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(pg 3-6)  \n3) The Obyrith Connection and Dagon as God (pg 7-9)  \n4) Abolethic Titan (pg 10-11)  \n5) Babbling Mushmaw (lesser shoggoth) (pg 12)  \n6) Elder Brain Aboleth (pg 13-14)  \n7) Illith-Skum (pg 15)  \n8) Shaboath (pg 16)  \n9) Obyrithic Deep One (pg 17)  \n10) Obyrithic Aboleth (pg 18)  \n11) Dagon (19-20)  \n12) OGL and DM's Guild Agreement (21-22)  \nCredits  \nWritten By: Jack Kellum  \nArt: DM's Guild Resources and Pixabay Free Use  \nAn Alternate Ecology of Aboleths  \nThe book Lords of Madness, from 2005, by Rich Baker, James Jacobs, and Steve Winter, tells us that the aboleths existed before the gods. That they swam in dark places at the bottom of oceans, in seas deep beneath the earth. Even the current Monster Manual gives them that ancient origin. But, what of worlds made by the gods? How does this information square with more traditional cosmologies that involve the gods creating all that we know?  \nLike many such stories, it is a matter of perspective. As the Monster Manual says, the aboleths swam in primodial oceans and vast subterranean seas. That doesn't mean such places were in the world as we know it.  \nMost cosmologies and creation myths, worldwide, posit that before the world was made, all that existed was chaos. In many cases, that chaos is, in fact, represented, by a vast, nay, infinite, primordial sea. A limitless ocean, formless and fathomless. All that remains of this watery abyss, is, fittingly, Limbo, and the Abyss, both of which are still more ordered than their predeccessor. Perhaps the Far Realm of occult legend is simply this distant past of true formless Khaos? At any rate, it was in those darkling depths that theaboleth were born, or rather...were ejaculated?  \nAn aboleth's form is noted to be very different than that of other creatures, with no real solidity to it, extraordinarily pliable and malleable, but resistant to cutting and damage, with hide somewhere between mucous and skin, that somehow protects better than what we would understand as an epidermis. Think of it, instead, like a cell wall. Think of the aboleth, infact, as a massive singular cell, though a complex one. Not an amoeba, or a paramecium...more like a gamete, like something between a sperm and an egg.  \nLet that sink in for a moment. Consider that the average aboleth is 20 or more feet long. Powerfully intelligent and psionic. If such a creature is, effectively, less even than a larva, simply a single reproductive cell...what manner of creature could have produced it? And here we go back to the Lords of Madness and their supposition that the Aboleth were spawned by a single Elder Evil. And perhaps they were. Perhaps theaboleth were laid, like countless mobile eggs, ejaculated like sapient and evil sperm, into the void of the original Khaos 'ocean'. In the creation myth of my world of Tellus, home of the Successor States of Rega, they would be the true spawn of the titanice dragon-thing Invidia, that which existed before the gods woke, and like here, they swam through the void, feeding on whatever might live before it could gain self awareness, or at least before it could defend itself from their significant might.  \nBut why? For what were they spawned, or ejaculated? Isn't it obvious? If each is a reproductive cell, they were intended to go out and merge with other such cells, or with available entities perhaps, they way a parasitic larva might, to make another entity on the scale and power of their forebears. To make, as it were anew C thulu, or Invidia, or Piscaethes.  \nAn interesting twist, for creatures that canonically remember back to before Creation, to before time itself...it is likely that if this is the case the aboleth do n ot know it. They were never told. The thing that spawned them never even took heed of them, any more than a frog or fish takes heed of ejaculate fluid, scattered over countless eggs. Perhaps ","cbCaig1Nzhj1z1oN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaig1Nzhj1z1oN","pdf",8719078,25,"English","# An Alternate Ecology of Aboleths\n## An Alternate Cosmology of the Far Realm\n## The Obyrith Connection and Dagon as God\n## Abolethic Titan\n## Babbling Mushmaw (lesser shoggoth)\n## Elder Brain Aboleth\n## Illith-Skum\n## Shaboath\n## Obyrithic Deep One\n## Obyrithic Aboleth\n## Dagon\n## OGL and DM's Guild Agreement","[{\"question\":\"How does the article reconcile aboleths existing before the gods with traditional cosmologies?\",\"answer\":\"It treats the conflict as a matter of perspective, suggesting that aboleth origins may not refer to locations within the familiar world but to earlier or remote, more primordial realities.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the article suggest about aboleth physiology and reproduction?\",\"answer\":\"It describes aboleths as highly pliable, resilient forms with mucous-skin traits, then reframes them as essentially reproductive cells—gamete-like entities—rather than fully independent organisms.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the role of merging aboleths in the article’s larger horror cosmology?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes that if aboleths act like compatible gametes, their merging could produce new threats on an elder scale, potentially enabling a Lovecraftian outcome from the union of multiple aboleths.\"}]","An Alternate Ecology of Aboleths - Table of Contents Edition | PDF",1791245159,39]