Cthulhu Mythos

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“	The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.	„
	~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Summary

The "Cthulhu Mythos" encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used — and continue to use — to craft their stories. The term itself was coined by the writer August Derleth. Although this legendarium is also sometimes called the Lovecraft Mythos, most notably by the Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, it has long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception.

The essence in the Mythos is that the human world and our role in it are an illusion. Humanity is living inside a fragile bubble of perception, unaware of what lies behind the curtains or even of the curtains themselves, 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."

Please note, that everything that is not made by H. P. Lovecraft or his close friends during his life is considered non-canon for the purposes of this wiki, even though the Cthulhu Mythos is now public domain. Profiles on this wiki use only the primary canon as opposed to the expanded Mythos, and will primarily use the works of Lovecraft himself, along with occasionally contributions to the Mythos from close friends, such as Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith.

Power of the Verse

The Cthulhu Mythos is a very powerful verse and is widely regarded as one of the strongest verses in fiction. At the absolute low point, we have creatures that can cross interstellar distances easily and travel between universes, beings capable of affecting the mind to a high degree, and causing others to go insane from merely perceiving them. The verses continues to become wider scale through each story within, increasing to beings of such a high magnitude that they can go beyond the concept of space-time and angled space.

As you go further to the higher points of the cosmology, you have the Outer Gods, a group of transcendental High 1-A beings who transcend beyond the multiverse and totality as a whole, viewing everything as an infinitesimal atom within the Ultimate Void. But even the Outer Gods become irrelevant when you look to their archetypes, and realize that the Outer Gods are simply reduced forms of their true formless essence in their Archetypes residing at Tier 0, which are themselves encompassed by the Supreme Archetype, an all-enclosing focal point that holds all things in existence and beyond as facets of itself.

Supporters/Opponents/Neutral

Supporters

Opponents

Neutral

Characters

Outer Gods

Outer Gods

The Blind Idiot God	The All-in-One and One-In-All	The Crawling Chaos
Azathoth	Yog-Sothoth	Nyarlathotep

The Black Goat with a Thousand Young	The Archetypes
Shub-Niggurath	The Ultimate Gods

Great Old Ones

Great Old Ones

The Sleeper of R'lyeh	The Father of The Deep Ones	The Spider God	The Dark God
Cthulhu	Dagon	Atlach-Nacha	Ghatanothoa

The Sleeper of N'kai	The Father of Serpents	The Twin Blasphemies
Tsathoggua	Yig	Nug and Yeb

Ascendant Beings

Ascendant Beings

Lord of The Great Abyss	Lord of Sleep	The Dreamer
Nodens	Hypnos	Randolph Carter

Cosmic Entities

Cosmic Entities

The Cosmic Virus	The Star Spawn of Cthulhu	The Children of Dagon	The Hunters From Beyond
Colour Out of Space	Cthulhi	Deep Ones	The Shamblers

The Old Ones	The Floating Ones	The Projectors	Extradimensional Predators
Elder Things	Flying Polyp	Great Race of Yith	Hounds of Tindalos

The Silent Giants	Servants of Nyarlathotep	The Fungi From Yuggoth	The Faceless Dreams
Wolf-Like Mountains	Hunting Horrrors	Mi-go	Nightgaunts

The Formless Amoeba	Son of Yog-Sothoth
Shoggoth	The Dunwich Horror