Ithaqua

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Ithaqua
(Deity)

Titles
Wind-Walker
Realm
Northern poles
Alignment
Areas of Concern
Cannibalism
Cold
the Wind
Worshipers
Cannibal tribes, giants, and wendigos
Cleric Alignments (1E)
Domains (1E)
Air, Chaos, Evil, Weather
Subdomains (1E)
Cloud, Ice, Storms, Wind
Favored Weapon
Symbol
Antlered wooden humanoid effigy
Source: In Search of Sanity, pg(s). 68
Ithaqua
(Creature)

Type
Monstrous humanoid
(air, chaotic, cold, evil, Great Old One)
CR
28
Environment
Any cold
Alignment
Source: In Search of Sanity, pg(s). 82f.

Ithaqua1 is the Great Old One of cannibalism, cold, and the wind.2

Home

Ithaqua is capable of travelling on icy winds between planets with magnetic poles and arctic circles. He only has any influence at all on the areas north of each world's arctic circle; in the south, he can only stay very briefly and holds no influence. Whether he is able to visit only planets with arctic circles, or whether the arctic circles exist due to Ithaqua's visits in their earliest days, is unclear.23

In his realm, Ithaqua often leaves behind rampant cannibalism and wendigos after his visits, and often abducts people to walk with him into the skies, and later fall to death or be transformed into a wendigo.2

Appearance

Ithaqua appears as a 50-foot-tall monstrous humanoid with unnaturally long limbs. His webbed feet are always concealed in blasts of thick cold winds, and always leave behind monstrous tracks in the snow. Onlookers rarely remember his shape beyond his two glowing red eyes.23

Church of Ithaqua

Ithaqua is primarily worshipped by cannibals, giants, and wendigos in arctic regions. Worshippers fearful of starvation or the loss of morality might leave sacrifices to him in the highest boughs of a pine tree. Ithaqua is rarely worshipped south of the arctic circle.3

References

  1. Original Source: August Derleth, "The Thing That Walked on the Wind", 1933;James Jacobs. “The Elder Mythos” in In Search of Sanity, 68. Paizo Inc., 2016
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 James Jacobs. “The Elder Mythos” in In Search of Sanity, 68. Paizo Inc., 2016
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eric Hindley, et al. “Bestiary” in In Search of Sanity, 83. Paizo Inc., 2016