Great Old One: Tsathoggua (or Zhothaqquah)

ABOUT THIS ILLUSTRATION: This ancient daemon was first envisioned by the American author Clark Ashton Smith, from whom his contemporary and pen pal author Herbert Phillips Lovecraft also partook of the mythos surrounding this rather ugly and sedentary horror. I render this sketch with office supplies and Prisma pencils on the job over a number of days in a prison tower. He's featured in my not yet completed and therefore unpublished novel, "Blue Mist."

FROM THE https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tsathoggua WIKI: Tsathoggua, also known as the Sleeper of N'kai, is an entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle.

Tsathoggua (or Zhothaqquah) is described as an Old One, a godlike being from the pantheon. He was invented in Smith's short story "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros," written in 1929 and published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales.[1] His first appearance in print, however, was in H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Whisperer in Darkness", written in 1930 and published in the August 1931 Weird Tales.

AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION: The first description of Tsathoggua in which the protagonists encounter one of the entity's idols:

“He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity, and his whole body was covered with an imitation of short fur, giving somehow a vague sensation of both the bat and the sloth. His sleepy lids were half-lowered over his globular eyes; the tip of a queer tongue issued from his fat mouth. „
~ Clark Ashton Smith , "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"