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Hi!
I'm running the Strange Aeons AP (we are enjoying In Search of Sanity a lot!) and one of my players, a pharasmin inquisitor, just came out with a background that would perfectly fit with Nhimbaloth's cult and (maybe for an epic end/dead of a 20th lv party) a touch from the Goddess of Despair herself.
Is there any hope to see Nhimbaloth's stats published in one of the next Paizo's products?
If not, can you give us some tips to imagine the cult or the effect that a contact with this cruel goddess could have on a human mind?Nhimbaloth is an outer god, and as such she does not have stats. She's also an entirely new entity created by me (yet another export from my homebrew) who only just got introduced into Pathfinder in the Elder Mythos article.
Nhimbaloth is VERY heavily inspired by one of my all-time favorite short stories, "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood (said story also happens to have been one of Lovecraft's favorite stories as well). So reading "The Willows" is a great way to get into the mindset.
And while we won't be creating stats for Nhimbaloth, there IS a monster coming up in Bestiary 6, the whisperer, which is also very much inspired by "The Willows" and which can pretty easily stand in for an agent of Nhimbaloth.
That said, in a case like yours, I would NOT work with the player in question to integrate Nhimbaloth elements into the game, but instead creep them in all sneaky like and let the player make their own disturbing interpretations about certain similarities...
Thank you so much!
The player in question doesn't know about Nhimbaloth existance and even if he read Lovecraft, She is your creation, so I really hope to let her creep in just the way you suggested.I'll definitely read "The Willows", waiting for Bestiary 6.
Thanks again for the quick response!