Saturday, 22 February 2014

Ideas for Old god Bosses. research notes

CTHULU -


  • squid
  • dragon
  • human
Decided as end of game boss, Human host is a version of Lovecraft in Victorian attire.


AZATHOTH -
  • gaseous
  • bubbles
  • Sultan
  • Drums
  • flutes
  • piping
  • dance
  • blind
  • voiceless
Host ideas: 1700's Mozart's or Beethoven's time period. Renaissance french dandy, musician. pompous, elegant

DAGON -
  • Polyphemus
  • Stupendous
  • Monolith
  • Scaly
  • Hideous
  • Ancient
  • Fish God
Host ideas: Greek? Egyptian? the Fall of Alexandria. Atlantis?

YOG-SOTHOTH -
  • gate
  • bygone magic
  • key
  • guardian of the gate
  • fabulous
  • iridescent globes
  • maglin
  • suggestiveness
  • space time
  • all in one
  • essence
  • fancy
  • mathmatical
Medieval gate guard? london tower? guard to the king. 

CHAUGNAR-FAUGN -
  • Elephant
  • grotesque
  • octopus
  • human
  • lamprey trunk
  • draws blood
Roman? Neolithic?

HASTUR -
  • Yellow robes
  • unknown
  • polypous
  • floating mass
  • tentacles
  • drills
  • suckers
  • mask
  • King
  • sheperd
  • stars
  • thin
  • silken
  • inhuman eyes
  • stubby maggot mouths
English king? Viking? roman king? needs to be a king of some sort.

NYARLATHOTEP -
  • tall
  • swarthy man
  • egyptian pharaoh
  • wanderer
  • narrator
  • magical instruments
  • showman
  • lecturer
  • scientific
  • joyous
  • messenger
Nikola Tesla? Pharaoh? gypsy traveller?

TSATHOGGUA -
  • squat
  • temple
  • pot bellied
  • furry
  • sloth
  • onyx pedestal
  • black toad idol
  • potent
  • gargoyle
  • sleepy lids
  • fat mouth
monk? french gargoyle? aztec?

SHUB NIGGURATH -
  • black goat of the woods
  • mass of muscle
  • moth
  • catholic
  • sophisticated
  • fertility goddess
  • copper temple
  • thousand young
  • snake mate
  • friendly towards the muses of man??
  • evil cloud like
  • sayter - pan - satan
  • sons Nug + Yeb
  • Mate - Yig
only female eldar god ive researched. dont know where to put her right now. could be medieval? scottish? irish? germanic? viking?

YIG -
  • snake man
  • bat wings
  • bad medicine
  • link to quetzalcotl
voodoo? aztec? plague? 


Bare in mind these are my research notes. not everything is final and as i provide concept to them i should be fleshing them out.

research provided by:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities#Elder_Gods
  • http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/bestiary.aspx

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