Minions of Cthulhu: Thal’Zarok, The Tidebound Tyrant

“From the abyssal depths rose a terror unlike any other…”

Beneath the blackened waves, where the light of the sun is devoured and the weight of the abyss crushes all, a kingdom once stood. Its name has long been lost, drowned in time and swallowed by the tides—but its ruler remains.

Thal’Zarok was once a king, sovereign of an island nation that bent the ocean to its will. A conqueror, a warlord, a man whose ambition knew no shore. He ruled with an iron hand—until the sea took it from him.

The Fall into the Deep:

Obsessed with dominion, Thal’Zarok sought power beyond mortality. He turned to the whispers carried by the tides, the drowned scriptures of forgotten beings, and the echoes of something that slumbered far beneath. He prayed to the abyss, and the abyss answered.

The sea cracked open beneath him, pulling him into a darkness older than time. There, in the crushing silence of the deep, he was remade. His body twisted, reshaped by the will of the Dreamer beneath the waves. Where once flesh and bone had ruled, now only writhing tendrils remained. His right arm—his sword hand, his king’s hand—was gone, replaced by the shifting mass of abyssal appendages, their movements no longer his alone to command. The whispers had become voices. The voices had become hunger.

Thal’Zarok did not return as a man. He rose as something more… and something far less.

The Abyssal Fang

Clutched within his writhing grasp, entwined in the mass of his own cursed flesh, was the Abyssal Fang—a spear unlike….