Yog Sothoth
Lord of Anguish
Yog-Sothoth is an Outer God, one of the the ancient, eldritch entities of tremendous power that dwell within the Dark Tapestry. He is said to be a terrible, self-aware manifestation of the Dimension of Time.
Yog-Sothoth's appearance is described as a "congeries of iridescent spheres," a conglomeration of glowing balls of various sizes and colors. Yog-Sothoth is said to be coterminous with all of space and time, and therefore common beliefs among members of the Old Cults are that Yog-Sothoth is either the Dark Tapestry itself; a sapient embodiment of the Material Plane; some kind of living, intelligent, neighboring transitive plane coterminous with our own; or some other aspect of reality apart from our own Material Plane. Yog-Sothoth can exist in multiple times and places at once, but it seems that either he cannot properly intrude upon the Material Plane, or perhaps he can but has no reason to do so.
Church of Yog-Sothoth
The cult of Yog-Sothoth is not an organised religion.[5] Worshipers of Yog-Sothoth tend to be isolated and often insane arcane spellcasters, such as alchemists, sorcerers, and wizards, searching for hidden eldritch secrets and hoping that Yog-Sothoth will reveal these mysteries to them in exchange for their worship. Other common worshipers are cults comprised almost exclusively of witches. Ultimately, Yog-Sothoth cares little for their worship, as he has no real need of them except for one purpose: mortal worshipers who will either directly summon him into Golarion's realm of existence themselves, or who will mate with him to produce a spawn of Yog-Sothoth or child of Yog-Sothoth[6] who will summon its progenitor instead. Once summoned to Golarion (or any other world, for that matter), Yog-Sothoth would be free to ravage the surrounding area and consume any and all lifeforms he can reach, corrupting the very space and time he touches with his foul and unnatural presence.
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