| “ | However much a savage may want to dispose of his god, the thing isn't always feasible. It would be the height of folly to attempt to send an omnipotent deity on a long journey without adequate justification. An angered god can take vengeance even when he is on the opposite side of the world. That is why most barbarians who find themselves saddled with a deity they fear and hate are obliged to put up with it indefinitely. | „ |
| ~ Clark Ulman |
Chaugnar Faugn, also known as The Horror from the Hills, The Feeder, Caug-Narfagn or The Elephant God, was one of the Ogdru Hem.
Description[]
Chaugnar Faugn, like any of the Old Ones, is an eldritch monstrosity that can incite madness and death from its sheer appearance. As a result, it assumes a less monstrous form when manifesting in the material plane. As it is perceived by mortals, Chaugnar Faugn is a vampiric elephant-like humanoid horror with a leech-like mouth on the end of his trunk.
His proboscoid trunk sports a horrible lamprey-like mouth at the tip, which Chaugnar uses to drain his prey of their essence. This process also causes the victim to slowly transform into the likeness of The Elephant God himself.
History[]
Background[]
Originally from a dimension very different from our own, Chaugnar Faugn travelled to Earth in its far distant past. Discovering that the dominant indigenous life was in the form of primitive amphibians, he proceeded to create a race of humanoid servant beings, naming them the Miri Nigri. Much later in Earth's prehistory, these Miri Nigri would eventually interbreed with early Humans to create the horrible, cannibalistic Tcho-Tcho race.
20th Century[]
In the mid-twentieth century, an archaeological expedition sent by the Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts to Asia returned with what was assumed to be a statue of Chaugnar Faugn. Not realizing what it really was, Chaugnar killed several people clandestinely in the night before embarking on a rampage across the city, killing and feeding upon many more.
After tracking Chaugnar to the shore where it became trapped in mud by the river, a group of scientists and a mystics were eventually able to employ an experimental "anti-entropy ray" on the beast, which reduced it to the primordial sludge from which it was formed, although whether this was enough to permanently banish Chaugnar from the Earth remains to be seen.