Chthon
Chthon, chthonian or chthonic may refer to:
Fiction
[edit]- Chthon (Marvel Comics), an Elder God of the Marvel Universe
- House of Chthon, a major vampire house in Blade: The Series
- Chthon (novel), a 1967 science fiction novel by Piers Anthony
- Chthon (Quake), a boss in the computer game Quake
- Chthon, a DC Comics character who appeared in Justice League Europe
- Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos), a fictional race created by Brian Lumley
- The Chthonian, a New York City building where "The Brotherhood" met in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- The Chthonians, a major enemy faction from the computer game Grim Dawn
- Cthulhu, literature: by H. P. Lovecraft in 1928, chosen to echo the word chthonic.
Other uses
[edit]- Chthonian planet, a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from stripping away a gas giant's atmosphere
- Chthonic, deities or spirits of the underworld in Greek mythology
- Chthonic (band), a Taiwanese black metal band
- Chthonic, Psychological term: spirit of the nature within
- Allochthon, structural geology: from the Greek "allo", meaning other, and "chthon". Process of the land mass being moved under the earth and connecting two horizontally stacked décollements and thus "under the earth"