AHTU (NYARLATHOTEP)
"Their god isn't new, it isn't new at all. Back when the world was fresh
and steaming and the reptiles flew above the swamps, it wasn't new
either. The Bakongo name for it is Ahtu. Alhazred called it Nyarlathotep
when he wrote twelve hundred years ago."
"Pulsing, rising, higher already than the giants of the forest ringing
it, the fifty-foot-thick column of what had been earth dominated the
night. A spear of false lightning jabbed and glanced off, freezing the
chaos below for the eyes of any watchers. From the base of the main neck
had sprouted a ring of tendrils, ruddy and golden and glittering over
all with inclusions of quartz. They snaked among the combatants as
flexible as silk; when they closed, they ground together like millstones
and spattered blood a dozen yards up the sides of the central column.
The tendrils made no distinction between Forest Guards and the others
who had danced for Ahtu."
"The black column that was Ahtu twisted hugely, a cobra pinned to a bonfire. There was no heat, but the light itself seared the eyes and made bare flesh crawl."
"The black column that was Ahtu twisted hugely, a cobra pinned to a bonfire. There was no heat, but the light itself seared the eyes and made bare flesh crawl."
David Drake, Than Curse the Darkness
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