Gothmog
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About 10 years ago in a CoC campaign I made up some writings of a Roman centurian captain sent to Germania and Caledonia in service to the empire. During his tenure, he and his men dealt with cultists of Shub-Niggurath and a Dark Young in Germania, as well as forged an alliance with some Caledonians against the awakened threat of Cthonians in Britain. Other minor mythos events were also recorded (the Yellow Sign, an encounter with a moon beast). True to Roman writing fashion, I exhaustively detailed his encounters, and wrote them up on parchment papers along with sketches an art major friend of mine made of some critters, relics, etc. Interestingly, the centurion involved in all this was Longinus in my game. Due to his somewhat unhinged mind, Longinus was recalled to Rome and found incapable of leading troops anymore, however he was reassigned to the Judea area. His spear was a gift from a Caledonian shaman for use in combatting the Cthonians, but he later stabbed Christ with it because he believed he was a Cthulhu mythos monster possessing/inhabiting a human body. His journal goes on to state that in the weeks following the death and resurrection of Jesus, Longinus was visited by strange lumenescent beings who worked on his psyche and eventually he became a convert of Christianity. He was eventually stoned to death by an angry mob of Roman citizens. His journal was taken from imperial officials before it could be used to root out other sympathizers of Christianity, and hidden away in a German monastery where it was revered as a holy tome through the middle ages and Renniasance. When my players read all this, it sent chills down their spines, with the implication that maybe Christianity is designed to set up worship of one of the Old Ones.
