Can there please be created a category page for species exclusively created by HP Lovecraft?

It is a very important thing currently missing.

It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much in advance.

The entry on Nyctelios says that after being demoted from Elder God and trapped under the Mediterranean, he dreams of rising up and taking revenge against the Elder Gods.

What would that revenge look like? What would a being like Nyctelios want? Is it to destroy them, or something else?

I once googled about one Outer god. After wandering at wiki a bit, I saw article about Cthylla. I have no normal words…

1) Project X - understandable, but I why da crack would Cthulhu discover any information about Cthylla? + It’s a bit weird hearing about that.

2) Here comes total trash. “Cthylla was caught by explorers”. How about going into deep abyss? + I suppose Cthylla would tear apart every non-military vessel from inside.

3) This is so stupid… Why the crack would Cthylla marry Hastur? He is worst enemy of her father.

I want to wash my eyes with fluorantimonic acid. This breaks everything that made Cthulhu mythos Cthulhu mythos.

P.S. My apologies, if I got something wrong. I get information only from article.

Hi all --

I'm the Editor at First Fandom Experience, currently digging into the history of the publishers of the 1940s fanzine, "The Acolyte." I note the photo of F. Lee Baldwin on his page here. Can anyone tell me where this photo is from? Doesn't show up in any internet searches that I've been able to run.

Thanks in advance!

David Ritter

Dhr@webmine.com

Just hear me out ok?

Nyarlathotep, the often antagonistic and all-powerful character who employs complex tactics and elaborate plans to harm beings (mostly humans) who are supposedly minuscule in comparison to him.

Beyond cataloging these actions as truly "Good" or "evil" which we all know is not correct since human morality is completely irrelevant to these beings and blah blah blah, what is Nyarlathotep's reason for being this way?

More specifically: What's up with all the dark aesthetics, the contempt, the macabre aspect and the death threats? What's this guy's deal? He purposefully shapeshifts into "evil"-looking monsters and goes out of his way to act like a jerk, not just like a destructive force of nature but as a calculating troll. Is he actually an eldritch being with human like characteristics like sadism? Is he just bored? Can he be bored?

Of course, the obvious and correct answer that one may give is that, "His motives cannot be understood by the human mind, and or does not exist, he just IS" but let's dig a little into what these mean:

The previous answer implies that:

-Nyarlathotep does not really cause harm to others because he is bored, hates humanity, or has fun doing it, this would be attributing human aspects to him, which he lacks in it's true unfathomable form. If he is truly as unfathomable as any other outer god, we cannot say he does things because he is bored or sadistic or because of any mundane earthly motivation.

Which means that either:

1- Nyarlathotep is capable of having an extraterrestrial internal logic (let's call it eldritch logic) that we cannot understand in any way because we are humans. In this eldritch logic, the action A: "Not destroying humanity" (or doing something else or nothing at all), may be less desirable than action B: "Destroying and harming humanity" and he simply goes by this logic, or whatever it may be.

2- Nyarlathotep does not even have anything like an eldritch logic becauce he is a being beyond that imaginary concept, ergo, he has no reason at all to do what he does, if he carefully makes a plan to make humanity destroy itself in one hundred thousand years, we should be thankful he is being extra about it, because it has no reason to be this way and he could very well have destroyed the planet long ago, but did not for no reason at all, yet.

"So, what does this mean? And how does this relate to Nyar becoming our friend?"

Ok, well, i will be honest with you, no matter which of these two possibilities is used in a story in which Nyarlathotep appears, the realistic possibility of Nyarlathotep not killing or doing harm to humanity in universe is very very very very thin, but not impossible:

A: Nyarlathotep could change opinions or find a reason (inside it's eldritch logic) in favor of not harming humanity, that could result in him becoming friendly (yay), this is a speculation because we don't know how the hypotethical edritch logic works, but the possibility of it being changed could exist.

B: Nyarlathotep has no reason for destroying humanity whatsoever, so, at any given moment in the infinite cosmos, he could just stop doing it.

So, in conclusion, given that Nyarlathotep is not truly evil, nor he should truly be considered sadistic (given that sadism is a concept made by humans that could only apply to humans or beings of a three dimensional reality) there is a minuscule, minuscule, chance inside of the Mythos for him to be friendly at least once, in theory.

Like the title of the post says, sanity has completely left me, any correction on how Nyarlathotep works or discussion about my mad rambling is welcome.

Given that so many people like Guiromoll del toro tried to get a Hollywood adaption of call of Cthulhu off the ground, Do you think that an adaptation directed by gore verbinski and starring Bill Nighy as Cthulhu via motion capture CGI technology could hypothetically work due to the fact that is basically what dead man's chest is but with pirates, and a lighter, more romantic adventurous tone instead of horror and existential dread? why or why not?

Uh Hihi I’m SuwaKoii or Sumikazu and uh I’m new here! I mainly joined this wiki as I wanted to uhh get more info about Lovecraftian gods as I have ocs that are heavily inspired by them and have the same name as them. Also I do draw so I may post I guess art of someone of my ocs who are inspire by em if that’s allowed here. Some of you may know my from the Arcane Odyssey wiki so uh hehe I’m here now. As for how I got into this rabbit hole blame a horror game known as “The Baby in Yellow” for making me go down this rabbit hole.

Hastur is probably the most enigmatic god of Lovecraft, so I relied a lot on my imagination to design him, using actual elements of his OG design as well (yellow as main color, and the Yellow Sign)

He has a very prideful personality, causing many to believe that he’s a tyrant. He’s actually a very chill guy, cares a lot for his court and his people, and welcomes anyone into his realm as long as they follow the rules. Although the OG Hastur is still a Great Old One, but my version has already ascended to Outer Godhood and is under Nyarlathotep’s care who trains him. In fact, she often visits to Carcosa to bring him oolong tea and lemon tart (they have literal tea parties)