to MindRape people into insane, ravening cannibals who [[AutoCannibalism will devour their own flesh if nothing else is available]].
*** Unyielding Kothogaz, the Dance of Disharmony -- A horrific slug-beetle abomination that spawned countless abominations in its wake and which reanimated its victims as a ravening ZombieApocalypse.
*** Wrath-Blazing Xotani, the Firebleeder -- An immense dragon-centipede made of [[MagmaMan living volcanic rocks and flames]].
*** Volnagur, The End-Singer -- A star-shaped monster suspended by an endless array of eternally rotting and regrowing random wings, which sings a ceaseless cry that drives the listeners into madness.
** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessed him.]] If it is the latter, than the entity that returned and became Zon-Kuthon almost certainly applies.
** The literally biggest one (so far) would be Aucturn, an entire living planet roughly ''twice'' the size of the Earth-like Golarion with rubbery soil and vast seas and rivers of black ooze beneath. Populated by... pretty much everything mentioned above. Features of the planet are literally rotting temples of flesh-stone blocks, citadels of insane cultists, a valley full of cloying mists that make the inhabitants impregnate any outsiders(as opposed to eating or sacrificing them elsewhere) and a massive mound that contains Aucturn's gestating offspring. Oh, did we mention this horrible, horrible planet is '''''pregnant?'''''
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has inherited many of D&D's aberrations, and also includes a number of actual monsters from the Literature/CthulhuMythos, but it still has a few unique horrors of its own.
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of Oblivion]] in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
*** Festering Ulunat, The Unholy First -- An immense ten-limbed three-eyed beetle-monster that sprayed gouts of acid, chewed its way through mountains and could [[AntiMagic absorb spells]] before returning necrotic energies that drove spell-wielders into insanity.
*** Great Doom Chemnosit, The Monarch Worm -- A {{kaiju}}-sized SandWorm with DisintegratorRay EyeBeams and the ability to MindRape people into insane, ravening cannibals who [[AutoCannibalism will devour their own flesh if nothing else is available]].
*** Unyielding Kothogaz, the Dance of Disharmony -- A horrific slug-beetle abomination that spawned countless abominations in its wake and which reanimated its victims as a ravening ZombieApocalypse.
*** Wrath-Blazing Xotani, the Firebleeder -- An immense dragon-centipede made of [[MagmaMan living volcanic rocks and flames]].
*** Volnagur, The End-Singer -- A star-shaped monster suspended by an endless array of eternally rotting and regrowing random wings, which sings a ceaseless cry that drives the listeners into madness.
** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessed him.]] If it is the latter, than the entity that returned and became Zon-Kuthon almost certainly applies.
** The literally biggest one(so far) would be Aucturn, an entire living planet roughly ''twice'' the size of the Earth-like Golarion with rubbery soil and vast seas and rivers of black ooze beneath. Populated by... pretty much everything mentioned above. Features of the planet are literally rotting temples of flesh-stone blocks, citadels of insane cultists, a valley full of cloying mists that make the inhabitants impregnate any outsiders(as opposed to eating or sacrificing them elsewhere) and a massive mound that contains Aucturn's gestating offspring. Oh, did we mention this horrible, horrible planet is '''''pregnant?'''''
** Like the Spawn of Rovagug, the monstrous {{kaiju}}-sized abominations spawned by the resident [[OmnicidalManiac God of Oblivion]] in an effort to destroy the world and set him free. Remember the Tarrasque? It's back in Golarion, it's even ''more'' unstoppable, to the point its InUniverse [[TheRedBaron appellation]] is "The Armageddon Engine", and it's just ''one'' of the Spawn. The others named consist of:
*** Festering Ulunat, The Unholy First -- An immense ten-limbed three-eyed beetle-monster that sprayed gouts of acid, chewed its way through mountains and could [[AntiMagic absorb spells]] before returning necrotic energies that drove spell-wielders into insanity.
*** Great Doom Chemnosit, The Monarch Worm -- A {{kaiju}}-sized SandWorm with DisintegratorRay EyeBeams and the ability to MindRape people into insane, ravening cannibals who [[AutoCannibalism will devour their own flesh if nothing else is available]].
*** Unyielding Kothogaz, the Dance of Disharmony -- A horrific slug-beetle abomination that spawned countless abominations in its wake and which reanimated its victims as a ravening ZombieApocalypse.
*** Wrath-Blazing Xotani, the Firebleeder -- An immense dragon-centipede made of [[MagmaMan living volcanic rocks and flames]].
*** Volnagur, The End-Singer -- A star-shaped monster suspended by an endless array of eternally rotting and regrowing random wings, which sings a ceaseless cry that drives the listeners into madness.
** Another example is the god of pain, loss, and darkness, Zon-Kuthon. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. A young, carefree god of beauty traveled outside of reality and whatever he saw there either drove him to madness or [[DemonicPossession possessed him.]] If it is the latter, than the entity that returned and became Zon-Kuthon almost certainly applies.
** The literally biggest one(so far) would be Aucturn, an entire living planet roughly ''twice'' the size of the Earth-like Golarion with rubbery soil and vast seas and rivers of black ooze beneath. Populated by... pretty much everything mentioned above. Features of the planet are literally rotting temples of flesh-stone blocks, citadels of insane cultists, a valley full of cloying mists that make the inhabitants impregnate any outsiders(as opposed to eating or sacrificing them elsewhere) and a massive mound that contains Aucturn's gestating offspring. Oh, did we mention this horrible, horrible planet is '''''pregnant?'''''
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*** ''V20 Dark Ages'' introduces a minor Abomination in the backstory of the Bonsam bloodline, an ancient darkness from before the universe was formed that tried to possess a human, but accidentally killed him in the process. The darkness acknowledged neither life or death, so it animated him as the first of the Bonsam. It's implied that it may not be the only one lurking out there...
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*** ''V20 Dark Ages'' introduces a minor Abomination in the backstory of the Bonsam bloodline, bloodline: an ancient darkness from before the universe was formed that tried to possess a human, but accidentally killed him in the process. The darkness acknowledged neither life or death, so it animated him as the first of the Bonsam. It's implied that it may not be the only one lurking out there...
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*** One could argue that the Abyss, a LayeredWorld upon a LayeredWorld, is a similar kind of living EldritchLocation; Many of the levels of the Abyss are certainly alive and thinking, the 92nd layer itself being no more than a giant tentacle monster called a Draeden, however it's made clear that the Abyss as a whole, and the Demons that live within, are a single entity. It's inferred that the already infinitely deep Abyss feeds on the other dimensions around it, absorbing them into it's mass; and worse yet, [[FromBadToWorse It's growing]] ''[[MoreThanInfinite even bigger]]''.
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*** One could argue that the Abyss, a LayeredWorld upon a LayeredWorld, is a similar kind of living EldritchLocation; EldritchLocation. Many of the levels of the Abyss are certainly alive and thinking, the 92nd layer itself being no more than a giant tentacle monster called a Draeden, Draeden; however it's made clear that the Abyss as a whole, and the Demons that live within, are a single entity. It's inferred that the already infinitely deep Abyss feeds on the other dimensions around it, absorbing them into it's its mass; and worse yet, [[FromBadToWorse It's growing]] ''[[MoreThanInfinite even bigger]]''.
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** The Gibbering Mouther is the most well known and reviled example of horrendous Aberration type creatures hailing from the Far Realm, a BlobMonster with TooManyMouths and [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes in weird places]] whose constant gibbering induces BrownNote and sucks blood from it's victems. Plus, some excerpts directly reference Lovecraft's own Shoggoth, of which it perfectly resembles.
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** The Gibbering Mouther is the most well known and reviled example of horrendous Aberration type creatures hailing from the Far Realm, a BlobMonster with TooManyMouths and [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes in weird places]] whose constant gibbering induces BrownNote and sucks blood from it's victems.its victims. Plus, some excerpts directly reference Lovecraft's own Shoggoth, of which it perfectly resembles.
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** The Beholders are one of D&D's most iconic aberrations. Most kinds of Beholders look like floating spheres with a mouth and a huge eye and a large number smaller eyes on eye stalks, with each eye having a different power. Beholders became even stranger in fifth edition where it is retconned that beholders do not reproduce by regular means, but instead reproduce by dreaming. Having the ability to [[RealityWarper warp reality]] in their sleep, they unconsciously create new beholders based on what they dream about. This has lead to a theory that the whole world is just a beholder's dream.
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** Many of the CthulhuMythos deities (such as Cthulhu himself) have entries in the 1st edition Deities & Demigods supplement -- and the way 1st edition rules worked, a high enough leveled player character could, in fact, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch them to death.]]
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** Many of the CthulhuMythos Franchise/CthulhuMythos deities (such as Cthulhu himself) have entries in the 1st edition Deities & Demigods supplement -- and the way 1st edition rules worked, a high enough leveled player character could, in fact, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch them to death.]]
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*** The Far Realm's 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. Many other CthulhuMythos-related entities make an appearance as well.
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*** The Far Realm's 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. Many other CthulhuMythos-related Franchise/CthulhuMythos-related entities make an appearance as well.
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*** 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 Dark Tapestry'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.
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*** 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 Dark Tapestry's CthulhuMythos), Franchise/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.
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* The ''Gumshoe System'' has openly embraced the concept for its first settings - there is ''Trail Of Cthulhu'', their own take on the [[CthulhuMythos Mythos]], but there is also the basic campaign world for ''Esoterrorists'' and ''Fear Itself'', which they have given the [[SarcasmMode cutesy moniker]] of '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast World of Unremitting Horror]]'''. The monsters, most of them described in the supplement ''The Book of Unremitting Horror'', are, for the most part, ghastly {{humanoid abomination}}s that seem straight out of one of Creator/CliveBarker's more horrifying stories, many also blurring the line with other monster types such as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[TheUndead undead]], and [[TheFairFolk fairies]], the worst being {{Reality Warper}}s from "The Outer Black"; many others [[TheHeartless feed on and/or are created by the worst aspects of human nature]] (for example, [[SnuffFilm the Snuff Golem]]). The entries, which include numerous fiction pieces and detailed descriptions of how to identify the things' depredations through forensic sciences, all add up to some serious NightmareFuel.
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* The ''Gumshoe System'' has openly embraced the concept for its first settings - there is ''Trail Of Cthulhu'', their own take on the [[CthulhuMythos [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mythos]], but there is also the basic campaign world for ''Esoterrorists'' and ''Fear Itself'', which they have given the [[SarcasmMode cutesy moniker]] of '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast World of Unremitting Horror]]'''. The monsters, most of them described in the supplement ''The Book of Unremitting Horror'', are, for the most part, ghastly {{humanoid abomination}}s that seem straight out of one of Creator/CliveBarker's more horrifying stories, many also blurring the line with other monster types such as [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[TheUndead undead]], and [[TheFairFolk fairies]], the worst being {{Reality Warper}}s from "The Outer Black"; many others [[TheHeartless feed on and/or are created by the worst aspects of human nature]] (for example, [[SnuffFilm the Snuff Golem]]). The entries, which include numerous fiction pieces and detailed descriptions of how to identify the things' depredations through forensic sciences, all add up to some serious NightmareFuel.
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** Next up is the [[CthulhuMythos 'Old Gods']]: [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Elder_God_Noden Elder God Noden]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Old_One_Chthugha Great Old One Chthugha]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_God_Nyarla Outer God Nyarla]], and their Boss Monster: [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_God_Azathoth Outer God Azathoth]]. Why is Azathoth their boss? By having all three as Xyz Material, it can wipe its opponent's field clean. These monsters also have a neat Spell Card accessory called [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Unspeakable_Trapezohedron The Unspeakable Trapezohedron]].
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** Next up is the [[CthulhuMythos [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos 'Old Gods']]: [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Elder_God_Noden Elder God Noden]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Old_One_Chthugha Great Old One Chthugha]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_God_Nyarla Outer God Nyarla]], and their Boss Monster: [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_God_Azathoth Outer God Azathoth]]. Why is Azathoth their boss? By having all three as Xyz Material, it can wipe its opponent's field clean. These monsters also have a neat Spell Card accessory called [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Unspeakable_Trapezohedron The Unspeakable Trapezohedron]].
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*** It turns out that the Gibbering Mouther is actually the weakest type of gibbering beasts. The stronger kinds are the gibbering abomination, which looks like a more solid mouther with tentacles that also has EyeBeams, and the gibbering orb, which looks like a floating sphere of eyes and mouths that have even more EyeBeams. Although gibbering beasts seem like they are completely insane, they actually are quite intelligent and may work with other kinds of aberrations to accomplish mysterious goals.
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** One of the last 3.5 books Wizards released is called "Elder Evils", which features a guide of how to create your ''own'' eldritch abomination, as well as several examples of BigBad Eldritch Abominations, including Ragnorra, the MookMaker SpaceWhale with an EvilutionaryBiologist streak; Pandorym, the living ForgottenSuperweapon with a personality you don't want ''anywhere near'' a ForgottenSuperweapon; Atropus, the [[OmnicidalNeutral undead planetoid]] (who is the quasi-sentient remains of the thing that birthed the universe); Kyuss, TheWormThatWalks (that's his ''actual title''); and [[AlienInvasion the Hulks of Zoretha]]. It also updates/reimagines one of D&D's earliest published examples of this trope: Zargon, a tentacled aberration revered by a fanatical drug-cult in ''B4: The Lost City''.
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** One of the last 3.5 books Wizards released is called "Elder Evils", which features a guide of how to create your ''own'' eldritch abomination, as well as several examples of BigBad Eldritch Abominations, including Ragnorra, the MookMaker SpaceWhale with an EvilutionaryBiologist streak; Pandorym, the living ForgottenSuperweapon with a personality you don't want ''anywhere near'' a ForgottenSuperweapon; Forgotten Superweapon; Atropus, the [[OmnicidalNeutral undead planetoid]] (who is the quasi-sentient remains of the thing that birthed the universe); Kyuss, TheWormThatWalks (that's his ''actual title''); and [[AlienInvasion the Hulks of Zoretha]]. It also updates/reimagines one of D&D's earliest published examples of this trope: Zargon, a tentacled aberration revered by a fanatical drug-cult in ''B4: The Lost City''.
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* Spoofed in ''{{Pokethulhu}}''. Yes, there are hideous, evil, non-Euclidean critters. But you can tame them and use them as {{Mons}} (and they still drive you to insanity).
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*** ''TabletopGame/LeviathanTheTempest'' allow you to ''play'' as one.
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*** Long ago, the god Dou-Bral shared the portfolio of his half-sister Shelyn, that is to say, beauty, art, love, and joy. Then they had some sort of conflict, and Dou-Bral left reality to explore the dark places beyond and in-between the planes... When he came back, ''something'' [[EldritchAbomination from out there]] [[DemonicPossession was along for the ride]], and he became the god of pain, darkness and loss. Oh, and he now looks like
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*** Long ago, the god Dou-Bral shared the portfolio of his half-sister Shelyn, that is to say, beauty, art, love, and joy. Then they had some sort of conflict, and Dou-Bral left reality to explore the dark places beyond and in-between the planes... When he came back, ''something'' [[EldritchAbomination from out there]] [[DemonicPossession was along for the ride]], and he became the god of pain, darkness and loss. Oh, and he now looks like [[https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Shelyn_vs_Zon-Kuthon.jpg this]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' is more or less on the opposite end of the scale from ''EarthDawn,'' with ''Shadowrun'' a world where [[TheMagicComesBack magic is on the increase]] and the Horrors not terribly far behind. While there's at least one group working to speed the process, there's also [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent others]] working to delay things, with the hope that this new-fangled technology thing can prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' is more or less on the opposite end of the scale from ''EarthDawn,'' ''[=EarthDawn=],'' with ''Shadowrun'' a world where [[TheMagicComesBack magic is on the increase]] and the Horrors not terribly far behind. While there's at least one group working to speed the process, there's also [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent others]] working to delay things, with the hope that this new-fangled technology thing can prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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** The Gibbering Mouther is the most well known and reviled example of horrendous Aberration type creatures hailing from the Far Realm, a BlobMonster with TooManyMouths and [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes in weird places]] whose constant gibbering induces BrownNote and sucks blood from it's victems. Plus, some excerpts directly reference Lovecraft's own Shoggoth, of which it perfectly resembles.
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*** One could argue that the Abyss, a LayeredWorld upon a LayeredWorld, is a similar kind of living EldritchLocation; Many of the levels of the Abyss are certainly alive and thinking, the 92nd layer itself being no more than a giant tentacle monster called a Draeden, however it's made clear that the Abyss as a whole, and the Demons that live within, are a single entity. It's inferred that the already infinitely deep Abyss feeds on the other dimensions around it, absorbing them into it's mass; and worse yet, [[FromBadToWorse It's Growing]].
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*** One could argue that the Abyss, a LayeredWorld upon a LayeredWorld, is a similar kind of living EldritchLocation; Many of the levels of the Abyss are certainly alive and thinking, the 92nd layer itself being no more than a giant tentacle monster called a Draeden, however it's made clear that the Abyss as a whole, and the Demons that live within, are a single entity. It's inferred that the already infinitely deep Abyss feeds on the other dimensions around it, absorbing them into it's mass; and worse yet, [[FromBadToWorse It's Growing]].
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** Warning, GM only info ahead: [[spoiler: the ETI, [[AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit a Kardashev III or maybe IV entity]] that created the Exsurgent Virus. Described as being [[TimeAbyss eons old]] and capable of megascale engineering with an understanding of physics, matter, energy, and universal laws that makes all of transhuman knowledge seem insignificant. And for some reason, it has seeded the galaxy with probes that infect near-singularity intelligences with civilization destroying viruses.]]
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** Expanded upon in ''TabletopGame/TheGatesOfHell'' fan supplement. Asmodeus is the Prime Force of Lawful Evil, who initially was part of a circle of three beings. Once their disagreements on how to arrange the multiverse caused them to separate, Lawful Good was flung up and created Heaven, Lawful Neutral was flung sideways and became the cogs of Mechanicus, and Lawful Evil was flung down. That fall didn't create two of Hell's circles, it created all of them. The Ancient Baatorians, the Malefircareim, were formed out of his blood, each a demigod. Then, a trillion or so years later, the Overlord awoke, found his "children" to be too independent, and created an avatar to put them in place. That wasn't Asmodeus; he was named Lucifer. The final battle was Lucifer against ''nine million'' of the demigods, and it was a CurbStompBattle. He spared a few to become the Lords of Nine and other noblemen, and created a hierarchy of weaker devils, from lemures to pit fiends [[note]]some Malefircareim did flee or were spared for the Overlord's own reasons, and yes, the nupperibo, who, unlike the lemures, are born from the very ground of Hell, will eventually evolve into them - with an intermediate stage called barregons[[/note]]. A couple trillion years later, the Overlord grew wary of gods opposing him, so he created a second avatar, Asmodeus, and [[XanatosGambit "overthrew" Lucifer, to make Hell appear less threatening]]. When a devil who aided Asmodeus, who also happened to be his wife, suspected something and wanted to know more about him... well, she was never the same after he showed her, ultimately getting killed while attempting a literal BrainBleach. Now, what is the Overlord doing with his time? He feeds upon mortal souls in order to heal his real body. How big is the body? Not hundreds of miles. It is a winged serpent ''which can fit the entire Earth on a single one of its scales''.
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*** On [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?304-Eternity-Publishing-Hosted-Forum the forum which discusses possible ideas for these books]], one person suggested an adventure where a planet needs to be evacuated because it's a dragon egg about to hatch. The poster eventually made the idea into dragons[[note]]called Muhlatimic, after the Hebrew word for ''ultimate''[[/note]] which are the nerves of the AkashicRecords (the one power above God, basically). Their flavor text is about a MultiversalConqueror who has just crushed the God of another universe... and then he sees one of these dragons. It ends with him realizing that [[spoiler:the almighty artifact around which he built his empire is merely a scale said dragon lost]]. No attempts to stat the dragons have been made as of fall 2017.
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** Some of the Utterances in ''TabletopGame/MummyTheCurse'' invoke cosmic horrors, but the standout here has to be Ancestry of Forgotten Stars in ''Guildhalls of the Deathless'', which invokes the power of otherworldly entities that once interbred with humankind. The first tier gives its participants a demonic spiritual form, allowing them to see and interact with spiritual entities, the second gives its participants access to powers utilising AlienGeometries and makes the demon-form visible in the material world, and the third sees the participants voluntarily and temporarily merge into an entity known as the Herald of Forgotten Stars, a creature of collapsed, convoluted space with many eyes and limbs, impossible to fully describe. Among other things, the Herald strikes terror into any mortal who sees it, inflicts damage on any non-supernatural living being unfortunate enough to be in the area, interacts with the physical and spiritual worlds simultaneously, and can answer ''any'' question posed to it save for certain key ones concerning the ''Mummy'' setting.
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** 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.
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** The caretaker 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]] EldritchLocation where ghosts go when they die; they feel eternal pain, but can never actually go insane from it.
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* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. An RPG set about 80 years in the future after the Mi-go (or rather, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]) have attacked Earth and the Great Old Ones are stirring. It combines Creator/HPLovecraft with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (what with the gigantic biological weapons called Engels that pilots mentally sync to and ride in their spines). It also throws ''{{Guyver}}'' into the mix, with abominable {{Exp|y}}ies of Guyvers and Zoanoids (you can actually play the former - and the latter, with the advent of later books).
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* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. An RPG set about 80 years in the future after the Mi-go (or rather, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]) have attacked Earth and the Great Old Ones are stirring. It combines Creator/HPLovecraft with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (what with the gigantic biological weapons called Engels that pilots mentally sync to and ride in their spines). It also throws ''{{Guyver}}'' ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' into the mix, with abominable {{Exp|y}}ies of Guyvers and Zoanoids (you can actually play the former - and the latter, with the advent of later books).
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** Now with a second expansion, based on TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom, with artwork by the webcomic's artist! [[CatchPhrase Yum Yum!]]
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** Now with a second expansion, based on TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom, Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom, with artwork by the webcomic's artist! [[CatchPhrase Yum Yum!]]
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** At the end of the Oath of the Gatewatch storyline, when the entireties of Ulamog and Kozilek are pulled into Zendikar, they lose their physical forms altogether and ''become the sky'', with a dome of bone and flesh replacing the clouds and sun, as if the whole world was now inside them. AlienGeometries is in effect, too, as one character compares the effect to space warping so that the outside of Ulamog's body is now in every direction she looks at, with its "actual" body still overhead even as its limbs and appendages pointing from every direction.
*** 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 all titans, Emrakul is also the biggest one.
*** Eldritch Moon set illustrates nicely what Emrakul does with living creatures: they mutate, often merge and become extensions of her will, growing much stronger in the process. Two other titans merely eat everything and transform landscape into wasteland.
*** 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 all titans, Emrakul is also the biggest one.
*** Eldritch Moon set illustrates nicely what Emrakul does with living creatures: they mutate, often merge and become extensions of her will, growing much stronger in the process. Two other titans merely eat everything and transform landscape into wasteland.
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*** 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
*** The Eldritch Moon set illustrates nicely what Emrakul does with living creatures: they mutate, often merge and become extensions of her will, growing much stronger in the process.
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** The Zendikar block storyline was about the awakening of a race of abominations called the Eldrazi, which had been [[SealedEvilInACan locked away]] six thousand years ago by Sorin Markov and two other planeswalkers. The block culminated in the Rise of the Eldrazi as Sorin failed to re-seal the prison. Unlike all other non-artificial creatures in Magic, the Eldrazi don't have a color: they are beyond the concepts the rest of the known Multiverse abides to. In addition to their [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=261321 entirely]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 alien]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193632 look]], they also annihilate a large part of your opponent's resources just by attacking, before they can even try to stop them. Eldrazi are also associated with some non-creature spells, which have very telling names such as [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193658 All is Dust]] or [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=198296 Not of This World]].
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** The Zendikar block storyline was about the awakening of a race of abominations called the Eldrazi, which live outside of the universes and "feed" off of reality, leaving the worlds they enter dead and bare of life and energy, and had been [[SealedEvilInACan locked away]] six thousand years ago by Sorin Markov and two other planeswalkers. The block culminated in the Rise of the Eldrazi as Sorin failed to re-seal the prison. Unlike all other non-artificial creatures in Magic, the Eldrazi don't have a color: they are beyond the concepts the rest of the known Multiverse abides to. In addition to their [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=261321 entirely]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 alien]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193632 look]], they also annihilate a large part of your opponent's resources just by attacking, before they can even try to stop them. Eldrazi are also associated with some non-creature spells, which have very telling names such as [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193658 All is Dust]] or [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=198296 Not of This World]].
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** At the end of the Oath of the Gatewatch storyline, when the entireties of Ulamog and Kozilek are pulled into Zendikar, they lose their physical forms altogether and ''become the sky'', with a dome of bone and flesh replacing the clouds and sun, as if the whole world was now inside them. AlienGeometries is in effect, too, as one character compares the effect to space warping so that the outside of Ulamog's body is now in every direction she looks at, with its "actual" body still overhead even as its limbs and appendages pointing from every direction.
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* The Unspeakable One from the Freedom City ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' setting. (It also provides Golden Age stats for an eldritch entity, although that barely qualifies - it may ''look'' like Cthulhu, but it doesn't drive you mad simply from looking at it.)
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* The Unspeakable One from the Freedom City ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' setting. (It also provides Golden Age stats for an eldritch entity, although that barely qualifies - it may ''look'' like Cthulhu, but it doesn't drive you mad simply from looking at it.)
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* Well, though the RPG of TabletopGame/{{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.
** There is [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/hestermoan.htm Hestermoan]], a horrible Nuckleavee-esque monstrosity created "as an instrument of genocide against a civilization, and so effective that their very name remains unrecoverable". It is every variant of PlagueMaster rolled into one horrible monstrosity, including a HatePlague to boot.
** Then there is the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/tormanshee.htm Tormanshee]], a creature that creates that can be best described as a neural network of MindRape. [[OhCrap And every mind it adds to the network increases its horrible mind rape radius]]. Oddly enough, it is also a NonMaliciousMonster, which just serves to make it even more disturbing.
** And finally, there is [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/mothneaser.htm Mothneaser]], an enormous pillar of flesh with such perfect control over its blood that it can create massive [[ShapeshifterWeapon Shapeshifter Weapons]], enormous Blood {{Golem}}s, and use victims as PeoplePuppets. And also, [[FromASingleCell even a single blood cell of its can multiply inside other creatures]] and consume them from the inside-out.
*** Oh, but we're not out of the woods yet, as there's a class of monsters based on the theme, called the Unknowns. These creatures include such lovely things as [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/psychodrome.htm a creepy interdimensional television "signal"]] [[TouchedByVorlons implied to have bounced off of]] [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]; [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/hobkin.htm a thing whose biology is]] [[BizarreAlienBiology so alien]] that nobody has the foggiest idea how the thing works; [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/xenogog.htm a diver-masked thing]] that can make itself intangible at will, spawns from AlienGeometries, and can see something [[UltimateEvil so horrible in television static that it breaks the TV in fear]]; [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/underfiend.htm a horrible thing that is the embodiment of]] Naughty Tentacles; and [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/avazoth.htm the]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/grenzo.htm Meteor]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/ziafel.htm Series]], [[BizarreAlienBiology which aren't even technically alive]].
*** The "honorary" Destroyer, [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/necromon.htm the Necromon]]. Originally just TheSymbiote, a unique mutation caused it to grow in size and intellect until it became a PhysicalGod with control over its smaller brethren, all of which serve as {{Amplifier Artifact}}s which also were the basis for an ''entire genus'' of monsters. It's [[LawfulGood friendly]], but it says something that the ''attempted'' replication of it is a capital crime in Mortasheen, on the basis of [[GoneHorriblyWrong what happens]]. The same people who banned this ''created'' the Destroyers, so something that scares [[NightmareFetishist them]] must be ''really'' bad.
** There is [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/hestermoan.htm Hestermoan]], a horrible Nuckleavee-esque monstrosity created "as an instrument of genocide against a civilization, and so effective that their very name remains unrecoverable". It is every variant of PlagueMaster rolled into one horrible monstrosity, including a HatePlague to boot.
** Then there is the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/tormanshee.htm Tormanshee]], a creature that creates that can be best described as a neural network of MindRape. [[OhCrap And every mind it adds to the network increases its horrible mind rape radius]]. Oddly enough, it is also a NonMaliciousMonster, which just serves to make it even more disturbing.
** And finally, there is [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/mothneaser.htm Mothneaser]], an enormous pillar of flesh with such perfect control over its blood that it can create massive [[ShapeshifterWeapon Shapeshifter Weapons]], enormous Blood {{Golem}}s, and use victims as PeoplePuppets. And also, [[FromASingleCell even a single blood cell of its can multiply inside other creatures]] and consume them from the inside-out.
*** Oh, but we're not out of the woods yet, as there's a class of monsters based on the theme, called the Unknowns. These creatures include such lovely things as [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/psychodrome.htm a creepy interdimensional television "signal"]] [[TouchedByVorlons implied to have bounced off of]] [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]; [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/hobkin.htm a thing whose biology is]] [[BizarreAlienBiology so alien]] that nobody has the foggiest idea how the thing works; [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/xenogog.htm a diver-masked thing]] that can make itself intangible at will, spawns from AlienGeometries, and can see something [[UltimateEvil so horrible in television static that it breaks the TV in fear]]; [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/underfiend.htm a horrible thing that is the embodiment of]] Naughty Tentacles; and [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/avazoth.htm the]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/grenzo.htm Meteor]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/ziafel.htm Series]], [[BizarreAlienBiology which aren't even technically alive]].
*** The "honorary" Destroyer, [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/necromon.htm the Necromon]]. Originally just TheSymbiote, a unique mutation caused it to grow in size and intellect until it became a PhysicalGod with control over its smaller brethren, all of which serve as {{Amplifier Artifact}}s which also were the basis for an ''entire genus'' of monsters. It's [[LawfulGood friendly]], but it says something that the ''attempted'' replication of it is a capital crime in Mortasheen, on the basis of [[GoneHorriblyWrong what happens]]. The same people who banned this ''created'' the Destroyers, so something that scares [[NightmareFetishist them]] must be ''really'' bad.
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** One of Pegasus' signature monsters, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Relinquished Relinquished]], could also qualify. Its main gimmick is assimilating an enemy monster into its body, taking on its stats, and using it as a meatshield in the event that it might be destroyed. Even worse than this is Thousand-Eyes Restrict, a Fusion Monster that is summoned using Relinquished as one of the components; it does the same thing that Reliquished does, but also prevents all monsters except itself from attacking (the anime suggests that this happens because all other monsters are paralyzed by fear). On an unrelated note, Thousand-Eyes Restrict is so powerful as a card, it's currently illegal to use for official games.
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** One of Pegasus' signature monsters, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Relinquished Relinquished]], could also qualify. Its main gimmick is assimilating an enemy monster into its body, taking on its stats, and using it as a meatshield in the event that it might be destroyed. Even worse than this is Thousand-Eyes Restrict, a Fusion Monster that is summoned using Relinquished as one of the components; it does the same thing that Reliquished does, but also prevents all monsters except itself from attacking (the anime suggests that this happens because all other monsters are paralyzed by fear). On an unrelated note, Thousand-Eyes Restrict is so powerful as a card, it's currently illegal to use for official games.
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* Naturally, Chaosium's ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' game is just ''full'' of them. One of the basic stats of [=PCs=], along with the normal STR, DEX, CON, WIS, INT and such, is SAN. That's ''[[SanityMeter Sanity]]''. It's arguably the most important single stat unless you ''want'' to keep rolling up new characters. And driving the trope home, increasing your Cthulhu Mythos skill ''directly'' [[DrivenToMadness reduces the extent to which]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation your lost Sanity]] can be regained. TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow indeed.
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* Naturally, Chaosium's Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' game is just ''full'' of them. One of the basic stats of [=PCs=], along with the normal STR, DEX, CON, WIS, INT and such, is SAN. That's ''[[SanityMeter Sanity]]''. It's arguably the most important single stat unless you ''want'' to keep rolling up new characters. And driving the trope home, increasing your Cthulhu Mythos skill ''directly'' [[DrivenToMadness reduces the extent to which]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation your lost Sanity]] can be regained. TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow indeed.
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* 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 of the last cataclysm the Horrors caused have just got to outlast their ability to keep existing in our world for a generation or two before they're all gone (most of them already are).
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* In the world of ''EarthDawn'', ''TabletopGame/{{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 of the last cataclysm the Horrors caused have just got to outlast their ability to keep existing in our world for a generation or two before they're all gone (most of them already are).
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* WhiteWolf's ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has some bizarre entities which originated in the [[PrimordialChaos chaotic non-place]] outside of reality itself.
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* ''[[TabletopGame/PoniesAndParasprites Ponies and Parasprites]]'' interprets the character of the Nightmare Force (the entity that corrupted Luna on the show and Rarity in the comics) as this. One of its Specialties is [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow "Things Ponies Were Not Meant To Know"]] and one of its powers is [[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace 'The Shadow out of Space']].
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* ''[[TabletopGame/PoniesAndParasprites Ponies and Parasprites]]'' ''TabletopGame/PoniesAndParasprites'' interprets the character of the Nightmare Force (the entity that corrupted Luna on the show and Rarity in the comics) as this. One of its Specialties is [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow "Things Ponies Were Not Meant To Know"]] and one of its powers is [[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace 'The Shadow out of Space']].
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* In Glorantha (as seen in RuneQuest and other sources), Chaos is like this. One major empire has an enslaved Chaos god/demon/thingy called the Crimson Bat. It's huge, it flies, it is covered with eyes, it glows with unholy energy, and it will eat your soul. It ''is'' crimson, and I suppose it's at least as much like a bat as it's like anything else... which isn't much.
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* In Glorantha (as seen in RuneQuest ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'' and other sources), Chaos is like this. One major empire has an enslaved Chaos god/demon/thingy called the Crimson Bat. It's huge, it flies, it is covered with eyes, it glows with unholy energy, and it will eat your soul. It ''is'' crimson, and I suppose it's at least as much like a bat as it's like anything else... which isn't much.
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* ''Silent Legions'', an upcoming product from Sine Nomine Publishing, is planned for modern-day delving into eldritch secrets, and will be compatible with ''TabletopGame/StarsWithoutNumber''. Core SWN, meanwhile, has the Shibboleth, strange aliens that can have any kind of weird shape, and which emanate an aversion field that prevents most species from realising the Shibboleth even exist, coming up with increasingly ludicrous rationalizations for the results of Shibboleth activity. Thankfully, a form of brain surgery that mimics the effects of [[CastFromHitPoints psionic torching]] can render people Clipped and immune to this field.
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* ''Silent Legions'', an upcoming product from Sine Nomine Publishing, is planned for modern-day delving into eldritch secrets, and will be compatible with ''TabletopGame/StarsWithoutNumber''. Core SWN, meanwhile, has the Shibboleth, strange aliens that can have any kind of weird shape, and which emanate an aversion field that prevents most species from realising the Shibboleth even exist, coming up with increasingly ludicrous rationalizations for the results of Shibboleth activity. Thankfully, a form of brain surgery that mimics the effects of [[CastFromHitPoints psionic torching]] can render people Clipped and immune to this field.
