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Published: 2016-03-05 18:22:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 6262; Favourites: 129; Downloads: 30
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Description A very obscure entity known to be capable of resisting the powers of Nyarlathotep. I portrayed it surrounded by bat-like Night Gaunts that are it's servants.

I also gave it small horns as there is apparently some conection between Nodens and Pan.

"He spoke, too, of the things he had learned concerning night-gaunts from the frescoes in the windowless monastery of the High-Priest Not To Be Described; how even the Great Ones fear them, and how their ruler is not the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep at all, but hoary and immemorial Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."

H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath

"(...)the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss. And the conches of the tritons gave weird blasts, and the nereids made strange sounds by striking on the grotesque resonant shells of unknown lurkers in black sea-caves. Then hoary Nodens reached forth a wizened hand and helped Olney and his host into the vast shell, whereat the conches and the gongs set up a wild and awesome clamour."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Strange High House In the Mist
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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to ??? [2016-03-05 18:33:11 +0000 UTC]

The description from Strange High House also mentions him as " grey and awful form" so I think only his surroundings and sea creatures that came along were colurful and energetic. Anyway I thought that such a depiction would benefit from my art style the most. 


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