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The Litany to ThasaidonA grey-bound octavo printedanonymously in
the USA in around
1937, the Litany purports to be avision of the world in several
millionyears time. It primarily concerns thegods and magic of
Zothique, the lasthabitation of mankind.
Sanity Loss 1D6/2D6; CthulhuMythos +8 percentiles; average
onemonth to study and comprehend.
Spells: Contact Thasaidon (avatar ofNyarlathotep)*, Contact
Mordiggian,Devil-Mist of Namurra (Create Mist
of Releh)*, Create Revenant/DestroyRevenant, Command
Revenant,Enchant Globe of Growth,
Nightmare, Remortification*, SendDreams, Summon Stallions
ofThamogorgos*.
Spells marked * only work inZothique.
Summon Stallions of ThamogorgosTo cast this spell, the caster
must bein Zothique, and with armsoutstretched towards the sunset,
mustutter twelve names which it is
perdition to utter, followed by theinvocation gna padambis
devomprathungis furidor avoragomon.
Otherwise, this works as any othersummon creature spell, with
theexception that the Stallions ofThamogorgos cannot be bound,
andthat a small herd of the Stallions willappear.
It is usually advisable to get out ofthe way after having
summoned thecolossal creatures. .
Create Revenant/Destroy
RevenantCast on any intact corpse, no matterwhat its state of
decomposition, thisspell raises the corpse as a semiconscious
slave. Corpses raised inthis method retain some of
theirintelligence and memory, althoughtheir past remains dim and
cloudy.Stats remain as they were in life,
except that DEX and INT are halved,and APP is reduced by 1 for
everyweek the Revenant has been dead; it
continues to deteriorate by 1 forevery week after the
Revenant's
creation.It costs 0/1D8 SAN to viewa Revenant.
This spell costs 10mp and 1D8 SANto cast, but requires no
componentsor actions other than the incantationitself, which takes
instant and
permanent effect.
Usually coupled withBind Revenant(below), this spells power is
suchthat Revenants it creates remainanimated until destroyed by
magic or
by the reverse of this spell (thereverse incantation costs 10mp
andno SAN; if the Revenant in questionis unwilling to return to the
grave,the caster must succeed in a POWvs. POW struggle against
theRevenant).
Every month, a Revenant must rollPOWx1. If she succeeds, she
regainsher full intelligence as in life (restoreINT to original
level) and can nolonger be bound. The Revenantsfate is then her own
concern. MostRevenants do not appreciate beingraised from the
dead.
Bind RevenantThis works like every other Bindspell, with the
exception that aRevenant which gains consciousnessautomatically
breaks any bindingupon it.
Enchant Globe of GrowthThis spell enables the creation of
theGlobe of Growth (see above). Thespell involves a succession of
plant,animal and human sacrifices, and aseries of vile
incantations,cast overthe space of three weeks. It costs1D20 SAN
and a total of 100mp,invested every night over the threeweeks.
Stallions of Thamogorgos(greater independent race)it seemed that
great ebon cloudsof thunder beetled against the sun.Lining the
horizon, the clouds took
the form of colossal monsters withheads and members somewhat
resembling those of stallions.Rearing terribly, they trod down
thesun like an extinguished ember; andracing as in some hippdrome
ofTitans, they rose higher andvaster Zotulla saw that these werenot
immaterial couds, but actualliving forms that had come forth
totread the earth in macrocosmicvastness.
Clark Ashton Smith, The DarkEidolon
These colossal, hoofed aliencreatures resemble gargantuan
horsesThey are, thankfully, not often seenin this dimension. When
they appear,they devastate great swathes of land,trampling all
before them, beforereturning to the macrocosmicdimension from
whence they came.
Stallions of Thamogorgos, titan coursersAverage
STR 1D100x10 505CON 1D100+250 300-301SIZ 1D100x10 505INT 1D6
3-4
POW 5D6 17-18DEX 2D6 7Hit Points 403Move 30
Damage Bonus: About equal to anearthquake (average of 44D6!)
Armour: 10-point hide
Spells:None.
SAN: 1/1D10 SAN to see a Stallion ofThamogorgos.Skills: None
that matter.
Attacks Attack % DamageTrample 40% 1D20+DB
The Globe of GrowthThe garden, planted and tilled soprivily, and
sealed by its metal roof from the orbs of heaven, wasillumined
solely by a strange, fiery globe that hung in mid-air at thecentre.
Adompha regarded thisglobe with awe, for its nature andpurveyance
were mysterious to him.Dwerulas claimed that it had risenfrom hell
on a moonless midnight at
his bidding, and was levitated byinfernal power, and fed with
thenever-dying flames of that clime inwhich the fruits of
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swelled to unearthly size andenchanted savour. It gave forth
asanguine light, in which the garden swam and weltered as if
seenthrough a luminous mist of blood.Even in the bleak nights of
winter,the globe yielded a genial warmth;and it fell never from its
weird suspension, though without palpable support; and beneath
itthe garden flourished balefully, lushand exuberant as same
parterre ofthe nether circles.Clark Ashton Smith, The Garden of
Adompha
The Litany of Thasaidon contains theinstructions for the
creation of thisobject, A garden or forest where theglobe has been
summoned gains theattributes of Adomphas garden in1D10 months:
trees grow to strangeshapes, while breeds of plant unseenfor
hundreds of thousands of years
begin to grow in the vicinity. Ifsomeone dies in the area of
theglobes influence, some of the bodily
parts of the dead person might endup on the plants; indeed, body
partssewn onto plants (as was the practiceof Adomphas magician
Dwerulas)
will always become part of the plant.If someone of great magical
powerdies in the grove, then the plants inthe garden may gain the
victimsintelligence and animate some of the
plants in the grove. The plants mayhave the ability to entrance
theirvictim, drawing him in. Death iscertain if this succeeds. It
costs0/1D4 SAN to see a grove where theglobe has done is work,
1D3/1D10SAN to see one where people havedied, and another 0/1D6 SAN
if the
plants are animate.
Animated plantsAverage
STR 6D6 21CON 5D6 17-18SIZ 8D6 28INT 3D6 10-11POW 3D6+3 13-14DEX
4D6 14HP 23Move 0
Armour: Varies: sometimes none, sometimes1-8 points of bark.
Attacks Attack % DamageBranches 55% 1D6+DB
(andgrapple)
Entrap POW vs POWstruggle
Lured tocertain death
