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Rangers: United States Remnant Special Forces trained in Wasteland survival as well as the destruction of alien entities. They have both an impressive kill ratio as well as high casualty rate.
Reanimated: Human corpses reanimated by either alchemy, magic, or science. Also known as West Boys due to the misuse of Herbert West's failed reanimation formula by the United States Remnant.
Re’Kithnid: The name of a book written by the mad nun Brianna Lethder in the 14th century, combining Egyptian mythology she could not possibly have known about with stories of the Elder Gods and Medieval Christianity. It demonizes Cthulhu, Hastur, and Shub-Nigurrath as demons while stating they are all elementally related. The book was banned by the Catholic church but spread via copies created by monks.
The Republic of Carter: The proper name for the country that the City technically consists of. Most residents find its official name redundant.
The Rising: An event that happened a century ago when the Great Old Ones rose. Reality was shattered, the laws of physics changed, and untold numbers of monsters unleashed upon the world. Even time no longer functions the same way. Some humans believe it was the apocalypse and all survivors are in Hell.
R'lyeh: A sunken pre-human city that was inhabited by Cthulhu and his ilk. Later worshiped as a holy place by the Deep Ones. It has since risen and flooded much of the Earth's coasts. It is now in the Dreamlands as it has survived the universe's destruction.
Serpent Men: A race of reptile-skinned humans who worship the god Set-Yig. Unlike Deep Ones or ghouls, they live among regular humans exclusively in disguise. There is a substantial population in the City.
Set-Yig: The god of the serpent men and a powerful god of ancient Stygia, worshiped by beings like Thoth-Amon.
Shoggoth: A protoplasmic shapeshifting blob species that is of incredible intelligence and power. They were created as slaves of the Elder Things and share a genetic basis with humanity that only fellow humanoids possess. Their abilities are very similar to Kastro’vaal in several aspects.
Shub-Niggurath: Great Old One. The Goat with a Thousand Young. A Harvest Goddess venerated by countless human civilizations under a variety of names. Many of its worshipers are ecstatic in nature and use her rights to engage in taboo sexual behavior.
Small Gods: The dream entities created from humanity's various religions. They are protected by Nyarlathotep and live in Kadath. They are known by the names of mortal gods and wield great power but cannot achieve as much as a true dreamer.
Sporemen: Humans infected by a horrific fungus that makes them part of a hive mind. They answer to the Great Old One Za’kul’dra-Zal, who is a servant of Hastur. Whole worlds have been destroyed by their kind throughout the universe.
Squad: A Ranger term used interchangeably with squadron due to New Arkham being a former Air Force base. It represents teams of 4, 6, and 8 to carry out missions despite traditional usage from previous times, representing the decay of the military.
Thule: A race of uplifted gorillas that were one of the early experiments of the Elder Things. The Thule possess psychic powers and vast knowledge of both sorcery as well as technology. Most of humanity is descended from them and they were rendered extinct by civil war as well as conflict with other species.
Tsathoggua: A furry toad Great Old One that lives underground. It is worshiped by the ghoul race as well the Faceless Ones.
Ulthar: One of the great Dreamlands nations, it is a city that has prospered and grown since Randolph Carter’s time but remains largely timeless. It is ruled by cats, but they allow the humans who care for them to remain ignorant of this fact.
Ultima Thule: The last of the Thule’s cities and their capital during the height of their empire. It was located in a pocket dimension within Africa that was destroyed by archaeologist Andrew Doran in order to stop an occult Nazi plot.
The Unimaginable Horror: A Great Old One that is related to the Colors as Cthulhu is to the Cthulhuoids. During its early trek across the universe, it wiped out the original Kastro’vaal race by removing them from time. It is an energy being that merged with Earth's oceans before its imprisonment by the wizard Zhaal. It was bound for another billion years in events peripherally involving John and Mercury as well as the Great Old One Cthulhu that is its enemy. It is also the name of a book of occult ramblings by Miskatonic scholar Thomas C. Phillips.
United States Remnant: The grandiose name for the New Arkham city-state and its colonies.
The Wasteland: The name for the vast lifeless desert that most of the world has been reduced to under the influence of the Great Old Ones.
White Gorilla: The nickname of Franz Jermyn, a half-Thule, half-human sorcerer.
Yellow King Studios: The film studios of Gabriel Booth that is known for producing most films in the City.
Yellow Sign: The mystical symbol of Hastur known to cause madness or inspiration.
Yog-Sothoth: The Key and the Gate. Yog-Sothoth is an omnipresent being that exists in all points of space and time continuously. One of the Outer Gods, it has been summoned by many beings over the years and successfully doing so may have resulted in the current inside-out nature of reality. He destroyed the Old Universe.
Yith: See Great Race of Yith.
Zum-Trivalis: The Great Old One spoken of in the Prophecies of the Rat God and De Vermis Mysteriis. Zum-Trivalis is the Lord of Vermin and the titular Rat God. It is a psychic entity that manifests itself in hordes of insects and lesser animals. It is a greater servitor of Hastur and apparently the result of a planet sacrificing itself in a mass suicide to it. It is worshiped by the Faceless Ones and intelligent rats as well as some Mi-Go.
Zoog: A Dreamlands race that is the biological enemy of cats and was exterminated in the City by a conspiracy between the city's felines working with the Knights of Arkham. They appear as humanoid lemur, bat, and other things. It is difficult to say if they are naturally creatures of the Dreamlands or an alien race that immigrated to it. They prefer preying on young cats as well as infants or small humans.
C. T. Phipps, The Tree of Azathoth
