In D&D, there are gods of snakes and spiders. In mythologies such as that of the Egyptians, animals were deified. What about octopuses? Should there be a god of octopuses, and if so, who?
>>44214807
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
>>44214807
There's the drowned god from GoT, though I think that was a squid.
Ilsensine.
It has to be the god of time/predictions.
>>44214807
The native Hawaiians depicted the god Kanaloa as an octopus. He was the god of the sea, hidden wisdom, and magic. There's also the Akkorokamui of Ainu mythology, a spirit associated with healing and medicine due to the octopus's ability to sever and regrow its limbs. Akkorokamui wound up being incorporated into Shinto, also, as a minor kami.
The Party God
>>44214807
I can't seem to find the adventure to source it to, but I'm almost certain that the goddess of Octopuses, in D&D, is Blibdoolpoolp.
>>44215397
that looks more like a mantis shrimp headed woman than an octopus
>>44215310
... Source material? Is that a drawing alongside some game or... what?
>>44215480
It's mentioned in one of the Kuo-Toa adventures that she also has dominion over octopuses. I just can't figure out which damn one it's in.
>>44215494
But here's a better picture of her.
>>44214839
Came here to post this.
The only right answer.
>>44215493
It's a piece of fanart for the HTML game "Nested", alongside a screencap from the game.
>>44214807
No God but Cthulhu and Paul the Octopus is his prophet!
>>44214807
>Should there be a god of octopuses, and if so, who?
If you want one just make one.
>>44214807
OCTOPI, you communist, not "octopuses"
>>44215666
Octopuses is correct.
I know it doesn't sound right, but it is.
>>44215666
Incorrect. It's a Greek word--not Latin. Technically it's octopodes, but octopuses is the standard via usage. Octopuses is most-right, octopodes is not wrong, and octopi is completely, 100% incorrect and without any merit or basis.
>>44215604
>Nested
>hammerhead shark
>thoughts
>HAVE YOU SEEN FOOD
>EXCUSE ME ARE YOU FOOD
This thing is fantastic, orteil you glorious bastard.
>>44215666
SATAN GOT SCHOOLED
>>44215666
Nope, learn your Greek plurals you illiterate Romaboo. Octopodes, Platypodes, Cyclopes, Rhinocerotes, Stigmata.
>Flamingo
>"Riveting"
>"I am the birdest"
wew lad
>>44215733
I prefer octopi on the account that A) it sounds natural and is easier to say than octopuses, and B) there are other words in English ending in -us that give precedence for this sort of thing (what do I care if *those* words were taken from Latin?). Also, fucking nobody says octopodes, cyclopes, or shit like that, because we aren't speaking Greek. Shit, just look at the words we use for other people's countries: Germany, Japan, and so forth. We don't go around correcting people when they use those.
>>44214807
>>44220243
Octo might be comfy but the scallop sure as hell isn't.
>>44219471
>We don't go around correcting people when they use those.
and yet you correct people for using "octopuses", which follows standard English convention.
>>44220460
That wasn't me.
>>44214807
Na Kika
The Octopus God of Micronesian mythology (specifically the Gilbert Islands) was the son of the primeval creator gods Na Atibu and Nei Teukez - and his many arms proved indispensable in pulling together all the billions of tons of sand and rock to build the archipelagos of the South Pacific.
Is /tg/ finally going to make a race of octopus-people?
>>44219471
You'd be wrong.
The only time octopi is allowable, and even then just barely, is when it's used as part of a rhyme.
>>44220579
there is already the cecaelia and cilophyte
Want to know what it takes for a word to join the English language?
People need to understand it and start using it themselves.
Octopi is a word in the English language.
>>44220634
don't forget
>>44214807
An octopus is basically just eight snakes glued to a brain. Make them shared by your gods of snakes and magic.
>>44220689
This. English has no central authority, so any word can migrate into English; sometimes the words change to match the English language. Tornado, for example, is an English word that's actually a portmanteau of two Spanish words, Tornar, meaning "to turn" and "Tronada" meaning "Thunderstorm"
Couldn't the Mighty Inkvader of Humanity double-dip for Squids and Octopuses, de geso?
I don't think Kozue plans to go back to the sea any time soon, de geso. She's such a squidding washout.
>>44220689
so is this
>>44220273
It was empty when he got there, I'm sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDab2mX5mXA
>>44214839
ia ia! The old ones with rise again!
>>44214807
Octopus are said to be the evolved heads of decapitated mind-flayers, With Kraken being the rarely decapitated heads of Mind-flayer hive minds. The decaptiation process is the only way to positively make certain the mind flayer won't regenerate. The process permanently damages the flayer's brain stem beyond repair, lobotomizing the flayer's detached head.
At least that's what the Dwarves believe.
It is said that the great Crusaders of the 3rd era are responsible for decapitating an entire colony of Mindflayers, and dropping the heads into the ocean. The lobotomized but still regenerating heads managed to survive long enough in the sea to evolve into an entirely new species.
Essentially, it is rumored that the Octopus are descendants of the Mindflayers, who themselves are the diluted drops of Cthulhu's spittle.
>>44220579
If someone people are willing to collaborate so we can also stat them up for Fantasy Craft, I am.
>>44220784
Hieroglyphics are a thing, man. Hieroglyphics working their way into the English language is a natural consequence of new technology, just like the invention of the word "Goodbye" is a natural consequence of printing presses wanting to abbreviate "God Be With You" into a lot less letters.
>>44220634
I made Cecaelia in my campaign setting the descendants of cultists that made pacts with the things that lived in the deepest depths of the ocean. The weird powers their ancestors wielded made them into what they are today. My campaign is in pathfinder, and I added some other stuff to them like some racial options for them to gain "compression" which basically means hey only have a skull and spinal column for bones, the rest is flexible cartilage that they can compress. Or Bio-luminescence and color changing skin.
>>44221206
mines are similar, though i never thought about the bio-luminiscence for abysal cecaelias or being poisonous like that blue ring octopus, but they do can change colors and they tend to be very
>>44214807
Her name is Ursula. She also has domain over eels.
>>44221042
>Hieroglyphics are a thing, man
Hieroglyphics existed when paper was labor-intensive to make, it was painstaking to write, and a tiny fraction of the population could read
>>44220811
Oh, it's the Coconut Octopus, I thought it was eating the scallop in the picture.
>>44221042
Half right, Goodbye is a contraction of 'God be with ye' but it came well before the printing press.
It was just the English being lazy.
>>44222185
Pictograms were the earliest form of writing and somewhat the simplest as each picture represents an entire word, concept or idea.
This was completely independent of how secret the knowledge is or how readily available the tools to write with are.
More structured written languages came about as an evolution of this in order to present ideas and concepts that were difficult to convey with pictograms or which didn't have the right symbols present.
Chinese is an interesting language in this regard as each character is a pictogram but as their language evolved they created new characters from scratch or merged multiple characters together to convey a greater volume of language.
Their writing medium for the longest time was flat splints of bamboo and the creation of paper didn't signal any great change in their language despite the much reduced costs and greater accessibility to the people.
>>44215666
Its an animal, not a pastry
>>44222092
Also the young hearts of wayward mermaids.
>>44223118
What pastry is called Octopi?
Are you, by chance, thinking of Octopus Pie?
Hmm, that sounds delicious. I'll have to have a go at making one.
>>44223136
The octopie.
Not sure if itll be savoury or more like a salty'ish fish pie.
OOOOooooOoooOOOooOopOllool
Does /tg/ like octopusboys?
>Octopus people
>Mermaids with octopus parts on the bottom
>Not just a literal octopus
I want somebody to post that picture of that octopus strangling that one guy and holding a gun towards another in a sci-fi picture; Is it from eclipse phase or traveler? Because that's what I imagine octopus people to be like. It's really cool.
>>44215733
If I recall correctly, it's pronounced odd too, checking that this is right: Oc-top-o-dee?
if not right, let me know
>>44223844
No?
In Hawaiian mythology, the universe is like a cycle in that it crashes like a ship, and then from the wreck of that universe a new universe emerges. Our current universe is no exception, just an emergent universe from the "shipwreck" of the previous universe.
They make a distinct point though, that the octopus is a being from the previous universe that survived the transition into this one from the crash of the previous universe. If I'm not mistaken, it is actually the *only* holdover being from the previous universe that managed to make the transition.
>>44220689
It's octopodes you dunderhead.
>>44215733
Should that be pronounced 'octopoads' or 'octopodees'? Forgive my barbarian ignorance, I've never been sure.
>>44224128
[citation needed]
>>44224314
>>44224016
as far as I know, the second one, haven't been corrected yet and if it's not corrected in over an hour online, it must be true!
I love octopodes, they're my favorite animal. I'd actually include them in my game, but every time I include something tentacled, my players start whining about magical realms. I actually find tentacle porn very distasteful, but they don't believe me.
>>44215733
>>44224016
>>44224314
bearing in mind how the 'pod' suffix is commonly used in English I don't see any reason why the plural of octopus shouldn't be 'octopods' (see: arthropods, gastropods, etc). In fact, given that the octopus belongs to the class of animals known as 'cephalopods' it's a wonder we're even still debating this.
The original Greek would be pronounced 'octo-pod-es', not 'octo-poads' or 'octo-pod-ees'. But that doesn't really sound right in English, which is why we usually use '-pods'. Personally I consider 'octopuses' to be perfectly fine as well. As for 'octopi', well, you can say it if you want but its kind of weird given that it's not a Latin-derived word.
>>44223844
>Does /tg/ like octopusboys?
/tg/ likes anything even remotely fuckable.
>>44223844
Octoboipussy?
>>44223844
>>44224028
we prefer octopus girls
>>44225432
>>44223844
I prefer regular octopus. Octopus is not for sexual!!
>>44225557
>Octopus is not for sexual!!
I have a gif of a Japanese women, which I unfortunately cannot post on this board, that contradicts this assertion.
>>44224167
Read my post.
Many people believe it's octopi.
Most people understand that when you say octopi you are talking about octopus in plural.
Ergo, it's Octopi.
It literally does not matter if that is incorrect by it's original etymological roots and rules, octopi is now a word in the English language as the plural of octopus, to join the other plurals.
Congrats, you now have a greater understanding on the adaptability and mutability of the English language.
>>44225645
It'll still sound dumb to any educated individual.
>>44225557
Octopus is for eating
>>44225672
It will not make that "educated individual" right though, you dip.
>>44225645
except that most people will say octopuses. And when I write 'octopi' it gets underlined in red. So whether you say you're going with what is commonly used or with what is linguistically correct, you're wrong.
let's face it, 'octopi' is a word for pedants like >>44215666 who aren't nearly as smart as they think they are.
So many people who don't know the word octopus was made up by an Englishman and therefore uses the English plural octopuses. Just like statuses, hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses. Get back to ESL you damn fuzzywuzzies.
>>44225432
Of course: someone starts an octopus-themed thread, so someone has an octopus-themed erotic story lying around. And it gets posted in the middle of an argument about the etymology of the word octopus.
I don't even know why I'm surprised. It's like the essence of /tg/ encapsulated in one thread.
>>44225422
Is the plural octoboypussies or octoboypussi?
>>44226820
Is there an issue with that?
>>44221735
Coconut octops are bio-luminescent, so it's not really Abyssal ones.
I made them more like "tielfings," of merfolk, there's still cults of them deep in the sea doing their crazy thing, but most of them live along side merfolk. As there is a small chance that any merfolk child could be a cecaelia, a long time ago the merfolk's patron god forgave the cecaelia for what they did to themselves and welcomed them back into his society, so they aren't really looked at with disdain, but with a bit of a pity, and their story is told by parents to their children as a cautionary tale.
In a thread some time back some anons said dogs and cats might love you but a pet reptile never will, so can a pet octopus love me?
>>44227388
Octopodes are very smart, so they might.Then again, cats and dogs have evolved alongside us.
>>44227388
Cats don't love.
>>44227388
>dogs and cats might love you but a pet reptile never will
That is horseshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwEbPZvhE_o
>>44227388
Probably not. An octopus may be as smart as a dog, but they're not social creatures at all (octopuses are solitary, and the only time you're likely to get two willingly come into contact with each other is when they mate, which they only do once before dying), so I doubt it would have capability to feel an emotion similar to love.
They can recognise people who are feeding them, though, and are capable of doing thigs for fun.
>>44215567
>has science gone too far?
>>44215666
It's Octoplural, you uneducated Mongols.
>>44227422
>Cats don't love
Yes they do.
Themselves, mostly, but still..
>>44225432
Damn it boner...
>>44225696
10/10 would eat hot octopus balls again.
Seriously, though, I've got a takoyaki grill and they taste awesome. I'm just shit at making them.
>>44214839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUm9gdSb6DI
>>44214839
>>44215584
>>44220855
>>44232188
Pretty sure he's just a priest in canon. Sure, the hot topic/wikipedia crowd likes taking the gist of things and running wild, but I don't think he's a god so much as maybe the pope.
>>44220706
I would eat there every damn day.
>>44223844
I feel like octopusboys should have octopus for heads while girls have the actual octo legs.
>>44234264
So octo boys would be like Mon Calamari?
>>44232794
Six of one, half a dozen of the other: religions historically deify the messengers.
Look at Jesus, Muhammad, Buddah, etc. Guy with a message wants people to worship god or find peace... gets worshiped as a god and heralded as the bringer of peace.
>>44215733
It's actually "octopodes" which is most correct.
Due to English usage, octopuses is acceptable, but as you say -- yes, "octopi" is absolutely woefully incorrect
>>44227254
What kind of adventures can be had at the bottom of the sea?
>>44238509
Atlantis, Sunken ships, sea caves?Cthulhu
>>44238509
not much normally as it's mostly like a desert down there. But doing stuff like exploring shipwrecks, and the rare abyssal cities. Monsters like aboleths and somehow the underdark connects to some sea caves, though I am not sure how it doesn't just flood the underdark with water, there would have to be some sort of natural barrier that keeps it pressurized to keep the water out, somehow.
>>44232794
He's both. He's a god to us, and worshipped as such; but he himself worships gods of his own.
>>44223973
>Octopus people
>Mermaids with octopus parts on the bottom
>Not just a literal octopus
Dungeon Crawl did it right.
>>44215021
Kraken.
>>44215021
The Drowned God is still a man/humanoid, it's just the Greyjoys that uses the kraken symbol.
>>44223844
only if they're girlish and fuckable
Is there any art of a Blue-Ringed Octopus person?
>>44225758
Octopi is incorrect, but used by the majority of people so it becomes acceptable, because that's how language works
Octopuses is a perfectly acceptable english word, although not used by too many people because of the widespread use of octopi
Octopodes would be the technically correct plural, but it sounds ridiculous, so why would you ever use it.
Long story short language is what the majority of people who speak it decides is right, say whatever plural you want.
>>44244544
>although not used by too many people because of the widespread use of octopi
I don't know who you hang around with but I'm pretty sure the majority of people say 'octopuses'. Still, now that I've read >>44225158,
'octopods' all the way for me. It just makes sense.
>>44214807
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>>44245223
>fukkin papparazzi fucker gimme dat camera motherfucker snapping pictures of me motherfucker fucking fucker yeah you know to run motherfuck
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>>44245164
I love how they advertise they are about to ruin your day
>>44245282
Note how, after the cuttlefish has grabbed it's prey the rear of it lights up like "YESSS!"
>>44232794
He is a priest of his great grand father Azahoth, but is an Old One himself and hated by the rest of the pantheon because being a priest of Azahoth is basically nihilism.
If Yog-Sothoth is the dream, Azahoth is the dreamer. Do not wake the fucking dreamer! Even the elder gods know this is the end of them, so Cthulhu is actually a herald and must be imprisoned. Unless some pupae piss shit retarded finites (aka Humans) fuck up and do something stupid he should stay that way.
>>44246742
I thought he was just (high(priest of the elder gods generally. Where does it say that he's priest of Azathoth specifically?
>>44246742
Get outta here Derleth, you ruined the mythos
>>44220193
>posting in an octopus god thread
>post pic of generic dad #3087
Why? Should I post a picture of my father as well?
>>44227426
They want to eat his eyes.
>>44246742
Fuck off Derleth you tainted your friend's work with christian morals and a bland good vs evil banality that goes against the original message.
