Byatis

**Byatis** is a Great Old One god who was summoned to earth via an ancient ritual.

## **Background**

The god was summoned to earth by the Deep Ones when they arrived here, bringing their images of him with them. He was imprisoned in a stone chamber beneath the earth by the Elder Gods, only to later be freed and go on a rampage across Britain, killing hundreds of people before becoming dormant.

In the 1700s, an evil warlock named Sir Gilbert Morley discovered Byatis in the stone chamber and decided to use the god's power for his own ends. He used the divine power of Byatis to make himself incredibly powerful in return for offering up people of the town as human sacrifices to Byatis.

However, the more sacrifices Byatis ate, the larger he became, eventually becoming too large to escape the chamber, remaining imprisoned for 250 years until the twentieth century, when a man named Parry accidently opened the chamber. Terrified, Parry ran away and returned with a can of petrol, which he used to burn Byatis. Although the god's physical form was destroyed, Parry saw a great greenish cloud of eldritch mist emerge from the flames and become a toad-like winged creature before flying away.

## **Personality**

Byatis is animalistic by nature, he doesn't seem to have the capability to speak verbally. However he does have the ability to speak telepathically to others. Byatis has no regard for human life as he willingly consumed the sacrifices offered to him by the warlock Gilbert Morley in exchange for power. However this does not make him evil per se, as he is animalistic in nature.

## **Appearance**

Byatis' true form is very horrific to behold. He resembles a cross between a spider and a crab, being in possession of two huge crab claws and a mass of growths beneath his face. According to an eighteenth-century document, Byatis is "somewhat like a spider, somewhat like a crab, and somewhat like a horror in a dream."

## **Known Powers and Abilities**

Byatis is a incredibly powerful and ravenous god, he possesses power superior to some other gods from his pantheon.

* **Super Strength**- Like all gods, Byatis possesses supernatural levels of physical strength with unlimited potential. He effortlessly destroyed an entire town and its inhabitants.
* **Super Stamina**- Byatis does not possess the capability to feel fatigued, and can last indefinitely without sustenance.
* **Super Senses**- Due to his spider-crab like true form, Byatis possesses highly enhanced sense of sight, his vision is implied to be split into many fields similar to an actual spider, and can focus on many different objects or persons at once.
* **Super Agility**- Having the true form of a spider-crab creature, Byatis possesses supernatural agility, able to crawl on walls and preform incredible feats of dexterity without negative effects.
* **Immortality**- Byatis is a god, therefore he cannot die from aging or disease. He has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.
* **Nigh Invulnerability** - Since he is a god, he cannot be killed by any weapon or any kind of physical trauma. However, common household items such as petrol has negative effects on him.
* **Nigh Indestructibility** - No mortal weapon is capable of causing harm to Byatis, however godly weapons can seriously injure him.
* **Regeneration** - He can heal any injury he receives in a short amount of time, however, extensive damage by another god will take much longer to heal.
* **Power Granting**- In exchange for being offered human sacrifices, Byatis granted the warlock Gilbert Morley unimaginable power.
* **Shapeshifting**- The more sacrifices he consumed, the larger Byatis got to the point were he was bigger than his liar. He was also able to change his form into that of a large winged toad-like being.
* **Telepathy**- While seemingly not able to communicate verbally in human languages, he is able to telepathically communicate with others.
* **Mental Manipulation**- He is said to have hypnotic powers, and anyone who looks into his eye will become his slave. Byatis can also erase the memories of others.
* **Astral Perception**- Through astral perception, Byatis can perceive anything that is invisible to other beings.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Other Deities** - A group of gods were able to banish Byatis and lock him away in a chamber underground.
* **Divine Weaponry** - A weapon of a god can cause significant damage to Byatis.