VII Cults Cthulhu, and their ilk diplomatically rather than with any religious fervor The Moonbeasts Moonbeasts serve Nyarlathotep explicitly to get the favor of the Outer Gods, whom Nyarlathotep serves Rather than worshipful desires, they are openly motivated by their mercenary greed Other Alien Species In a few cases, Mythos races are somewhat like humanoids in their emotional/religious attachment The gnorri and even the gugs are rather like this, for example, though the gugs adhere to the foulest of lords In other cases, their religious nature is pure lip-service, aimed toward allowing them to control or work with humanoids for their own gain In yet other cases, they are simply interested in the rewards offered I saw it through a veil that before my eyes like the gauze drop-curtain used at the back of a theater—hazily a little It was neither a human figure nor an animal To me it gave the strange impression of being as large as several animals grouped together, like horses, two or three, moving slowly The Swede, too, got a similar result, though expressing it differently, for he thought it was shaped and sized like a clump of willow bushes, rounded at the top, and moving all over upon its surface—”coiling upon itself like smoke,” he said afterwards —Algernon Blackwood, The Willows 199