Earth Elementals

1. Gnomes

A class of beings who are associated with the Earth element in European occult works. See: gnomes.

2. Earth Beings, of the Great Old Ones (3)

In Derleth stories, the Earth beings are a subgroup of the Great Old Ones (3) that are associated with the Earth element.

They are said to be "horrible animate survivals of distant eons."[4]

The Earth beings are as follows:

• Nyarlathotep[1][2][3], also known as Earth Creature[3]. In assigning Nyarlathotep to the Earth, Derleth may have been inspired by Lovecraft's description of Nyarlathotep as residing in "grinning caverns of the earth's centre" [HPL Rats (online text)]. Lovecraft's prose poem Nyarlathotep (online text) also associates him with subterranean places, for one of the columns of hypnotized people files into a subway entrance, and another descends into a gulf in a snowy landscape where the narrator has his epiphany of Nyarlathotep.
• Shub-Niggurath[1][2]
• Yog-Sothoth[2]

The amorphous spawn who serve Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath are also associated with Earth.[1]

The Earth beings are rivals and oponents of the Fire Beings (Cthugha and his Flame Creatures).[2][4]

1. [AWD Curwen]
2. [AWD Dweller]
3. [AWD Sky]
4. [AWD Hastur]

See Also: Elementals.

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