Grey Eagle

Chief Grey Eagle is a character created by H. P. Lovecraft and featured in two stories that he wrote for Zealia Bishop. He has a minor role in "The Curse of Yig", and a comparatively small but important role in The Mound.
== Biography ==
Grey Eagle is a Wichita chieftain from Oklahoma. In 1928, his age was estimated as being close to 150. A young ethnologist from Virginia suspects that his longevity might be related to the medallion he carries with him, made from an unknown metal that was brought to Earth by Cthulhu. The object was inherited by Grey Eagle from his father, who in turn inherited it from Grey Eagle's grandfather, and so on. All his ancestors who bore the medallion lived for over a century and died only in battle.
As a chief, Grey Eagle is widely regarded as a wise and benevolent man, respected by his own people as well as by many others. He and his family have preserved knowledge of how the people of K'n-yan once lived on the surface and used to trade and bear children with humans, but isolated themselves in the underground after the cataclysmic floods that sank many of the Earth's landmasses. (: The Mound)
In 1889, Walker Davis asked questions about Yig to the Wichita shamans and chiefs, including Grey Eagle, who told Davis that Yig's appearance was humanoid enough to be mistaken for a man if seen from some distance. (: "The Curse of Yig")
In 1916, Grey Eagle was the only Wichita to offer any advice to Joe Norton and Rance Wheelock when they were investigating the death of Capt. George E. Lawton, who had disappeared into a local mound and returned mutilated and traumatized, dying soon afterwards. Grey Eagle advised the two men to stay away from "those people". Twelve years later, he gave the same advice to the Virginian ethnologist who sought to investigate the legend of the two "ghosts" (a man and a headless woman) who patrol the mound. When the ethnologist decided to explore the mound anyway, Grey Eagle presented him with his medallion, which would confer protection against the K'n-yanians, as they would recognize it as a symbol of their gods.
After the man returned following a terrifying encounter with the reanimated remains of one of the K'n-yanians' victims, he asked and obtained permission from Grey Eagle to have the medallion examined by authorities, who found that the metal it was made of didn't occur anywhere on Earth. Afterwards, the medallion was returned to Grey Eagle. (: The Mound)
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