Elder Thing

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So I was fed up with the limited Lovecraftian Elder Thing designs available and decided to create my own. As a huge fan of Lovecraft, I meticulously studied The Mountains Of Madness, carefully pouring over the Elder Thing description. These creatures are laid out like plants, boasting a top-to-bottom symmetry reminiscent of botanical forms rather than the front-and-back layout typical of animals. They possess five eyes, multiple mouths, and a starfish-like head, complete with five wings equidistantly spaced around their body and retractable limbs that allow them to fly by spinning, much like a helicopter or buzz bomb firework. My model omits the tentacles they use as hands to simplify the print, which wouldn't be visible at the size I was printing anyway. I designed this creature for use in Pathfinder, but the existing "Elder One" entry in Bestiary 4 got it woefully wrong, like most interpretations of these enigmatic beings. Elder Things are a race with exceptionally resilient hides, making them all but immune to various hazards and resistant to extreme environmental conditions. They can fly through both air and space between planets, breathe both water and air, and employed advanced technology, including beam weapons, to fight their amorphous slave race, the Shoggoths, which they used to construct their cities. These beings also tend to live simply, avoiding their advanced tech when possible, a trait that I believe, combined with their alien mentality and physiology, makes them the most captivating extraterrestrial concept ever imagined.