Editing Old Ones (section)

== Call of Cthulhu ==
There were many "Old Ones" in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], and thus the [[Call of Cthulhu]] RPG. It's most commonly used to refer to one of the following two:

The Great Old Ones were alien beings of colossal size, and not exactly normal physics.  All the Great Old Ones have been slain or imprisoned by Elder Gods, some entombed in planets like Earth.  Some theorize that the Great Old Ones are imprisoned for the crime of practicing blasphemous black magic, and the Great Old Ones are just waiting to break out and avenge themselves.  Others theorize the Great Old Ones submitted willingly to imprisonment, as a way to sleep away the aeons "until the stars are right" and they can resume their awful practices.

[[image:Gibbering_mouther.jpg|thumb|right|A shoggoth, D&D 3e style]]
The race of Old Ones (or Elder Things) were extraterrestrials that traveled between the stars, and set up a colony on primordial Earth.  They built a city on the southern polar continent and experimented with the local biology to create a servant caste.  Their discards were tossed to the other continents (<strike>the Cambrian Explosion?</strike> <strike>The Cambrian Explosion pre-dated life on land.</strike>The Elder Things, when they spanned the globe, set up cities both underwater and on land, so, entirely possible.) and settled on their ideal lowest-class citizens: the [[Shoggoth]]s, amorphous blobs of eyes and toothy mouths. The Shoggoths formed a rebellion and overthrew their masters, [[Grimdark|killing almost every single one because the Elder Things held them in thrall with hypnosis for over 2 billion years]].