Chthon

Chthon, chthonian or chthonic may refer to:

Fiction

• 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

• Chthonian planet, a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from stripping away a gas giant's atmosphere
• Chthonic deities, deities or spirits of the underworld in Greek mythology
• Chthonic law
• 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"

See also

• Autochthon (disambiguation)