
#082 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 a Great Old One, a godlike being from the pantheon. He is often found asleep, and incredibly lazy and refuses to leave his chambers unless mortally threatened. The first description of Tsathoggua in the Mythos writings occurs when 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" | Book II - Great Old One