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Ryslig Helpers ([personal profile] ryslighelpers) wrote in [community profile] monsterdata2024-01-01 09:42 am

ELDER GOD

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ELDER GOD
BASIC INFO

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MANDATORY CHANGES

● A larger, buffer stature.

● Tough, leathery skin, which may be plain or patterned.

● Tentacles on the face.

● Lizard or insect-like eyes.

● Claws instead of nails.

● Bat or dragon-like wings capable of flight.

● The Insanity. Elder gods can shoot beams of light that make people see nightmares, or just lose their grasp on sanity in general. This is limited to one use a day.

● Kaiju ability. Elder gods can grow to four times their size when angered to go on a rampage. This is limited to one hour a day, non-cumulative.

● A god complex. Elder gods believe they are either divine saviors or harbingers of destruction, and should be worshipped as such.

● A weakness to being perceived. Despite their desire to be worshipped, they prefer to be revered from afar as an unknowable, unseen entity. The longer the focus is on them, the weaker they feel.

● The need to feed by devouring souls. The Elder God accomplishes this by wrapping their tentacles around the victim's face or chest, sucking the soul out through the tentacles' suction cups.

OPTIONAL CHANGES

● Any psychological changes are welcome! Feel free to pull from real world myths, canon creatures of this variety, or any other source!

● A fog form. This is an exaggerated version of their monster form that appears only during the fog and is a chance to make your monster more "horrifying" during the fog.

● Travel form: the ability to take the form of an angry little dumbo octopus that can travel on land at any time. In this form the character will be able to travel faster, however, they will also be more vulnerable.

● Tentacles anywhere else on the body.

● Fins or fur on limbs.

● A second (functional) head.

● Extra limbs, no number limitations.

● A clubbed tail.

● Dream walking. Elder gods can enter the dreams of others. This is limited to one dream a night.

● Zalgo speak. When an elder god talks, it can sound like incomprehensible nightmare gibberish in order to frighten others.

(CW: LOSS OF SANITY, click to open)● Apart from the hunger for souls, some Elder Gods have a hunger for sanity. These Elder gods can feed by using their insanity beams on their prey, which will have them either descend into a living nightmare, or just lose their grasp on coherent thought in general. Once the Elder God has fed on them, recovery is impossible, leaving the victim unrecognizable from their former self.



ALLOWED SPECIES

Elder god designs can draw inspiration from any octopi, squid or other cephalopods for their related physical attributes.

ARTWORK

Artwork generously donated and submitted by players as an example of this monster in various forms. This can give you an idea of what you can do with this monster.

Want to donate? Submit your own.

AM
Normal form (with prehensile wing-claws god boon) by Carbon
Fog form (with prehensile wing-claws god boon) by Carbon



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