Rhan-Tegoth

“	Rhan-Tegoth, infinite and invincible, I am your slave and high-priest. You are hungry, and I provide. I read the sign and have led you forth. I shall feed you with blood, and you shall feed me with power. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!	„
	~ "The Horror in the Museum"

Rhan-Tegoth is a fifteen foot tall, medusa-like, insectoid amphibious god-being (Great Old One) of comparatively little power but vital to the return of the Old Ones. It lived in the warm seas of Yuggoth before coming to Earth.

3 million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, it inhabited an area of Alaska before going into a hibernation like trance. Rhan-Tegoth was the last god to sleep, and probably was meant to be the first to wake. Its body was found by George Rogers and moved to a museum in London, 1926 (HPL: "The Horror in the Museum"), but was then lost track of until It turned up, firstly in Sheffield, UK in the 1980s (EXP: "The Return of Rhan-Tegoth"), and then in Chorazin, New York in the mid-to-late 1980s (EXP: "Wilbur Whateley Waiting"). It was worshipped by the prehuman, cannibal Gnophkehs, but few humans know of it in modern times (CIRCLE: "The Scroll of Morloc").

The god is shaped somewhat like an enormous insect, with a tremendous, barrel-shaped trunk with six appendages ending in claws-like pincers and a near-spherical head covered with hair-like filaments or feelers, a tentacle-like proboscis and three small, beady eyes. The hair-like feelers function as additional mouths that perforate the skin of the creature's prey and secrete digestive acids. Similar to Chaugnar Faugn, Rhan-Tegoth feeds by sucking out the blood and liquefied innards of its victims, the bodies of which are crushed and disfigured by the great strength of the monster.