Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

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H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of humanity, where ancient, malevolent beings known as the Great Old Ones slumber in the depths of space or time. After Lovecraft's death, the Mythos has been expanded and developed by many authors, including August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These and many other authors have helped to flesh out the Mythos into a rich and complex Dark Universe.

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Nyarlathotep by Álvaro Fernández González (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Great art. The other works are amazing too. Nyarlathotep is alway been in my opinion the most shady and dangerous character of the mythos.

Literary-who expain it very well in one of his video.

(..) while Nyarlathotep might not be the absolute most powerful entity in his verse he is definitely the most dangerous. Other monsters in this universe might show up in front of you putting up a show being big and loud (...) he will show up looking like some kind of important figure so that you will listen to him and he is going to be very polite and very well spoken and he's going to put all the stars at your feet and tell you how awesome you are in that thing you think you really want is here to give it to you and all you need to do in exchange is just do him a little favor, it's gonna be something really easy and he'll even help so that it's even easier, how cool is that. And once you accept he's gonna send you to the void and feed you to Azathoth because you were dumb enough to trust him.