#ygolonac

Y'Golonac, God of Perversion and Depravity.

Cthulhu is a possible alien giant wizard from an earlier version of the universe or another one. , Or its a "big brother" type fake person by an entire race of bengs that made up a singular "leading figure" for humans and other cultists to more easily rally around. Honestly perhaps more impressive than a "god".

Chaugnar Faugn is a feeding appendage of something vaster that has possibly gotten too independent . A rogue "hand of god" that might eventually cause problems for the collective

Glaaki: A giant sluglike thing in a British lake that's spines turn people into undead slaves it then forces to inscribe information and create tomes including the The Revelations of Glaaki collection. Was the meteor it came in a crashed spaceship? Is it some malfunctioning piece of technology doing its job of recording and collecting information using humans as a replacement of the crew and lost other "machines"? Possible "Roadside Picnic" type of thing ?

Y'golonac is imprisoned somewhere and sometimes managed to possess people (which affects bodies) and form a composite entity of both minds. Seems has in past it or someone managed to spread fake extra volume of The Revelations of Glaaki that allows it to possess readers, and seems hosts maybe able to transform others like a vampire... . Might only be a "god of depravity" due to being insane from imprisonment and overwhelmed by physical sensation. Or they are the eldritch equivalent of a gross pervert on internet who is in it for shock value. Should be noted the host that started a cult was a small business owner. Would all hosts do the same or did some megalomania of the human host seep in?

Vulthoom: a charlatan ala Wizard of Oz with alien technology, and if Glaaki's tomes are to be believed is a child!

Hastur....well possibly but a lot of thing are named "Hastur" so you gotta be specific. And they and King and Yellow might not even be connected.

The Dweller in The Gulf: a slavetaking monster, link has a great take.

The Crawling Chaos: a 'messenger of gods": perhaps might just be a soul who's all shared bodies and incarnation across time and space are self aware of place of universe. It is many things and many creatures across time and space and some of those things can take over bodies, or make copies of self in other ways. Randolph Carter's tricks to the extreme?

Tsathoggua: claimed to be a god but uh... well seems to mostly be exchanging knowledge to sorcerers in exchange for not having to get up to get its own meals. Luckily Earth life is not its favorite, but hilariously you'll want to summon something tastier than you when going to meet them.

I like this doofus, but not for the “edginess” 

I mean, a lot of terrible things can happen with a being of depravity, as many RPG scenario writers have shown. However...

It (or the personality that tends to to result when it possesses the type of  human willing to summon them; or the personality its avatar develops after feeding on enough humans if one interprets it another way) wants to be worshiped but has a problem with anger issues so the cults have trouble getting past the single digits.

Crimes punishable by death include interrupting them when on lunchbreak or shoplifting from the store Y’golonac is posing as the owner of. (The last part is a clear indication of some lingering traces of the shopowner that was their first victim.)

In practice they are the god of skeevy porn shops, but its avatars seem to desire more and are quite evangelical... 

Their ambition and lack of many organized cults (at least none that are long lived) could lead to interesting schemes.

Y’golonac would probably love to enslave some Yuggoth Fungi surgeons and force them to do body mods for the twisted desires of his worshippers.

Or maybe wants to let loose the Moon-Beasts on the waking world because “those dudes know how to party”.

Its not like they haven’t interfered into the affairs of other mythos entities before...

I’ve seen detractors say they’re “too human” as an enemy in the mythos, but Y’golonac has simply only been interacted with through human host, and the lingering traces of humanity add some dark comedy as I have pointed out above.

As a self-appointed god of depravity its behavior and form should vary depending on the culture and biology of the host or victims it imprints on (like I said, multiple ways to interpret) there’s a lot of potential for them to come in alot more shapes and personas than the well know obese guy with mouth hands. 

Also I really like the idea of an eldritch being locked up somewhere because they’re just ... the worst.

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This popped into my head after reviewing Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell where the protagonist who is THIS CLOSE to being a child predator, and is a raging misogynist yet also afraid of elderly women, as he asks how his fate is fair right as he’s either about to be eaten or brought into the fold (kinda unclear):

“Its not so much you deserve this sort of death, so much as the people you torment don’t deserve to put up with you, and this won’t leave a corpse or cause any loose ends.”

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YGOLONAC | THE SHINING TRAPEZOHEDRON