The Thing Whose Name Sounds Like Horned Head, But Is Not

"Its coat was black as soot. Its hooves were wet with a viscous smearing brown. Its eyes burned with a foul blood-colored light. But the things she could not look away from were its antlers. They were amber. Translucent and honey-colored, pulsing with a low poisonous smolder, bits of ash falling from them here and there." "- Episode 0.5: The Witch Queen"

The Thing Whose Name Sounds Like Horned Head, But Is Not (colloquially known as Horned Head or HH) is a Deep Thing of The Inner Dark, a shadow of something Greater. He generally appears as a large black stag with burning red eyes and smoldering amber antlers. Horned Head is frequently served and worshipped by the Blessed Folk of His Unending and Undying Gracious Love and The Gray Ladies.

HH has tried to corrupt Daughter Dooley into a puppet of his own, but she refused and eventually fought against him. She won the duel, breaking his crown and sending him into a diminished state for 140 years. Thanks to the efforts of The Gray Ladies, in the year 1935, his physical form is restored.


 * On pronouncing HH's name:
 * Hornèd Head, but like Shakespeare: Horn-ed.
 * BUT. people HEARD Hornet Head. and that works too.
 * but the character's name as it will be written in all things official is The Thing Whose Name Sounds Like Horned Head, But Is Not.

"The Black Stag, the beast whose name sounded like horn-ed head and hornet head and Abomination and Betrayer and Judas and Liar and Defiler – he was old, but not the oldest, but he might have been the cruelest and the most petty." - Episode 10: The Witch Queen Chapter III: Last Harbor


 * Fun Facts about being in the presence of HH that aren't as noticed or not specifically stated:
 * The telepathy he uses is intentionally disorienting. HH could sound completely human if wanted. It is not wanted.
 * HH has been around for a long, long time. He's led many a settlement, camp, daycare center---to a dark and obscure end.
 * Regarding Elder Henry, it has been confirmed that Elder Henry is Horned Head himself in a deeply weakened state.