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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 363