Before the Gods of Man came forth to dwell in Kadath the Greater Demons crawled from the abyss to claim the chaos realms. But they were not the first to dwell in these places, for in the fourth realm they discovered a great stone seal covering a chasm. Gathering their strength they shattered the stone and K'Hurru'ss emerged. The demons claimed him as one of their own, but it is theorised by the Prophets of Pnom that K'Hurru'ss is one of the Great Old Ones, though the aeons long imprisonment robbed him of much his memory and intellect.

When the Gods of Kadath were young and uncertain the Greater Demons unleashed K'Hurru'ss and a great host of demonspawn. War raged across Kadath, the young gods led by Great Nodens slew endless hordes of demonspawn until they came to face K'Hurru'ss. The lesser gods were swept aside and only Nodens could stand before that monster from primal times.

Their battle raged for days and finally K'Hurru'ss struck down Nodens and ripped the god's heart from his breast. Great Noden's body fell lifeless but his heart continued to beat in the jaws of the monster. Finding wonder in this, K'Hurru'ss left the battle and returned to the chasm he had sprang from.

The Gods of Kadath despaired, they were no match for the monster and feared what the beast would become if it devoured the heart of the mightiest of gods. Only one goddess, Io-Ilaysha, dared go into the pit where K'Hurru'ss made his home. She was not a goddess of war or the hunt, but favored a small group of mortals who lived on a tiny island of great beauty.

Io-Ilaysha went into the pit and offered herself to the monster in exchange for the heart of Nodens. The beast K'Hurru'ss accepted the bargain, casting aside the heart of Nodens and dragging his new bride to the very depths of his chasm. The Gods of Kadath fled with the heart, back to the battlefield where Nodens body lay rent asunder. The heart was restored and Nodens lived again, but changed with the knowledge that the gods of men were but small things in the hands of those from the outside.

The Greater Demons restored the seal guarding K'Hurru'ss pit, but their knowledge and power is less than those who first built it. The Prophets of Pnom have spoken that the seal will be broken again when the stars come right, then shall K'Hurru'ss and all the numberless spawn he begat on Io-Ilaysha be released on both Kadath and the worlds of men.
(From the "Demonography of Ysra" as translated from the Hyperborean Aklo by Ludvig Prynn)

You are bidding on a piece of rpg prop art by Zarono, the "Io-Ilaysha, the Forgotten Goddess". This prop consists of a scroll potraying Io-ILayhsa. The scroll is a print on heavy paper, stained, weathered and varnished to give an ancient appearance. The scroll measures 12x18 inches. Staining and weathering patterns will vary slightly.
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