"When a new universe is made it is build on the back of two pillars, The Watcher (Yog-Sothoth manifestation of the plane of time), and the Survivor (the last live being from the previous universe currently Pharasma)"- Windsong Testaments
One of my greatest joys in a Pathfinder campaign was having my necromancer crypticly elude to being aligned with mysterious forces as his minions carried a black banner with 3 interlocking white rings that he referred to as the "untranslatable sign", regularly casting aspersions on the mild gods of Golarion and their false dominion. All leading to a particularly juicy interaction when he then confessed at a climatic battle that he was indeed a herald of Yog-Sothoth.
Lovecraft's writing is an amazing response to the new (in his day) discoveries of just how vast and ancient the cosmos actually is. Still - it always confuses me when people feel existential dread at the size of the universe. The universe is our home. The bigger, the better. Would we have been happier if it was tiny?
yig portrayal done by lovecraft in inspired by apophis, the end serpent of egyptian mythology, hence the moon symbolism. It is kinda funny that both exist within pathfinder, the two devouring serpents within the night
Would love to see you do a small dive into the Dominion of the Black, theyre a neat aspect of Golarion's lore that has tendrils that drive just as deep as the other denizens of the Dark Tapestry.
@@marcolinosalgarone9442Shub-nigurath gives birth to entire species of monsters...one is more powerful than the other and the powerful one isn't Lamashtu
I must say that I am tempted to try playing as a Cleric who worships Yog-Sothoth or Azathoth or perhaps even both. Would definitely be fun to see the rest of the party’s reaction to that revelation. Although it makes me wonder what that would look like. Perhaps my character would have a personal quest to establish a formal church and clergy dedicated to Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth. Could make for some interesting stories.
Yig has featured heavily in a number of my games. He is definitely different from the other Outer Gods. The fact that he has the epithet 'the Wise' means he sees the universe a little differently than all the other gods. It also potentially makes him among the more dangerous too.
Yig be like "Guyssss. They give ussss stuff if we just be a little niccce to them. The Mind Tentacle endlessss death sssShtick again? It'ssss been the 100 billionth time, you guyssss are just boring. Look. One of the little mortalsss has made a grill, isss that not wholesssome?"
I like to think of Yig as being the driving equivalent of Bi-Polar; he is a deity of Great Mercy and Great Wrath, and he switches from one to the other with little warning.
So very pleased with your work. I am hoping to see an upcoming one about the Cosmic Caravan, though I realise that it may be....problematic as the lore appears to have changed over time. Thank you again for the great content.
My current character is a cleric, ex-priest of Hastur. We're level 20 Mythic 10 and are about to throw down with him, and while he may be the least overtly threatening of all of these I'm still very worried about the outcome 0.o
I actually have a kobold astronomer Oracle who managed to glimpse Yog-Sothoth and found a crystal with the yellow sign. The connection incidentally lead to the oracular powers
Huh, a non evil Outer God. I like Yig. He even has one of the best cleric domains out there, community. He seems to me to be an interesting mirror to Erastil, being an animal themed god that favors rural communities. They even share that community domain.
Honestly Xiamen-dor is the scariest imo considering for all ppl know it is literally roaming within the inner sea. That and the temple where nhimbaloth is also there on Starstone isle.
Really loved the addition of Nhimbaloth and tying it to wisps. The best part of the Abomination Vaults. Nice video! Love this lore stuff, PF doesn't get enough but you're leading the charge!
so is there any relation to the Quippiloth and the dark tapestry? I mean Dagon seems to be that link but as a whole the Quippiloth feel very Lovecraftian. Even name itself seems to scream Lovecraft.
There are evil in the way they do things knowing that there presence can destroye minds and bodys.They consume there faithful(eating them)knowing there loyaltys they still dont care and destroye worlds full of inocents beings.They may think them selves not evil but there are evil.I like that pathfinder puts them in a evil light.
Is Bukrog a Zerg? And Rovagug is pretty Lovecraftian. Groetus has some Lovecraftian themes. What's the difference between those kinds of gods and Old Ones?
Haha! They didn't give Bokrug a symbol at the time I made the chart so I think I was using the zerg symbol as a placeholder and its kind of stuck. Rovagug is _very_ Lovecraftian. Its a 'your-mileage-may-vary' thing in terms of how you want to treat the distinction between the Old Ones and Lovecrafty themed Pathfinder deities. For me, its about the primary dwelling place of the deity. If they dwell in the Dark Tapestry, they're Great Old Ones, if they dwell in the Heavens or Hells (see my Planes videos) then they're conventional PF deities.
Does Pharasma or any other god have any issue when Nhimbaloth eats souls from the river of the Afterlife? I would assume she would want to judge each one as is her duty, as well as any other god who designates a soul worthy of being reincarnated as an aspect of their realm. Just watched your video on angels, so if one was at risk would a guardian angel or one more powerful be tasked with escorting it through? Could greater spirits or even gods do anything to stop her? Is the power scaling like a puppy vs a bulldozer, a person playing with ants in their yard while trying to not notice the eye that covers the whole sky behind the moon staring intently at them specifically, a plankton spewing curses at a hurricane trying to hurt it's feelings, or bacteria on the other side of the world that vows vengeance on that one tourist who passed through 6 months ago and coughed and those microparticles ravaged his microscopic biome whereas the person never even acknowledges the bacterias existence?
Pharasma considers _all_ of the outer gods to be her great enemy. Somewhere in my videos (maybe in the Aeons video) I give a little more history around Pharasma and how she survived the previous universe. So did the outer gods. She does not like Nhimbaloth. As for who escorts souls, unless someone is very pious its rarely an angel, more often than not it is one of Psychopomps or soul shepherds. I have a whole video on Psychopomps that is worth checking out as well.
@@TheMythkeeper I'm still catching up on your vids, you have an impressive catalog considering how in depth each one goes. The aeons one is still on my list, thanks!
Thanx! Watching 👀 now as Dark Tapestry & the Celestial Caravan are of much interest. Still, wish Golarion possessed multiple moons officially. Of course, one would be crumbling from being hit by the Star Stone. This creates rings which each moon's movement makes a cleared path through. What's next?
I didn't know that they were done that well in Pathfinder. Actually integrated in to the world of Pathfinder, rather than feeling like an add on and detached. The dark tapestry is a actual place, no? Are you going to cover it in a plane video?
@@jeffmacdonald9863 Yea, u right. Thought its a plane but its not, but somehow those gods which surpass the gods of golarion just chill with us on the plane, which sounds and feels odd. Though I imagine it to be a specific place and not just any space between stars, otherwise they would be probably very relevant to starfinder. Zon Kuthon before being Zon Kuthon (forgot the name) went there on purpose, so it has to be a specific place. Wiki says that he went "Beyond and between the planes" Maybe its like a demi plane which is unaccessable by normal means, except by extremely powerful force, or like the foundation of all planes? Or the place is just like them: incomprehensible
@@jeffmacdonald9863 I think that's technically correct, though its ambiguous whether that's in real space or some extra planar space that exists inside of dark matter or something along those lines.
ah, yes..Cthullhu will one day rise from his corpse-city...unless of course a boat happens to be nearby. then it's nap time again. I would totally love to have a game in pathfinder where i could play a mage that keeps a miniaturized yacht handy to throw at his head when i finally encounter him. F'Tagn THAT, squid boy.
@@Xo-3130 as I recall that is incorrect. the boat split his head open like a melon...which promptly began to put itself back together. but by the time he did, the window had passed. granted, the panicked sailor who was piloting the boat STILL went insane, and the one lucid survivor of the incident was hunted down and killed by vengeful cultists....but a win is a win.
You honestly have no idea how much your video was a huge help to me especially for my pathfinder game that I have going on currently. One of my players is a cleric of the dark tapestry and he had asked questions about the lore and I don't have all the books but luckily your video was just exactly what I needed.
You are *ALWAYS* free to make your own. That's part of the the fun of roleplaying! But also, I'm sure that I missed some things from the Cthulhu mythos here if you dig around.
So these guys found Dou-Bral rolling around the cosmos like a bard separated from the party and bad touchied him into Zon-Kuthon to the tune of crawling in my skin by linkinpark?
I dunno - this is literally just the Lovecraft pantheon. It feels tacked on or shoehorned in, like the devs didn't want to bother thinking up their own eldritch squish. Feels really lazy to me. **thumps table** NOT ORKY. BOMBZ IT. F:< (Oh, and sobriquet is pronounced "soo-bri-kay". 'Tis French.)
"When a new universe is made it is build on the back of two pillars, The Watcher (Yog-Sothoth manifestation of the plane of time), and the Survivor (the last live being from the previous universe currently Pharasma)"- Windsong Testaments
Easily one of my favorite aspects of Pathfinder was how well they integrated Lovecraftian elements into the setting.
One of my greatest joys in a Pathfinder campaign was having my necromancer crypticly elude to being aligned with mysterious forces as his minions carried a black banner with 3 interlocking white rings that he referred to as the "untranslatable sign", regularly casting aspersions on the mild gods of Golarion and their false dominion. All leading to a particularly juicy interaction when he then confessed at a climatic battle that he was indeed a herald of Yog-Sothoth.
one of the most sane Yog-Sothoth herald
Loved the little nod to this in the videogame wrath of the righteous in the secret area of the faceless sphinx realm.
Lovecraft's writing is an amazing response to the new (in his day) discoveries of just how vast and ancient the cosmos actually is. Still - it always confuses me when people feel existential dread at the size of the universe. The universe is our home. The bigger, the better. Would we have been happier if it was tiny?
You can say so because you never saw the infinite through your oun eyes
@@marcolinosalgarone9442 very true
Yes
I think Lovecraft did a fantastic job generating a myth expression of the spirit and feel of the new atheistic, materialistic world view.
yig portrayal done by lovecraft in inspired by apophis, the end serpent of egyptian mythology, hence the moon symbolism. It is kinda funny that both exist within pathfinder, the two devouring serpents within the night
There’s a lot of world-ending deities in this game, and many draw inspiration from the same source material 😅
Would love to see you do a small dive into the Dominion of the Black, theyre a neat aspect of Golarion's lore that has tendrils that drive just as deep as the other denizens of the Dark Tapestry.
Would be a great option when I start doing factions.
Shub-Niggurath, makes Lamashtu look like a nanny
This is true 😅
She rules over hordes of demons, minions and could be the mother of the terrasque and other unbetable monsters.
He doesn't have tits
@@marcolinosalgarone9442Shub-nigurath gives birth to entire species of monsters...one is more powerful than the other and the powerful one isn't Lamashtu
I'm impressed with your ability to pronounce all these names! 😂 You have a great voice for narration too!
Thank you! Such kind words!
I must say that I am tempted to try playing as a Cleric who worships Yog-Sothoth or Azathoth or perhaps even both. Would definitely be fun to see the rest of the party’s reaction to that revelation.
Although it makes me wonder what that would look like. Perhaps my character would have a personal quest to establish a formal church and clergy dedicated to Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth.
Could make for some interesting stories.
This is definitely one of those "work with your GM" type of things. I can see this being really interesting with the right GM though.
Interesting that Yig actually *does* care about his worshippers; I'd think that'd make him an *outcast* among the Outer gods.
Yig has featured heavily in a number of my games. He is definitely different from the other Outer Gods. The fact that he has the epithet 'the Wise' means he sees the universe a little differently than all the other gods. It also potentially makes him among the more dangerous too.
Yig be like "Guyssss. They give ussss stuff if we just be a little niccce to them. The Mind Tentacle endlessss death sssShtick again? It'ssss been the 100 billionth time, you guyssss are just boring. Look. One of the little mortalsss has made a grill, isss that not wholesssome?"
thet's how the nomad wich draw you in too, then when you least expect it a gianormus snake swallow you all in a single bite
I like to think of Yig as being the driving equivalent of Bi-Polar; he is a deity of Great Mercy and Great Wrath, and he switches from one to the other with little warning.
So very pleased with your work. I am hoping to see an upcoming one about the Cosmic Caravan, though I realise that it may be....problematic as the lore appears to have changed over time. Thank you again for the great content.
Cosmic caravan is coming in the new year!
@@TheMythkeeper You've made my day, sir. Thank you so ever much.
My current character is a cleric, ex-priest of Hastur. We're level 20 Mythic 10 and are about to throw down with him, and while he may be the least overtly threatening of all of these I'm still very worried about the outcome 0.o
I love this character concept! Hastur may be my favourite of the great old gods! Good luck!
That’s the kind game I would love to play in!!
I actually have a kobold astronomer Oracle who managed to glimpse Yog-Sothoth and found a crystal with the yellow sign. The connection incidentally lead to the oracular powers
Huh, a non evil Outer God. I like Yig. He even has one of the best cleric domains out there, community. He seems to me to be an interesting mirror to Erastil, being an animal themed god that favors rural communities. They even share that community domain.
Yeah, he's a cool deity.
Honestly Xiamen-dor is the scariest imo considering for all ppl know it is literally roaming within the inner sea.
That and the temple where nhimbaloth is also there on Starstone isle.
Really loved the addition of Nhimbaloth and tying it to wisps. The best part of the Abomination Vaults. Nice video! Love this lore stuff, PF doesn't get enough but you're leading the charge!
so is there any relation to the Quippiloth and the dark tapestry? I mean Dagon seems to be that link but as a whole the Quippiloth feel very Lovecraftian. Even name itself seems to scream Lovecraft.
They're not explicitly related, but as you've observed there's a lot of thematic overlap.
You think Shub Niggurath and Lamashtu cults fight constantly.
Crazy + crazy
who knows?
50/50 chance of violent fighting or violent mating
I also prefer my outer gods to be more ambivalent than malicious. Neutral if you will.
As do I, however variety is the spice of life! Or so it's said.
There are evil in the way they do things knowing that there presence can destroye minds and bodys.They consume there faithful(eating them)knowing there loyaltys they still dont care and destroye worlds full of inocents beings.They may think them selves not evil but there are evil.I like that pathfinder puts them in a evil light.
Man... I been sou extresed and this is so relaxing for me. This lore videos are great for me. Thanks a lot
You're welcome Carlos!
Thank you for the video - if anything it make a great primer of the Great Old Ones!
Is Bukrog a Zerg? And Rovagug is pretty Lovecraftian. Groetus has some Lovecraftian themes. What's the difference between those kinds of gods and Old Ones?
Haha! They didn't give Bokrug a symbol at the time I made the chart so I think I was using the zerg symbol as a placeholder and its kind of stuck. Rovagug is _very_ Lovecraftian. Its a 'your-mileage-may-vary' thing in terms of how you want to treat the distinction between the Old Ones and Lovecrafty themed Pathfinder deities. For me, its about the primary dwelling place of the deity. If they dwell in the Dark Tapestry, they're Great Old Ones, if they dwell in the Heavens or Hells (see my Planes videos) then they're conventional PF deities.
Does Pharasma or any other god have any issue when Nhimbaloth eats souls from the river of the Afterlife? I would assume she would want to judge each one as is her duty, as well as any other god who designates a soul worthy of being reincarnated as an aspect of their realm. Just watched your video on angels, so if one was at risk would a guardian angel or one more powerful be tasked with escorting it through? Could greater spirits or even gods do anything to stop her? Is the power scaling like a puppy vs a bulldozer, a person playing with ants in their yard while trying to not notice the eye that covers the whole sky behind the moon staring intently at them specifically, a plankton spewing curses at a hurricane trying to hurt it's feelings, or bacteria on the other side of the world that vows vengeance on that one tourist who passed through 6 months ago and coughed and those microparticles ravaged his microscopic biome whereas the person never even acknowledges the bacterias existence?
Pharasma considers _all_ of the outer gods to be her great enemy. Somewhere in my videos (maybe in the Aeons video) I give a little more history around Pharasma and how she survived the previous universe. So did the outer gods. She does not like Nhimbaloth. As for who escorts souls, unless someone is very pious its rarely an angel, more often than not it is one of Psychopomps or soul shepherds. I have a whole video on Psychopomps that is worth checking out as well.
@@TheMythkeeper I'm still catching up on your vids, you have an impressive catalog considering how in depth each one goes. The aeons one is still on my list, thanks!
Magnifico video... muchas gracias por tu trabajo
Gracias por ver Jorge!
Thanx! Watching 👀 now as Dark Tapestry & the Celestial Caravan are of much interest.
Still, wish Golarion possessed multiple moons officially. Of course, one would be crumbling from being hit by the Star Stone. This creates rings which each moon's movement makes a cleared path through.
What's next?
Next week is the second part of my Guide to the Planes series and that is followed by a video on Cheliax! Thank you for watching!
I didn't know that they were done that well in Pathfinder. Actually integrated in to the world of Pathfinder, rather than feeling like an add on and detached.
The dark tapestry is a actual place, no? Are you going to cover it in a plane video?
Yes, I'll discuss it a little bit in my demi-planes video, but that is a ways out, as I have a lot of planes to get through in that series.
Unless I'm missing something, it's not a plane, but the dark places between the stars in the material plane. Or between galaxies, even more so.
@@jeffmacdonald9863 Yea, u right. Thought its a plane but its not, but somehow those gods which surpass the gods of golarion just chill with us on the plane, which sounds and feels odd.
Though I imagine it to be a specific place and not just any space between stars, otherwise they would be probably very relevant to starfinder.
Zon Kuthon before being Zon Kuthon (forgot the name) went there on purpose, so it has to be a specific place. Wiki says that he went "Beyond and between the planes"
Maybe its like a demi plane which is unaccessable by normal means, except by extremely powerful force, or like the foundation of all planes?
Or the place is just like them: incomprehensible
@@jeffmacdonald9863 I think that's technically correct, though its ambiguous whether that's in real space or some extra planar space that exists inside of dark matter or something along those lines.
Loved this one! Thank you :)
ah, yes..Cthullhu will one day rise from his corpse-city...unless of course a boat happens to be nearby. then it's nap time again. I would totally love to have a game in pathfinder where i could play a mage that keeps a miniaturized yacht handy to throw at his head when i finally encounter him. F'Tagn THAT, squid boy.
I mean the boat did nothing. It was the fack he was awakened prematurely.
@@Xo-3130 as I recall that is incorrect. the boat split his head open like a melon...which promptly began to put itself back together. but by the time he did, the window had passed. granted, the panicked sailor who was piloting the boat STILL went insane, and the one lucid survivor of the incident was hunted down and killed by vengeful cultists....but a win is a win.
Very well done amazing video
You honestly have no idea how much your video was a huge help to me especially for my pathfinder game that I have going on currently. One of my players is a cleric of the dark tapestry and he had asked questions about the lore and I don't have all the books but luckily your video was just exactly what I needed.
Are there any other Aberrant gods/powers out there or are we free to make our own?
You are *ALWAYS* free to make your own. That's part of the the fun of roleplaying! But also, I'm sure that I missed some things from the Cthulhu mythos here if you dig around.
Dig those stairs. Oh and as always good video
😅😅😅
i thought i heard nyarthotep in passing before i was like "couldnt be"...awesome
Nice z! 👏👏👏
So these guys found Dou-Bral rolling around the cosmos like a bard separated from the party and bad touchied him into Zon-Kuthon to the tune of crawling in my skin by linkinpark?
Very apt explanation of what happened
@TheMythKeeper he's still in there his sister just needs to convince him emo is dead lol
17 minutes? …..If you aren’t careful, they’ll find you. Mustn’t speak of them too freely.
3:30 You're not suposed to say that name.
4:00 And that's 3...
Mar. Whelp my volcano worshipping, cannibalistic Orc Druid has a new god to worship.
Exemple d'1 PERSONNAGE Connu, schyzophrene: GOLLUM!(TOUSSE,TOUSSE).
"@blade4408, tu est complètement fou!"
Would've been funny if after the third utterance of Hastur you ended the video and left it just on a silent black screen for the remaining time.
Keep up the good work. Or else
ET OU PARLE T'ON DE LAMASHTU.
Ici, mon amis - ua-cam.com/video/H-VIUN-wo40/v-deo.html
Ah yes. The King in Yellow. Patron God of spacefaring lesbians.
I dunno - this is literally just the Lovecraft pantheon. It feels tacked on or shoehorned in, like the devs didn't want to bother thinking up their own eldritch squish. Feels really lazy to me.
**thumps table** NOT ORKY. BOMBZ IT. F:<
(Oh, and sobriquet is pronounced "soo-bri-kay". 'Tis French.)
Thanks for the pronunciation edit. Out of curiosity, what do the orks do when they find something they actually like?
@@TheMythkeeper Probably try and tie it to/nail it onto their body/war transport