Entities & creaturesAbhoth
Abhoth is the endlessly generating being encountered near the end of Clark Ashton Smith’s The Seven Geases. A gray mass occupying a subterranean pool, it sheds varied offspring and consumes those that fail to escape. Its encounter with Ralibar Vooz reveals intelligence, curiosity and selective appetite beneath a form that initially appears to be uncontrolled biological production.
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