Talk:Atlach-Nacha/@comment-27045866-20160826231732

Like everyone else I don't know anything about the translation so this is just a guess. The Mind Flayer's mind fuck powers make sense considering what she is based on. In DnD Mind Flayers are powerful psychic monsters also somewhat based on cthulhu which was psychic also. The Wendigo was most likely based on the great old one Ithaqua which was a big abominal snowman like creature that wandered around the snowy wastes of the north. Shoggoth's were the slime like servators of the elder things so it makes sense they became maids. If he continues to use mythos stuff as his main inspiration, I imagine that besides the whole thing about turning her husband into a giant spider (like how Wendigos and Mindflayers also transform their husbands) her focus will most likely be on her webs and possibly bondage. They will probably live underground in caves. The great old one Atlach-Nacha, created by August Derleth, was pretty minor. All it really was was a giant spider with a human face that was constantly spinning it's webs trying to cross a giant chasm.