#Lovecraft Lore

[macabrecabra]

LOVECRAFTOBER: DAY TWELVE Ulthar: Watcher of the Great Old Ones, Master of Beasts

Affiliation: Court of the Elder Gods

And first elder god makes an appearance! The Elder gods are a bit trickier to design as...there is really not much about them safe one or two of their numbers, so more creative liberties to take in fleshing them out/giving them form. As the beings that oppose Great Old Ones and Outer Gods, have to make something formidable c:

Ulthar is a cunning elder god who has managed to seal quiet a few of the Great Old Ones on Earth and is on the hunt to get a few more sealed. Having dominion over the beasts of Earth, every animal s their eyes. Ulthar can adapt different animal characteristics to suit the needs at the time.

Like many elder gods, they have a more humanoid form and often were mistaken and worshipped under several different human given names or though of as an angel. Although not out to harm humans, they aren't particularly worried about saving humans as much as keeping Great Old Ones from destroying the beauty of earth.

Ulthar often works with Bast, their subordinate, to keep tabs on things. The current target of Ulthar though is a certain king of yellow who has been a rather slippery bastard....

#Live Laugh and Lovecraft #Lovecraft lore #Lovecraft AU #Ulthar Lovecraft #Elder God #the bastardly beast baby

[publicdomaincharacters]

Here a public Domain character that you know,Re-Animator aka Herbert West from h.p. Lovecraft

#public domain #re animator #herbert west #h.p. lovecraft #hp lovecraft #hp lore

[chronicas]

Pacific Rim is great except for the one huge massive glaring issue that is They Should Have Named the Robot SOMETHING ELSE.

#You don’t gotta look that up btw. #Lovecraft’s Cat kinda situation. #ophidian lore

[thechampagnesocialist]

The Rebel - Extremist duo my beloved :)

#no rolls barred #nrb #ken cheng #holly musgrave #king's dilemma #my art #comic #kd au #holly's kd design drop <3 and she is Very <333 #her hair design is from that brief moment in lovecraft letter btw. if you want to look respectfully #anyhow i say that as if i even know whats going on with these outfits... dont laurie too much about it #the reincarnation lore implication here as well... god. #i will rant about kd proper so you have more context i swear #just know that ken hates it <3

[afklancelot]

the thing is with cosmic horror media like the cthulhu mythos and the backrooms is that the minute you add hierarchies and structure to these previously "eldritch" entities, along with a bunch of lore and worldbuilding, the media stops being cosmic horror because there's not much unknowable stuff left. it just becomes horror fantasy/dark fantasy to me

#cthulhu mythos #the backrooms #horror #this also happened w scp and i esp hav a bone to pick w that but its mostly personal bias #no hate for dark fantasy or fantasy but unless a specific work vibes w me its just not for me #same w the monsterfucking in horror like have fun but im looking for vagueness in horror #and dont come to me w “but lovecraft is racist so” cuz i dont care i dont even care much for his writing #some of the best horror is ones that are left unexplained and are not bogged down with lore

[melodymelancholyart]

My fellow Smosh veterans will remember the Smosh series around the character “That Damn Neighbor”. I thought it would be funny to reinterpret the series where the neighbor is a Lovecraftian elder god. I made some concept art for this idea! Would it be more accurate to call this AU “That Damned Neighbor”?

His god form isn’t a final design. I feel like it’s lacking something. I used my persona as a mock model for the robes too. I hope you guys like it!

Love thy neighbor!

#smosh #ian hecox #anthony padilla #that damn neighbor #lovecrafian #lovecraft #azathoth #tw // body horror #concept art #smosh lore #lore #smosh art #smosh fanart #what if #my art

[jarognieva]

Okay so today I want to talk about this pretty girl:

It is called Celestial Centipende or Fluorescent Flower and we can find it in Byrgenwerth and Chalice Dungeons. In my opinion this name suggest it's just mix of big space bug and a plant. But considering Bloodborne is highly inspired by Lovecraftian stories, I think Celestial Centipendes might be an ancient intelligent beings.

I realised they are similar to the Old Ones (Don't confuse with Great Ones!) from At the Mountains of Madness. The Old Ones are ancient beings who came from the cosmos and created life on our planet. Their civillization was very advanced when they started to colonize the Earth but it started to degradate through time and finally completely disappeared. In the story main characters find well-preserved remains of a few Old Ones on Antartica. Old Ones are not EXACTLY like Celestial Centipendes, but there are a few distinguishing marks that are very similar to them. Here is an extract from a description of one of these beings (fragments that remind Celestial Centipendes are bold):

Objects are eight feet long all over. Six-foot, five-ridged barrel torso three and five-tenths feet central diameter, one foot end diameters. Dark gray, flexible, and infinitely tough. Seven-foot membranous wings of same color, found folded, spread out of furrows between ridges. Wing framework tubular or glandular, of lighter gray, with orifices at wing tips. Spread wings have serrated edge. Around equator, one at central apex of each of the five vertical, stave-like ridges are five systems of light gray flexible arms or tentacles found tightly folded to torso but expansible to maximum length of over three feet. Like arms of primitive crinoid. Single stalks three inches diameter branch after six inches into five substalks, each of which branches after eight inches into small, tapering tentacles or tendrils, giving each stalk a total of twenty-five tentacles

Surely Centipendes do not have wings, and their "legs" are more like arthropod legs than tentacles but look at concept art:

These things around the "mouth" remind more tentacles than legs, aren't they?

At top of torso blunt, bulbous neck of lighter gray, with gill-like suggestions, holds yellowish five-pointed starfish-shaped apparent head covered with three-inch wiry cilia of various prismatic colors. Head thick and puffy, about two feet point to point, with three-inch flexible yellowish tubes projecting from each point. Slit in exact center of top probably breathing aperture. At end of each tube is spherical expansion where yellowish membrane rolls back on handling to reveal glassy, red-irised globe, evidently an eye.

Exept for yellow color and an eye, it seems quite similar, I think.

Five slightly longer reddish tubes start from inner angles of starfish-shaped head and end in saclike swellings of same color which, upon pressure, open to bell-shaped orifices two inches maximum diameter and lined with sharp, white tooth like projections—probably mouths. All these tubes, cilia, and points of starfish head, found folded tightly down; tubes and points clinging to bulbous neck and torso. Flexibility surprising despite vast toughness. At bottom of torso, rough but dissimilarly functioning counterparts of head arrangements exist. Bulbous light-gray pseudo-neck, without gill suggestions, holds greenish five-pointed starfish arrangement.

Tough, muscular arms four feet long and tapering from seven inches diameter at base to about two and five-tenths at point. To each point is attached small end of a greenish five-veined membranous triangle eight inches long and six wide at farther end. This is the paddle, fin, or pseudofoot which has made prints in rocks from a thousand million to fifty or sixty million years old.

I know that some parts of description don't correspond with Celestial Centipendes' appearance, but I think it might be possible that they're inspired by the Old Ones because it wouldn't be the first Lovecraftian reference in Bloodborne. What if summoning a meteor is not just weird superpower holding by a cosmic beast but an equivalent of the Call Beyond? What if they're not just a weird creatures from the dungeons, but the last from their kind? The kind which civilization vanished millions of years before Ptumerians, Loran and Isz. History likes to repeat, especially in Bloodborne, so I believe they were using Old Blood and trying to communicate with the Great Ones too.

#bloodborne #bloodborne lore #celestial centipende #fluorescent flower #bloodborne headcanon #fromsoftware #lovecraft #lovecraftian #cosmic horror #bloodborne thoughts #my post

[sleepyminty]

I feel like in the world of HP lovecraft, amongst the big names like cthulhu, azathoth, yog-sothoth and the infamous nyarlathotep.No one even mention Nodens-the Lord of the great abyss. Cuz that dude sole purpose is to piss off Nyarlathotep. He’s a good elder god for this sole reason (even in ancient britain he depicted as a healing god).

Let me explain

As an Elder God. Nodens' behavior is generally quite kind towards humans, but he only acts this way when he is at odds with Nyarlathotep. Of course, because Dream World is a battlefield and Nyarlathotep and Nodens' war is a proxy war. That's when Nyarlathotep tried every way to stop the travelers from searching for the Kadath desert, Nodens was willing to find every way to protect them, that's how he indirectly angered Nyarlathotep without directly confronting him. Nodens' servants are the Nightgaunts. According to some sources in the Canon, Nodens enjoys hunting animals in places like the Underworld, his targets include Shantak, Hunting Horror and moon beasts.

•Proxy war

When humanity began to spread and explore every corner of the Earth. The Great Ones eventually sought new settlements in Dreamland, including the fortress of Kadath. Nodens himself has quite good relationships with the Grand Masters, and he sometimes monitors Kadath's surroundings to prevent humans from threatening them. Nyarlathotep himself is the same, but Nyarlathotep's main job in Dreamland is to enforce the will of the blind fool and the other supreme foreign gods of the center. Filled with vulgar complaints, with the demon king's will, Nyarlathotep wished for the gods of earth to be protected from human encroachment.

In general, the goals of Nyarlathotep and Nodens are the same. But that didn't mean Nodens had to be friendly with the foreign gods, so he continuously committed acts of sabotage against Nyarlathotep at DreamWorld. And Nyarlathotep felt uncomfortable with Nodens, which was quoted by Randolph Carter when he spoke to Nyarlathotep at Kadath. Nodens is considered a counterpart to Nyarlathotep in Lovecraft's works, but he is not friendly towards humans, he only saves them and is kind to them when he wants to oppose Nyarlathotep, inciting the wrath of Nyarlathotep. those who are considered God... an Outer God.

Basically chaotic good vs chaotic evil

#hp lovecraft #hp lore #cthulhu mythos #nyarlathotep #nodens #lovecraft nyarlathotep #lovecraft nodens #the crawling chaos #lord of the great abyss #one of my favortite rivalry in hp lovecraft lore #nyarlathotep is basically azathoth intelligence so in a way nodens always beefing with azathoth indirectly #god whos want to fuck everything up vs god who just want to fuck the said god up #do you guys see how funny this dynamic is #they have the same goal but that does not mean that they have to get along #meaning this is just a hate-tolerate relationship #hpl shitposting

[see-arcane]

I like the atmosphere and tension in Psycho so much. Could never fully enjoy it since the core horror here is trans people.

Oh absolutely, it broke a ton of ground for cinema. The sets, the shots, the build-up, the bait-and-switch protagonist. All extremely cool! But also...yeah. Kind of set the tone for a Certain Trope.

Need an edgy*** serial killer? Easy! Just have this GUY be LADY and do murders about it!!

Psycho: 'Man dresses like his mom and kills people! Scary!'

The Silence of the Lambs: 'Man kills women so he can BE a woman! Scary!'

Sleepaway Camp: 'Boy forced to pretend he was his SISTER! Girl life! Killed about it! Scary!'

Insidious 2: 'Serial killer did serial killing because his mom made him dress like girl and have girl name! Scary!'

Behind Her Eyes and Suitable Flesh: 'Man possess lady body? On purpose?? FOR EVIL AND MURDERS AND STEAL UR MAN??? Scary!'

#on that note I really truly wanted to be excited about Suitable Flesh since it was playing with an often overlooked Lovecraft story #but like #it just really shot itself in the foot as far as the core of the fear went #the terror and the betrayal of some evil old fuck swapping bodies with his own kin #just to leave her to die and then make another hop to her beau #abusing the love and trust that's meant to save our heroes in any other tale #as a stepping stone for immortality and body horror #meanwhile Suitable Flesh would have done So much better if it just was not playing with Lovecraft lore as a background #but maybe that's just me being on a soapbox about it #I'm trying to be less Fun Police about stuff based off of old writing #it just didn't land for me this time #anyway #horror #psycho #transphobia

[queen0fm0nsterz]

You make a lot of bodacious and radalicious art and takes on the canon Itty Bitty Nightmares, but one thing I see brought up ( Although I haven't scoured your entire archives tbh ) is the "Eyes". That would be the Flesh Walls / Signal Tower? What is your take on that fine ensemble? Their purpose? Motivation, if any at all? Is it even sapient?

First of all thank you, this is the first time EVER my art is referred to as "bodacious and radalicious". I had to look up what it meant and I'll say I'm very flattered.

The Eye I keep referring to encapsulates a whole variety of... elements in the LN world of which the Signal Tower and the Maw are also part. It takes physical form with the Flesh, but it's everywhere and anywhere. It's in decorations, paintings, on the walls and occasionally it can even be found arranged in natural elements (I have never forgotten the stone eye in cave at the end of VLN).

The way it keeps being presented, I would almost suggest it's considered to be a deity. The part of it that resides in the Signal Tower, which is the Flesh, is one I oftenly refer to as "Them" in my works. My personal interpretation of it is that it's a collective consciousness, where every person absorbed by it through the TVs becomes part of the hive, whose only purpose is to keep itself alive and growing by leeching off the world and its people.

(I have a theory that the other "spiritual" half of the Flesh resides in the Maw, but I will elaborate on this more on the Ladies powerpoint... or if I'm asked I suppose)

However, when it comes to what it actually is... hard to say. Since I've seen a few people refer to the Flesh as a "lovecraftian horror" looking monster, I got interested in seeing how true the statement could ring, and what do you know! There is a monster that could potentially be considered akin to the Flesh.

This is called a "shoggoth".

It a sentient amalgamation of flesh that drags itself around and there are multiple of them; they were originated as mindless creatures meant to server the Elder Things (which are another class of sentient beings not to be confused with the Old Ones, of which Chtulu is part), but during the eons they developed a conciousness and decided that they weren't going to be slaves any longer. They rebelled against their creators and started establishing societies of their own, becoming so powerful that even the Old Ones seek allyships with them.

The thing that caught my attention is why they were used as slaves. Apparently they have the ability of morphing into any building and object, which the Elder Things used to their advantage when building their own cities.

In the Lovecraft universe, these beings are known to live in remote parts of Earth, such as Antartica or deep in the sea (MHHHH), but they also have their own cities scattered around the universe which they built modeled after the ones they were originally forced to build by the Elder Things. To kill its victims, it envelopes them in their flesh and tears off their heads.

Now, the shoggoth has quite a few differences from the Flesh, mostly in appearance - the shoggoth are given mouths and occasionally even tentacles in a few depictions - but this could be a very good starting point to begin to wrap our heads around what the Flesh could be, and what it's purpose is.

Also, before ending this post, one final thing I'd like to point out: the Signal Tower is not what manipulates the Transmission, Mono is. It's the reason why it needs Mono to be its host; it was standing just fine when Six was inside of it, but Six has no control over the Transmission, so ultimately she would have been useless to their growth.

And the fact that it purposely helps Mono reach Six so that he may be betrayed later on leads me to believe that it is sapient and knows exactly what it needs for its twisted cycle to continue.

Thank you for your ask!

#little nightmares #little nightmares 2 #ln theory #ln 2 theory #little nightmares theory #ln meta #the eye #ln the eye #ln mono #mono #ln six #six #{THEY ARE ONLY MENTIONED BUT IN SPIRIT THEY ARE HERE... THEY GO WHEREVER THE EYE WANTS THEM TO #im sooo silly actually #let me be insane.. the voices...} #tw gore #lovecraft #{JUST IN CASE... TAGGING JUST IN CASE... #i have a Moderage knowledge of the lovecraftian lore and this is the right moment to put it to use}

[macabrecabra]

LOVECRAFTOBER: DAY THIRTEEN Bast: Protector of Cats; Chewer of Corpses

Affiliation: The Court of the Elder Gods

And another elder god! Bast is better known as an Egyptian Goddess, but she is one of the few that is also an elder god working under Ulthar to help contain and get in the way of the plans of the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones.

She has an affinity for cats and is a huntress in her own right...but also very shy at times about mortals seeing her and easily flustered. In the same breath, she can get very excited about things and always eager to impress Ulthar and show her own power.

She got the title Chewer of Corpses because the local Ghouls of Earth started to worship her and she just can't get them to stop...just because they saw her tearing up some minion of the Great Old Ones that ONE time! So embarassing!

Had fun designing her c: Felt like going a cat monster centaur angle for her to give her a more eldritch look!

#Live Laugh and Lovecraft #Lovecraft Bast #Lovecraft lore #Lovecraft mythology #the kitty girl! #She gonna pounce some great old ones!

[publicdomaincharacters]

Here a public Domain character,Randolph Carter who is a recurring fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction and is, presumably, an alter ego of Lovecraft himself

#public domain #hp lore #hp lovecraft #randolph carter

[aweirdoandhisfanfics]

BSAV family au, part 2: Cthylla

First of, Cthylla and Kitta are the same person

If you read my Felicia post, you'll know that Cthylla is the daugther of Cthulhu, and because of a deal, Cthyllas was kinda adopted by Felicia. As she arrived in Eternyx, the first thing that Felicia done, was to teach Cthylla on how to turn into a cat, so that the people of Eternyx don't get scared because of a eldritch goddess living nearby. But of course, as every cat, Cthylla also makes some escapades during the night, and during one of these escapades, she joined a theater group called 'The Enigmas'

(Image taken from the JD wiki)

What the theater group doesn't know, is that Cthylla is a eldritch being, and Felicia doesn't know about the secret life of Cthylla.

As the time passed, the Potion Alley got bigger, and Cthylla made lots of new friends, like Vester, Lilith, and even Scarlet! One day, she decided that she would make a new friend! So she traveled to Sun Horizon, where she captured a baby called Scotty and brought back to Felicia! Cthylla still doesn't understand why Felicia got so angry with her about it, she just wanted to make friends! She didn't do anything wrong!

But it's a good thing that Felicia leted Scotty stay with them, she loves playing with him!

But a question still remains, why Cthulhu gave his child to Felicia? (this next part is a mix between my headcanons and the Cthulhu Mythos).

First of, everyone knows that Cthulhu is a eldritch being who causes madness in everyone who loks at his eyes right? But did you also know that Cthylla also is a character on the Cthulhu mythos?

In the mytos, she is also described as the daugther of Cthulhu, the role of Cthylla in her father's plans, is that, if Cthulhu dies, Cthylla will give birth to him once again.

In my hc, these plans are almost the same.

Cthulhu is a eldritch god, who was once defeated by the other gods, and his body became Eternyx, even dead, Cthulhu also had some conciusness inside of him, so he started to make plan. Centuries later, he self fecunded, giving birth to Cthylla, but Cthylla was a weak goddess, so Cthulhu needed someone to take care of her, until she becomes an adult.

Cthulhu's plan, was that someday, his daugther would continue his legacy of insanity and destruction on the Danceverse, but as the time goes on, Cthylla gets more and more in love with Eternyx and the rest of the Danceverses, that she might not want to continue her father legacy...

Name Meanings:

Cthylla: Cthylla was a name that existed even before Just Dance, being probably a corruption of the name 'Scylla', Scylla in the other hand, has quite unknow origins, possibly coming from of the word skyllein which has unknow origins, but possibly means "to tear".

Kitta: Kulikitaka

#h. p. lovecraft #just dance #family au #theory/headcanon #eldritch #lore dump

[ask-cthulhu-mythos-au]

idk what to do lol

Last second:

'Never Meant To Know' is an option

#hp lovecraft #cthulhu mythos #cosmic horror #lovecraft #lovecraftian horror #cthulhu #kthanid #hastur #king in yellow #hnarqu #Nyarlathotep #randolph carter #lore #oc lore #Lovecraft AU lore #alternative universe #au #my art #audio #Video #video post #Lore story #short story #story post #idk wtf to do #miracle musical #tally hall #i monster

[furby-organist]

> "Don't worry, my listeners! My son is safe and sound! He will resume his broadcast in the near future. We look forward to entertaining you!"

#hot takes with al (broadcast) #// if you're new here he's talking about his pet raccoon who has his own radio station (he just chitters. it's calming asmr for some.) #the raccoon survived the extermination just fine and will be wired back up to broadcast his chittering shortly! #(the raccoon's name is HP Lovecraft DNI. there's a lot of lore on this blog and none of it is good.)

[umbralstars]

I will figure out how to explain in more detail later but:

Sephiroth is Nyarlathotep (after his fall)

Jenova is an Other God

FF7 has had Lovecraftian themes and motifs since the very beginning and no I don't just mean Jenova's alien aesthetics

#ff7 #final fantasy vii #sephiroth #ff7 jenova #like narratively they are similar to these characters/concepts #stars rambles #if you actually know lovecraft lore you Know #i will actually try to explain later it is Late