Nug

(one of) the Twin Blasphemies, Ptmâk, Shaurash-ho, Father of All Ghouls, (one of) the Twin Monstrosities

### Associations

Birthing monsters, black flames, clearing the earth, the end of the world, gardens, ghouls, K'n-yan, torches, twins, union, youth

### Relatives

Azathoth (great-grandparent); Magnum Innominandum (grandparent); Darkness (grandparent); Yog-Sothoth (father); Shub-Niggurath (mother); Cthulhu (child); Tsathoggua (nibling); Mordiggian (grandchild); Yogash the Ghoul (great-grandchild); K'baa the Serpent (great-great-grandchild); Ghoth the Burrower (great-great-great-grandchild); Howard Phillips Lovecraft (distant descendant)

### Common Blessings

K’n-yanian worshippers may find they are transported into the black sun to momentarily join with their deities; most return severely changed by the experience. Occasionally, a K’n-yanian ritual to Nug and Yeb may be honored with elements of the gods manifesting among the worshippers and joining in with the orgiastic rites, with numerous spawn of Nug and Yeb birthed as a result.Nug and Yeb are not known for bestowing powers or favors upon their devoted followers (perhaps due to their relative immaturity). It remains the Keeper’s option whether to design and grant such powers.

Above the one-thousand bridges over the river of the forbidden city of Yian-Ho rises the black sun. Contained within this mighty sphere are Nug and Yeb, the twin monstrosities, ever joined in perpetual union. A bubbling conglomeration of black and gray, formless, twisting, and mixing. Festering masses composed of noxious gases, liquid, and solid matter, whose eyes and mouths open and close, ever forming and dissolving.

Nug, and his brother Yeb, are sons of Shub-Niggurath, twins born from her mating with her husband Yog-Sothoth. They were "spawned on the Doomed nebula of Zlykarior", according to the *Necronomicon* (Book II, chapter 2, paragraph 1), and they are ever-joined together within a black sun that hovers over the city of Yian-Ho believed to exist within the center of the Earth, beyond the world of K’n-yan.

According to another account by Eibon in his Second Epistle unto his Disciples, the androgynous Cxaxukluth split in two, becoming male Nug and female Yeb. This minority interpretation may just be a textual gloss attempting to harmonize conflicting information.

Nug is the parent of Cthulhu via the influence of Yog-Sothoth, and was thusly known by the name Ptmâk in Hyperborea. Dr. Dee called Nug "Shaurash-ho" ("Father of All Ghouls"), a title shared with its grandspawn Mordiggian.

Lore tells that these gods will be intertwined until, one day, they become sated and separate, enabling each to fully mature and have a sense of self. This event heralds the End Time of the planet, leading to an escalation of momentous events that include the escape and freedom of the Great Old Ones, the end of the Elder Gods, and the eventual destruction and recreation of the Earth. Thus, Nug and Yeb are destined to begin the end of the world as we know it.

Nug and Yeb continuously generate monsters from their unholy union, and sometimes also with worshippers or victims. These small creatures are pliable black wads with several drooling and gnashing mouths, and numerous mismatched limbs, each somewhere on the spectrum between a tentacle and a claw.

Apart from a few references (mostly prophecies), little is written concerning the Twin Blasphemies, with most of what is known drawn from stories said to have originated in K’n-yan before humanity reached maturity. All seem to comply with the notion that these entities are perpetually joined together, unable to separate until their decreed time. They appear to have little external influence and this state will remain until the black sun is broken and they develop into individuals, each to take its place within the cosmic order of Great OId Ones.

## Appearance

These entities look like whirling vapors, although they are semi-solid and ever-moving; growing and reabsorbing limbs, eyes, and mouths in a constant fashion. The sphere that contains them is said to be 50 miles (80 km) in diameter, dominating the “sky” above Yian-Ho. Within this, is an orb, some 300 feet (90 m) in diameter, mercifully cloaked in black flames, that is Nug and Yeb.

## Cult

The Twin Blasphemies are worshipped in K'n-yan, Irem, and other places and form a kind of yin and yang symbolically. Other texts refer to the two Great Old Ones as the creator and keeper of the garden where Yig lives. They are entrusted with clearing the Earth for the Great Ones return by means of two devices, the Furnace of Yeb and the Torch of Nug. Esoteric doctrines of monks in Leng teach that Nug and Yeb are the secret names of Lloigor and Zhar, but they never lived on Earth. This latter set of twins might have appeared at or near Kadath, however, while the Twin Blasphemies are said to be in the Cavern of Prototypes beneath Mount Voormithadreth (which may be extra-dimensional). Nug is a god among ghouls.

The human-like people of K’n-yan worship Nug and Yeb, holding sickening and horrible orgiastic rites in golden shrines within their underground world. Such worship may extend beyond the cities to the “uncivilized” and tribal groups of K’n-yanians said to inhabit the wildernesses and plains of that secretive underworld. Indeed, across that domain are numerous temples, many now abandoned and ruined, to these twin deities. Externally, beyond K’n-yan and in the human world on the planet’s surface, worship of these entities is rare, with no organized cult.

## Encounters

Those finding the secret doors leading to the underground world of K’n-yan may find temples and relics to Nug and Yeb, as well as living worshippers who will be readily prepared to offer up such trespassers into their domain as sacrifices. Those seeking to behold these gods in person, however, must venture through K’n-yan and find the hidden way to Yian-Ho, deeper down and past many terrors.

## Aura

Relics and ceremonial items connected to Nug and Yeb tend to be fashioned in Tulu gold, the material most favored by the K’n-yanians, although other metals may be seen; otherwise, such items do not seem to carry any particular resonance. If venturing to Yian-Ho, a person would feel an almost electrical buzz in the air emanating from the sphere containing these deities. In addition, the black sun occasionally sends forth gouts and burst of black flames that can disintegrate flesh.