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gains 1 summoning point. It can immediately end a
song upon gaining a summoning point to summon a
monster of a CR equal to or less than its current number
of summoning points, as if casting a summon monster
spell. A summoned creature remains for 1 minute
before it vanishes. The types of monsters a servitor of
the Outer Gods can summon this way are limited to
creatures associated with the Outer Gods or Great Old
Ones. It cannot summon unique creatures or specific
individuals with this ability. Summoned eldritch horrors
are not under the servitor’s control, and may be hostile
toward the servitor. A creature that is summoned in
this way cannot use any spells or spell-like abilities that
require material components costing more than 1 gp
unless those components are supplied, nor can it use its
own summon ability (unless the summoned creature is
another servitor of the Outer Gods). Summon eldritch
horror functions as a 4th-level spell for the purposes of
caster level checks and concentration checks. Although
servitors of the Outer Gods can summon eldritch horrors
at will, they generally avoid summoning creatures of a
CR more than twice their own CR,
and when not in
combat typically
avoid using
this ability
entirely.

These creatures exist to appease the Outer Gods and
advance their interests when brought to the mortal
world. While they are individually weak, their

summoning ability makes them quite dangerous.
They play a haunting melody on their pipes, which can
call forth dire beings from beyond: hunting horrors,
byakhee, star vampires, and stranger things.
In combat, servitors of the Outer Gods writhe and
dance to their own music, in such a way that allows
them to avoid most blows, particularly ranged attacks.
A common tactic for one is to immediately summon
another servitor and then something else. The servitor
summoned immediately summons yet another servitor,
before going on to call other beings. In this way, every
servitor calls another, so that they multiply rapidly.

“Outside the ordered universe
is that amorphous blight of
nethermost confusion
which blasphemes and
bubbles at the center
of all infinity—the boundless
daemon Azathoth, whose name
no lips dare speak aloud...”
—H.P. Lovecraft,
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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