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I seem to remember Quylthulgs were in AD&D 2.0 or 2.5. I can't find my Monster Manual for those versions right now, but it's not in the 3.5 one I found.
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A(3.1.0b) CWS "Fyren_V" NEW L:50 DL:127 A++ R+++ Sp+ w:The Great Axe of Eonwe
A/FA W H- D c-- !f PV+++ s? d P++ M+
C- S+ I- !So B ac++ GHB? SQ? !RQ V F: -
Check out this old RGRM thread where our very own Nick basically says "the Moria devs were sleep-deprived and/or drunk and just invented something to have a 'Q' monster."Comment
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There are no Qs in dnd.
The only monsters that summon are outer-planar stuff, like demons and modrons and such."i can take this dracolich"Comment
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I'm sure it's just a figment of my imagination, but I've always envisioned the Quylthulgs as some frightening Lovecraftian off-spring of Cthulhu out of the mind of H.P. Lovecraft.
“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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Is Scarabtarices definitely a person's name? I always assumed it was just the word "scarab" with a fancy-sounding ending tacked on -- pretty on-theme for a book about warding after all.
As for that ending: it just occured to me that "tar" is a super common element in Tolkien names. A quick glance says it means king or queen, and shows up in a lot of regular Quenya words, too, where it seems to just mean great, strong, etc. And -ices is a common enough pluralization in English (and, like "scarab", it ultimately derives from Greek). So whether it was intended or not, it could certainly just be read as "Resistances of the Lords of Beetles"Comment
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