Chaugnar Faugn is revered by the degenerate people who inhabit the Plateau of Tsang in the central mountains of Tibet. This tribe is a branch of the detestable Tcho-Tchos, which descend directly from the black dwarves Miri Nigri, bred from amphibians in ancient times.
The region around Tsang is considered sacred by the Tcho-Tcho, and the most important place for worship is the great underground temple inside the caves below the plateau. It is there that the colossal statue of the God (secretly the own divinity in state of lethargy) is watched day and night.
The sacred guardians who protect the statue are not mere cultists but a race of abominable faceless creatures who vaguely resemble human beings. These yellow-skinned creatures are slaves compelled to an existence of eternal servitude by the evil magic of Chaugnar Faugn. Little is known about them, but it is assumed that one day these creatures has been people reverted to a subhuman state. They crawl on their hands and knees around the statue and participate in rituals that are too nauseating to be described. The Tcho-tchos themselves avoid them and only the priests anointed by Chaugnar Faugn know the guttural dialect that allows them to speak with the guardians.
The priests of Chaugnar Faugn are regarded as remarkable individuals, truly holy men. They are still children when chosen, through psychic surveys by God himself that causes them to experience visions of the long journey from the Pyrenees to Tibet and other remarkable moments of the congregation. Only those who please the God are chosen to take their place as sectarians, those who fail, become a sacrifice, or experience banishment.
Among primary duties, a priest must experience visions, interpret prophecies and conduct sacrificial rites that allow the statue to walk, albeit briefly.
One of the main prophecies for the cult involves the arrival of the White Acolyte. According to the Holy Prophecy, described by a visionary Tcho-Tcho named Mu-Sang, the Acolyte would be a white-skinned outsider, who would come from the West and reach the Plateau after going through trials, carrying on his body wounds from someone who suffered excruciating pain and redemptive madness.
After suffering indescribable tortures, this sacred man will be recognized by Prophecy in which he praises the power of Chaugnar Faugn and the High Priest of Tsang as his Prophet. Then the Acolyte must declare that the time of Chaugnar Faugn has finally come and that the world will be extinguished by his fury.
Cultists believe that the Acolyte will then be cured of all his wounds and should assume the responsibility of carrying Chaugnar Faugn and transport him back to the West, where he will conquer his place as ruler of the world.
The Prophecy says:
"All things that are in the world, all creatures and plants will be devoured in ecstasy by the Great Chaugnar Faugn, for he is the Lord of all that lives and dies."
For many centuries, the prophecy remained unfulfilled, until in the mid-1930s an American expedition struck the forbidden Plateau of Tsang. Professor Henry Staunton, the sole survivor of the expedition, captured by the Tcho-Tchos, was taken to the Underground Temple. While being tortured, Staunton had a vision and recited passages that were recognized as part of the Prophecy. Immediately, the priests ordered the stranger to be taken from the tree where he had been crucified and taken to his presence for questioning. Satisfied with what they heard, the wounds of the explorer were dealt with until he became strong enough to undergo a sacred ritual in which he would become the companion Chaugnar Faugn.
Becoming a companion to the ruthless Chaugnar Faugn is a great honor for the Tcho-Tcho people. The person in question is placed face to face with the living God who asks if he wants to quench his thirst for blood and serve Him forever. If the individual proves to be worthy, Chaugnar Faugn leans on him and drinks his blood using the disc at the end of his elephantine trunk. Then God sprinkles his own black blood on the chosen one so that he becomes a Servant of Courage.
A person marked in this way will always be in psychic contact with Chaugnar Faugn, who is able to see through his eyes and hear through his ears. It also gains mastery over spells and rituals, holds the deepest knowledge and its unfathomable mysteries. Slowly, the Companion goes through dramatic physical changes: his skin becomes rough and thick, his hair curly and discolored, and his face becomes a caricature reminiscent of Chaugnar Faugn himself with elephant ears and a trunk emerging from the fusion of his nose and upper lip. In due time, change - permanent as far as is known, causes such a hideous transformation that the mere glimpse of the Companion is enough to cause horror and repulsion.
A Completely Transformed Faug Chaugnar's Companion
Henry Staunton survived the Ritual and in the role of White Acolyte was ordered to take the statue back to the West. After a trip to China, he managed to rent a boat that took him from Xanghai back to New York, where the archaeologist was hailed as a true hero. He presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts his great discovery: a huge statue of an elephantine deity recovered in Tibet.
Although fulfilling the requirements as White Acolyte according to the Prophecy, Staunton turned against his master and for that, he was severely punished. Once in New York, Chaugnar Faugn tried to impose his will on the modern world, but the intervention of remarkable individuals, capable of recognizing his actions, prevented him from "Devour the World."
Combining arcane knowledge, powerful artifacts, and unorthodox methods, a group of brave investigators detained the God and apparently destroyed him in a dramatic confrontation in upstate New York.
The Mu-Sang Priest
But, in spite of the initial hopes, the threat of Chaugnar Faugn would return to haunt mankind and leave men in suspense.
The location of a second statue was revealed to a Tcho-Tcho priest in the early 1950s and he sent his followers to rescue her from the underground of a temple in Bangalore, India. Investigators of the Mythos tried to prevent the statue from reaching its destination on the Tsang Plateau, but they failed...
Once returned to his Place of Power, Mu-Sang conducted a ritual that integrated the essence of Chaugnar Faugn once more into his Stone Simulacrum. Thus the Great Old One regained its place in the center of the Temple, where it awaits a new (and final) White Acolyte.
It is uncertain whether there are other statues dedicated to Chaugnar Faugn that can be used to revive him in the remote hypothesis that his physical body will be destroyed again. But there are likely to be other statues yet to be discovered, which would make him virtually immortal.
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