DeJoker
Master of Mayhem
Okay this is where the character sheets (my style) will be posted. Do not post to this thread it is for reference purposes only if you have a question or a comment go to the White Zone
The essence of the Mythos is that the human world and our role in it are just an illusion. Humanity is living inside a very fragile bubble of perception, unaware of what lies behind the curtains or even that the curtains themselves exist, and our seeming dominance over the world is illusory and ephemeral. We are blessed in that we do not realize what lies dormant in the unknown lurking places on Earth and beyond. As Lovecraft famously begins his short story, The Call of Cthulhu, "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
Now and then, individuals can, by accident or carelessness, catch a glimpse of, or even confront the ancient extraterrestrial entities which the mythology centers around, usually with fatal consequences. Other times, they encounter their non-human worshippers and servants, whose existence shatters the worldview of those who stumble across them. Of course human followers exist as well, who are most often quite crazed explicably so. Because of the limitations of the human mind, the appearance of these otherworldly entities is quite overwhelming and they can often drive a person insane just by being seen. They are portrayed as neither good or evil; within the Mythos, as these are concepts invented by our species as a way to explain what truly are inexplicable intentions and actions.
The Call of Cthulhu was the premiere story in which Lovecraft realized and made full use of these themes, which is why his mythology would later be named after the creature in this story, as it defined a new direction in both his authorship and in the horror fiction genre. This is also the first and only story by Lovecraft where humans and one of the cosmic entities called the Great Old Ones come face to face. Now despite its notoriety, Cthulhu is not the most powerful of the entities, nor is it the theological center of the mythos. Instead, this position is held by the entity Azathoth, a mindless but all-powerful Outer Being, ruling from its cosmically centered court. Nonetheless, its avatar Nyarlathotep the Everchanging, who fulfills Azathoth's random urges, has intervened more frequently and more directly in human affairs than any other Outer being. Nyarlathotep has also displayed more blatant contempt for humanity, especially its own worshippers, than almost any other Lovecraftian otherworld enity. As his stories progressed, Lovecraft used fewer supernatural elements to represent the dangers which threaten humanity and instead gradually replaced them with non-supernatural cosmic beings and phenomena, based on principles outside the laws of nature in our own space-time continuum. This trend particularly becomes clear in works such as At the Mountains of Madness.
The essence of the Mythos is that the human world and our role in it are just an illusion. Humanity is living inside a very fragile bubble of perception, unaware of what lies behind the curtains or even that the curtains themselves exist, and our seeming dominance over the world is illusory and ephemeral. We are blessed in that we do not realize what lies dormant in the unknown lurking places on Earth and beyond. As Lovecraft famously begins his short story, The Call of Cthulhu, "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
Now and then, individuals can, by accident or carelessness, catch a glimpse of, or even confront the ancient extraterrestrial entities which the mythology centers around, usually with fatal consequences. Other times, they encounter their non-human worshippers and servants, whose existence shatters the worldview of those who stumble across them. Of course human followers exist as well, who are most often quite crazed explicably so. Because of the limitations of the human mind, the appearance of these otherworldly entities is quite overwhelming and they can often drive a person insane just by being seen. They are portrayed as neither good or evil; within the Mythos, as these are concepts invented by our species as a way to explain what truly are inexplicable intentions and actions.
The Call of Cthulhu was the premiere story in which Lovecraft realized and made full use of these themes, which is why his mythology would later be named after the creature in this story, as it defined a new direction in both his authorship and in the horror fiction genre. This is also the first and only story by Lovecraft where humans and one of the cosmic entities called the Great Old Ones come face to face. Now despite its notoriety, Cthulhu is not the most powerful of the entities, nor is it the theological center of the mythos. Instead, this position is held by the entity Azathoth, a mindless but all-powerful Outer Being, ruling from its cosmically centered court. Nonetheless, its avatar Nyarlathotep the Everchanging, who fulfills Azathoth's random urges, has intervened more frequently and more directly in human affairs than any other Outer being. Nyarlathotep has also displayed more blatant contempt for humanity, especially its own worshippers, than almost any other Lovecraftian otherworld enity. As his stories progressed, Lovecraft used fewer supernatural elements to represent the dangers which threaten humanity and instead gradually replaced them with non-supernatural cosmic beings and phenomena, based on principles outside the laws of nature in our own space-time continuum. This trend particularly becomes clear in works such as At the Mountains of Madness.
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