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Great Old One
The Great Old Ones are a group of unique, malignant beings of great power. They reside in various locations on Earth, and once presided over the planet as gods and rulers. The Great Old Ones -
Yog-Sothoth
Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity and Outer God. Born of the Nameless Mist, he is the progenitor of Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable and the ancestor of the Voormi. He is also the father of -
Azathoth
🎨 Azathoth, sometimes called "The Blind Idiot God", the "Nuclear Chaos", the "Daemon Sultan", "The Deep Dark", and "The Cold One", is an Outer God. There can be no definite description of Azathoth because everybody -
Nyarlathotep
🎨 Nyarlathotep, known to many by his epithet The Crawling Chaos, is an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos. Created by H. P. Lovecraft he made his first appearance in the prose poem "Nyarlathotep" (1920 -
Cthulhu
Cthulhu is a Great Old One of great power who lies in a death-like slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldrich -
Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath, called The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, is an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The being first appeared in Lovecraft's revision story "The -
Hastur
Hastur the Unspeakable is a Cthulhu mythos deity. Although the being is most famously associated with H. P. Lovecraft, it is only mentioned in one of his stories, "The Whisperer in Darkness." Originally it was -
Outer God
The Outer Gods are various cosmically significant entities that are featured in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are to be distinguished from the Great Old Ones, although the distinction isn't universally acknowledged. Generally speaking, they -
Mother Hydra
Mother Hydra is a creature who, alongside her consort Father Dagon, is said to rule over the race known as the Deep Ones. There is debate as to whether or not they are a lesser -
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Elder God
The Elder Gods, also referred to as the Elder Deities, have mostly human-like appearance and they are benevolent in nature. In different parts of the world such as Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean they -
Deep One
The Deep Ones are an ocean-dwelling race, as evidenced by their name, with an affinity for mating with humans. They entered a contract with the people of Innsmouth to keep the fish plentiful in -
Dagon
Dagon is a deity who presides over the Deep Ones, an amphibious humanoid race that currently resides in the Earth's oceans. He is first introduced in Lovecraft's short story "Dagon", and is mentioned -
Magnum Innominandum
The Nameless Mist is an Outer God. It is the progenitor of several other cosmic entities, including the Outer God Yog-Sothoth. It is older than everything except Azathoth (its creator) and Unnamed Darkness as -
Tsathoggua
Tsathoggua, also known as the Sleeper of N'kai, is an entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle. Tsathoggua -
Elder Thing
The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones ) are a fictional alien species created by H. P. Lovecraft, which make their first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of -
Darkness
The Darkness is an Outer God, and the progenitor of Shub-Niggurath. Lovecraft mentioned the Nameless Mist in a family tree of Cthulhu he jokingly wrote in a letter. -
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian -
The Dreamlands
The Dreamlands or Dream Realm is a vast, alternate dimension or universe, accessible to earthly humans only through dreams and through which one can enter the Underworld. The waking world is our everyday or "real -
Shoggoth
Shoggoths are amorphous, shapeshifting beings. They were genetically engineered by the Elder Things as a race of servant-tools, but eventually rose up against their masters and drove them to extinction. Shoggoths are now found -
Mi-go
The Mi-go are an extraterrestrial species from the planet Yuggoth (implied to be the dwarf planet Pluto ). They are described as winged creatures with large claws and heads covered in antennae. The Mi-go -
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a Dunwich inhabitant who plays a central role in "The Dunwich Horror ". In the rural town of Dunwich, Massachusetts on February 2, 1913 at 5 a.m. Lavinia Whateley gave birth to -
Nug and Yeb
Nug and Yeb are sons of Shub-Niggurath. (HPL: "Out of the Aeons ") They are twins born from her mating with her husband Yog-Sothoth. (HPL: Selected Letters 5.875) They were "spawned on the -
Necronomicon
The Necronomicon is the title of a fictional book created by H.P. Lovecraft. Numerous other authors including Clark Ashton Smith, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell and Keith Herber have added to its contents over the -
Family tree of Azathoth
The following is a list of the descendants of the Outer God Azathoth. Nug, Yeb and Yig were sons of Shub-Niggurath (HPL: "Out of the Eons")
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