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希姆巴洛丝 NHIMBALOTH 空虚的死亡 混乱邪恶（CE）绝望。鬼魂与沼泽之外神 领域：混乱，邪恶，死亡，植物，虚空 子域：异幕，熵，腐朽，恐惧，孤寂，亡灵 偏好武器：链枷 徽记：滴水的头骨，下颚布满潮湿的苔藓 来源：詹姆斯·雅各布斯，《上古神祗（The Elder Mythos或者 万古之物）》（PZ自己的设定集）

当人死后，他们的灵魂从肉体上分离进入灵魂长河（River of Souls），在那里他们最终被带到法莱斯玛的骨园接受最终审判。然而，这条河和任何一条河一样绝非安全。猎食者在灵魂长河概念上的岸边与深处狩猎，渴望在他们被送上最终审判之前，将飘浮的灵魂抓出并吞食。神秘的希姆巴洛丝以这些掠食者为食，并陶醉于那些自认为是死者猎人的家伙的喉管中已经消化的灵魂。
希姆巴洛丝最常出现的区域是泥泞的沼泽，荒芜的海岸或偏远的河域。祂的信徒们认为鬼火（will-o’-wisps）就是祂的眼睛，他们相信当一个人知道死亡即将来临时，他所忍受的恐惧就是祂的呼吸。虽然那些死去的人知道悲伤和痛苦，但他们的灵魂总有一天会得到升华。但那些被希姆巴洛丝所触及的人只能感受死亡的痛苦。他们无法轮回，因其生命已经真正终结。
空虚的死亡没有形体，但在那些祂常出没的地带游荡的，备受折磨的无面亡灵身上，却可以看到祂存在的证据。野生动物在这些地区变得更具有敌意，植物长出怪异而可憎的眼睛并且渴求血肉的滋养。河岸或岛屿海岸上奇怪的标记—由七块完全间隔的草皮组成的一簇干土碎片—被认为是祂的指纹。在希姆巴洛丝狩猎的地方，连世界也会畏缩。

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NHIMBALOTH
THE EMPTY DEATH
CE Outer Goddess of despair, ghosts, and swamps
Domains Chaos, Death, Evil, Plant, Void
Subdomains Dark Tapestry ISG , Decay, Entropy ISG , Fear ISG ,
Isolation ISG , Undead
Favored Weapon flail
Symbol dripping skull with jaw stuffed with wet moss
Original Source James Jacobs, “The Elder Mythos”
When mortals die, their souls slip from the flesh and enter the River of Souls, where they are eventually carried to Pharasma’s Boneyard to be judged. Yet this river, as with any river, is not wholly without peril. Predators hunt the metaphysical banks and depths of the River of Souls, eager to pluck out and devour drifting souls before they can be sent on to their final rewards. Mysterious Nhimbaloth feeds upon those predators, and revels in the digestion of souls already being digested in the gullets of those who would deem themselves the hunters of the dead.
Nhimbaloth’s presence is most often felt in tangled swamps, desolate shorelines, or remote stretches of river. Her cultists hold that will-o’-wisps are her eyes and believe that the fear one endures when one knows death is near is her breath. While those who die know grief and pain, their souls can one day go on to be something greater. But those touched by Nhimbaloth know only the agony of death. They do not go on. They simply end.
The Empty Death is shapeless, yet evidence of her presence can be seen in the tortured, faceless undead that often haunt places she has brushed against. Wildlife grows  more  antagonistic in these areas, and plants grow strangely hateful to the eye and eager to tear the flesh. Strange markings on riverbanks or island shores—clusters of seven perfectly spaced divots of crumbling dry earth—are thought to be her fingerprints. Where Nhimbaloth has hunted, the world itself recoils.
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奥格什 ORGESH 无面之神 混乱邪恶（CE）炼金术、饥饿与地底之旧日支配者 领域：混乱，邪恶，土，水 子域：窟，铁，冰，海 偏好武器：矛 徽记：张开的巨口含着一块神秘的符文 来源：Wolfgang Baur, 《黑血之地The Land of Black Blood》

在阿维斯坦（Avistan）中部地下深处的黑血之地，诡秘冰冷的湖泊中不断翻滚且冒着气泡。虽然外观和稠度与原油相似，事实上这种黑血摸上去冻得要命，却可以支持和诞生不朽的肉体。正是在这些水域里诞生了被称为黑水怪（charda）的种族，而它们中的主宰者就是无面之神，奥格什。
奥格什已经不再居住在黑血之地，把祂自己的孩子们遗弃在那里。尽管他们仍然崇拜祂，一直被造物主忽视对黑水怪们产生了积极的影响—他们依旧保持着难以名状的面貌，但不再被残暴欲望和无止境的饥饿所驱使。那些记得但不崇拜奥格什的人相信，无面之神为了其他造物抛弃了自己的孩子，因为在遥远的西方，在無形海（Sightless Sea）最深、最黑暗的海沟里，有人发现了其新的造物。奥格什没有成组织的教团，它的信徒们把彼此视为最大的威胁。有人认为，通过献祭一个无面之神信徒的骨肉便可以继承祭品的信仰，最后当信徒只剩下一个的时候，奥格什将会降临，并让最后的信徒自奥瓦（Orv）释放一个新的种族—一个在末日降临之前都不会停止扩张的种族。
没有一个生灵见过奥格什的面目，但它的雕像却奇怪地不受侵蚀，这也是那便是其面容或没有面容的传说来源。这些雕像把奥格什描绘成一个模模糊糊的人形，有着巨大的腹部，爪子和狗一样的腿，但除了张开的嘴巴长满了鲨鱼的牙齿再无其他面部特征。

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ORGESH
THE FACELESS GOD
CE Great Old One of alchemy, hunger, and subterranean waterways
Domains Chaos, Earth, Evil, Water
Subdomains Caves, Ice, Metal, Oceans
Favored Weapon spear
Symbol open maw surrounding a rune
Original Source Wolfgang Baur, “The Land of Black Blood”
In the Land of Black Blood deep below central Avistan, strange lakes of frozen fluid bubble and roil. Similar in appearance and consistency to crude oil, this black blood is freezing cold to the touch, yet bolsters and invigorates undead flesh. It was within these un-waters that the race known as the charda were spawned, and first among their kind was the Faceless God, Orgesh.
Orgesh no longer dwells in the Land of Black Blood,having abandoned its children to that realm. Although they still worship it, generations of neglect have had a positive effect on the charda—they retain their unpredictable ways, yet are no longer driven by cruelty and vengeful hunger. Those who remember but do not venerate Orgesh believe the Faceless God abandoned its children for others found far to the west in the deepest, darkest trenches of the Sightless Sea. Orgesh has no organized cult, and its followers see each other as the greatest threat.Some believe that by consuming the flesh and bones of a fellow devotee of the Faceless God, one can take in that devotee’s faith, and that when but one worshiper remains, Orgesh will return to use this final fanatic to unleash a new race upon the vaults of Orv—a race that may not stop its expansion until all has been consumed.
None alive has looked upon Orgesh, yet statues of it remain strangely impervious to erosion,and thus provide evidence of its visage, or lack thereof. These statues depict Orgesh as a vaguely  humanoid  figure with a hugely distended belly, clawed and doglike legs, and an open mouth filled with shark’s  teeth,  but with no other facial features whatsoever.
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兰·提戈斯 RHAN-TEGOTH 终焉之先驱者 混乱邪恶（CE）冬眠、不朽与毁灭之旧日支配者  领域：混乱，邪恶，安眠，虚空 子域：先祖，暗幕ISG，熵ISG，星辰ISG 偏好武器：镰刀 徽记：三颗黑星 来源：霍华德·菲利普·洛夫克拉夫特&海泽尔·希尔德, 《蜡像馆惊魂》

诡秘且沉默的兰·提戈斯与夏乌戈纳尔·法格恩有一些相似之处，因为祂们大多数时间都在等待中度过。经文中提到过一个兰·提戈斯还活跃的时期，祂统治着一个位于格拉里昂以外的未知世界的北方帝国，但在它的崇拜者抛弃祂后，兰·提戈斯变成了未知物质构成的雕像。然而哪怕是处于静止无法活动的状态下，那些待在奇异的雕像附近的人发现，自己会产生越来越强烈的献祭冲动—显然，仅仅是靠近祂，这位上古生物的思想就足以影响到那些智力低于祂的凡物。
虽然兰·提戈斯苏醒的周期及其活动的记录罕见且难以信服，但仍有传言说某些圣歌能够短暂将祂从永恒沉眠中唤醒并解除其静止的状态。人们只能推测这些圣歌的作用，因为苏醒的旧日支配者总会吞噬那些胆敢轻率地唤醒它的人。古籍上记载，当兰·提戈斯苏醒的时候，终焉之时（the End Times）就会降临到说哟世界上。但是没人知道，到底是末日唤醒了终焉的先驱者，还是祂的苏醒让一切迎来终结。传说，若兰·提戈斯彻底死亡，所有世界就能避免末日降临，但即便是神明对于不朽之物也束手无策。
世界上存在很多兰·提戈斯的雕塑，但分辨出哪一个才是沉睡神明的真身是件及其困难的事情。这些雕塑描绘了一个有着球状躯干的生物；六条尖端有着螃蟹般的螯钳的弯曲肢体；头部有着三只鱼眼以及狭长的喙。

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RHAN-TEGOTH
HERALD OF THE END TIMES
CE Great Old One of hibernation,immortality, and ruin
Domains Chaos, Evil, Repose, Void
Subdomains Ancestors, Dark Tapestry ISG , Entropy ISG , Stars ISG
Favored Weapon sickle
Symbol three black stars
Original Source H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, “The Horror in the Museum”
Strange and silent Rhan-Tegoth bears some similarities to Chaugnar Faugn in that much of its existence seems to have been spent in waiting. Texts mention a time when Rhan-Tegoth was active and alive and ruled an empire to the north on an unknown world far beyond Golarion, yet when its worshipers abandoned it, Rhan-Tegoth transformed into an immobile statue of an unknown material. Yet immobility should not in this case be taken for inactivity, as those who spend time in proximity to this strange statue find themselves compelled to undertake increasingly violent sacrifices before the slumbering Great Old One—mere proximity is apparently enough to enable the ancient entity’s mind to reach out and influence lesser intellects than its own.
While records of Rhan-Tegoth’s waking periods and its activities during those times are rare and unreliable, rumors persist of certain chants capable of temporarily stirring the god from its eternal hibernation and restoring life and mobility to its petrified form. What purpose such chants could serve, one can only guess,for the Great Old One invariably devours those with the temerity to rouse it. The ancient texts do agree that when Rhan-Tegoth does finally waken of its own accord, the End Times themselves shall be upon all worlds. Yet it is unclear whether the apocalypse wakens the Herald of the End Times, or whether the god’s wakening triggers the end of all. Legends state that if Rhan-Tegoth could be eradicated, this shared apocalypse could be forever avoided, yet a method of destroying something that fundamentally embodies immortality has baffled even the gods.
Many  statues  of  Rhan-Tegoth exist, and it can be difficult, if not impossible, to discern which of these is the actual slumbering god. These statues depict a creature with a globular torso; six long, sinuous limbs tipped in crablike pincers; and a head with three fishy eyes and a long proboscis.
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扎特瓜（又译作撒托古亚） TSATHOGGUA 夜之父 混乱邪恶（CE）魔法、被放逐者与冥界之旧日支配者  领域：混乱，邪恶，知识，魔法 子域：奥秘，神力，思想，滑稽 偏好武器：短剑 徽记：蜷伏的无眼蟾蜍    来源：克拉克·A·史密斯, 《撒坦普拉·赛罗斯物语》

扎特瓜居住在一个巨大的地下洞穴之中，在那里可以找到其他古老神话中的神灵，如阿贝霍斯、阿特拉克·纳卡和奥格什。 一些人认为扎特瓜所统治的地下王国是一个被称之为昆扬（K'n-yan）的微光王国，而另一些人则认为昆扬（K'n-yan）的人民奋起反抗扎特瓜，并且把祂从那个王国驱逐到了深渊更深处，那里甚至连光都无法到达—一个被称为恩·凯伊(N'Kai)的黑暗深渊。
扎特瓜有一种诡异，甚至可以说是古怪的天性；虽然邪恶且变幻莫测，但有时祂在与凡人交易时显得近乎仁慈。然而，这种交易从未长久，那些愿意与旧日支配者交易的人，往往以悲剧收场。
扎特瓜有着类人形的外貌，祂的特征混合了蟾蜍、蝙蝠和树懒，有着昏昏欲睡的眼睛和咧嘴笑容。

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TSATHOGGUA
FATHER OF NIGHT
CE Great Old One of magic, outcasts, and the underworld
Domains Chaos, Evil, Knowledge, Magic
Subdomains Arcane, Divine, Thought, Whimsy ISG
Favored Weapon short sword
Symbol crouching eyeless toad
Original Source Clark Ashton Smith, “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”
Tsathoggua dwells in the same network of vast caverns wherein can be found other divinities of the Elder Mythos, such as Abhoth, Atlach-Nacha, and Orgesh. Some maintain the specific underground realm ruled by Tsathoggua is a blue-lit realm called K’n-Yan, while others say the denizens of K’n-Yan rose up against Tsathoggua and drove him from that realm to a deeper lair where even light dreads to go—a dark tangle of caverns called N’kai.
Tsathoggua has a strange, almost whimsical nature;while evil and unpredictable, at times he can appear almost benevolent in his dealings with mortals. Yet such dealings are never long-lived, and more often than not end in tragedy for those who would treat with the Great Old One.
Tsathoggua appears as a
semi-humanoid  creature whose features mix those of a toad, a bat, and a sloth, with sleepy-looking eyes and a toothy grin.
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夏曼·朵 XHAMEN-DOR 深空污秽 中立邪恶（NE）腐朽、寄生虫与转化之旧日支配者 领域：死亡，邪恶，植物，诡计 子域：腐朽，欺骗，杀戮，亡灵 偏好武器：矛 徽记：垂下两条长尾的卷须球    来源：詹姆斯·雅各布斯，《虚空暗幕的崇拜 Cults of the Dark Tapestry》

这个有知觉的感染体被称之为夏曼·朵，最初祂在外星城市卡尔克萨的阴渠里繁衍，在远古的灾变几乎将祂摧毁之前，已经有无数的世界被祂感染和转化。祂仅剩下少量的孢子被困在彗星之中，旧日支配者在星陨（Earthfall）发生时来到了格拉里昂，祂偶然地伴随着历史中底棲魔魚（Aboleth）招来摧毁阿兹兰特（Azlant）的星石（Starstone）一同划破了天际。没人知道夏曼·朵寄居的彗星坠落在何处，但是祂的信徒坚信这颗承载着旧日支配者核心的陨星躺在世界上某个遥远的大湖的深处。
从那时起，夏曼·朵已经开始慢慢苏醒生长，并向全世界散播其真菌体的孢子以感染和转化这个世界。那些被深空污秽感染的生物首先会像是得了病，然后肉体慢慢腐朽并开始转化，最终化为亡灵怪物——它们由死灵能量和外星真菌团的结合而产生，这些真菌团在它们的核心部位扭动。夏曼·朵信徒们常常把这些寄生生物植入自己的身体之中，他们相信他们会成为从他们身体中孵化出来的生物的一部分而获得永生，同时也经常将毫无防备的祭品作为宿主。
据说，夏曼·朵原型像一团从某种古代爬虫生物的骨架中生长而出，并缠绕其上的真菌卷须，不过，这种缓慢生长的菌株如今呈现出什么样的噩梦般的形状依旧成谜。

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XHAMEN-DOR
THE INMOST BLOT
NE Great Old One of decay, parasites, and transformation
Domains Death, Evil, Plant, Trickery
Subdomains Decay, Deception, Murder, Undead
Favored Weapon spear
Symbol sphere of tendrils with two long descending tails
Original Source James Jacobs, “Cults of the Dark Tapestry”
The sentient infestation known as Xhamen-Dor, first cultivated in the sewers of the alien city of Carcosa, infected and transformed countless worlds before some ancient catastrophe or miscalculation nearly destroyed it. Reduced to a single blot of fungoid sentience trapped within a comet, the Great Old One eventually came to Golarion during Earthfall, accidentally plucked from the sky just as the Starstone was in the aboleths’ assault upon the doomed nation of Azlant. Where Xhamen-Dor’s comet came to rest is unknown, but its cult agrees that the fallen star that bears the Great Old One’s core lies in the depths of a large but remote lake somewhere in the world.
Since that date, Xhamen-Dor has slowly begun wakening, growing and sending filaments of its fungoid body throughout the world to rise up here and there to infest and spread. Those infected by the Inmost Blot first become sickly, then begin to simultaneously decay and transform, eventually becoming undead monsters animated by a combination of necromantic energy and the alien fungal masses that writhe in their cores.Cultists of Xhamen-Dor often take these parasitic creatures into themselves under the belief that they will live on as part of the creatures that emerge from their bodies, but just as often use unsuspecting sacrifices to serve as hosts.
Foul Xhamen-Dor is said to have once resembled a tangled mass of fungoid tendrils  growing  from the shattered bones of some ancient reptilian life-form, though what nightmarish  shape
the slowly growing blight has taken on today is unknown.
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伊格（YIG） 蛇之父 CN混乱中立 门扉、空间、时间之旧日支配者 领域 ：混乱、团队、保护、鳞类 子域：防御、龙、狂欢、毒液 偏好武器：拳刃 徽记：头上有新月形标记的盘蛇 资料来源：霍华德·菲利普·洛·夫克拉夫&泽利亚·毕晓普《伊格的诅咒》

在所有旧日支配者中—事实上，是在上古神话中提及的所有神袛们——蛇之父无疑是最为仁慈的。然而，那些愚蠢到期待伊格的善意的人最好三思，因为伊格不会容忍愚人，祂很可能会吞噬那些恳求祂帮助的人，因其便是祂赐予的帮助。即使是伊格最虔诚的信徒也知道神明有时只是单纯的想进食，在这种情况下，没有任何一种献祭能挽救祈求者死亡的命运。
伊格的主要崇拜来自于游牧民族和那些与生活的土地有密切联系的人；而在城市地区则罕有祂的信徒。它会保护那些虔诚供奉祂的族群，尤其是他们四季都遵循着复杂的遵从仪典以示对祂的信仰。祂的恩惠能带来农牧和捕猎的丰收以及强壮健康的婴儿—有时候，完美的受孕被认为是伊格的功劳，特别是由此诞下的孩子眉间有新月状的胎记时。相反，当一个族群触怒了伊格，孩子生来便会伴有残废或可怕的畸形，其母难产而死，其父则精神错乱。尽管伊格通过蛇的行为来传达神谕，但祂却很少受到蛇人的崇拜。事实上，蛇之父长期以来都在与耶德修斯（Ydersius，蛇人信仰的古老神明）交战，不过在耶德修斯被斩首后，伊格就把注意力转移到了别处。
伊格会以满身鳞片、具有蛇头蛇尾的类人形态显现，或者是以额心有着新月标记的巨大响尾蛇的姿态现身。

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YIG
FATHER OF SERPENTS
CN Great Old One of cycles, procreation,and serpents
Domains Chaos, Community, Protection, Scalykind
Subdomains Defense, Dragon, Revelry ISG , Venom
Favored Weapon punching dagger
Symbol coiled serpent with a crescent mark on its head
Original Source H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, “The Curse of Yig”
Of all the Great Old Ones—indeed, of all the gods of the Elder Mythos—the Father of Serpents is without a doubt the most benign. Yet those who would be so foolish as to expect kindness from Yig would do well to think again, for Yig does not suffer fools and is as likely to devour those who beseech him for aid as he is to provide aid. Even Yig’s most devout worshipers realize the god may simply wish to feed at times, and on these occasions, no amount of devotion can protect the supplicant from death.
Yig is worshiped primarily by nomadic societies and those who live with a close connection to the land;veneration of him is all but unknown in urban regions. He protects communities that honor him in the right ways,particularly if they follow the complex rituals required of his worship through the seasons. His favor can result in bountiful harvests, good hunts, and strong and healthy babies—at times immaculate conceptions are attributed to Yig, particularly if the resulting children bear crescent-shaped birthmarks upon their brows. Conversely, when a society has displeased or failed Yig, its children are born with crippling or monstrous deformities that leave mothers dead and fathers insane. Yig speaks through the actions of serpents, yet he is rarely worshiped by serpentfolk. Indeed, the Father of  Serpents  has long  been  at war with the god Ydersius, although since the decapitation of Ydersius, Yig has turned his attentions elsewhere.
Yig appears as a scaled,humanoid creature with a serpent’s head and lashing tail, or as an immense  rattlesnake with a crescent-shaped mark upon the brow.
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