The Age of the Cephalopods

A new creature came to the oceans of the world, the cephalopods. They would conquer the world once belonging to the trilobites.

Their power grew. Cthulhu was born and became a god. R'lyeh was founded.

Cthulhu became the god of dreams opening the door to Shantasma, the purple moon, and then unlocking the dreamlands. Khwarenah is reconnected to the world through the world of dreams. The Feywyld is still within Khwarenah, and would remain hidden for many more millions of years.

The age of the cephalopods is one terrible wars and devious invention and adaption. Eventually the mind flyers would evolve forming their empires in the depths. But other less malign races evolved as well, obviously driven to war lest they become slaves to the mind flayers.

The mind flayers contacted terrible gods from beyond. Shub Niggurath, Yog Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, all were invoked leading to devastation.

The perversions of the Mind Flayers and their dealing with outer gods lead to the destruction of their world.  A mad squid priest of Nyarlathotep finally someone summoned Azathoth leading to global catastrophe.

What survived was far in the depths. They would never again rule the surface world.

Some Mind Flayer found the Unlit House of Nightmares. Nyaju found his first followers.

The octopus and squid gods still have their own secret pantheons. Hidden from the world in their secret cathedrals at the bottom of the deepest oceans. There they have been untouched for millennium. They do not seek out or have interest in other gods, they hide their existence from all.

They perform colour theorem rituals on their skin.

Fish also began to appear during this time.

Surraughuk, the fish god is the first of the animal spirits. It learned the art of colouring the skin from the Octopus gods.