Tydeus | A tentacled, multi-eyed, soul-devouring abomination which dwells between dimensions. Beelzebub | (HPL: "The Dunwich Horror") But different Lovecraft stories and characters use the term "Old Ones" in widely different ways.

Haman the Agagite | Walter C. DeBill, Jr.'s "What Lurks Among the Dunes" (2006), Black Sutra, p. 39. A powerful extragalactic entity, awed by ‘Ymnar.

Medusa | This entity, regarded as a "Lovecraftian God", is introduced in, Like Thog, Xotli appears not officially related as Great Old One, though introduced in a, This Great Old One is introduced in French, This entity is supposed to coincide with the vicious giant, This entity is introduced in "Eyes Between the Worlds", roleplay game scenario featuring in Kevin T. McKinnon and Dylan K. Sharpe's Call of Cthulhu RPG monograph "Tales of Dread and Wonder #1", This entity is a creation of TOC website (, This entity is introduced in "Full de Drames," a French "Call of Cthulhu"-type role-play game scenario available at, This entity is introduced in "Le Regard Dans L'Abime", a French "Call of Cthulhu" -type role-play game scenario available at, This entity is introduced in French Tentacules.net's "Call of Cthulhu" scenario available at. On closer examination it appears a wet, warty globe, covered with countless ovoid pustules and spider-webbed with a network of long, narrow tunnels. Boneless |

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.

Pandarus | Xexanoth is a fictional character from Clark Ashton Smith's Cthulhu Mythos work.

Veles |

Abaddon |

Tamamo no Mae |

Nobusuma | In post-Lovecraft stories, the Elder Gods oppose the likes of Cthulhu and his ilk. Cthulhu is a godlike being who would supposedly lay waste to the world if ever awoken from his slumber in the sunken city of R'lyeh, located somewhere under the Southeast Pacific. He mated with Idh-yaa on the planet Xoth.

A shape-shifting entity, often manifesting as a spiny five-legged crab, with a spider-like head and metallic bracelets on each limb. Cthulhu is a recurring character on the webcomics Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, User Friendly, Irregular Webcomic!, and Mac Hall. Goals

After a drink over his loss in a game, Sui Xiong ended up in the middle of the sea.

A gigantic marine horror with twelve snaky-limbs, endowed with suckers, and a beard of tentacles, both served and revered by vicious, An invisible entity made of both snow and chill, servitor of, A hideous being appearing as a dark, gigantic, legless, A mysterious evil entity, manifesting as a pillar of dazzling light, dwelling in the ruins of. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop role-playing games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos. (It is implied, however, that Cthulhu will ultimately require some outside assistance to escape his watery tomb in R'yleh "when the stars are right."). Whore of Babylon | It appears only once in "The Chain of Aforgomon", where it is summoned by the main character. The Thailand Burst is a collection of Thailand themed creatures, collect all to unlock a special creature. Harpies | Having a close connection to the Great Old One Bugg-Shash,[85] so should Yibb-Tstll be regarded as a Great Old One - specifically in the Drowners group introduced by Brian Lumley, parasitic alien entities which thrive by vampyrizing the Great Old Ones themselves[86] - though in RPG materials she is classed as an "Outer God".[87].

If these three parts are ever to be combine, Suc'Naath will be freed. Superhuman Strength, Nigh Invulnerability, Flight, Madness Manipulation, Immortality, Telepathy, Reality Manipulation La Sayona | Frankenstein's Monster |

Averesboro Gallinipper |

A great shadow thing, with two glaring red eyes, able to transform the skull of its victims into green glowing stones carved with strange symbols.

very rarely stirring forth to intervene in the unceasing struggle between the powers of evil and the races of Earth. Ixion | Known Elder Gods in the Mythos [ edit ] The following is another Elder God with no description: Walter C. DeBill, Jr.'s Paighon , an extra-galactic entity which now dwells in Earth 's core, said to be inimical to the Outer God Ngyr-Korath and his servitor ' Ymnar . In Anders Fager's short story "Grandmother's Journey" a tribe of dog or wolf-like humans (analog to the "ghouls" of the Lovecraftian mythos) is said to have sacrificed to Yog-Sothoth to become "different". (HPL: At the Mountains of Madness) Human explorers in Antarctica discover an ancient city of the Elder Things and puzzle out a history from sculptural records: William Dyer also notes that "the Cthulhu spawn [...] seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that which we know than was the substance of the Antarctic Old Ones.

Cthulhu Not described, but likely something gigantic and, Appears as a gigantic black mass of tentacles, with a single green. Both locations are close to the Pacific oceanic pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6'S 123°23.6'W), the point in the ocean farthest from any land.

Fomorians (Balor, Bres) |

A towering mass of crystals, residing on the lightless planet Mthura.

Patasola | Skeletons |

The Black Brotherhood | Brotherhood of the Beast | Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh | Brotherhood of the Skin | Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign | Chesuncook Witch Coven | Chorazos Cult | Church of Starry Wisdom | Cthulhu Cult | Cult of the Bloody Tongue | Esoteric Order of Dagon | The Slaves of the Flame Undying, Other

They were able to communicate with the first humans by "moulding their dreams," thus establishing the Cthulhu Cult, but after R'lyeh had sunk beneath the waves, "the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse."

(HPL: At the Mountains of Madness), With the revelation of writing detailing his relations, we have learned that Cthulhu descends from Yog-Sothoth, possibly having been born on Vhoorl, in the 23rd Nebula. Robert the Doll | (HPL: At the Mountains of Madness) Other accounts have the Elder Things' enemies repeat this cosmic framework.

Abere | Along with his children and the Star Spawn of Cthulhu, Cthulhu travelled to Saturn and then to Earth. Black Goo | Derleth's coordinates place the city approximately 5,100 nautical miles (5,900 statute miles or 9,500 kilometers), or about 10 days journey for a fast ship, from the real island of Pohnpei (Ponape). 4", 633rd letter, April 2, 1933, Though not officially related as a Great Old One, this entity is introduced by.

The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. Buer | Impressed by the glossary, Derleth asked Laney to rewrite it for publication in the Arkham House collection Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943).

Emela-Ntouka | Mothman |

Great Old Ones

Twin daughters of Cthulhu, imprisoned in the, Two horrid nebulous masses of shape-changing vapor from which eyes, tentacles, maws, and hooves emerge; somewhat like. Paimon | Moloch |

Fossa | Appears as a huge, furry, almost humanoid, A mysterious subterranean horror, dwelling deep within the flooded caves of, A fungine entity with both tentacles and tendrils, which haunts the swamplands of, A sadistic entity trapped by the Elder Gods in a remote dimension of the Space-Time continuum, and appearing as a 4-m tall, A huge faceless creature with various appendages sprouting from its head, a beard of oozing horns, many reddish teats, and. Grafton Monster |

He - or rather it - has an upper body similar to a man, but possesses narrow, webbed wings upon its back and its arms and legs end with clawed digits. R'lyeh is also referred to in Lovecraft's "The Mound" as "Relex".

He emphasized the point by stating in the opening sentence of the story that "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. They were able to communicate with the first humans by "moulding their dreams," thus establishing the Cthulhu Cult, but after R'lyeh had sunk beneath the waves, "the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse.



Retake his world and resume his rule.Rule the universe alongside the Great Old Ones forever. While he is not the most powerful of Lovecraft's creations (dwarfed by Outer Gods like Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, and Azathoth), he is easily the most famous, and his name has become associated with evil and Lovecraftian horror ever since the creature was first brought to public attention in the 1920s. Hanako-San | [1], Richard L. Tierney, a writer who also wrote Mythos tales, later applied the term "Derleth Mythos" to distinguish Lovecraft's works from Derleth's later stories, which modify key tenets of the Mythos.