Re: Still out there?

Sort of reminds me of the way I've handled Illithid in my campaign. The
ruling race of the underdark on the PCs home world are the Illithid.
While most are of Lawful alignment there is a hidden element within that
have joined the loathsome Aboleths in the worship of the dread god
Khatul (a twisting of Cthulhu I found in a Call of Cthulhu game book
long ago). Of course, scince this religion embraces chaos and insanity
(two things no civilized Illithid would ever be wishing for) the worship
of Khatul has been made illegal, under penalty of death. This has made
for an interesting twist to the underdark in the world.

Also, I created a god to be Khatul's bitter enemy, Arathul, who had many
mellenia ago been worshiped by the LeShay (Epic Level Handbook). I
created a history where the worshippers of Khatul were driven from the
surface and later became the Illithid. After nearly destroying
themselves, the Illithid chose to embrace Law over Chaos. Meanwhile, the
worshippers of Arathul began bickering among themselves, having had a
taste of the evil power which Khatul had offered. The civilisation
collapsed and the LeShay left the world for greener pastures in the
Outer Planes.

Enter the PCs. Ther first group I was running had to help the Illithid
stop the rebels from raising Khatul. This led to epic level adventures
which became a part of the world's history.
Later my current group discovered a lost city deep in uncharted
wilderness, where they learned of the lost god Arathul. They began
rebuilding the city and the dormant magic began to awaken. Before long
two members of the group arose to become the high priest and priestess
of Arathul. The city was named for the god and has become known as
Arathul, City of Knowledge, (mostly due to sages wanting to study the
intact tomes and books of the ancients. At present several collages are
being built and the city has become the only active Spelljamming port on
the planet. The PCs have been actively working on building trade with
nearby planets and an Elven base which is currently looking for any
advantage they can get in the Unhuman War (still going on in my
campaign)

Your idea is an interesting one as well. It looks like I'm not the only
one borrowing from the D-20 Cthulhu handbook.

John Greyhawk, Cross-Genre DM


Danton May <coyotedkm@???????.com> wrote:
Hello? Is this list still active? I haven't seen anything from it in a
while. So tell me, where do you think illithids originated? I was reading
in the illithiad, and it suggests they came form outside the space-time
continuum. I'm thinking of renaming them the "Children of Cthulu" in my
spelljamming campaign, and saying they come form an alternate universe and
are actually several races - mindflayers, korpu, and another one I made up.
They are all related because they were spawned by Cthulu, which is from an
indescribable universe or dimension.


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