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IX Mythos Bestiary
Vulnerable to Dimensional Lock (Ex) When an outer
spawn is prevented from using teleportation effects,
such as when within an area of forbiddance or under
the effects of dimensional lock, its damage reduction
and energy resistances are halved and its regeneration is
suppressed.

Yog-Sothoth and other Outer Gods such as ShubNiggurath and Nyarlathotep are able to produce

spawn (as they often fail to do), the monster eventually
breaks out of containment and rampages across the
countryside.

The Purpose of an
Outer Spawn

hybrids that vary greatly in power and size. The outer

The ultimate fate of a spawn inevitably takes one of

spawn are typically the most powerful such entities

two forms, assuming it is not destroyed by intrepid

encountered in the normal planes of reality.

adventurers or an army sent by the local authorities.

The outer spawn is close to its ultimate form,

First, the cult or wizard which fostered the spawn

and the traces of its former humanity are few and far

wants it to mature and reach apotheosis, that it might

between. Often it still has a face or parts of a face, spread

bring an avatar of its parent Outer God bodily into

across parts of its upper body. Its limbs have become

the world. This process takes time, energy, and a

insectoid or tentacular, rather than human arms or

huge amount of food, and the proper rituals must

legs. It typically resembles a centipede, octopus, or

be performed. Secondly, if these rituals are not

spider creature with traces of the human form threaded

performed—if the spawn is alone when it reaches

through. Outer spawn are huge, reaching the size of an

its apotheosis, for instance—instead of

elephant or dinosaur and weighing 10 tons
or more.
This is the penultimate “third
level” of outer/human hybridization,
which has neared the ultimate goal
of bringing its parent Outer God to
the world physically. An outer spawn
is enormous—elephantine in size—and
typically always invisible. Like a mutant
or abomination, an outer spawn also drains
blood and soul energy, but an abomination
may need more. The ravenous nature
of the outer spawn is alien and
terrifying: it can often eat more
food at a sitting than its entire body
mass, and only its interdimensional nature can
explain such a paradox. As its hunger can consume
entire herds of cattle or dozens of victims per week,
when a cult is trying to maintain its “pet” outer spawn,
its activities become increasingly hard to conceal.
Worse, when the cult cannot continue feeding its

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