Great Old Ones and Outer Gods VIII 285 Tablets crumbled to powder, after which Ubbo-Sathla spawned itself into oblivion.. Summoning Ubbo-Sathla Today, Ubbo-Sathla the Tome Keeper can be
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Tablets crumbled to powder, after which
Ubbo-Sathla spawned itself into oblivion In esseence, it bore
young until it simply dissolved into a mass of efts But
temporal non-existence is hardly a defense against its
terrible influence
Summoning
Ubbo-Sathla
Today, Ubbo-Sathla (the Tome Keeper) can be
contacted in two ways The first is by time travel
This can be dangerous of course because Ubbo-Sathla
co-exists with other primal beings from the dawn of
time, such as the hounds of Tindalos (page 458) The
second is by breaking the laws that govern time and
space to bring it to the present time Of course, dangers
exist in so doing–this might alert other time-conscious
beings (such as Tulzscha, dimensional shamblers, the
hounds of Tindalos, the great race of Yith, outer spawn,
or entities from the Dreamlands)
Ubbo-Sathla, as a mindless guardian, is no one’s
friend It will even attack the cult that summoned it
if they linger after it finishes forming As such, it is an
excellent defender of anything that requires protection
While only the elder lore forms it, other precious and
durable materials can be kept within its purview The
safest time to deposit these is when it is still forming
Some cultists seek to summon Ubbo-Sathla that
they might study the Tablets of the Gods, but the
creature poses a significant threat while the would-be
student is trying to read these cyclopean stone slabs
Ubbo-Sathla
in Combat
When attacked, Ubbo-Sathla flails potently, directed not by intelligence but by raw instinct It spews forth primal fluids, which immediately form into shapeless entities The spread of these horrible blob-things is part
of the general environment when one is near the Tablets,
and they are encountered constantly In addition, Ubbo Sathla can flail with its stalk-like limbs, which inflict poison, acid, and other harm in addition to their raw crushing strength
As a fungal being of protoplasm, Ubbo-Sathla possesses no vital spots or organs It regenerates from damage at a tremendous rate, and the repulsive entities it spews forth intercept attacks It is virtually indestructible, and any force great enough to destroy Ubbo-Sathla would certainly also destroy the precious
Tablets of the Gods, thus negating its purpose.
Horrible it was, if there had been aught to apprehend the horror; and loathsome, if there had
been any to feel loathing About it, prone or tilted in the mire, there lay the mighty tablets of
star-quarried stone that were writ with the inconceivable wisdom of the pre-mundane gods.
—Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla
This fungus-like organism uses huge arcane tablets of stone to give its body structure It has both tentacles and fruiting bodies and is topped with
a lumpy mass that oozes a cloud of
foul-smelling spores.
What You See