Curse of the Black Avenger by Eddie Jones

Angel Sanctuary: Rosiel and Sandalphon may qualify.See also A Form You Are Comfortable With, though many humanoid abominations have an appearance that humans can't easily be comfortable with, and such appearances may or may not have been chosen by the Eldritch Abomination for that purpose. Not to be confused with Humans Are Cthulhu. See Transhuman Abomination for a possible justification. Compare and contrast Monstrous Humanoid, where the creature can only be inhuman in that it has some clear and defined monstrous aspect, while remaining a humanoid. Subtrope of Eldritch Abomination, and sister trope of Animalistic Abomination, Angelic Abomination, and Cthulhumanoid. Nor will they conform to the expected laws of nature - or magic, in such settings - so expect Lovecraftian Superpowers and other unspeakable traits. At best, they will be comparable to The Fair Folk (and indeed, many of The Fair Folk qualify as this trope - which is to be expected, since 'eldritch' originally meant 'elven').

Less subtle abominations will do their job too well and seem impossibly beautiful, while the even less subtle will distort their human form with twisted limbs or malformed features or other such monstrosities.ĭespite its appearance, they will very likely also not think in terms human reason can readily grasp, and will often lack anything resembling a recognizable or conventional moral code. Even those that are very clever in human terms will have difficulty not setting off instinctive alarms in the human subconscious.

In a few cases they actually were human until they went beyond the pale, but most likely, what you're seeing is actually a disguise or misperception for something you're really better off not seeing, or even the progeny or creation of something even worse. Though its appearance is sometimes passable as human, it is still clearly.

Conan the Barbarian, ' The Devil in Iron'Įvery once in a while, twisted things from beyond the fringes of humanity's consciousness will show up in forms that for all intents and purposes look like good old H.

Curse of the Black Avenger by Eddie Jones