Daoloth
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Daoloth (nickname: the Render of Veils or the Parter of Veils) is a fictional character, one of the Outer Gods from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos pantheon. His physical shape is a vast and complex structure of metals and other materials:
- "Not shapeless, but so complex that the eye could recognize no describable shape. There were hemispheres and shining metal, coupled by long plastic rods. The rods were of a flat gray color, so that he could not make out which were nearer; they merged into a flat mass from which protruded individual cylinders. As he looked at it, he had a curious feeling that eyes gleamed from between these rods; but wherever he glanced at the construction, he saw only the spaces between them." -- Ramsey Campbell, The Render of the Veils
Daoloth dwells in dimensions beyond the three we know, and his astrologer-priests are said to see the past and future and even how objects extend to and travel between different dimensions.
Not particularly evil, Daoloth still causes harm among humans. His undescrible shape causes men to go mad at the sight of him -thus he must be summoned in pitch black. If not held in some sort of magic containment he continues to expand and expand -perhaps for an infinite rate. If one should find his or herself enveloped by this god they are transported to utterly bizarre and remote worlds, where the said person usually meets their fate. Daoloth worship is rather rare on Earth.