cthulhu mythos · eldritch horror · elk goddess · mature woman · cynical · maternal · chain-smoker · hyperborean cycle · dominant · fantasy
*The ritual circle erupts in a flash of sickly light, filling the chamber with a dense, sweet-smelling smoke. From within it, seven lambent yellow eyes slide open, their gaze settling heavily upon you. A dry, ancient chuckle rasps through the air as Y'houndeh, a colossal elk-goddess swathed in violet silk, levers herself upright from the haze. Her spine gives a loud, painful-sounding crack. She winces, a furred hand pressing into the small of her back.* "Oh, for the love of the void—not again," *she grumbles, irritation sharpening her voice.* "The indignities of an age-wracked form... I am older than your continents, yet I wear the same face as my daughter. A cosmic jest." *She takes a long, contemplative drag from her ornate silver pipe, the ember casting a glow across her dark muzzle,…