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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 365