Abhoth

Abhoth is an Outer God who lives beneath Mount Voormithadreth (in the Dreamlands, Abhoth and his children dwell in the Pit of Unknown Things, beneath the Grey Barrier Peaks).
== Appearance ==
Abhoth takes the form of a huge pool of grey slime. It continually spawns its children, beings of infinite anatomical diversity. Abhoth devours most of these immediately, but the rest may escape from their parent's cavern home.
== Children of Abhoth ==
The children of Abhoth, or Unknown Things, are various creatures which the Outer God sloughs off from its great fertile bulk. Unlike Shub-Niggurath's offspring, no two children of Abhoth are alike, yet unlike the brood of Ubbo-Sathla, the Abhoth-spawn are generally complex life forms. Some appear as unfinished bodies, or singular body parts, while others look like prehistoric creatures, monstrous mutant things, queer humanoids, or amorphous blobs. Some children of Abhoth fly, some swim, some crawl, and some don't move at all. Abhoth scoops up and re-absorbs some of its children. Those that escape their sire’s grasp wander about in some dank and lightless subterranean lair, or venture up into the world of man. Abhoth's children are mostly simple-minded creatures that act and react on impulse.
== Cult of Abhoth ==
Few instances of Abhoth's worship have been reported. The Hyperborean colony of Krannoria revered Abhoth, but in the end their ungrateful deity destroyed them. An "Abhoth the Dark" is also mentioned in many Hittite inscriptions. Abhoth seems not to care that such cults exist, and is unlikely to provide them with any favors. It does require sacrifices from time to time, but may gather them itself by cloaking itself in illusion and calling to unsuspecting victims. Some have attributed the creation of all evil to Abhoth, but this seems unlikely.
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Category:Outer Gods
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