VII Cults rootlets of itself through numerous portals to attack driven mad by the sight of the Outer God Indeed, and torment the cult’s foes Additionally, constantly cults love to summon the god as frequently as possible, viewing the Great Old One and invoking its presence as it protects them, exposes enemy agents, and provides allows its mummified spellcasting worshippers to form an inexhaustible amount of knowledge and magic accurate illusions of it as needed to aid in terrifying and destroying enemies Nyogtha Yig The father of serpents is worshipped primarily in those lands abundant in venomous snakes Even there, the Cults to Nyogtha worship it as the inverse of existence worship he receives is usually mere propitiation to avert Studying and learning from it reveals to devotees the his wrath during seasons in which snakes are most nature of pure negation or anti-creation They may active and breeding Yig jealously seeks vengeance seek oblivion for themselves, their entire world, or all against any who slay a snake in areas he rules Usually, of creation Worshippers frequently become undead in the wrongdoer is slain quickly by a messenger of Yig, their journey of faith, though even the negative energy but sometimes the god takes his revenge by cursing of undeath does not approach the horrible infinite the offender or its future offspring to transform into nothingness of the Thing that Should Not Be reptilian mutants, which are sometimes pitiful, and Since Nyogtha tends to dwell in darkness and the other times robustly monstrous vast emptiness of subterranean caverns are reminiscent Some peoples, after years devoted to preventing of its nature, cults worship it at entrances to the Yig’s wrath, convert completely to worshipping him as underworld In some cases, the living worship under their primary god In time, Yig rewards them such that the sun beside a shrine and the undead cultists worship they can be counted among his own children First, in the dark beneath the same shrine they become immune to the venom of the snakes their Tulzscha Cults of the Green Flame seek all manner of eldritch knowledge and the secrets of the Outer Gods, with whom Tulzscha dwells at the center of existence They accomplish this primarily by summoning an avatar and gazing into its light Tulzscha may reveal specific secrets, driving its worshippers to take a particular course of action, such as seeking out enigmatic tomes so their secrets can be revealed in Tulzscha’s light; illuminating pathways of travel through time and space; or manipulating them into unwittingly summoning Azathoth the Daemon Sultan itself Cults may also weaponize their god by summoning nation once feared and loathed, which are now their siblings Next, they may obtain magic and spells from Yig, usually related to poisons, snakes, shapeshifting, and curses Ultimately, after these blessings, the people mystically mutates and degenerates into a sort of snake-like hybrid race, and may eventually become unintelligent venomous snakes, slithering amidst the fallen wreckage of their civilization This degeneration can happen surprisingly quickly—in only one or two generations after the folk have fully devoted themselves to Yig Cultists of Yig often use serpentfolk alchemy to produce metamorphic venom Tulzscha in areas occupied by their enemies, where all of a foe’s secrets will be exposed and the people be 191