Rhan-Tegoth

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 (: "The Horror in the Museum"), but was then lost track of until It turned up, firstly in Sheffield, UK in the 1980s (: "The Return of Rhan-Tegoth"), and then in Chorazin, New York in the mid-to-late 1980s (: "Wilbur Whateley Waiting").​ It was worshipped by the prehuman, cannibal Gnophkehs, but few humans know of it in modern times (​: "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.
==Behind the Mythos==
Rhan-Tegoth was created by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. It was developed by Lin Carter; Laurence J. Cornford and Chaosium.
==Gallery==
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Rhan-Tegoth (Paizo Inc).jpg|Rhan-Tegoth (Pathfinder)
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Rhan-Tegoth (Éditions Sans-Détour).jpg|Rhan-Tegoth (Call of Cthulhu, French version)
142 Rhan-Tegoth.png|Ryuga Boumera's interpretation of Rhan-Tegoth.
Rhan-tegoth elder.jpg|Rhan-Tegoth (Elder Sign)
Export202211231615451030.png|MrMeowser's drawing of Rhan-Tegoth
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Category:Great Old Ones
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works