![]() ![]() The bottom appendage was five-limbed and was used for walking and other forms of locomotion. The top appendage is a head adorned with five eyes, five eating tubes, and a set of cilia for "seeing" without light. They stand roughly eight feet tall and have the appearance of a huge, oval-shaped barrel with starfish-like appendages at both ends. In the Mythos canon, the Elder Things are the first extraterrestrial species to come to the Earth, colonizing the planet about one billion years ago. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in the Necronomicon. which gives almost seven-foot wing spread. In furrows between ridges are curious growths-combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Six feet end to end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to one foot at each end. Additional references to the Elder Things appear in Lovecraft's short story " The Shadow Out of Time" (1936). Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1936, but written in 1931), and later appeared, although not named, in the short story " The Dreams in the Witch-House" ( 1933). The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones ) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fan illustration of a generic Elder Thing specimen ![]()
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