This deity of Neutrality is associated with aurochs, deer (elk), and mammoths; with migration, nature, wine, wild passion, and sacrifice (animal and human). She is the principal deity of the druids and is said to manifest as an elk, mammoth, or antlered nymph, usually appearing in sacred groves or megalithic henges when both moons are full and when her stony altars are wetted with blood. Just prior to the Green Death, Yoon’Deh’s worship overshadowed Xathoqqua’s, but not so in the aftermath. Yoon’Deh is an anthropomorphic goddess reputed to be a former wife of Cernunnos (the “Horned One”). Some sages identify Yoon’Deh with Cybele, the ancient Phrygian mother goddess, and sometimes Demeter, goddess of grains. Druids say Yoon’Deh traverses Hyperborea’s forests, hills, and grasslands in bestial form, though ever remains elusive to even her most devout followers. Typical followers: men (esp. Kelts, druids).
This deity of Neutrality is associated with arctic winds, tundra, doom, ill fate, hopelessness, lost travellers, and misbegotten fools. Ythaqqa manifests as a gigantic, hairy, vaguely humanoid creature with glowing red eyes. Bloodthirstily it preys upon the lost and the damned, ever prowling the Plain of Leng and the Ythaqqa Plateau. Ythaqqa’s cultists oft leave sacrifices to appease the god, as well as stone-carved idols intended to honour it. Ythaqqa is sometimes regarded as an ice dæmon vassal of Yikkorth, the “Ashen Worm”. Typical followers: men (esp. Esquimaux), albino apes, hyæna-men, men of Leng, abominable snow-men.
Sometimes called “Yog”, this otherworldly deity of Chaos is associated with darkness, void, cannibalism, shapeless spawn (oozes, slimes, jellies), and like mutable forms (moulds, spores, and other fungi). Yug manifests as a black, protean mass, a nebulous cloud of yellow-brown spores that can swallow worlds. Yug is said to be the progenitor of the primordial material from which shoggoths and other amorphous beings were formed; some assert that Yug is in fact the originator of all life. Reputed to roam the illimitable depths of the Black Gulf, Yug is suggested by some religious scholars to be supreme amongst the deities, that both Xathoqqua and Kthulhu serve as his high priests. Typical followers: men (rare cults), ape-men, cave-men, mi-go, spore men.