Lovecraftian inspirations from real life and beliefs
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This brochure contains inspiration drawn from the beliefs of peoples who actually inhabit the Earth now or in the past, or from facts taken straight from history or science. Each case includes the suggestion, how given beliefs or facts can be interpreted in the spirit of cosmic horror, emphasizing their appropriate elements or bending them slightly. Sometimes the descriptions are quite brief - a detailed discussion of each topic would take a lot of space and time. These are rather teasers intended to show why a specific thing may be interesting for fans of eldritch vibes and possibly encourage them to take a closer look at the topic.
The article is intended primarily for Game Masters who play games in systems inspired by Lovecraft's works, such as Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu or Delta Green. However, I hope that other fans of cosmic horror will also find something for themselves here. The facts presented here may also be interesting for people who are not familiar with the work of The Loner of Providence, but some of the references may be unclear to them.
Here are contents:
Typhon – a classic but forgotten abomination
In his house underground, dead Hades waits in sleep
Apollo – beautiful, deadly light
Hermes is the gate, Hermes is the key
Erysichton – slayer of living trees, eater of self
A jotun is not the same as a giant, but it can be made into an abomination
Odyn = Nodens, Loki = Nyarlathotep
Jan Twardowski – the first man on the Moon
Church in Trzęsacz – Deep ones do not leave their own, even after death
The Monstrous German Pied Piper
Ys – Deep Ones princess vs clan of eldritch saints
Jentilak and a Christmas cutthroat
Dragons come in every shape and size
TRUE (OK, SLIGHTLY FAR-FETCHED) HISTORY
Order of the Nine Angles – sometimes reality is just as bad and mad as a horror
Humans like ants, ants like zombies
Halny and other foehn winds - the whisper of the wind brings madness
There is more to dimensions than dimensional shamblers
Covenant with God and Melchizedek
Succubi/incubi, aliens and a sorcerer-pope
Stone from the sky, genies and angels
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Excellent Lovecraftian inspirations!
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Slight issue, Nodens ia a Celtic deity, which is where Lovecraft got him from, I didn't know the name and looked him up where I heard it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodens
Thanks for feedback. Yes, I know that original Nodens was Celtic god, but 1) in framework of fiction we could interpret him as many gods under many names 2) I wrote chapter referencing Norse mythology, but not wrote Celtic one (at least yet) 3) Lovecraftian Nodens is defined mostly as hunter of eldritch abominations and enemy of the Crawling Chaos, which in my eyes was pretty corresponding with Odin as the one who leads fight against cratures of Chaos in Ragnarok. Plus as I wrote in the full text (BTW have You read it yet?) concept of Ragnarok is for me extremely Lovecraftian in itself - wolrd of humans (and human-like gods in this case) will one day be crushed by the monstrous forces of chaos, it is inevitable. Although when HPL's answer was despair, Norse one is "Nah, doesn't matter we will still fight as long as we can".
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