Mordiggian, also known as The Charnel God, is a Great Old One associated with ghouls, necromancers and death created by Clark Ashton Smith for his Zothique stories, where he debuted in the story "The Charnel God" as the primary god of the city-state of Zul-Bha-Sair, attended to by a mortuary-cult of ghouls dressed in long, hooded robes of purple paired with silver skull masks. Although capable of ferocious acts of wrath when roused to anger, he is generally a peaceful, amiable god who genuinely respects his faithful worshippers and who merely asks to be fed with the bodies of the dead. This makes him a true minority amongst the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos. He has appeared in Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu Malleus Monstrorum. Creature, Gods, and Forbidden Knowledge, and in Pathfinder. This name is used in Zothique, Man's last continent, and it is entirely possible that this gigantic creature is the same as Shaurash-Ho, although the name might go back to medieval France, and be a corruption of the Latin "Mortician" (to do with the dead). May be identical to Cynothoglys. He would seem to be the main subject of The Ghoul's Manuscript and Culte des Goules. Described variously as swirling darkness, a gigantic shadow, a worm shaped column. Instinct: Render to Dust

• Consumes Corpses
• Cthulhu Mythos Great Old One
• Patron of the city-state of Zul-Bha-Sair