Gob-Nommoth
The outerfiend known as Gob-Nommoth lives aboard the Iron Blimp - an airship owned by Smarman the sorcerer. While most of its ilk sustain themselves by eating - well - everyone, this fiend has a very different lifestyle. By feeding it a constant diet of crudemana, Smarman has turned the thing into an engine.
The outerfiend Gob-Nommoth looks like a house-sized drain clog with an outbreak of mouths. Living inside the engine room of the Iron Blimp, it uses its tentacles to grab dolls and devour them. These 'dolls' are actually a substance known as 'foss' wrapped in children's clothes.
Companies acquire foss by sending adventurers to The Dread Zone! to fight skeleterrors - the bones of which can be processed into crudemana – the fuel which gives rise to the phenomenon known as ‘galactic dreadening’. Some question if feeding Gob-Nommoth these child-like dolls only encourages its genocidal appetites. Others point out that it's better for it to be indoors eating dolls than outside eating everyone.
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| Gob-Nommoth by Zuza Gruzlewska |
The outerfiend Gob-Nommoth looks like a house-sized drain clog with an outbreak of mouths. Living inside the engine room of the Iron Blimp, it uses its tentacles to grab dolls and devour them. These 'dolls' are actually a substance known as 'foss' wrapped in children's clothes.
Companies acquire foss by sending adventurers to The Dread Zone! to fight skeleterrors - the bones of which can be processed into crudemana – the fuel which gives rise to the phenomenon known as ‘galactic dreadening’. Some question if feeding Gob-Nommoth these child-like dolls only encourages its genocidal appetites. Others point out that it's better for it to be indoors eating dolls than outside eating everyone.
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Another question people ask is "Why? Why have this murderous abomination on your airship?" The answer is that as a result of eating all that crudemana, magick regularly explodes from Gob-Nommoth's head (or from 'its top', anyway. Obviously it doesn't really have a head, although it does have a 'void hole' - an unholy cross between a nostril and an anus).
The expelled magick becomes captured inside the balloon part of the Iron Blimp - a ballon quite literally made from iron. As the metal reflects magick, the enchantments inside it become trapped and create the lift that keeps the improbable airship afloat.
Smarman originally tried making his zeppelin out of lead, but the craft plummeted to the ground and exploded. This proved especially problematic when the outerfiend on board escaped. It ate several men before being recaptured - all of them named Daniel, weirdly - making it something of a danpage.
Creation Notes
I didn't have any advanced plans for Gob-Nommoth when I was writing The Quest Factor - there's just a part in the book when the characters take a tour around the Iron Blimp and I thought:
After some thought, the only logical conclusion was that Smarman used some sort of galactic space horror to fart rainbow-magick into the metal balloon.
If you think the name 'Gob-Nommoth' sounds familiar, there's a good reason for that, as it's a reference to 'Yob Soddoth' from the Discworld series (which is itself a reference to 'Yog-Sothoth' from the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos). The descriptive comedy name mirrors the Discworld series, while making it an 'outerfiend' references that Yog-Sothoth belonged to Lovecraft's 'Outer Gods'.
For Gob-Nommoth's appearance I went with 'generic tentacle blob'.Yog-Sothoth itself was described as looking like a conglomeration of "malignant globes". I'll probably make something else look like a conglomeration of "malignant globes", as that could either be the most terrifying or ridiculous thing imaginable.
Yog-Sothoth was actually the grandfather of Cthulu itself. The Outer God sometimes went by the name 'The Lurker at the Threshold', which makes me think of some greasebag who's got himself barred from the off license and wants you to go in for him.
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The expelled magick becomes captured inside the balloon part of the Iron Blimp - a ballon quite literally made from iron. As the metal reflects magick, the enchantments inside it become trapped and create the lift that keeps the improbable airship afloat.
Smarman originally tried making his zeppelin out of lead, but the craft plummeted to the ground and exploded. This proved especially problematic when the outerfiend on board escaped. It ate several men before being recaptured - all of them named Daniel, weirdly - making it something of a danpage.
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| Oh, the fiendishness! |
Creation Notes
I didn't have any advanced plans for Gob-Nommoth when I was writing The Quest Factor - there's just a part in the book when the characters take a tour around the Iron Blimp and I thought:
"Oh flepp - so how does this thing stay airborne?"
After some thought, the only logical conclusion was that Smarman used some sort of galactic space horror to fart rainbow-magick into the metal balloon.
If you think the name 'Gob-Nommoth' sounds familiar, there's a good reason for that, as it's a reference to 'Yob Soddoth' from the Discworld series (which is itself a reference to 'Yog-Sothoth' from the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos). The descriptive comedy name mirrors the Discworld series, while making it an 'outerfiend' references that Yog-Sothoth belonged to Lovecraft's 'Outer Gods'.
For Gob-Nommoth's appearance I went with 'generic tentacle blob'.Yog-Sothoth itself was described as looking like a conglomeration of "malignant globes". I'll probably make something else look like a conglomeration of "malignant globes", as that could either be the most terrifying or ridiculous thing imaginable.
Yog-Sothoth was actually the grandfather of Cthulu itself. The Outer God sometimes went by the name 'The Lurker at the Threshold', which makes me think of some greasebag who's got himself barred from the off license and wants you to go in for him.
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| Yog-Sothoth, or 'Pappa Yoggy' as Cthulu called him |
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