Old Ones (2)
[Of Yog-Sothoth]
HPL Dunwich (online text): Beings associated with Yog-Sothoth. Speaking of Wilbur Whateley's older
brother, a spawn of Yog-Sothoth, Old Whateley said that "Only them from
beyont kin make it multiply and work. . . . Only them, the old uns as wants
to come back". A long
quote from the Necronomicon gives hints about the Old Ones. They have
long existed; even now they live undimensioned and unseen, between the
spaces we know. They have broken through to our world before and trodden
earth's fields; they ruled here once, and will reign again. They have
begotten offspring on humanity, but the appearance of such offspring varies
from entirely human to that shape without sight or substance which is Them.
They are invisible to human eyes, but their foulness can be smelled.
Yog-Sothoth is the gate or the keeper of the gate between the spheres,
through which they will return.
Their form can perhaps be inferred from the brief glimpse that Curtis Whateley got of Wilbur's brother; See Yog-Sothoth.
Great Cthulhu is their cousin, yet he can spy them only dimly. Perhaps the Old Ones represent a more alien mode of being than Cthulhu and his spawn? It is not clear whether the Old Ones are likely to be allies or enemies of Cthulhu. Of the Old Ones, Alhazred says that "the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen... the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles". It may be implied that the Old Ones vanquished Cthulhu and left their seal on sunken R'lyeh to help keep him imprisoned. If this is true, then these might be the "One Ones" whose magic sign has power against the Deep Ones; See magic sign.
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