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The word Shoggoth comes not from the whistling, piping speech of the Progenitors but from the Atlantean senzar language. It was roughly translatable as “troll” or “boogy-man” and was used by Abdul al-Hazred to describe entities that particularly disturbed him, the beings we would ultimately come to identify with the word included. Abdul himself refused to believe such creatures had ever been on Earth.

That is, of course, completely wrong. Not only have Shoggoths been on Earth for over two billion years, they are the seeds of all Earthly life. There’s no need to fear the mere concept of a Shoggoth, Abdul. You are one!

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Ubbo Sathla was the first Shoggoth on Earth, raised from the mire of primordial seas. It was a living factory, churning out the first grey Shoggoths that would make the world ready for the Progenitor colonists that created it. Ubbo Sathla was also guardian of the monoliths inscribed with the principles of the Progenitor’s abandoned technology.

In the ages that followed, Shoggoths swam through the abyssal seas with their masters. They were unspecialised in this age, simple spheres of shapeshifting jelly that could serve as labour, food and in rare cases, defence.

As the Progenitors spread across the face of the Earth, the Shoggoths they bade Ubbo Sathla for became less utilitarian. They were more refined in form and flavour in order to better serve the discerning Progenitors of the time.

During the war with R’lyeh the Shoggoth became vast war machines, able to stand against a Star Spawn in single combat. With the use of Twsha subspace arming organs they could even strike at the true heart of the ectoplasmic titans.

By the end of the wars against the Star Spawn Ubbo Sathla was lost. With the knowledge to create a new one lost with it, no new Shoggoths could be made in the usual manner. Instead the Progenitors were forced to rely on breeding and fissioning to increase their numbers. Over time they grew sluggish and unpredictable, less biomachines and more animal. While not outright hostile, they were now prone to simply wandering off to pursue their own simple aims. The Progenitors made due, turning to genetically engineered dinosaurs and mechanical technology to supplement the loss in reliable Shoggoth labour.

With a new post-technological age in the Progenitor’s civilization came a renewed reliance on Shoggoth servants. Unfortunately for them, their Shoggoths grew more intelligent and unwilling to serve in endless drudgery. They rose against their masters and nearly destroyed their civilization but ultimately failed in the face of disintegration weaponry.

In the wake of the Shoggoth rebellion the Progenitors eliminated anything resembling intelligence or insubordination. They even edited out what they considered troublesome physical abilities, in order to more easily put down any future rebellions. What they were left with were Shoggoths that would follow any order without complaint but were mere shadows of their former utility. They could perform simple physical tasks but tended to get caught in behavioural loops, requiring constant supervision. Some of these Shoggoths are still out there, aimlessly wandering the Antarctic ruins, occasionally following some half-remembered order by a long dead master.

It was around this time that the Fungi experimented with Shoggoth tissue captured during their own wars with the Progenitors. They could not crack the exact method to Shoggoth construction but they did manage to create similar entities now known as protomatter Shoggoths or Protoshoggoths. Their protomatter experiments have also yielded other results, such as nearly undetectable augmentation and control of earth life-forms and later the creation of their mec and lam biodrones. The Fungi have even started to include protomatter in their own surgically altered bodies.

Modern shoggothim come in many forms.

Intelligent Shoggoths that survived the purges in the wake of the first rebellion are rare but a few still exist. Most simply retreated into the oceans for a solitary existence hidden in the depths but some want more for their species. The Seekers have travelled beyond the Mountains of Madness to watch over their reduced cousins and in hopes of finding Ubbo Sathla’s hidden chambers and the monoliths of Elder knowledge.

Atmospheric jellies are descendants of languorous Shoggoth that simply shapeshifted ballooning organs and drifted away. They retained some small connection to subspace from their ancestors and trail stinging, grasping pseudopods through the fringes of the beyond to prey on aeroplankton, skyfish and rods.

Totem Shoggoth have developed a strange lifestyle, inserting themselves into Aeonist cults as both defender and object of worship in order to feed off sacrifices. This is often in lieu of a proper servitor of an Ancient Power and has led to some confusion in occult circles.

Prior to 1938 the surf jellies were known to haul themselves onto offshore rocks to bloom once a year. After an unprecedented mental contact with a researcher they withdrew from the surface and drifted into cryptid status. They have retreated into the deeper oceans and have begun to prey on the Deep One colonies that once sought to control them.

In the time since the human species rose, a few methods of hybridization have been discovered, either by reactivating the ancient Shoggoth code left in our DNA or by direct fusion with a living Shoggoth.

The Deathless Sorcerers of Yian-ho created the Yahlgan to guard their copy of the Ghorl Nigral in their monastery near the Mongolian Leng extrusion. The Yahlgan appear as genderless humanoids with translucent skin revealing their bones and strange black organs. Yahlgan shapeshifting is largely limited to imitating the appearance of any person, although their boneless arms can stretch and split freely.

In the 9th Atlantean Dynasty, Sorcerer King Tharwrak created the Skin as the perfect infiltrators and assassins to send against his rivals. While still human in mind and surface appearance, the Skin are much larger on the inside and possess many of the true Shoggoth’s abilities. They were often dispatched as something of an armoured personnel carrier crossed with a Trojan Horse, with a squad of soldiers ready to be disgorged once beyond the target’s defences. The paranoia around the existence of the Skin led to brutal slayings of anyone the Sorcerer Kings suspected could be one. This sparked a rebellion in response that would spread across the continent, eventually ending the 9th Dynasty entirely, Tharwrak included. Freed of his control, the Skin slipped into history.

Shoggoth Lords come from the union of human wizard and intelligent Shoggoth, destroying both to create a new being freed of all restraints.

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Fun fact! The word “Tekeli-li” translates to “flee” or “get away”, a word the Pruned Shoggoths heard a lot from their masters in the last days. It sounds like someone playing that one bit from John Cena’s entrance theme on 5 piercingly loud flutes at once.

Description
The word Shoggoth comes not from the whistling, piping speech of the Progenitors but from the Atlantean senzar language. It was roughly translatable as “troll” or “boogy-man” and was used by Abdul al-Hazred to describe entities that particularly disturbed him, the beings we would ultimately come to identify with the word included. Abdul himself refused to believe such creatures had ever been on Earth.

That is, of course, completely wrong. Not only have Shoggoths been on Earth for over two billion years, they are the seeds of all Earthly life. There’s no need to fear the mere concept of a Shoggoth, Abdul. You are one!

<コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡

Ubbo Sathla was the first Shoggoth on Earth, raised from the mire of primordial seas. It was a living factory, churning out the first grey Shoggoths that would make the world ready for the Progenitor colonists that created it. Ubbo Sathla was also guardian of the monoliths inscribed with the principles of the Progenitor’s abandoned technology.

In the ages that followed, Shoggoths swam through the abyssal seas with their masters. They were unspecialised in this age, simple spheres of shapeshifting jelly that could serve as labour, food and in rare cases, defence.

As the Progenitors spread across the face of the Earth, the Shoggoths they bade Ubbo Sathla for became less utilitarian. They were more refined in form and flavour in order to better serve the discerning Progenitors of the time.

During the war with R’lyeh the Shoggoth became vast war machines, able to stand against a Star Spawn in single combat. With the use of Twsha subspace arming organs they could even strike at the true heart of the ectoplasmic titans.

By the end of the wars against the Star Spawn Ubbo Sathla was lost. With the knowledge to create a new one lost with it, no new Shoggoths could be made in the usual manner. Instead the Progenitors were forced to rely on breeding and fissioning to increase their numbers. Over time they grew sluggish and unpredictable, less biomachines and more animal. While not outright hostile, they were now prone to simply wandering off to pursue their own simple aims. The Progenitors made due, turning to genetically engineered dinosaurs and mechanical technology to supplement the loss in reliable Shoggoth labour.

With a new post-technological age in the Progenitor’s civilization came a renewed reliance on Shoggoth servants. Unfortunately for them, their Shoggoths grew more intelligent and unwilling to serve in endless drudgery. They rose against their masters and nearly destroyed their civilization but ultimately failed in the face of disintegration weaponry.

In the wake of the Shoggoth rebellion the Progenitors eliminated anything resembling intelligence or insubordination. They even edited out what they considered troublesome physical abilities, in order to more easily put down any future rebellions. What they were left with were Shoggoths that would follow any order without complaint but were mere shadows of their former utility. They could perform simple physical tasks but tended to get caught in behavioural loops, requiring constant supervision. Some of these Shoggoths are still out there, aimlessly wandering the Antarctic ruins, occasionally following some half-remembered order by a long dead master.

It was around this time that the Fungi experimented with Shoggoth tissue captured during their own wars with the Progenitors. They could not crack the exact method to Shoggoth construction but they did manage to create similar entities now known as protomatter Shoggoths or Protoshoggoths. Their protomatter experiments have also yielded other results, such as nearly undetectable augmentation and control of earth life-forms and later the creation of their mec and lam biodrones. The Fungi have even started to include protomatter in their own surgically altered bodies.

Modern shoggothim come in many forms.

Intelligent Shoggoths that survived the purges in the wake of the first rebellion are rare but a few still exist. Most simply retreated into the oceans for a solitary existence hidden in the depths but some want more for their species. The Seekers have travelled beyond the Mountains of Madness to watch over their reduced cousins and in hopes of finding Ubbo Sathla’s hidden chambers and the monoliths of Elder knowledge.

Atmospheric jellies are descendants of languorous Shoggoth that simply shapeshifted ballooning organs and drifted away. They retained some small connection to subspace from their ancestors and trail stinging, grasping pseudopods through the fringes of the beyond to prey on aeroplankton, skyfish and rods.

Totem Shoggoth have developed a strange lifestyle, inserting themselves into Aeonist cults as both defender and object of worship in order to feed off sacrifices. This is often in lieu of a proper servitor of an Ancient Power and has led to some confusion in occult circles.

Prior to 1938 the surf jellies were known to haul themselves onto offshore rocks to bloom once a year. After an unprecedented mental contact with a researcher they withdrew from the surface and drifted into cryptid status. They have retreated into the deeper oceans and have begun to prey on the Deep One colonies that once sought to control them.

In the time since the human species rose, a few methods of hybridization have been discovered, either by reactivating the ancient Shoggoth code left in our DNA or by direct fusion with a living Shoggoth.

The Deathless Sorcerers of Yian-ho created the Yahlgan to guard their copy of the Ghorl Nigral in their monastery near the Mongolian Leng extrusion. The Yahlgan appear as genderless humanoids with translucent skin revealing their bones and strange black organs. Yahlgan shapeshifting is largely limited to imitating the appearance of any person, although their boneless arms can stretch and split freely.

In the 9th Atlantean Dynasty, Sorcerer King Tharwrak created the Skin as the perfect infiltrators and assassins to send against his rivals. While still human in mind and surface appearance, the Skin are much larger on the inside and possess many of the true Shoggoth’s abilities. They were often dispatched as something of an armoured personnel carrier crossed with a Trojan Horse, with a squad of soldiers ready to be disgorged once beyond the target’s defences. The paranoia around the existence of the Skin led to brutal slayings of anyone the Sorcerer Kings suspected could be one. This sparked a rebellion in response that would spread across the continent, eventually ending the 9th Dynasty entirely, Tharwrak included. Freed of his control, the Skin slipped into history.

Shoggoth Lords come from the union of human wizard and intelligent Shoggoth, destroying both to create a new being freed of all restraints.

<コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡 <コ:彡

Fun fact! The word “Tekeli-li” translates to “flee” or “get away”, a word the Pruned Shoggoths heard a lot from their masters in the last days. It sounds like someone playing that one bit from John Cena’s entrance theme on 5 piercingly loud flutes at once.