Carving of a Shoggoth in the Mountains of Madness
The Shoggoths are eldritch horrors:
- They were created as slaves by the star-headed Old Ones, helped built the cities in and at the top of the Mountains of Madness, in the Frozen Land, and later killed their masters. Conan travelled to Leng, and was confronted to one of them during the Hyborian Age.[1]
- Others were part of the "locals" of Exo-Space, who tracked dimensional tears, for them to invade and feast upon universes. They were among the creatures opposed to by America Chavez,[2] and possibly by the Ultimates.[3][4]
History
Carving of the Shoggoths in the Mountains of Madness killing the Old Ones
Origins / Slaves of the Old Ones[]
The Shoggoths were huge tentacled lumps or blobs, and the slaves of the star-headed Old Ones (who named them).
They presumably helped them built a city in the place known during the Hyborian Age as the Mountains of Madness, in Leng, in the Frozen Land at the extreme south of Earth. The Old Ones seemingly lost of their skill at the time they built a second city nearby.
Eventually, the Shoggoths killed their masters.[1]
Hyborian Age[]
Death of the Shoggoth of the Mountains of Madness
At least one of the Shoggoths survived into the Mountains of Madness, where it became known as Tekeli-li, the Death that Flows, a death to the humans living there, for it ushered that word relentlessly.
When Conan, Bêlit and the Black Corsairs were in hiding from Ghomli, on the isle with local princess Ta-No, they were captured by Ta-No's tribesmen, who were attacked by Ghomli and his loyalists, until the Shoggoth intruded, attacking the three parties. but was neutralized by Conan.[1]
Unidentified local of Exo-Space, possibly a Shoggoth
Unidentified local of Exo-Space, possibly a Shoggoth
Modern Age[]
Along with the Exo-Parasites and Viral Parallels, Shoggoths were locals of the Exo-Space, the "scavengers of the Outer Omniverse". They were drawn to dimensional tears to try and cross over to other dimensions, to feast.[2]Powers and Abilities
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Notes
- The Shoggoths were created by H.P. Lovecraft in "Fungi from Yuggoth" (1929–30).
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Quoggoth's rebellion against Shuma-Gorath
- It seemingly inspired some elements in Marvel Comics, including:
- Quoggoth, a being made of tentacles and eyes, created by the Great Old One Shuma-Gorath but who rebelled, and was imprisoned into a sunken lost island of eldritch evil, later used by Magneto as his base.[5]
- The Sh'g'th tissue, used, according to the legend, by beings from the stars to form the first of the Aqueos,[6] living in the city of R'llyeh, rumored to be the "First Atlantis" and the source of all magic.[7] Those beings were seemingly confirmed to the Great Old Ones, founders of R'lyeh and other cities, in King in Black: Namor #2.
- The Shoggoths of the Exo-Space[2] aren't confirmed so far to be the same as the Old Ones' slave race, and might be a mere reference to Lovecraft's creation. Similarly, similar entities were also referenced as "eldritch forms and predatory concepts", and (individually) as "a Cthulhu",[3] Lovecraft's most notorious creation.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Conan the Savage #4 ; Stalker of the Snows Part 3: Within the Mountain of Madness!
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Avengers (Vol. 6) #0 ; The Opposite of Kicking
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ultimates (Vol. 3) #3
- ↑ Ultimates (Vol. 3) #4
- ↑ Wolverine: First Class #12
- ↑ Namor: The First Mutant #4
- ↑ Vampires: The Marvel Undead #1 ; Aqueos' profile