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** The Great Mother is the patron deity and, in some versions, original creator of beholders. Humanoids see her as a constantly shifting beholder. Beholders, being narcissistic to a pathological degree, invariably see her as a godlike version of themselves.
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* As well as various aberrations, ''Lords of Madness'' discusses several alien gods revered by those aberrations, such as Mak Thuum Ngatha, the Nine-Tongued Worm, a godlike Far Realm entity whose tsochari minions insinuate its cult into the Prime Material Plane, or the Patient One, a shadowy, alien divinity that lurks in the darkness, whispering forbidden secrets.
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* The [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} Daelkyr]], extra-dimensional invaders who mess with the fabric of reality for [[ForTheEvulz shits and giggles]]. They also like to mess with mortal biology [[EvilutionaryBiologist like a kid plays with Play-Doh]]. And their plane of origin, Xoriat, is Eberron's cosmological equivalent to the [[EldritchLocation Far Realm]].
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* The [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} Daelkyr]], extra-dimensional invaders who mess with the fabric of reality for [[ForTheEvulz shits and giggles]]. They also like to mess with mortal biology [[EvilutionaryBiologist like a kid plays with Play-Doh]]. And their plane of origin, Xoriat, is Eberron's cosmological equivalent to the [[EldritchLocation Far Realm]]. Their mentalities are so alien that attempting to use telepathy on one forces an immediate saving throw to resist a ''confusion'' effect; Keith Baker has suggested that they may be able to perceive all of time at once, and the reason they're not working harder to break the seals that [[SealedEvilInACan keep them in Khyber]] is that they don't see much point. Also, all the other immortal conspiracies are at least a little afraid of them, because while demons may be virtually impossible to permanently kill, the Daelkyr could very likely reshape it into something ''else''.
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** Even more worrying than the Daelkyr's ability to rework you into a horrifying monster in person is that their RealityWarper powers are not significantly limited by range or logic. Belashyrra, the Lord of Eyes, has been sealed in a demiplane in Khyber for thousands of years, but that doesn't mean that, say, a number of officers of the Sharn City Watch won't wake up next morning with eyes on their palms, discover that some people look like demons when glimpsed through those eyes, and become vigilantes murdering those people. (And given the existence of quori mind seeds, they may not be wrong.) Kyrzin could, at any point, create a new strain of the common cold that causes you to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
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** All aberrations in Eberron seem to have at least ''some'' ability to warp human minds, whether intentionally or otherwise, leading to things like "whisperer cults" - Cults of the Dragon Below that feed their elderly relatives to a gibbering mouther in the basement, believing that Grandma's soul will live on inside the creature.
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** The Phaerimm, an AlwaysChaoticEvil species of sadistic, floating parasites with great magical talent whose very lifecycle does not just involve [[BodyHorror defiling]] [[ChestBurster living things]], but also destroying the environment itself. [[OutsideContextProblem They are so alien to the world of Toril]] that their very presence, just their existence, endangers everything around them. They way in which they use magic kills plants and creates deserts, the way in which they move distrurbs gravity, the way in which they feed goes against the gods. What makes them truly evil, and not just a product of their being, is the fact that they have come to the Realms knowing that they will not live so long as they roam it. They are not looking to conquer and control the Realmsphere, they just simply do not care that they are killing it.
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** The Phaerimm, an AlwaysChaoticEvil species of sadistic, floating parasites with great magical talent whose very lifecycle does not just involve [[BodyHorror defiling living things]], but also destroying the environment itself. [[OutsideContextProblem They are so alien to the world of Toril]] that their very presence, just their existence, endangers everything around them. They way in which they use magic kills plants and creates deserts, the way in which they move distrurbs gravity, the way in which they feed goes against the gods. What makes them truly evil, and not just a product of their being, is the fact that they have come to the Realms knowing that they will not live so long as they roam it. They are not looking to conquer and control the Realmsphere, they just simply do not care that they are killing it.
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** The Phaerimm, an AlwaysChaoticEvil species of sadistic, floating parasites with great magical talent whose very lifecycle does not just involve [[BodyHorror defiling defiling]] [[ChestBurster living things]], but also destroying the environment itself. [[OutsideContextProblem They are so alien to the world of Toril]] that their very presence, just their existence, endangers everything around them. They way in which they use magic kills plants and creates deserts, the way in which they move distrurbs gravity, the way in which they feed goes against the gods. What makes them truly evil, and not just a product of their being, is the fact that they have come to the Realms knowing that they will not live so long as they roam it. They are not looking to conquer and control the Realmsphere, they just simply do not care that they are killing it.
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** The Phaerimm, an AlwaysChaoticEvil species of sadistic, floating parasites with great magical talent whose very lifecycle does not just involve [[BodyHorror defiling living things]], but also destroying the environment itself. [[OutsideContextProblem They are so alien to the world of Toril]] that their very presence, just their existence, endangers everything around them. They way in which they use magic kills plants and creates deserts, the way in which they move distrurbs gravity, the way in which they feed goes against the gods. What makes them truly evil, and not just a product of their being, is the fact that they have come to the Realms knowing that they will not live so long as they roam it. They are not looking to conquer and control the Realmsphere, they just simply do not care that they are killing it.
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''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has its fair share of Eldritch Abominations, varying in size and severity, from the kind your players might have a chance against if they get some lucky rolls, to the kind that consumes universes for funsies. Note that several settings have their own specific abominations. All have been gathered here for simplicity's sake.
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''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has its fair share of Eldritch Abominations, EldritchAbomination, varying in size and severity, from the kind your players might have a chance against if they get some lucky rolls, to the kind that consumes universes for funsies. Note that several settings have their own specific abominations. All have been gathered here for simplicity's sake.
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** Khyber, the Dragon Below, [[AmbiguousSituation assuming the Progenitors really existed]]. One of the three dragon-gods who created the Eberron setting, Khyber is large enough to form ''the core of the planet''. [[DugTooDeep Digging too deep]] - which can just be expanding the sewer system - can lead you into openings into the demiplanes that make up its body. Said demiplanes include such wonderful places as the Abyssal Forests of Khaar, or the Palace of Sinew, prison of the daelkyr Dyrrn the Corrupter, or even the embodied heart of an Overlord.
** Each of the Overlords spawned from Khyber is a ludicrously powerful, utterly unkillable entity sealed in a LeakingCanOfEvil that exists to express its personal facet of malevolence, from endless war to murderous cold to undeath to the cruel and violent use of magic. The most "eldritch" is probably the Lurker in Shadow, which governs what Lovecraft himself called "the oldest and strongest kind of fear" - fear of the unknown, whether that be the prospect of sudden disaster or the sudden betrayal of a friend. The Lurker's minions include aboleths and shadow demons, and any kind of horrifying aquatic nightmare might be related to it.
** Each of the Overlords spawned from Khyber is a ludicrously powerful, utterly unkillable entity sealed in a LeakingCanOfEvil that exists to express its personal facet of malevolence, from endless war to murderous cold to undeath to the cruel and violent use of magic. The most "eldritch" is probably the Lurker in Shadow, which governs what Lovecraft himself called "the oldest and strongest kind of fear" - fear of the unknown, whether that be the prospect of sudden disaster or the sudden betrayal of a friend. The Lurker's minions include aboleths and shadow demons, and any kind of horrifying aquatic nightmare might be related to it.
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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has three monsters that are also considered Elder Evils.
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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has three monsters that are also considered Elder Evils.Evils, although these ones are significantly less eldritch than the rest.
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** Dendar the Night Serpent is a massive snake said to be born from the first dream. She grows stronger by consuming nightmares, and she is destined to one day destroy the entire solar system of the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting when she has grown strong enough.
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** The least eldritch of the three is Dendar the Night Serpent is Serpent, a massive snake said to be born from the first dream. She grows stronger by consuming nightmares, and she is destined to one day destroy the entire solar system of the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting when she has grown strong enough.
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* Warlock players can gain their powers from one of these, with the Great Old One's pact appearing as early as the player's handbook in 5th edition. As you might expect, the pact grants telepathy and various LovecraftianSuperpowers, and Cthulhu is explicitly noted as a potential patron. The Fathomless patron may also fit this trope, being a creature of the bottomless seas.
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* Warlock players can gain their powers from one of these, with the Great Old One's pact appearing as early as the player's handbook in 5th edition. As you might expect, the pact grants telepathy and various LovecraftianSuperpowers, {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s, and Cthulhu is explicitly noted as a potential patron. The Fathomless patron may also fit this trope, being a creature of the bottomless seas.
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* Warlock players can gain their powers from one of these, with the Great Old One's pact appearing as early as the player's handbook in 5th edition. As you might expect, the pact grants telepathy and various LovecraftianSuperpowers, and Cthulhu is explicitly noted as a potential patron. The Fathomless patron may also fit this trope, being a creature of the bottomless seas.
