#gla'aki

[kaijumydude]

Quick doodle that I really have been wanting to do ever since I saw that post. Glaaki will get him one day, maybe.

Plus a work in progress under the cut

[sirenjose]

Lily Essence Backstory theories

The fact this essence's story seems to include additional information about Golden Cave, and thus has potential implications/connections to Norton's lore, makes me very curious.

Here's the translations for all the official backstory for Lily Barriere's essence (Season 28 Essence 1) that I could find so far:

From Facebook:

As phosphorescence gradually erodes the skin, the inhabitants of the underground begin to yearn for captivity. Will they choose exile or stagnation? Only those who desire to break free Can escape the abyss and pursue the boundless world of freedom.

From IdentityVJP (Twitter):

Phosphorescence erodes the body, The underground residents yearn for confinement. 'Escape' or 'emulate'? ->[("emulate" as in follow in someone's footsteps/follow the established path)] Only those eager to crawl up from the depths Aim to pursue the boundless world beyond.

From Weibo:

The mine is filled with special phosphorescent ores, which brought wealth to their ancestors but also cursed them with phosphorescent illness. The harsh living conditions have given rise to two factions of thought among the people in the underground city: the exiles who hope to leave the mine and go to the surface, and the remnants [(as in to stay behind)] who insisted that the light from the surface would annihilate the victims of the phosphorescent illness.

The Remnants ruled the underground city, but the young individuals who live in the mine all year round are always curious about the world outside the mine. Every month, on the day when the moon was at its brightest, they hold a competition. The best competitors can overcome the many obstacles to peer into a corner of the surface world and see real starlight. This is what is known as the "Stellar Race".

Additionally, it also says that Lily (her S-tier skin) was formerly part of the Exile faction but joined the Remnants group and the only one to have returned from the surface world.

Reasons I find this story curious:

The way it uses words like "erodes the skin" and "abyss" obviously are very similar to the sort of terms used in COA (Call of the Abyss), especially COA 3 and notably Patchwork, who's description seems very appropriate.

"Begin to year for confinement" aka loss of freedom when the erosion spreads is another similar idea to what we see in COA, especially with Patchwork who implies the end result of erosion is you become a "creature of the abyss", which makes me think of the Ghouls in Golden Cave.

"Brought wealth to their ancestors" should refer to Count Barriere and thus relate to how he got his wealth (as he is said to own Golden Cave).

"Emulate" or "to follow in someone's footsteps or the established path" makes me think it's referring to Lily having the choice to follow in Count Barriere's (her father's?) footsteps, or potentially to share the same fate as the miner who became ghouls after the mine collapse.

The group that want to avoid the surface due to their fear the daylight would kill all those afflicted with the curse/phosphorescent illness makes me think of Gla'aki (one theory regarding who is in Golden Cave and who the eye in the mine belongs to) and how his minions/slaves over time become sensitive to light and are eventually harmed by it.

Especially the additional connections to Gla'aki are really making me wonder again if it might actually be him (aka, that the idea it's him is true). Literally:

Gla'aki arrived on a meteorite -> a meteorite is what made Golden Cave unstable and thus allow the mine collapse to happen. Also, Norton made his magnets from chunks of the meteorite after he escaped from the mine.

It is capable of forming tentacles tipped with eyes (to allow him to observe while keeping himself hidden) -> the large green eye in Golden Cave

Gla'aki's minions don't age, but they do slowly deteriorate and take on the appearance of decomposing corpses while becoming more sensitive to light to the point it will harm them -> the Ghouls in Golden Cave also look like corpses and you never find them in the light.

There's no guarantee any of this correct, but I'm very curious at the chance at more Golden Cave and Norton lore.

[pog-soth]

gla'aki cucumbr

[the-inking-cartoonist]

My players are clearly about to have the most traumatic event in their lives...

The inhabitant of the lake it's getting impatient for more slaves to serve him for all eternity.

[robbyrobinson]

My Favorite Lovecraftian Gods

Also includes creations by other writers of the Mythos.

1. Nyarlathotep: The Crawling Chaos. The Haunter in the Dark. The Dreaded Voice of the Outer Gods. Nyarlathotep is the son of Azathoth who unlike his brethren who are locked away and sleeping, Nyarlathotep freely travels the world in thousands of forms sewing the sounds of nightmare wherever he goes. While many of the gods in Lovecraft's works are incapable of being judged by our standards of morality, Nyarlathotep has a far too human personality and is one of the few malevolent beings in the Mythos. First appearing in the 1920 short story of the same name, Nyarlathotep debuts arriving out of Egypt to present strange performances on a small town. When the narrator passes them away as tricks, Nyarlathotep forces the city into columns: one leading to sounds of moaning. Another a subway station; the last out of the city to the country. It is said that Nyarlathotep will bring the end of the world and the return of the gods. But he staves it off to further indulge in tormenting mankind to his heart's content.

2. Azathoth: The Blind Idiot God. The Daemon Sultan. The Nuclear Chaos. Azathoth is the ultimate god of the Cthulhu Mythos who dwells in the center of the universe. He is the father of Nyarlathotep, the preferred explanation for why he conceived Nyarlathotep by many writers of the Mythos is to have him as his messenger to exert his will which also includes sewing chaos. Azathoth is unaware of the events around himself as he is continually kept at bay with demonic instruments for when he awakens...well more inevitably so...everything ceases to be because it is all part of his dream. And he'll be left alone unaware that there was ever anything there, to begin with.

3. Y'golonac: He is a creation of Ramsey Campbell who first appeared in ''Cold Print''. He is the God of Depravity and Perversion who knows every horrid perversion any sapient being can ever conceive. Much like Nyarlathotep, Y'golonac (A Great Old One) is all too human in thought processes who hunts those who desire to read forbidden literature or indulge in the most disgusting of perversions so that he could be freed from his earthly prison behind a brick wall. Whenever someone summons him, he tries to force them to become his priest: if not, he eats them. Whenever he manifests himself, he appears as a bloated, obese headless man with mouths on the palms of his hands.

4. Gla'aki: A slug-like abomination that dwells in a lake upon coming to Earth in a meteorite. He has metal-spikes on his back that he can use to transform people into his servants. Through them, there are 12 volumes of books written called ''The Revelations of Gla'aki'' that describe the history of not only Gla'aki, but also other gods around the Severn Valley Region.

5. Cthulhu: The breakout character that the Mythos are named after. He is a winged humanoid with an octopus head whose very presence incites hapless victims into insanity. He dwells in the sunken city of R'lyeh dreaming. He can still affect the world through telepathy and his many cults. It is said that when the stars are aligned, R'lyeh will resurface and Cthulhu will awaken. His awakening would spell the end of the world as we know it. Should Cthulhu ever be truly destroyed, he would be reborn through his daughter Cthylla who is fiercely guarded by the Deep Ones.

6. Eihort: A spider-like being who dwells in a massive labyrinth spanning the world. If Eihort were to catch a human, he would ask them to bear his breed. If not, he would kill them with his large, titanic fist. Even if you accept, you'd be killed when his breed emerges. When he is freed, he will assist the other gods in overthrowing humanity.

7. Yig: The Father of the Snakes. He would send his children out into the world to incite punishments on those who kill his snakes. Either by killing them outright, or transforming them into snake-like beings like himself.

8. Yog-Sothoth: The Keeper of the Gate. He tends to appear as tendrils and eyes, or spheres. Yog-Sothoth knows all and sees all. Past, present, future. Nothing gets past Yog-Sothoth. He is often sought for his knowledge which he'd bestow...but at great consequences. Yog-Sothoth fathered "demigods" like in the ''Dunwich Horror'' with the eponymous horror and Wilbur Whateley. 

9. Shub-Niggurath: The Black Goat of the Woods is one of her titles. She is a fertility goddess who is often depicted as the wife of Yog-Sothoth who bears Dark Young. She often appears as a mass of black tentacles and mouths standing on goat-like legs. 

10. Hastur: Not an original creation of Lovecraft, but more typical depictions as being in eternal enmity with his half-brother Cthulhu. Like many of the gods, his motivations are uncertain, but many hold that he desires to assert his influence on the Earth through his Yellow Sign. Those that become his servants are turned into bloated anomalies with broken limbs and scaly skin. He can shapeshift much like Nyarlathotep and Yog-Sothoth, his iconic form being the King in Yellow wearing a yellow cloak and palette mask with tentacles peeking through the hems. 

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Ramsay Campbell's Gla'aki by Caleb Cleveland

[hubertspala]

03/01/2018 - Gla'Aki, the Slug God of the Lake

Gla’aki first appearance is in “The inhabitant of the Lake” by Ramsey Campbell. This ancient sluggish Great Old One dwells in the lake in the Severn Valley in Britain and is well known by his cult as wise beyond the mortal scope. His cult contains both willing followers that gleam the figments of sorcerous knowledge from their mighty master as well as zombified slaves on those unfortunate to be on the receiving end of his numerous metallic spines that his body bristles with. Not an exceptional piece of work but hey, I an back with business and doodling the big slug was quite a solid warmup ;)

[art-blogge]

on his own but Gla'aki appears