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Guardian of a treasure; Similar toad-like monsters are generally associated with Cthulhu Mythos as far as I've seen, as the Outer Gods' servitors.
All who waited for me to start doing M.R. James art, the time has come.

"'My dear Gregory, I am telling you the exact truth. I believe I am now acquainted with the extremity of terror and repulsion which a man can endure without losing his mind. I can only just manage to tell you now the bare outline of the experience. I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several--I don't know how many--legs or arms or tentacles or something clinging to my body.
(...)
One thing I did notice in the carving on the well-head, which I think must have escaped you. It was a horrid, grotesque shape — perhaps more like a toad than anything else, and there was a label by it inscribed with the two words, “Depositum custodi”*."

*'Keep that which is committed to thee.’"

M.R. James, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

Description
Guardian of a treasure; Similar toad-like monsters are generally associated with Cthulhu Mythos as far as I've seen, as the Outer Gods' servitors.
All who waited for me to start doing M.R. James art, the time has come.

"'My dear Gregory, I am telling you the exact truth. I believe I am now acquainted with the extremity of terror and repulsion which a man can endure without losing his mind. I can only just manage to tell you now the bare outline of the experience. I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several--I don't know how many--legs or arms or tentacles or something clinging to my body.
(...)
One thing I did notice in the carving on the well-head, which I think must have escaped you. It was a horrid, grotesque shape — perhaps more like a toad than anything else, and there was a label by it inscribed with the two words, “Depositum custodi”*."

*'Keep that which is committed to thee.’"

M.R. James, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas