Dracula's America : Church of Dagon: Hybrids

 

Hello!

I painted in the meantime two Dracula's America's Church of Dagon Hybrids, which I bought probably 4 or 5 years ago.
I'm a huge fan Lovecraft's stories and Cthulhu myths since elementary school and it's time for some dark pulp stuff ( many more to come!).

Northstar MilitaryFigures fits also great as 'regular' mutants and other degenerates.

The Church of Dagon is a cult faction within the tabletop game Dracula's America: Forbidden Power, featuring deranged fanatics who worship unspeakable eldritch horrors and are known for their monstrous "Innsmouth-like" appearance and mystical supremacy.
This faction consists of figures like Priests, Emissaries, Tentacled and Scaley Hybrids, and Cultists.

       In the Lovecraft story "Dagon," written in 1917, the narrator finds ancient carvings that depict humanoid creatures with webbed hands and bulging eyes, at least one of whom is almost as large as a whale.
       He then sees a similar creature like that in the flesh--a "vast, Polyphemus-like...monster of nightmares," with "gigantic scaly arms." The creature is never identified as Dagon in the story, though he does seek out a "celebrated ethnologist" to ask "peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God."

       The people of Innsmouth in The Shadow Over Innsmouth worship at the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and according to Zadok Allen are required to take the three Oaths of Dagon.
(Allen at one point rants about "Dagon an’ Ashtoreth—Belial an’ Beëlzebub—Golden Caff an’ the idols o’ Canaan an’ the Philistines.") The faithful in the order, Allen says, will not die but instead "go back to the Mother Hydra an’ Father Dagon what we all come from onct.
" To which he adds, "Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!". 
       Additionally, Robert Olmstead comes to believe that someday the Deep Ones will "rise again for the tribute Great Cthulhu craved [...] a city greater than Innsmouth next time".
This suggests that Dagon functions as a deity in the Innsmouth community, but whether he is supposed to be a distinct entity or merely Cthulhu referred to with a biblical name is unclear.

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