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This beautiful celestial Lillend is a true lover of beauty and the arts, and will defend her friends to the end.
The most numerous of Draconians, these guys petrify when they die, trapping weapons in their stone bodies.
"Cursed the ground where dead thought live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumor that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores out to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl."-- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Festival"
One of H. P. Lovecraft's earliest "Mythos" stories was The Festival. Christmastime, an unnamed narrator went to visit the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts, to see their yuletide festivals. However, it turne dout that once every century, they celebrated something different. Something older. Their town leader, a strange man with a rubbery face, led the town in a dark, pagan ritual, where they danced to music played by a half-unseen, squirming, horrible thing. And then dark creatures (later identified as the Byakhee) flew in, and the villagers rode off on their leathery wings. Finally, the narrator realized that the town elder's face was a mask, and pulled it off to reveal the above quote - a horrible mass of worms masquerading as a man!
The Crawling One as represented in Arkham Horror is kind of a mixture of two of the monsters - the worm colony, and also the squirming thing in the shadows. "Something amorphously squatted far away from the light, piping noisomely on a flute". And there it is... the Crawling One, the Worm That Walks.
This is a werewolf tearing itself open to reveal another werewolf. I kind of feel like I don't have to say anything more to say.
Not quite demons, Demodands were created by the Tyitans. Slimy Demodands are covered in acidic slime, destroing all weapons used against them.
Mother of Monsters and Killer of Children, Lamashtu is a Mesopotamian demon-goddess who is depicted in a variety of ways. Usually seen with a lion's head and donkey teeth and bird talons, she is sometimes depicted as jackal-headed and pregnant. Lamashtu steals children and strangles them, gnawing on their bones and sucking their blood. Seven witches could invoke her through the use of her seven names, and she would murder mothers, devour men, and drink the blood of the innocence. Her very presence kills foliage and poisons rivers and lakes.
Lamashtu's chief rival is her brother, Pazuzu, and invoking her can protect against his evil swarms and plagues... but at what cost?
You have no way of knowing that a given person on the internet is not, in fact, just a brain in a jar.
Liliana Vess is a necromancer first and foremost.
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One of the highlights of Out of the Abyss was when Demogorgon makes his first personal appearance and levels a city.
The Beast Lord and former ruler of the frozen wastes of Hell. He still cannot retake it, though he schemes often.
Grells are weird, even for aberrations. These tentacled, flying, breaked brains seem like animals, but actually have their own society and language - they just look so far down on other sentient life that they never deign to attempt contact. The merest brush of a Grell's barbed tendrils can paralyze a man, and their brainlike bodies are far tougher than they look.