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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7151049" data-attributes="member: 57383">It would help if you read the novel but I'll admit it's a bit long.Anyhow, in the book Khalk'ru is an extradimensional being who is worshipped by two groups of Uighurs. Here's a quote regarding how a high priest described Khalk'ru to the protagonist:I won't repeat it, except to give the gist of it. Khalk'ru was the Beginning-without-Beginning, as he would be the End-without-End. He was the Lightless Timeless Void. The Destroyer. The Eater-up of Life. The Annihilator. The Dissolver. He was not Death—Death was only a part of him. He was alive, very much so, but his quality of living was the antithesis of Life as we know it. Life was an invader, troubling Khalk'ru's ageless calm. Gods and man, animals and birds and all creatures, vegetation and water and air and fire, sun and stars and moon—all were his to dissolve into Himself, the Living Nothingness, if he so willed. But let them go on a little longer. Why should Khalk'ru care when in the end there would be only —Khalk'ru! Let him withdraw from the barren places so life could enter and cause them to blossom again; let him touch only those who were the enemies of his worshipers, so that his worshipers would be great and powerful, evidence that Khalk'ru was the All in All. It was only for a breath in the span of his eternity. Let Khalk'ru make himself manifest in the form of his symbol and take what was offered him as evidence he had listened and consented.In the book, Khalk'ru only appeared in his temples. In the main chamber of each temple was a "mystic screen which was Khalk'ru's doorway from the Void" that appears to be an enormous disc or square of amber on the other side of which the ghastly black octopoid shape of Khalk'ru appears to be frozen in space. The protagonist and at least some of the priests could summon Khalk'ru through the screen. To do this they struck the 'anvil of Tubalka' thrice with the 'hammer of Tubalka' before uttering an "evocation" and performing gestures with a ring (set with an amber stone containing an image of Khalk'ru).If successful, the amber stone of the mystic screen would canish and Khalkru would start to move, "reach out" and dissolve who- or whatever the summoner directs him to. In one of the book's summonings the protagonist and a priest who each had a ring contested control of Khalk'ru using "sounds whose roots struck back and back into a time before ever man drew breath" in a bid to get the Kraken to dissolve their opponent.In the first summoning in the story the mystic screen was broken down to a triangular shard that showed a single tentacle of Khalk'ru, resulting in only that tentacle being able to "reach through".At the end of the story the protagonist uses the hammer of Tubalka shatters a huge disc-shaped mystic screen in a great temple of Khalk'ru, whereupon "For an instant the shape of the Kraken hovered where the screen had been. Then it shrank. It seemed to be sucked away into immeasurable distances. It vanished."I'd go for 15 HD and Outsider, or possibly Aberration.I'm also toying with the idea of making the 15 HD version a "single tentacle avatar" and have a more powerful multi-tentacle version.</blockquote>

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