"The Great Old Ones came from elsewhere and fought over the Earth billions of years before man, and now sleep in some infernal cycle of time. Life on Earth is the result of the biological runoff; a fungus born of alien shit, that has clung and crawled and evolved as these giants sleep. Their science is our magic, and remnants of their civilisation spring up to infect our world. Soon they will wake and destroy humanity… This will not be some war, just as man does not 'war' with an anthill, but a complete annihilation."
- Delta Green Handler's Guide
The 'unnatural' is simply that which exists that is beyond human understanding. Alien creatures from beyond the stars, god-like entities with the power to reshape reality at will, sentient colours and thought patterns, extra-dimensional invaders, all fit under the category of the 'unnatural'. The unnatural serves as the primary 'antagonist' of Delta Green, as the destruction of unnatural creatures and dismantlement of cults in worship to the unnatural are the bread and butter of most Delta Green operations.
The unnatural, by its very nature, is not well understood and parts of it are entirely unknowable to the human mind. Even Delta Green maintains no central repository of unnatural knowledge - for above all, the unnatural is dangerous. The unnatural, even just the knowledge of it, acts as a destructive force on the human mind, gradually whittling down even the most mentally stable into the gibbering slaves of dark gods. No-one is immune to the destructive effects of the unnatural and it is near impossible to tell when a mind will reach its breaking point after being exposed to it. Fewer than three-thousand individuals across the United States have a working understanding of the unnatural, the vast majority of these having only scratched the surface of the true scale of the unnatural.
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Table of Contents
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Unnatural Entities
The Great Old Ones
Azathoth
Cthulu
Ghatanothoa
Glaaki
Itla-Shua
Nodens
Nyarlathotep
Nyogtha
Qu-Tugwa
Shub-Niggurath
Tleche-Naka
Tsathoggua
Y'golonac
Yig
Yog-Sothoth
Alien Intelligences
The Mi-Go
The Greys
The Elder Things
Shoggoths
The Shan
Earthly Inhumans
The Deep Ones
Ghouls
The Serpent-Folk
Zombies
There are a wide range of unnatural rituals and hypergeometric spells that can restore a corpse to some semblance of life. These 'zombies' can vary in their detail, some being reduced to animal urges or mindless hunger for blood whilst others can retain full awareness. Zombies can be easily detected by their rotting flesh. The forces that animate the corpse make them stronger and hardier than they were in life, rendering most immune to shock or pain.