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IX Mythos Bestiary
Every outer abomination is unique. However, in general

with potent mental and magical abilities. However,

they are still clearly derived from a humanoid form and

their minds are far more alien than those of the

are still in the process of eternal change. They have a

comparatively tractable mutant and they rarely work

face that buds from or is embossed upon some part of

well with humans, let alone lead them. Rather, cults

their upper body, and they usually still have hands and

tend to treat them more as objects of worship at best or

legs of a sort. Their evolving bodies often leave their

dangerous guardian beasts at worst.

inner organs open to the air, and they sprout tentacles
or spawning sacs.

At the abomination stage, the creature can no longer
pass as a normal person: their hideous malformations

Outer abominations, like outer mutants and

are plain to all. They still feed on blood and soul

outer spawn are mortal/outside hybrids, descended

energy, as mutants do, but they require much larger

from profane and perverse unions with Outer Gods.

quantities and typically drain victims dry, rather than

When these offspring reach the abomination stage

just tapping a target for a few pints at a time. Cults

of development, they can no longer pass for mortal

often use abominations as a convenient means to

creatures and grow quite large—up to 12 feet in height

sacrifice victims to their Outer God master (usually but

and a ton or more in weight.

not always the abomination’s parent), since they cannot

Abominations are the “second level” of horror
resulting from an Outer God producing offspring

with a mortal creature. They are significantly larger

afford to let the abominations feed on their numbers.
An abomination grows steadily until eventually it
can transform itself into an Outer Spawn.

and more physically powerful than outer mutants,

The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great
Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown
aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy. Then the liberated Old
Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves,
and all the Earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
—H. P. Lovecraft

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