Temple of the Amoeboid Gods

[eaterofkittens]

I love the idea of gods who are primitive or primal in design, perhaps reflective of invertebrate worshipers.
Compare collective biomass of krill to humans, ants, spiders, slugs... Suppose beetles all worship the same god, roaches another.
And things older than paramecium and algae, fungus, moss, and what about cloud nebulae or energy pockets? If awareness however alien can be summoned in any degree and there is a lot of whatever is producing it, it may have a supernatural patron smiling or scowling on it.

In fact, given how few humans there are compared to say Flies, why would even a godlike human stand a chance against the Gnat God?

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[monk]

I like the kind of weird you're dealing out.

[eaterofkittens]

Alien gods may even draw their strength from subtle influences even vaguer than devotion or belief. Maybe alien mold exists in a different vibrational level and generates a sort of corollary to consciousness. Human and things like them cannot hope to even gather their attention except as annoyances to be obliterated.

Unless we can disguise ourselves as slimes and molds, learn to speak the harmonies of protoplasm. Perhaps they would love some human attention and have been storing up their favors because amoebas only ever think about eating.

[eaterofkittens]

In many mythologies, the gods were preceded by things more powerful and alien. The primordials, like the elemental chaos of D&D.
The Titans were not like humans. Cronus decided to eat gods as they were an excellent source of energy, that they were his spawn did not factor.
Gods fought them and in human stories, they win. Sent off to a nether world. Sure.

Or they got what they wanted and left. I prefer gods with no faces. Things of fire, embodiments of the Sky and the deeps, the bringers of weather. Things we gave a face because we wanted to talk to it.

Does anybody use some interesting gods? I'm fond of Juiblex, the Slime lord. In the game Star Control II, a race of fungal aliens called the Mycon spoke of Juffa-Wup. Juffa-Wup is the hot light in the darkness. All that is is either Juffa-wup or non. Soon, the non will be made void.

I want gods of worms and wasps. Diggers and egg layers.

 

[eaterofkittens]

In the new 5th edition warlock, you're basically a cleric who talks to things stranger than gods and receive a set of spells less straightforward than healing and smiting.
While barring artillery type magic, I could see fungal infection, summoning lesser creatures, dream magic...
After all these creatures are well suited to Faustian Contracts. Give me long life and rather attractive mutations and I will destroy your and my enemies. Especially attractive to self aware puddles of snot and firetruck sized anemone beasts who want agents. Like corporate sponsorship.

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