Cthulhu

**Cthulhu** is a Great Old One of great power who was banished and bound in a death-like slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh.

## **Background**

Along with his children and the Xothians, Cthulhu travelled to Saturn and then to Earth. They landed on a continent in the Pacific Ocean and built the city R'lyeh. Cthulhu received resistance from the Elder Things who also lived on earth. They waged war for the earth until a truce was made. Cthulhu then went into a deep hibernation within R'lyeh. Cthulhu communicated with several humans through dreams, resulting in the Cult of Cthulhu. Disaster then struck R'lyeh, sinking it into the ocean. R'lyeh has risen from the ocean for brief amounts of time. However, it is fated that R'lyeh will rise from the ocean permanently and Cthulhu will take the world.

In most of the myths, Cthulhu lays dormant deep under the ocean within the sunken city of R'lyeh, but can still influence the world via many psychic powers and, of course, his many cults and supernatural minions. It is said that once Cthulhu is fully awakened, he shall rise from the depths and end the world; thankfully for humanity, Cthulhu has yet to do so. However, he came close in the 1920s when a group of sailors came across his sunken city of R'lyeh, which had been brought to the surface by the alignment of the stars.

They opened up one of the strange buildings, only for Cthulhu to exit it and attack them. The god only halted its attack when the sailors used their ship to cut him in half. As they sailed away, they could see Cthulhu reforming into a whole being again. The world would have ended then but for the fact that R'lyeh suddenly sunk as the stars moved out of position. The resulting powerful current not only dragged Cthulhu into the building he had been trapped in, but also closed the door behind him, thus trapping him yet again.

## **Personality**

Cthulhu is malicious, sadistic, sociopathic, narcissistic, and apocalyptic. He as no qualms with brutally killing any human or creature that angers him. Cthulhu only wishes to consume and destroy any reality he is currently inhabiting, to bring about the apocalypse. Despite those who worship him, the god has no regard for human life, showing a level of sadistic pleasure when driving humans insane and watching them kill and mutilate each other. Cthulhu's relationship with other gods seems to be indifference or outright malicious as he waged a war with other gods when he arrived on earth.

## **Appearance**

Cthulhu most often appears as a large lumbering humanoid with a octopus-like face with tentacles around his mouth and Dragon-like wings. His right hand is thicker than his left and is covered in some kind of natural body armour. Both his hands are feet are clawed and his wings possess orange eyes. His flesh has ritualistic sigils carved into him notably on his hands, arms, chest, head, and back. In his true form, Cthulhu is as tall as a mountain, or even larger.

## **Known Powers and Abilities**

While not as powerful as many other Great Old Ones, Cthulhu is still an incredibly powerful god.

* **Super Strength**- Cthulhu possesses supernatural strength, his physical power can destroy entire realities, despite being weaker than other Great Old Ones, he can still overpower many other gods.
* **Super Stamina**- Being a god, Cthulhu doesn't require sustenance to maintain himself, and can go without it for an indefinite amount of time.
* **Super Senses**- Due to his nature, his sense of smell, sight, hearing, and taste are omnipotent. He can even taste the reality which makes up a world.
* **Super Speed**- Despite his large, and lumbering appearance, Cthulhu is able to move at tremendous speeds while in flight using his powerful wings.
* **Immortality**- As a god, Cthulhu is immortal, he is eons old and is immune to aging and disease. He however doesn't have an age since he doesn't experience time as humans do.
* **Nigh Invulnerability** - Cthulhu cannot be killed, human made weapons have no affect on him and he is immune to all forms of physical trauma. However, strangely for a god, common human inventions are able to temporary incapacitate him much to his annoyance.
* **Nigh Indestructibility** - While his physical form can be severely damaged and destroyed, Cthulhu cannot truly be killed.
* **Regeneration** - Cthulhu's healing facture is highly enhanced, after being cut in half by a group of sailors with their ship, he was able to reattach himself back in one piece.
* **Mental Manipulation**- Arguably, Cthulhu's most notable trait is the fact that he, alongside the rest of his kin, cannot be comprehended by humans; when a human so much as looks at Cthulhu, they will almost certainly be driven mad by his visage.
* **Telepathy**- While he was locked away in R'yleh, Cthulhu was still able to communicate telepathically to humans.
* **Reality Warping**- Cthulhu is able to destroy entire realities and worlds at will, his ultimate goal on Earth is to plunge the world into an apocalypse and chaos.
* **Shapeshifting**- While his true form his said to be larger than any mountain, Cthulhu takes on the form of a large lumbering humanoid while on Earth.
* **Teleportation** **-** Cthulhu can travel through different realities, through space and time. Before he arrived on Earth, he visited the planet Saturn.
* **Conjuration** **-** Cthulhu was able to create a his city of R'yleh out of thin air.
* **Apporting** **-** While he was traveling through space, he was able to bring his creations, the Xothians with him.
* **Power Granting**- While unspecified, it is implied Cthulhu has the ability to bestow humans with supernatural power, in turn granting them superhuman abilities.
* **Astral Perception**- Cthulhu can perceive the true forms of supernatural beings, such as other Great Old Ones. Unlike humans however, he can perceive other Old Ones without any harm.
* **Flight**- With his large Dragon-like wings, Cthulhu is able to take flight.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Other Deities** - Cthulhu was imprisoned under the Pacific Ocean in R'yleh by more powerful gods.
* **Divine Weaponry** - A weapon of divine origin can harm Cthulhu.