VIII Great Old Ones and Outer Gods Tablets crumbled to powder, after which UbboSathla spawned itself into oblivion In esseence, it bore What You See young until it simply dissolved into a mass of efts But temporal non-existence is hardly a defense against its terrible influence Summoning Ubbo-Sathla Today, Ubbo-Sathla (the Tome Keeper) can be contacted in two ways The first is by time travel This can be dangerous of course because Ubbo-Sathla co-exists with other primal beings from the dawn of time, such as the hounds of Tindalos (page 458) The second is by breaking the laws that govern time and space to bring it to the present time Of course, dangers This fungus-like organism uses huge arcane tablets of stone to give its body structure It has both tentacles and fruiting bodies and is topped with a lumpy mass that oozes a cloud of foul-smelling spores Ubbo-Sathla in Combat When attacked, Ubbo-Sathla flails potently, directed exist in so doing–this might alert other time-conscious not by intelligence but by raw instinct It spews forth beings (such as Tulzscha, dimensional shamblers, the primal fluids, which immediately form into shapeless hounds of Tindalos, the great race of Yith, outer spawn, entities The spread of these horrible blob-things is part or entities from the Dreamlands) of the general environment when one is near the Tablets, Ubbo-Sathla, as a mindless guardian, is no one’s and they are encountered constantly In addition, Ubbo friend It will even attack the cult that summoned it Sathla can flail with its stalk-like limbs, which inflict if they linger after it finishes forming As such, it is an poison, acid, and other harm in addition to their raw excellent defender of anything that requires protection crushing strength While only the elder lore forms it, other precious and As a fungal being of protoplasm, Ubbo-Sathla durable materials can be kept within its purview The possesses no vital spots or organs It regenerates safest time to deposit these is when it is still forming from damage at a tremendous rate, and the repulsive Some cultists seek to summon Ubbo-Sathla that entities it spews forth intercept attacks It is virtually they might study the Tablets of the Gods, but the indestructible, and any force great enough to destroy creature poses a significant threat while the would-be Ubbo-Sathla would certainly also destroy the precious student is trying to read these cyclopean stone slabs Tablets of the Gods, thus negating its purpose Horrible it was, if there had been aught to apprehend the horror; and loathsome, if there had been any to feel loathing About it, prone or tilted in the mire, there lay the mighty tablets of star-quarried stone that were writ with the inconceivable wisdom of the pre-mundane gods —Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla 285