Shoggoth
Shoggoths are said to have been around for eons. Legends also claim that, when compared to any other oozes, shoggoths have much greater wisdom. Shoggoths were once the servants of dark powers, but cast off their masters after centuries of mistreatment.1 Sages believe that alghollthus might be their creators, but this is incorrect: the elder things, an even more ancient race, were behind their existence, and uprisings of shoggoth slaves who develop intelligence have been the doom for countless elder thing colonies.234
Appearance
Shoggoths have no distinct form. They change it to fit the situation as need be, having arms, tentacles, or any other form that might help them to catch and consume their food. Their flesh is mostly black and sometimes translucent, and gives off a very faint luminescence. A shoggoth has no permanent mouth, but it can create and absorb mouths as needed.1
On Golarion
These horrors exist in the deepest, darkest reaches of the oceans or in the remotest ruins and caverns,2 such as islands in the Sightless Sea—cults of the Great Old Ones maintain that shoggoths take the waters of the sea to sing their insane songs—the Black Desert, and Ilvarandin in the Darklands realm of Orv;356789 in far-flung ancient ruins;1011 or in the service of monstrous Old Cults of the Dark Tapestry.12
Known shoggoths
- The ancient Gibbering Blot of Palamia.13
On distant worlds
Within the solar system, shoggoths have also been seen near the south poles of Aucturn and Akiton.14
References
Original source: At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 . Crucible of Chaos, 31. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary, 249. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 . “Orv” in Into the Darklands, 53. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Wake of the Watcher, 83. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “The Darklands” in The Inner Sea World Guide, 61. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “The Thousand Fangs Below” in The Thousand Fangs Below, 16. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “Chapter 2: Places of Myth” in Mythic Realms, 21. Paizo Inc., 2013
- ↑ . “Ilvarandin” in Lost Cities of Golarion, 11. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “Golarion's Seas” in Aquatic Adventures, 34. Paizo Inc., 2017
- ↑ . “Encounter Tables” in Heart of the Jungle, 63. Paizo Inc., 2010
- ↑ . “Continuing the Campaign” in The Dead Heart of Xin, 65. Paizo Inc., 2013
- ↑ . “Cults of the Dark Tapestry” in Wake of the Watcher, 62. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “Adventures in Cheliax” in Cheliax, The Infernal Empire, 47. Paizo Inc., 2015
- ↑ . “Chapter 3: Aliens” in Distant Worlds, 57. Paizo Inc., 2012
External links
- Shoggoth (real-world fictional creature) on Wikipedia