Aboleth and Elder Gods (or Great Old Ones)

[JadedDemiGod]

Hey what elder gods or old ones would Aboleth worship or try to summon? Curious question.

[Jeff Erwin]

Aboleth are atheists, actually (in Golarion, not sure about other settings); they don't worship gods, though they recognise they exist.

[Trinite]

They wouldn't worship them, but they very well might try to use them for their own purposes. I would say that they might have a particular interest in Cthulhu.

[William Ronald]

Trinite wrote:

They wouldn't worship them, but they very well might try to use them for their own purposes. I would say that they might have a particular interest in Cthulhu.

As the aboleth wrecked their own civilization when they took out Azlant, I suspect that they are hesitant to try anything new involving summoning things from the depths of space.

[Brandon Hodge]

Or Earth, which in canon is exactly where Cthulhu is slumbering.

[Distant Scholar]

Jeff Erwin wrote:

Aboleth are atheists, actually (in Golarion, not sure about other settings); they don't worship gods, though they recognise they exist.

Would that make them atheists, or antitheists?

[Kthulhu]

Brandon Hodge wrote:

Or Earth, which in canon is exactly where Cthulhu is slumbering.

Which, for them, is in the depths of space.

[Brandon Hodge]

Ha! Indeed. :-)

[EntrerisShadow]

Not sure if it was Pathfinder or 3.5, but as I recall in one of the monster sourcebooks aboleths are said to 'worship', if it could be called that, the eldest of their kind, which is supposed to be a city-sized monstrosity that essentially provides their hivemind and racial memory.

[James Jacobs]

That'd be Lords of Madness... a book I helped write. And as it turns out, one of the sections I wrote was the one on Aboleths.

They don't really worship the Great Old Ones and Elder Gods... but they do respect them and incorporate their influences into their architecture—at least, in the D&D version.

In Pathfinder, those entities are the "deities" that the aboleths are the least antagonistic and ambivalent toward, and while they likely wouldn't try summoning them, they would try using them now and then. Aboleths are pretty arrogant, and they're really no good at all on having faith in anything.

[Son of the Veterinarian]

James Jacobs wrote:

That'd be Lords of Madness... a book I helped write. And as it turns out, one of the sections I wrote was the one on Aboleths.

Was that the book that stated that Aboleths have a racial memory that stretches back to the beginning of the universe, and they don't remember any gods being involved at all?