Dagon

A **Dagon** is an individual who has been, over time, manipulated and changed by the dark powers of the Deep Ones. The pentultimate form of the transformation process from mental corruption to physical corruption, dagons are typically quite dangerous creatures that exhibit aggressive tendencies, and are almost always entirely mindless, solely acting as hands of their Deep Ones.

## Behaviour

Dagon are mindless creatures, serving only the wills of their superiors. Unless their Deep One is taking control of them purposefully and manually directing focus to them, dagons will simply attack any living humanoid they see with wanton aggression and violence with little care for their own life. Whether or not a dagon is being controlled by a Deep One, the Deep One is capable of seeing through their eyes - hence, anything they see is visible passively by their controller.

## Forms

Dagon have three notable forms that they can take based upon how they develop, what the Deep One they worshipped needed at the time, and multiple other factors. As a result, dagon often take multiple different forms based on their roles.

### Fish Form (Mlelki)

The fish form dagon, or Mlelki, are a common form of dagon in the deep ocean where there is little surface area. The fish form dagon appear to have the bodies of a fish with flat faces, covered in three red eyes and lacking mouths. They have a dorsal fin alongside two side fins that are extremely large and fanned out, with anywhere between 3-7 long, muscular tentacles used as weapons. Mlelki dagon typically appear bluish-green in color. Their gaze is corrupting, often enough to send a normal viewer insane, and their tentacles are then used to capture them and bring them to their Deep One - either to turn them into dagons themselves, or for them to be eaten.

### Shoggoth Form

The shoggoth form of dagon are large, black, amorphous creatures often found in swamps, temples and other places where there is significant solid surface area around the Deep One. The result of multiple corrupted humanoids being forced into one disturbed mass of dagon, shoggoths often possess many eyes and mouths. While their bodies are typically amorphous, sticky blobs, they can form hands, tentacles, and weapons from their body if needed. When they see an uncorrupted humanoid, they scream and moan wildly, often enough to break the foe into submission. After this, they will simply slowly shuffle over and then proceed to consume them, adding the body into their amorphous form. For every humanoid inside of a shoggoth, another pair of eyes and a mouth appears.

### Mermaid Form (Kthazu)

The mermaid form of dagon, sometimes called Kthazu, are most common in flooded areas like ancient submersed temples. They appear like long eels, with massive, jagged-toothed mouths and numerous fins that allow them to swim. However, in place of eyes or a nose, is a fleshy face of what the creature looked like in life, hair, eyelashes and all. This face is how the dagon sees and hears. Behind this face are their two arms, flailing behind them uselessly as they swim. Most dagons of this type possess electrokinetic abilities allowing them to shock those in the vicinity.