![]() ![]() It was during this time that, despite their masters' wishes, they demonstrated an ability to survive on land. By this point, exterminating them was not an option as the Elder Things were fully dependent on them for labor and could not replace them. Eventually, the Elder Things succeeded in quelling the insurrection, but thereafter watched them more carefully. Over millions of years of existence, some shoggoths mutated and gained independent minds. The shoggoths built the underwater cities of their masters. Though able to "understand" the Elder Things' language, they had no real consciousness and were controlled through hypnotic suggestion. Being amorphous, they could take on any shape needed, making them very versatile within their aquatic environment. ![]() The shoggoths were created by the Elder Things. The character of the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, found the mere idea of their existence on Earth terrifying. For instance, the original one mentioned in At the Mountains of Madness simply rolled over and crushed giant albino penguins that were in the way as it pursued the characters. ![]() Mythos media most commonly shows them, although intelligent to some degree, dealing with problems using their great size and strength. An average shoggoth measured fifteen feet across when a sphere, though the story mentions ones of much greater size. They are described as "protoplasmic", lacking any default body shape and instead being able to form limbs and organs at will. In it, Lovecraft writes them as massive amoeba-like creatures looking like they are made out of tar, with multiple eyes "floating" on the surface. The definitive description of shoggoths comes from the above-quoted story. ![]()
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