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Eldritch abominations, also referred to as “eldritch beings”, (PROSE: Pessimist and the Dromedaries, A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol) “Eldritch Beings,” (PROSE: The Ghosts and the Machine) “eldritch gods”, (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) “eldritch cosmic-monstrosity gods”, (PROSE: Who Laws the Lawyers?) “eldritch demons”, (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) “eldritch monsters” (PROSE: The Winter Quests) eldritch horrors, (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas) Lovecraftian demons, (PROSE: Magic Trick) “Lovecraftian nightmare gods”, (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: Remnants and Reminders) or simply Abominations, (PROSE: Magic Trick) were a broad category referring to vast, powerful beings whose nature and abilities seemed outside of their observers' understanding of reality. In some cases, “eldritch abominations” were termed such by observers who came from very different universes from themselves, while being relatively normal by the standard of their own realities.
History
In the Void Between Worlds
The Embodiments
Lord Thymon, one of the Embodiments, was sometimes referred to as an “eldritch abomination”, (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery, The Grand Multiverse Hotel) albeit an “odd” one. (PROSE: Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market) On other occasions he was variously described as an “eldritch being” (PROSE: Pessimist and the Dromedaries, Multiversal Mischief) or an “eldritch monster”. (PROSE: The Winter Quests) One version of Jenny Everywhere described the Embodiments as “the eldritch gods of the Void”. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)
Others
Many “eldritch abominations” were banished into the Void Between Worlds over the millennia. (PROSE: The Interdimensional Tavern, The Grand Multiverse Hotel) The Interdimensional Tavern was often attacked by some entities, but they could usually be placated using free drinks. (PROSE: The Interdimensional Tavern)
One eldritch abomination, whose physical form possessed a great number of teeth, nearly swallowed Tracker-764's Void Ship and its bite damaged it, causing it to crash-land in the Interdimensional Black Market. (PROSE: Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)
Alistair Neezley had to navigate around an “eldritch monster” when returning to the Tavern from the Interdimensional Soda Jerkery with CS-NA aboard his Void Ship. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
Instances and incursions
Attacking the Strange and Wonderful House
“Lovecraftian nightmare gods” were among the forces from other realities connected to the Strange and Wonderful House who threatened to overwhelm it, alongside more mundane threats like zombies and “steampunk pirates”, against which the Observatory sought to defend the House and its inhabitants. Over the years, these various dangers decimated the residents of the House, until one of its original creators believed he was the last. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: Remnants and Reminders)
Junter and Iblis's universe
In one universe, after Junter accidentally turned the toilet bowl of his and Ibdis's bathroom into an interdimensional portal, (COMIC: Eldritch A-bowl-mination) an eldritch being referred to as “the unspeakable horror” came through and took over the bathroom, locking it from the inside. After hearing it laughing, (COMIC: Evil Bathroom) Junter and Ibdis entered and got a direct look at the entity, appearing as a mess of tentacles, pincers, and eyes on stalks. It attacked one of the Junterlings. (COMIC: Eldritch A-bowl-mination) At first, Junter tried to deal with the unspeakable horror by decorating it so as to try and make it into an inconspicuous element of the bathroom decor, but Ibdis was unimpressed, demanding a more permanent solution. (COMIC: Cthulhu Toilet) In response, Junter tried to dissolve the creature by pouring acidic chemicals into the toilet bowl, but they instead altered the horror's biology, causing it to abruptly gain human-like intelligence and the power of speech. (COMIC: Junter's Guide to Plumbing) Junter attempted to defeat it, but was unsuccessful, although Junter's efforts did cause the creature to spit out a letter of invitation to Kokotomo Island. In the end, Junter and Ibdis conned Mr Norman into buying the apartment from them, without having gotten rid of the horror. (COMIC: A Letter From Beyond)
Euclidean Plane
From the perspective of the Geometrons, three-dimensional, non-geometrically-regular beings like the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids appeared as “dreadful extradimensional eldritch abominations”. (PROSE: Multiversal Mischief)
925th Universe
“Eldritch horrors beyond man's comprehension” existed in the 925th Universe. They included Nyarlathotep, Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth, but Lady Satan also identified the Great Higher-Ups to whom the Man in Grey of this universe reported as examples of the same class of beings. (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas)
Other
The Drink-Mixer of the Interdimensional Tavern, who constantly changed appearance and identity on a whim in such a way that everyone around them believed they had always been what they currently were, was once described as “eldritch”. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
Bunny Everyhare told the Jenny Over-There of the 925th Universe that an entity like Nyarlathotep was “just your regulation eldritch cosmic-monstrosity god” as distinct from a Null-entity, although she did note that some Null-entities could be “eldritch-as-in-Nyarlathotep”. The version of Nyarlathotep to whom Jenny had previously spoken on the phone later identified themself and Yog-Sothoth as Outer Gods. (PROSE: Who Laws the Lawyers?)