Yogash the Ghoul

The Ghoul King; the Hunger; Sharash-ho (Father of All Ghouls); the Pale King

### Relatives

Azathoth (great-great-great-great-grandparent); Magnum Innominandum (great-great-great-grandparent); Darkness (great-great-great-grandparent); Yog-Sothoth (great-great-grandfather); Shub-Niggurath (great-great-grandmother); Nug (great-grandparent); Cthulhu (grandparent); Re (grandfather); Tsathoggua (cousin); Mordiggian (father); Bast (mother); K'baa the Serpent (offspring); Ghoth the Burrower (grandchild); Howard Phillips Lovecraft (distant descendant)

Yogash the Ghoul is a mysterious entity that is in the line of Azathoth, descending through Cthulhu, and producing the line which would produce Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It's not clear if this degree of separation from Cthulhu and Azathoth renders Yogash the Ghoul mortal, or if his powers and capacity are significantly diminished compared to the Great Old Ones.

It has been proposed that his father's moniker, Shaurash-ho, "The Father of Ghouls", was literal and that Yogash was the first of the ghouls, and the origin of that species. Yogash's symbol is thus a one eyed ghoul skull with a sickle in the background. He is known to appear from time to time in Nyarlathotep's retinue.

## Cult

Most of Yogash's followers are ghouls, and those who aren't often eventually become so. They believe that to exist is to eat, and a fully experienced existence requires one to eat (preferrably human) prey. When a life ends under quivering lips and tearing teeth, they can feel true happiness for a time, at least temporarily. The followers also sometimes attempt to recreate Yogash's hidden White Kingdom in some obscure corner of the Earth, but they are always pale imitations when compared to that alien realm.

Yogash's primary worshippers are ghouls and creatures that have turned to cannibalism for pleasure, though many who practice the rites of necromancy or seek to crush the world beneath their bootheel worship him as well. He is known to keep concubines by the name of Korvaka the Empty Rage and a succubus-like creature named Nimevere, as well as an aerie full of monstrous bat-like creatures that act as his eyes and ears. His cult teaches that the weak are meant to feed the strong and his rites involve sacrificing humans to ghouls.

Some of his followers say that suffering sweetens the meat, but what few scholars have the stomach to study such theologies say there is no evidence other than those followers' own words to support the notion. They refuse to lower themselves to experimentation to provide empirical evidence of its falsity, however.

## Appearance

Thin and wasted, Yogash appears as an 8' tall humanoid with pointed ears, skin as pale and hard as marble, and eyes blazing with a sickly yellow-green hunger above his hoof-like feet. His skin is completely hairless and would be flawless if not for the fact that his bones are clearly visible beneath it. Yogash has huge hands that end in midnight black talons to match his huge teeth. He wears an elegant cloak of supple human-flesh, open in the front to reveal a pale leather armor studded with inhumanly tiny human skulls; inside the gems in the skulls' eyes are the souls of countless dead people who sought knowledge they could not hold. A black metal crown with finger bones sticking straight up with giant ruby rings darkly glinting upon them rises from his lumpen skull and he wields a staff called Toothlust, created from the skull and spinal cord of some past victim. Yogash carries an ancient black sickle sheathed on a rotting belt at his waist, it can easily part flesh from bone and imparts the hunger of a ghoul on whoever it touches.

## Home

Yogash rules Volenroft, the White Kingdom, a massive necropolis and hunting ground for him and his ghoul servants. This great charnel house is forever filled with screams and the sounds of chewing and breaking bones. Every building in the White Kingdom is made of white bone, and walking through its streets causes clouds of white bone-dust to coat everything. Yogash's palatial citadel, the Tower of Teeth, created from the petrified but still-living form of an Outer God known as Syvexrae. Yogash's throne room is in Syvexrae's skull, where he feasts on her decaying brain, and the palace also hosts his Court of Teeth, made up of a thousand ghouls.

Other places of interest include the Altar of Flesh, where acts of worship even less savory than cannibalism occur, and Black Pool, a great lake of filthy, stagnant, mosquito-egged water that is said to contain a tunnel to some other realm in its depths. The Black Pool is guarded by a ghoul-like colossus named in certain blasphemous texts as Coraxival. There is also rumor of an ancient and nameless Outer God that Yogash feasts upon to increase his strength.