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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Achan hiArusa" data-source="post: 4671200" data-attributes="member: 2597">I may be introducting some postLovecraft themes, but:Cthulhu embodies water and could be a god of the sea or former god of the sea since his foe, the one who sealed him Nodens rides a chariot with ocean like decorations.  His return heralds the end of the world.Ithaqua is has been equated to the Wendigo of North American legend.  He is could be a god of winter and storms and of those lost and never found.Shub-Niggurath is the goat of a thousand young and is basically like a goddess of fertility.Without my book here, the only thing I remember about Y'golonac is that his primary form is an headless obese human with fanged maws in his hands.  For some reason the idea of knowledge sits in the back of my head, but I'm not sure why.Azathoth is the insane, mindless daemon sultan who sits at the center of the universe listening to the piping of his servitors orbited by lesser outer gods.  His manifestation is an ever growing amoeboid creature that destroys and devours everything in its path.  Cthulhu is one of his high priests.Nyarlahotep is the messenger between the outer gods and the rest of the universe (great old ones and humans alike).  He has lived as a human and takes an interest in them akin to what a small child with a clamp and a blowtorch takes to his GI Joe action figures.Yog-Sothoth has as one of his manifestations as the gates of the universe.  He can send anyone anywhere and often without them losing sanity.  He is also the father of the Whately boys.  The elder Whately, a wizard, gave his daughter Asenath to Yog-Sothoth and produced two children, Wilbur who looked human and his very inhuman (took after his father) and often invisible brother.Of course, this is all off the top of my head, so I may be wrong about the details.</blockquote>

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