Cthulhu Cult The sole purpose of a Cthulhu cult is reverence for— once the entire community is composed of hybrids—a and service to—Great Cthulhu and his siblings Their process that takes only a single generation—their deep goal is to provide sacrifices for abyssal monsters, one heritage ensures loyalty to the Great Old One’s keep the cult secret by murdering nosy outsiders, and goals ultimately to awaken Cthulhu when his time inevitably comes and did not interact with the true primordial entities, Cultists believe that after Cthulhu rises—when he such as the yithians or elder things They were created will roam wild across the world—they will be free to a few thousand years ago by the starspawn, Cthulhu's consume, kill, and take pleasure as they please along own race, who sought to form a species which could with him This is his promise Naturally, his cult communicate with, monitor, and if need be, wipe out attracts the vilest of individuals humanity or the other surface folk The deep ones Cthulhu’s cult is almost exclusively coastal, or possess the same physical realities as a normal species: among those who live on ships Those who are land- bones, digestion, a need to breathe, and so forth locked cannot easily access the wealth that Cthulhu Where they diverge is in their ability to cross-breed offers, so typically they follow other Great Old Ones with other vertebrate species that should be completely The cult of Cthulhu has three main categories of members: incompatible from an evolutionary perspective The deep ones are absolutely loyal to Cthulhu and work to Humanoids: Normal humanoids who worship advance his aims whenever possible Cthulhu form the vast bulk of the cult, seeking two Cthulhu Cult Gifts distinct rewards First, they are promised that when Cthulhu comes to clear the world, they will be free to engage in indiscriminate violence, as described above Second, they gain deep-sea bounty and wealth via contact with abyssal horrors This wealth often takes the form of valuable objects (statuettes or jewelry) made of gold or silver that mysteriously appear in their fishing nets Tainted Hybrids: If the deep ones are in an area, they almost always organize as a cult of Dagon (a subset of Cthulhu followers) Humans in such a cult who interbreed with the deep ones produce hybrid offspring who start out looking human but over the years degenerate into the full deep one form The promise for the humans is that their children will be immortal, while the promise for the hybrids is that they will one day join deep one society And of course, 178 Deep Ones: The deep ones are not an ancient species ‘‘ Abyssal Horrors: Starspawn recognize and work with human cultists Usually, the starspawn is in charge, but occasionally Cthulhu sets things up the other way around for unknown reasons ‘‘ Blessed of Cthulhu: Certain special cultists are given the mark of Cthulhu This generally means that part of the cultist’s body is transformed into one or more worm-like tentacles For instance, a blessed one might have an eye replaced with a tendril or their hand might become a cluster of writhing worm-like protrusions Other possibilities include a circlet of tentacles on the chest or a forest of them in place of hair Typically, the transformed part of the body—the mark—is kept hidden by the cultist except during special ceremonies This transformation bestows no