Elder Thing

So I was frustrated with the available Lovecraftian Elder Things (ones) designs available and made my own. I am a huge Lovecraft fan and I went over the Elder Thing description in The Mountains Of Madness carefully. Elder things are laid out like plants, They have a 'top to bottom' symmetry of plants rather than the front and back layout/symmetry of animals. They had Five Eyes, mouths, head like a starfish, five wings equidistantly spaced around the body and retractable. This last is the point most people get wrong. I imagine that they fly by spinning, much as a helicopter of buzz bomb firework does. My model only lacks the tentacles they used as 'hands' and I did that to simplify the print. Besides at the size I was printing them it wouldn't show anyway.

I made this to use as a monster in Pathfinder. There is a creature in Bestiary 4 'Elder One' but like most people, the Pathfinder people got it very wrong. Elder Ones (a.k.a. Eldar things) are described as a race with extraordinari