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Important discovery. Orrendorf and Watkins, working underground at 9:45 with light, found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature; probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as leather, but astonishing flexibility retained in places. Marks of broken-off parts at ends and around sides. Six feet end to end, 3.5 feet central diameter, tapering to 1 foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges are curious growths. Combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot wing spread. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon. These wings seem to be membraneous, stretched on a framework of glandular tubing. Apparent minute orifices in frame tubing at wing tips. Ends of body shrivelled, giving no clue to interior or to what has been broken off there.
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness.

After a marathon of audiobooks in the last weeks (Sometimes I'm little busy or lazy to read a book, so this kind of videos helps) which I had managed to find on youtube about some of the most impressive works of the cosmic horror of Lovecraft, it really gave me some impulse to draw some of the most aberrants and interesting beings that populate the lore of that universe, in this case an Elder Thing from At The Mountains of Madness, the creators of life on our planet who came from the stars one billion years ago, and that despite having been able to confront all kinds of indescribable horrors and powerful species, its civilization was eventually degraded until reaching the near total extinction before the appearance of man.

Description
Important discovery. Orrendorf and Watkins, working underground at 9:45 with light, found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature; probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as leather, but astonishing flexibility retained in places. Marks of broken-off parts at ends and around sides. Six feet end to end, 3.5 feet central diameter, tapering to 1 foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges are curious growths. Combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot wing spread. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon. These wings seem to be membraneous, stretched on a framework of glandular tubing. Apparent minute orifices in frame tubing at wing tips. Ends of body shrivelled, giving no clue to interior or to what has been broken off there.
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness.

After a marathon of audiobooks in the last weeks (Sometimes I'm little busy or lazy to read a book, so this kind of videos helps) which I had managed to find on youtube about some of the most impressive works of the cosmic horror of Lovecraft, it really gave me some impulse to draw some of the most aberrants and interesting beings that populate the lore of that universe, in this case an Elder Thing from At The Mountains of Madness, the creators of life on our planet who came from the stars one billion years ago, and that despite having been able to confront all kinds of indescribable horrors and powerful species, its civilization was eventually degraded until reaching the near total extinction before the appearance of man.