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For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually; and from it, in manifold fission, were spawned the anatomies that crept away on every side through the grotto. There were things like bodiless legs or arms that flailed in the slime, or heads that rolled, or floundering bellies with fishes' fins; and all manner of things malformed and monstrous, that grew in size as they departed from the neighborhood of Abhoth. And those that swam not swiftly ashore when they fell into the pool from Abhoth, were devoured by mouths that gaped in the parent bulk.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Abhoth"},{"author":"Crispin Burnham","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great old one","id":3,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/apocolothoth.jpg"],"name":"apocolothoth","nicks":["the moon god"],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Apocolothoth"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":4,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/atlach-natcha.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/atlach-natcha2.jpg"],"name":"atlach-natcha","nicks":["the spider god"],"overview":"The dark form ran toward him with incredible swiftness. When it came near he saw that there was a kind of face on the squat ebon body, low down amid the several-jointed legs. The face peered up with a weird expression of doubt and inquiry; and terror crawled through the veins of the bold huntsman as he met the small, crafty eyes that were circled about with hair.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Atlach-Nacha"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":5,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/azathoth.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/azathoth2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/azathoth3.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/azathoth4.jpg"],"name":"azathoth","nicks":["the blind idiot god","the nuclear chaos","the daemon sultan","the deep dark","the cold one","sleeping chaos","supreme lord and creator of all things","blind dreamer","king-of-all","primordial demiurge","chaos-sultan","achamoth","vach-viraj"],"overview":"There can be no definite description of Azathoth, because everybody envisions him differently and he is always changing. But H.P.L. defines it: 'Outside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.'","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Azathoth"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":6,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/basatan.jpg"],"name":"basatan","nicks":["master of the crabs"],"overview":"By the look of the ring 'with the tentacles of a kraken clasping the orb-like gem' and the visions that one of the characters sees in the orb 'swirling as of tides and of shadowy fins and tentacles far down in its glimmering greenness' we can assume that he has tentacles and/or fins.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Basatan"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":7,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/bokrug.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/bokrug-png.png"],"name":"bokrug","nicks":["the great water lizard"],"overview":"Bokrug is the lake-dwelling god of the semi-amphibian Thuum'ha ('Voiceless Ones') of Ib in the land of Mnar. The deity sleeps beneath the calm waters of a lake that bordered Ib and the city of Sarnath. When the humans of Sarnath cruelly slaughtered the populace of Ib and stole the god's idol, the great deity stirred. Each year thereafter, strange ripples reportedly disturbed the otherwise placid lake. On the one-thousandth anniversary of Ib's destruction, Bokrug rose up and utterly destroyed the city of Sarnath, so completely that not even ruins remained. Afterwards, the Thuum'ha race recolonised Ib and thenceforth lived undisturbed.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Bokrug"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser servitor race","id":8,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/byakhee.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/byakhee2.jpg"],"name":"byakhee","nicks":["servants of he not to be named","star lizards","void steeds","winged things"],"overview":"A horde of tame, trained hybrid winged things that no sound eye could ever wholly grasp, or sound brain ever wholly remember. There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Byakhee"},{"author":"Robert Bloch","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":9,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/byatis.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/byatis2.jpg"],"name":"byatis","nicks":["the berkeley toad","the serpent-bearded","the god of forgetfulness"],"overview":"Appears as a gigantic, multicolored toad with a single eye, claws similar to a crabs and a beard of tentacles. An 18th-century document relates that a statue of the creature. Later the document says the monster is 'somewhat like a Spider, somewhat like a Crab, and somewhat like a Horror in Dreams.' It reports that the 'Romans found it behind a stone Door in a Camp which was here long before the Invasion.'","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Byatis"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser independent race","id":10,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cat-from-saturn.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cat-from-saturn2.jpg"],"name":"cat from saturn","nicks":[],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cat_from_Saturn"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"lesser servitor race","id":11,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cat-of-sadoqua.jpg"],"name":"cat of sadoqua","nicks":[],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cat_of_Sadoqua"},{"author":"Frank Belknap Long","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":12,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/chaugnar-faughn.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/chaugnar-faughn2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/chaugnar-faughn3.jpg"],"name":"chaugnar faugn","nicks":["the horror from the hills","the feeder","caug-narfagn","the elephant god"],"overview":"Words could not adequately convey the repulsiveness of the thing. It was endowed with a trunk and great, uneven ears, and two enormous tusks protruded from the corners of its mouth. But it was not an elephant. Indeed, its resemblace to an actual elephant was, at best, sporadic and superficial, despite certain unmistakable points of similarity. The ears were webbed and tentacled, the trunk terminated in a huge flaring disk at least a foot in diameter, and the tusks, which intertwined and interlocked at the base of the statue, were as translucent as rock crystal.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Chaugnar_Faugn"},{"author":"Brian Lumley","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great independent race","id":13,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/chthonian.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/chthonian2.jpg"],"name":"chthonian","nicks":["burrowers beneath","deep crawlers","dark tunnelers","helmatodes","g'harne spawn"],"overview":"Immense worms, with tough elongated bodies coated with vicious slime","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Chthonian"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great independent race","id":14,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/color-out-of-space.jpg"],"name":"colour out of space","nicks":["life-force feeder"],"overview":"Globules of colour that are referred to as such 'only by analogy', as they do not fall within the range of anything known in the visible spectrum.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space"},{"author":"August Derleth","canon":"Derleth Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great old one","id":15,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cthugha.jpg"],"name":"cthugha","nicks":["the living flame","the burning one","kathigu-ra"],"overview":"Cthugha resembles a giant ball of fire. He is served by the Flame Creatures of Cthugha. Fthaggua, regent of the fire vampires, may be his progeny. He has at least one other known progeny, the being known as Aphoom-Zhah.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cthugha"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":16,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cthulhu.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cthulhu2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cthulhu3.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cthulhu4.jpg"],"name":"cthulhu","nicks":["high priest of the great old ones","the great dreamer","the sleeper of r'lyeh","master of r'lyeh","the star spawn","him who lies dreaming","him who will rise again","him who is to come","lord of the watery abyss","the sleeping god"],"overview":"The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have 'yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature [...] A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.' Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, 'represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.'","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cthulhu"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"outer god","id":17,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/cxaxukluth.jpg"],"name":"cxaxukluth","nicks":["ksaksa-kluth","androgynous offspring of azathoth","illimitable androgynous desire"],"overview":"It is described as an androgynous being, capable of reproducing asexually.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cxaxukluth"},{"author":"Pierre Zaplotny","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"outer god","id":18,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/d'endrrah.jpg"],"name":"d'endrrah","nicks":["the divinity"],"overview":"D'endrrah is a being who possesses a great hunger for living worlds. It often manifests in the form of a gigantic squid-like monster or a cloud of heavy, smoky, organic matter with millions of teeth, which wanders the cosmos endlessly to devour any world it stumbles across.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/D'endrrah"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser old one","id":19,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dagon.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dagon2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dagon&hydra.jpg"],"name":"dagon","nicks":["ruler of the deep ones","father dragon"],"overview":"Dagon is an enormous specimen of a Deep One that has been mentioned in texts since at least the time of Mesopotamia. A half man, half fish, like a merman.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dagon"},{"author":"Robert Bloch","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great servitor race","id":20,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dark-young-of-shub-niggurath.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dark-young-of-shub-niggurath2.jpg"],"name":"dark young of shub-niggurath","nicks":[],"overview":"They stand as tall as a tree on stumpy, hoofed legs. A mass of tentacles protrudes from their trunks where a head would normally be, and puckered maws, dripping green goo, cover their flanks. The monsters roughly resemble trees in silhouette — the trunks being the short legs and the tops of the trees represented by the ropy, branching bodies. The whole mass of these things smells like an open grave.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Young_of_Shub-Niggurath"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"outer god","id":21,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/darkness.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/darkness2.jpg"],"name":"darkness","nicks":["magnum tenebrosum","the unnamed darkness","lord darkness","the great darkness"],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Darkness"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser servitor race","id":22,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/deep-one.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/deep-one2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/deep-one3.jpg"],"name":"deep one","nicks":["gilled humanoid","fish folks","kelpie","merrows","nommo","rusalki","sea demon","sea people","sacaled ones","sirens","those from below"],"overview":"The Deep Ones are an amphibious race that primarily serve the two beings known as Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, but also have strong ties to Cthulhu, and are known to employ Shoggoths as servants.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_One"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great independent race","id":23,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dhole.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dhole2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dhole3.jpg"],"name":"dhole","nicks":["burrowing horro","bholes","death worms","dol","great eater","k'ole","maw of death","planet devourers"],"overview":"Gigantic worms reaching over 600 ft. in length and 20 ft. thick; their skin is armor-clad with thick chitinous-like sections. At one end is the feasting mouth, hidden beneath a segmented aperture, which closes right when burrowing below","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dhole"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser independent race","id":24,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dimensional-shambler.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dimensional-shambler2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/dimensional-shambler3.jpg"],"name":"dimensional shambler","nicks":["the mourderously malign","dark gatherers","excoleoptera","insects from the void","lurkers","shambling things"],"overview":"Hulking extra-dimensional entities, seemingly outlandish combinations of crustacean, insect, and ape-like mammal. In places, their hide is like thick plates of armor, while the rest of the skin is loose and rugose. The eyes appear as black points of light set in a rudimentary head. The mouth is a misshapen hole. Large talon-like clawed appendages protrude from the arms.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dimensional_Shambler"},{"author":"August Derleth","canon":"Derleth Cthulhu Mythos","category":"lesser old one","id":25,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/e-poh.jpg"],"name":"e-poh","nicks":["city-boulder eons old","the first","old ones"],"overview":"E-poh is a Tcho-Tcho sorcerer from the fabled city of Alaozar in the Plateau of Sung, Burma, and leads his people in worship of Zhar and Lloigor. He is 'slightly taller' than the typical four-foot-tall Tcho-Tcho, and 'disfigured by a hump on his back'. He is said to be over 7,000 years old.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/E-poh"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser independent race","id":26,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/elder-thing.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/elder-thing2.jpg"],"name":"elder thing","nicks":["city-boulder eons old","the first","old ones"],"overview":"Gray colored, barrel-shaped entities; the central mass displays five vertical ridges, between which wing-like membranes can unfold from interior cavities. Spaced around the central body mass are present five flexible arms, each ending in a conglomeration of small tentacles or tendrils. From the bulbous neck a five-pointed starfish-like 'head' rises. The head have five stalks ending in eyes. Atop the head is present an aperture not unlike a mouth. Below the central body are five flexible legs, each ending in a paddle or flipper-like appendage.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Elder_Thing"},{"author":"Donald Wandrei","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"lesser servitor race","id":27,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/fire-vampire.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/fire-vampire2.jpg"],"name":"fire vampire","nicks":["the flame feeder"],"overview":"The Fire Vampires are living extensions of the cosmic entity known as Fthaggua. Traveling the cosmos in their interstellar ship, the Ktynga, they appear as bluish electrical discharges resembling lightning. They feast upon the life energy of sentient creatures. The victim will burst into flames during this process, with the Fire Vampires consuming their essence and memories using heat instead of internal metabolization. These stolen memories are added to Fthaggua's gestalt consciousness, allowing them to learn better and adapt to consuming more.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Fire_Vampire"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great independent race","id":28,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/flying-polyp.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/flying-polyp2.jpg"],"name":"flying polyp","nicks":["terror from the blackness below","aforplasm","bubbling ones","flesh twisters","floating horrors","they who leave the mark"],"overview":"Unlike animals or plants, these entities twist and form a dark plastic flesh, cancerous with strange growths amidst multiple eyes and mouths. Semi-material, elements or portions seems to phase between visible and invisible. No wings can be seen, despite a floating or hovering appearance, although they must walk, jump, or crawl on invisible limbs, as where they went, certain strange marks are left off a footprint consisting of five circular toe marks, some 6 ft. in total lenght.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Polyp"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"lesser independent race","id":29,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/formless-spawn.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/formless-spawn2.jpg"],"name":"formless spawn of tsathoggua","nicks":["black slime","fluid ones","the ichorous"],"overview":"A living ooze able to take temporary forms, like a mass of undulating limbs, or a great sphere possessing many mouths.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Formless_Spawn"},{"author":"Donald Wandrei","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"lesser independent race","id":30,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/fthaggua.jpg"],"name":"fthaggua","nicks":["the lord of ktynga","the king regent of the fire vampires"],"overview":"A great flickering ball of cold blue flame. It dwells with the Fire Vampires within an enormous edifice upon the surface of the blue comet Ktynga, a celestial body which Fthaggua can guide across the cosmos and which is possessed of many strange properties, not least the incredible heat that it radiates or the fact that it can exceed the speed of light.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Formless_Spawn"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser independent race","id":31,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghast.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghast2.jpg"],"name":"ghast","nicks":["creeping hoppers","crypt lurkers","dark fiends","faceless ones","the shunned"],"overview":"Ghasts may be encountered in places where sunlight never comes, such as underworld labyrinths, cavern networks, and deep tunnel systems. They shun light and are fearful of the sun, as when they are exposed to direct sunlight they sicken and may eventually die. Like the ghouls, the ghasts have sharp hooves for feet, although they are larger and move around by hopping. Their faces are eerily humanoid, but have neither a nose nor a forehead.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ghast"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":32,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghatanothoa.jpg"],"name":"ghatanothoa","nicks":["the dark god","the daemon-god","the devil-god","the thing on the mount","g'tanta","tanotah","than-tha","gatan","ktan-tah"],"overview":"Might call it gigantic—tentacled—proboscidian—octopus-eyed—semi-amorphous—plastic—partly squamous and partly rugose.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ghatanothoa"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":33,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghizguth.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghizguth2.jpg"],"name":"ghizguth","nicks":["the sound in the deep waters","ghisguth","ghisghuth"],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ghizguth"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser independent race","id":34,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghoul.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ghoul2.jpg"],"name":"ghoul","nicks":["dark kin","ghûls","fiends","corpse eaters","grave lurkers","grave robbers","tomb dwellers"],"overview":"Ghouls in Lovecraft's fiction are mortal beings: a species of canine-like humanoids with rubbery skin, scaly claws, and hoof-like feet, which live in groups and scavenge for corpses, but also hunt live prey occasionally.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ghoul"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":35,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gloon.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gloon2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gloon-png.png"],"name":"gloon","nicks":["the corrupter of flesh","master of the temple","glhuun"],"overview":"Gloon is described as great limacene or slug-like abomination, though it usually hides its true nature through the glamour of a beautiful statue resembling the Greek god Dionysus.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Gloon"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great independent race","id":36,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gnoph-keh.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gnoph-keh2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gnoph-keh3.jpg"],"name":"gnoph-keh","nicks":["bear monsters","nanruki","ohto","oon-t'keph","white horns"],"overview":"A polar bear monstrosity, with six-limbs and covered in shaggy white hair. From its forehead rise a single horn, while its great mouth was filled with wicked and sharp teeth. It may walk upright on two legs or bear-like on four, but other times it uses all its six limbs.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Gnoph-keh"},{"author":"Sandy Peterson","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great old one","id":37,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gobogeg.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/gobogeg2.jpg"],"name":"gobogeg","nicks":["the twice-invoked","the moon-ladder"],"overview":"A colossal pillar of amorphous alien flesh, with a cyclopean head or eye in the center.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Gobogeg"},{"author":"Donald Wandrei","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":38,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/god-of-the-red-flux.jpg"],"name":"god of the red flux","nicks":[],"overview":"A vaporous red entity haunting the rainforest of Central Africa. 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Great bony ridges socketed the embered eyes, staring from behind a sickening sweep of long, reptilian snout. 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Her current whereabouts and activities are unknown.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Shathak"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":84,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/shaurash-ho.jpg"],"name":"shaurash-ho","nicks":["the prowler in the tombs","father of all ghouls","naggob"],"overview":"Shaurash-Ho (The Prowler Among the Tombs, and Father of All Ghouls) is the progenitor of the ghoul species, possibly through mating with Bast. Shaurash-ho is a descendent of Cthulhu and father of Yogash the Ghoul and it has been postulated that it might itself have been a Deep One. Shaurash-ho might be the same entity as Naggoob.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Shaurash-ho"},{"author":"R. H. 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A shoggoth is some 15 feet in diameter if it shaped itself into a sphere, but larger and smaller versions exist. A shoggoth is capable of shaping itself into whatever organs or shapes it finds necessary at the moment; however, in its usual state it tends to sport a roiling profusion of eyes, mouths, and pseudopodia. When encountered at the South Pole, it moved at incredible speed. 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Small creatures are continually spat forth by the monstrosity, which are either consumed into the miasmatic form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Shub-Niggurath"},{"author":"Brian Lumley","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great old one","id":89,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/shudde-mell.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/shudde-mell2.jpg"],"name":"shudde m'ell","nicks":["the burrower beneath","the great chthonian"],"overview":"Shudde M'ell appears as a colossal worm with tentacles sprouting from its head, and is so large that it can cause earthquakes by simply moving. Shudde M'ell is a mile long great grey worm-like creature that burrows through the earth, melting all rocks in its wake. 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Whilst they are capable of spinning webs to disable their victims, they also possess a venomous bite of great potency, and have the ability to climb sheer surfaces, much like their counterparts in the waking world.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_of_Leng"},{"author":"Henry Kuttner","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great servitor race","id":91,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/star-spawn-of-cthulhu.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/star-spawn-of-cthulhu2.jpg"],"name":"star spawn of cthulhu","nicks":["satrap of the sleeper","cthulhi","xothians"],"overview":"A mountainous form lumbers to life, a hideous creature only accidentally humanoid in shape, its hateful face a writhing mass of tentacles.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cthulhi"},{"author":"Robert Bloch","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"lesser independent race","id":92,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/star-vampire.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/star-vampire2.jpg"],"name":"star vampire","nicks":["invisible ravener","shambler from the stars"],"overview":"Star Vampires are creatures from outer space that are normally invisible. 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Tru'nembra does not possess an instrument for he himself is an instrument. He is made entirely out of visible noise and is seemingly unintelligent, just like his master. When Tru'nembra is summoned, it brings along the maddening symphony it uses to keep its master asleep, bringing insanity to those who are unfortunate enough to hear its blaring chaos.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tru%27nembra"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":101,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/tsathoggua.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/tsathoggua2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/tsathoggua3.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/tsathoggua4.jpg"],"name":"tsathoggua","nicks":["zhothaqquah","sodagui","tsadogwa","sadoquae","sadogowah","tsathoqquah","sleeper of n'kai","the black thing","father of night","seal of the black stars"],"overview":"A sleepy black toad. He will rise not from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tsathoggua"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"outer god","id":102,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/tulzscha.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/tulzscha2.jpg"],"name":"tulzscha","nicks":["the green flame"],"overview":"Tulzscha appears as a blazing green ball of flame, dancing with its Lesser Outer Gods at the court of Azathoth. When summoned to the world of men, it manifests in a gaseous form, penetrating the planet to the core, then erupting from below as a pillar of flame. It is unable to move from the point it emerges.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tulzscha"},{"author":"Lin Carter","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"lesser old one","id":103,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ubb.jpg"],"name":"ubb","nicks":["father of worms","father ubb"],"overview":"A large, aquatic entity similar to a chthonian, Ubb is pale gray and slug-like with a large mouth full of horn-like teeth, ringed with tentacles.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ubb"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"outer god","id":104,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/ubbo-sathla.jpg"],"name":"ubbo-sathla","nicks":["the unbegotten source","demiurge","ubho-shatla","hboshat","bothshash"],"overview":"It is described as a huge protoplasmic mass resting in a grotto deep beneath the frozen earth. The being is of a monstrous fecundity, spontaneously generating primordial single-celled organisms that pour unceasingly from its shapeless form. It guards a set of stone tablets believed to contain the knowledge of the Elder Gods.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ubbo-Sathla"},{"author":"Lin Carter","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"lesser old one","id":105,"img":[],"name":"voorm","nicks":[],"overview":"Voorm is the eponymous ancestor of the Voormi race who founded the Voormi civilization after the fall of the Serpent People.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Voorm"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"lesser servitor race","id":106,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/voormi.jpg"],"name":"voormi","nicks":[],"overview":"The Voormis are described as three-toed, umber-colored, fur-covered humanoids though they are carefully differentiated from their traditional enemies (the shaggier-haired but superficially similar Gnophkehs who worshiped the Great Old One Rhan-Tegoth). Both of them are further differentiated from true humans. The Voormis communicate by dog-like howls.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Voormi"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"great old one","id":107,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/vulthoom.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/vulthoom2.jpg"],"name":"vulthoom","nicks":["the sleeper of ravermos","gsarthotegga"],"overview":"a gigantic plant, with innumerable roots, pale and swollen, that ramified from a bulbular hole. His bole, half hidden from view, is topped with a vermilion cup like a monstrous blossom; and from the cup there grow an elfin figure, pearly-hued, and formed with exquisite beauty and symmetry.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Vulthoom"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"outer god","id":108,"img":[],"name":"xexanoth","nicks":["the sleeper of ravermos","gsarthotegga"],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Xexanoth"},{"author":"Ramsey Campbell","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great old one","id":109,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/y'golonac.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/y'golonac2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/y'golonac3.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/y'golonac4.jpg"],"name":"y'golonac","nicks":["inhabitant of the ruins","the defiler"],"overview":"Y'golonac is imprisoned behind a wall of bricks in unknown ruins. His true form is uncertain, but when he possesses a human host to manifest, he appears as a grotesquely obese man, lacking a head or neck, with a mouth in the palm of each hand. Unlike other deities, Y'golonac is clearly capable of understanding humans, to the point of being able to conduct a conversation in English through his human host.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Y%27golonac"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"lesser independent race","id":110,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yaddithian.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yaddithian2.jpg"],"name":"yaddithian","nicks":["nug-soth","denizens of yaddith"],"overview":"A clawed, snouted beings with his body partly squamous, and curiously articulated in a fashion mainly insect-like.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yaddithian"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":111,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yeb.jpg"],"name":"yeb","nicks":["the twin balsphemie","the twin balsphemies"],"overview":"undefined","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Nug_and_Yeb"},{"author":"Brian Lumley","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"lesser old one","id":112,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yegg-ha.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yegg-ha2.jpg"],"name":"yegg-ha","nicks":["the faceless one","the master of the nightgaunts"],"overview":"A faceless bat-winged giant that was 'killed' by Roman soldiers near Hadrian's Wall in Britain, c.128 A.D.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yegg-Ha"},{"author":"Clark Ashton Smith","canon":"Lovecraft's Circle","category":"outer god","id":113,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yhoundeh.jpg"],"name":"yhoundeh","nicks":["the elk-goddess","y'houndeh"],"overview":"Although given the epithet of 'the Elk-Goddess', Youndeh's true appearance is never given. However, in a letter to Robert H. Barlow dated 10 September 1934 Smith stated it to be the offspring of the 'androgynous animal archetype' Zyhumé. The same letter also stated that the marriage of Yhoundeh and Nyarlathotep is mentioned in Parchments of Pnom.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yhoundeh"},{"author":"Brian Lumley","canon":"Expanded Cthulhu Mythos","category":"great old one","id":114,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yibb-tstll.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yibb-tstll2.jpg"],"name":"yibb-tstll","nick":"the patient one","overview":"Yibb-Tstll is sometimes described as an immobile, dark, tentacled entity with a pulpy, alien head, detached eyes, and large bat wings under which countless Night-gaunts suck black milk from its innumerable breasts.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yibb-Tstll"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":115,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yig.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yig2.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yig3.jpg"],"name":"yig","nicks":["father of serpents"],"overview":"An odd, half-anthropomorphic devil of highly arbitrary and capricious nature. He was not wholly evil, and was usually quite well-disposed toward those who gave proper respect to him and his children, the serpents; but in the autumn he became abnormally ravenous, and had to be driven away by means of suitable rites.","wikiUrl":"https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yig"},{"author":"Howard Phillips Lovecraft","canon":"Lovecraft's Myths Cycle","category":"great old one","id":116,"img":["https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yog-sothoth.jpg","https://lovecraftapirest.fly.dev/api/images/yog-sothoth2.jpg"],"name":"yog-sothoth","nicks":["the lurker at the threshold","the key and the gate","the beyond one","opener of the way","the all-in-one","the one-in-all","all-encompassing","yogge-sothothe","yok-zothoth","yog-sototl","iog-sotôt","yogsoggoth"],"overview":"Yog-Sothoth visually manifests as a mass of glowing orbs, with eyes or tendrils in some versions, and in others simply the orbs. 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