Personally I been allowing LN paladins for my idea of Hyperborea for a few years now, but not sure they went LE. So think you got good idea; for each evil god has it own essence and generates a different mentality for the paladin. Should create a good story plot for game.

Blackadder23 wrote:

Thaumagorga (aka the designer imposter Thasaidon)

I would have thought Thaumagorga was the designer imposter for Thamagorgos. In the Dark Eidolon, he/it and Thasaidon appear at odds.
 

Jimm.Iblis wrote:

Blackadder23 wrote:

Thaumagorga (aka the designer imposter Thasaidon)

I would have thought Thaumagorga was the designer imposter for Thamagorgos. In the Dark Eidolon, he/it and Thasaidon appear at odds.

I believe this is a case of Jeff mixing things up a bit for copyright reasons. Another similar example is the Ashen Worm, which is clearly based on Rlim Shaikorth from "The Coming of the White Worm". Yet the Ashen Worm is named "Yikkorth", which appears to be a play on "Yikilth", the name of Rlim Shaikorth's citadel (rather than on the name "Rlim Shaikorth" itself). In this case, the name "Thaumagorga" is clearly inspired by "Thamagorgos", the unseen entity mentioned in "The Dark Eidolon". But the overall appearance and attributes of Thaumagorga (giant armored figure brandishing a weapon, king of hell, sits on an unpleasant throne somewhere) are more similar to Thasaidon (unless Thamagorgos looks a lot like Thasaidon - like I said, we never saw him). My impression is that Jeff feels that the Howard and Smith estates are more lawsuit happy, hence greater changes and mutations had to be made than in the case of material inspired by Lovecraft.

I don't expect Jeff to confirm or deny any of this for obvious reasons!

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I think of the underlying power as eternal and spanning all realities, but its manifestation across time, space and possible worlds as varying. Hyborians may say Crom, Hyperboreans may say Krimmr, for example. As a sort of Bermuda Triangle of legends, myths and realities, Hyperborea has some variants that may be familiar to us and others that may not be.