Cthulhu, Master of R'lyeh

(a.k.a. The Great Dreamer, The Sleeper of R'lyeh, The Star Spawn, Him Who Lies Dreaming, Him Who Will Rise Again, Lord of the Watery Abyss, The Sleeping God)

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. ~ HPL , "The Call of Cthulhu"

Cthulhu is a great old ones of great power who lies in a death-like slumber beneath the Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldrich dealings on our world.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

The Symbol of R'lyeh

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have "yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature [...] A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings." (HPL: The Call of Cthulhu) Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, "represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." (HPL: The Call of Cthulhu)
Castro, a Cthulhu cultist reports that the Great Old Ones are telepathic and "knew all that was occurring in the universe." They were able to communicate with the first humans by "moulding their dreams," thus establishing the Cthulhu Cult, but after R'lyeh had sunk beneath the waves, "the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse." (HPL: The Call of Cthulhu)

Divine Classification

Great Old One

Religions

• Cthulhu Mythos

Current Location

R'lyeh

Date of Birth

Vhoorl, 23rd nebula

Parents

Nug