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VII Cults
rootlets of itself through numerous portals to attack

driven mad by the sight of the Outer God. Indeed,

and torment the cult’s foes. Additionally, constantly

cults love to summon the god as frequently as possible,

viewing the Great Old One and invoking its presence

as it protects them, exposes enemy agents, and provides

allows its mummified spellcasting worshippers to form

an inexhaustible amount of knowledge and magic.

accurate illusions of it as needed to aid in terrifying and
destroying enemies.

Nyogtha

Yig
The father of serpents is worshipped primarily in those
lands abundant in venomous snakes. Even there, the

Cults to Nyogtha worship it as the inverse of existence.

worship he receives is usually mere propitiation to avert

Studying and learning from it reveals to devotees the

his wrath during seasons in which snakes are most

nature of pure negation or anti-creation. They may

active and breeding. Yig jealously seeks vengeance

seek oblivion for themselves, their entire world, or all

against any who slay a snake in areas he rules. Usually,

of creation. Worshippers frequently become undead in

the wrongdoer is slain quickly by a messenger of Yig,

their journey of faith, though even the negative energy

but sometimes the god takes his revenge by cursing

of undeath does not approach the horrible infinite

the offender or its future offspring to transform into

nothingness of the Thing that Should Not Be.

reptilian mutants, which are sometimes pitiful, and

Since Nyogtha tends to dwell in darkness and the

other times robustly monstrous.

vast emptiness of subterranean caverns are reminiscent

Some peoples, after years devoted to preventing

of its nature, cults worship it at entrances to the

Yig’s wrath, convert completely to worshipping him as

underworld. In some cases, the living worship under

their primary god. In time, Yig rewards them such that

the sun beside a shrine and the undead cultists worship

they can be counted among his own children. First,

in the dark beneath the same shrine.

they become immune to the venom of the snakes their

Tulzscha
Cults of the Green Flame seek all manner of eldritch
knowledge and the secrets of the Outer Gods, with
whom Tulzscha dwells at the center of existence. They
accomplish this primarily by summoning an avatar
and gazing into its light. Tulzscha may reveal specific
secrets, driving its worshippers to take a particular
course of action, such as seeking out enigmatic tomes
so their secrets can be revealed in Tulzscha’s light;

illuminating pathways of travel through time and space;
or manipulating them into unwittingly summoning
Azathoth the Daemon Sultan itself.
Cults may also weaponize their god by summoning

nation once feared and loathed, which are now their
siblings. Next, they may obtain magic and spells from
Yig, usually related to poisons, snakes, shapeshifting,
and curses. Ultimately, after these blessings, the
people mystically mutates and degenerates into a sort
of snake-like hybrid race, and may eventually become
unintelligent venomous snakes, slithering amidst the
fallen wreckage of their civilization. This degeneration
can happen surprisingly quickly—in only one or two
generations after the folk have fully devoted themselves
to Yig.
Cultists of Yig often use serpentfolk alchemy to
produce metamorphic venom.

Tulzscha in areas occupied by their enemies, where
all of a foe’s secrets will be exposed and the people be

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