Friday, November 6, 2020

Lovecraftian Cults of New Yuggoth

 Yog-Sothoth

The Keeper of the Gate Yog-Sothoth is the patron saint of the arcane. Almost all spellcasting can be traced back to this entity, and his followers usually spellcasters of some degree. Most of Yog-Sothoth’s chosen are driven mad by their inability to comprehend the multifaceted and mutable realities that Yog-Sothoth presents and creates in his wake.

Dagon

He-who-sleeps-in-the-lake takes followers who are willing to sacrifice into the briny deep. Dagon’s followers are crazed and bloodthirsty, some engaging in cannibalism and such practices to satiate their hunger. The madness of Dagon is that of a deep well of dissatisfaction, a roiling and ancient hunger that consumes and devestates.

Cthulhu

The most evil and spiteful of the Great Old Ones, Cthulhu seeks the end of all else in the multiverse, including the other elder gods that squabble for cosmic power. Cthulhu’s cultists are filled with a burning and all-consuming spite, and seek to destroy anything and everything around them, even their friends, family or even themselves.

Hastur

Hastur’s words whisper messages of self-indulgence, hedonism and supreme selfishness to his decadent followers. His madness is slow and unravelling, consuming the mind with greed and poisoning it with a covetous mania until the desire to consume drives the cultist to insanity. The King in Yellow favors those in high society- or those who desperately wish they were.

Shub-Niggurath

The Fetid Mother of Goats, the Queen of the Black Wood, Shub-Niggurath is an ancient and blasphemous entity whose followers are patrons of unwholesome and evil growth. They force their bodies to be host to numerous parasites and vestigial organisms in an effort to transcend their imperfect form and create an avatar of the Black Mother on our world to continue her plight to fester across the cosmos.

Nyarlathotep

The lord of deception in the multiverse, Nyarlathotep is a multi-faceted entity who exists in a realm without truth. This eternal twilight is considered to be nirvana, and ripping holes in reality and truth can open this alien plane of anti-logic. Nyarlathotep’s followers slowly become unable to distinguish truth from lies, deception from reality, and slowly fade into multiple gibbering personalities in such conflict that the host body is immoble as separate entities in the mind eternally grapple for control.

Tsathoggua

The Lord of Sloth drives its followers to grow fat and lazy, then ritualistically consumes them through vile summoned extensions of itself in order to try and satiate its infinite appetite. Followers of Tsathoggua eventually grow so bloated that they can do nothing but murmur in catatonic prayer and wait for death.

Azathoth

Azathoth is the Void, and the Mind, and the Child who Waits in Sleep. Reality is but a figment of Azathoth’s mind, or so claim his followers, and so what is reality but a vast and impermanent dream? The strange disconnect between what is real and what is imagined festers in the hearts and minds of the cultists of Azathoth, and they see life as a delusion and an irrelevant fancy.

Yig

Yig is the Void, the Pit and the Scourge of the Light. Those who follow Yig almost inevitably mutate and devolve into hideous and malnourished ghouls and find their way into infinite lightless depths in a vain attempt to reach the legendary cavern that Yig is imprisoned in. If he is freed, the Earth is doomed. In the meantime, his warped followers hunt and prowl in the cramped darkness…


And plants:

Ghost Poppies: roll CON to force sleep

Fire Lotuses: cause jets of fire when squeezed

Redstem Mushrooms: a key ingredient in Syrup

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