Proto-Shoggoth

Proto-Shoggoths are a subspecies of shoggoth.
==Origin==
There is a theory that the Elder Things created life on Earth using the proto-shoggoths. However, according to the Book of Eibon, it was Ubbo-Sathla who created only terrestrial life. It is possible that the explanation for this inconsistency is that the proto-shoggoth was created using genetic material obtained from the plasma remains that Ubbo-Sathla left on the surface. Therefore, the proto-shoggoths would have arisen from Ubbo-Sathla and subsequently all life would have arisen as a result.
===Modern recreation===
In "The Asylum", a Call of Cthulhu scenario included in the supplement The Asylum & Other Tales, Dr. Terence Freygan began creating an army of proto-shoggoths after studying a Greek copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts in hand from a local cult of the Silent Shouter on the Hill and having studied the case of Jeffry Quarren, a boy abducted by the Great Race of Yith who maintained a mind of these beings. Since then, truck fleets have approached the Greenwood Asylum, the doctor's workplace. And, some time later, there were a series of deaths around the madhouse. The reason behind these events is that Freygan, using the manuscripts and a laboratory built in the building, began to transform human tissue into proto-shoggoth fabric using a catalyst in the asylum patients. These attempts resulted in the death of the patients, but subsequent attempts maintained the brain, which spread throughout the body. The doctor came to use himself as a guinea pig successfully, but he still seeks to refine the process to turn the cultists and the nearby village inhabitants into an army of these protoplasmic beings using a series of medications alongside the use of the catalyst.
==Characteristics==
NOTE: taken in part from Dr. Freygan's description according to "The Asylum".
In combat, in addition to body movements (such as punches, firearms, prey...), they can use a crush move. Unlike true shoggoths, they can only attack one human victim at a time until death by crush or absorption.
==Gallery==
Elder Sign - Proto-Shoggoth.jpg|Proto-shoggoth (Elder Sign)
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Category:Sapient Species
Category:Earth-Native Species
Category:Species Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works