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Spike Valance Cthulhu Mythos - Gloon

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Spike Valance Cthulhu Mythos - Gloon, The Corruptor of Flesh (Great Old One)



If you type “Gloon” in the net, surely you’ll find tens of copied-and-pasted pages saying “Gloon usually appears as a handsome nude young man. Its true form is that of a wattled slug-like horror”. It’s what Malleus Monstrorum says and I would imagine something like Conan movie's Dagoth.

But let me spend some word more for this entity. Gloon is imprisoned within a temple in submerged Atlantis where it guards a portal to some unknown inter-dimensional place. Although worshiped by the Atlanteans and possibly by other ancient civilizations, Gloon has no human following today. Anyone possessing one of the statues of Gloon in its handsome youthful form experiences vivid dreams of strange titan cities beneath the waves. Watery granite towers and barnacle-encrusted temples haunt the sleeper’s consciousness. After a week of these bizarre images, one scene begins to reoccur-a dark basalt temple of enormous size from whose door and multitudinous windows emanates a faint glow.
Gloon has also his own minions – The Servants of Gloon – sort of miniatures of Zoth-Ommog - whom serve him inside his temple. Personal note: I would not exclude a relationship with Cthulhu, Zoth-Ommog and perhaps Shub-Niggurath and Othuum, at all.

Gloon is supposed to feature in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s “The Temple” (1925). Actually it’s a Chaosium invention for the “Call of Cthulhu” RPG. A hint at Gloon also features in Molly Tanzer’s “The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins” (2011).

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Complicating the quest for the Temple on the Architeuthis is that one of the crew is an Innsmouth creepo. He'll do his best to sabotage things...