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This subject contains information from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles, and while guided by HPL are not based on his work alone. This subject contains information from the Mythos Adjacent Works, and while share similar themes and features of the Mythos are not based on his work, or generally considered a part of the Mythos proper. Mordiggian is a fictional deity created by Clark Ashton Smith in his Zothique story "The Charnel God". The entity was later incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos as a Great Old One by Scott D. Aniolowski in his Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.

Described as swirling darkness, a gigantic shadow, or a worm-shaped column, Mordiggian is worshipped by several human cults and cults of ghouls as a symbol of Death. His name is used in Zothique, Man's last continent, and it is possible that this gigantic creature is the same as Shaurash-Ho or even identical to Cynothoglys. The name may also find its origins in medieval France, being a corruption of the Latin "Mortician" (to do with the dead).

Mordiggian also seems to be the main subject of The Ghoul's Manuscript and Cultes des Goules

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