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Cults VII 199 Cthulhu, and their ilk diplomatically rather than with any religious fervor.. The Moonbeasts Moonbeasts serve Nyarlathotep explicitly to get the favor of the Outer Gods, wh

Cults VII

199

Cthulhu, and their ilk diplomatically rather than

with any religious fervor

The Moonbeasts

Moonbeasts serve Nyarlathotep explicitly to get

the favor of the Outer Gods, whom Nyarlathotep

serves Rather than worshipful desires, they are

openly motivated by their mercenary greed

Other Alien Species

In a few cases, Mythos races are somewhat like

humanoids in their emotional/religious attachment

The gnorri and even the gugs are rather like this,

for example, though the gugs adhere to the foulest

of lords In other cases, their religious nature is pure

lip-service, aimed toward allowing them to control or

work with humanoids for their own gain In yet other

cases, they are simply interested in the rewards offered

I saw it through a veil that hung before my eyes like the gauze drop-curtain used at the back

of a theater—hazily a little It was neither a human figure nor an animal To me it gave the

strange impression of being as large as several animals grouped together, like horses, two or

three, moving slowly The Swede, too, got a similar result, though expressing it differently,

for he thought it was shaped and sized like a clump of willow bushes, rounded at the top,

and moving all over upon its surface—”coiling upon itself like smoke,” he said afterwards.

—Algernon Blackwood, The Willows