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VIII Great Old Ones and Outer Gods Chaugnar Faugn CR 16; XP 76,800 CE Great Old One of blood, patience, and remote hill country Primary Source Frank Belknap Long, “The Horror from the Hills” C U LT Domains Chaos, Death, Evil, War Subdomains Blood, Entropy, Murder, Tactics Favored Weapon light pick Symbol elephantine visage with a bloody trunk Temple caves, dilapidated shacks, remote hilltops, ruined warehouses Worshipers deranged hill folk, Tcho-Tcho Servitors blood drinkers, mutants I N F L U E N C E S TA G E This monstrosity is a repulsive distortion of an elephant-god with webbed and ribbed ears, a “trunk” that ends in a spined disk, twisted crystalline tusks, and vaguely humanoid limbs D C 24 Area 15-ft radius Proxy idol Effects curse of Chaugnar Faugn, feed, idol Escalation Chaugnar Faugn escalates to stage by draining the life of sapient victims Each time it kills a living creature with its feed effect the idol gains growth point When the idol accumulates 90 growth points (typically requiring about months to build power), it transforms into an avatar of Chaugnar Faugn and escalates to stage I N F L U E N C E S TA G E What You See D C 26 CR 19; XP 204,800 Area 15-ft radius Proxy avatar of Chaugnar Faugn (see below) Effects mobile influence D E F E AT Combat At stage 1, destroying Chaugnar Faugn’s idol ends its influence The idol has very few methods of defending itself from active attacks; it is surrounded by a number of defenders (typically high-level Tcho-Tcho who have gained the curse of Chaugnar Faugn) that create an encounter of at least CR 16 in power At stage 2, destroying the avatar of Chaugnar Faugn ends the influence immediately becomes completely loyal to Chaugnar Faugn, and will give its life to defend the Great Old One or any of its idols This is a curse effect Feed Once per round, at the start of the round, if a willing or helpless living creature with an Intelligence of or higher is within Chaugnar Faugn’s area of influence, the trunk of the Great Old One’s statue animates and attaches to that target If multiple targets are available, one is chosen randomly The trunk drains bodily fluids, inflicting 1d6 points of Constitution drain before detaching Idol In order to exude an influence, Chaugnar Faugn requires a specially-prepared idol in its form to be constructed by its cultists Constructing this idol requires a ritual that takes months and consumes many resources to complete Once finished, an idol of Chaugnar Faugn occupies a 10-ft square, weighs 6,000 pounds, has hardness 16, and possesses 1,000 hit points Mobile Influence At influence stage 2, Chaugnar Faugn’s influence is always centered on its avatar, allowing the avatar to wander as it wills without being physically limited by the constraints of influence The avatar cannot magically travel via teleportation effects beyond the reach of its influence INFLUENCE EFFEC TS Curse of Chaugnar Faugn Any creature that Chaugnar Faugn hits with its influence’s feed effect must make a successful Will save to resist having their flesh reshaped by the Great Old One Typically, this reshaping of flesh causes the target to deform into a somewhat reptilianor amphibian-looking mutation of its former shape or something approximating Chaugnar Faugn’s own elephantine form, but it can radically alter a body's shape in many ways A creature that acquires the curse of Chaugnar Faugn gains the advanced creature template, AVATAR OF CHAUGNAR FAUGN CR 19 XP 204,800 CE Medium monstrous humanoid Init +18; Senses blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 60 ft., true seeing; Perception +31 DEFENSE AC 35, touch 15, flat-footed 30 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge, +20 natural) hp 330 (20d10+220); fast healing 10 225