Eldritch Abominations and questions about them

Would it be possible for a lesser Eldritch Abomination to live inside a larger Eldritch Abomination? Would it be possible to make the lesser Eldritch Abomination threatening as a secondary antagonist (the larger Eldritch Abomination being the primary antagonist)?

Yes and yes. Everything's possible. How about you explain a little further so that the people who know what they're talking about can help out better? The devil's in the details.

I don't want to share too many details because, unlike other ideas I casually post about in Writer's Block every once in a while, this is an idea for a long term writing project, and I only tend to talk about those with my Real Life creative writing teacher, because I want to eventually release them publicly and I don't want everyone to already know about it because they read about it on the internet.

The CNN webpage, this ain't. You'll spoil maybe a dozen or two dozen people. If that's enough to make a serious dent in your readership, it won't make much difference one way or the other.

The thing about eldritch abominations is that they're unknowable and, in at least some way, bigger than mankind. It might just be in terms of alienness or it might be because they exist mostly in other planes or they might just be really big or what have you. If it's on a small enough scale and of such an easily-grasped nature that a human being might realize that there's another abomination within it, much less make judgements about their relative threat level, it's less of an eldritch abomination than just an unusual monster.

Of course, never say never.

Perhaps you could have the mama abomination appear, cause vast destruction, and pretty much lay waste to all human civilization. Once it has caused destruction equaling a Class 2 on the Apocalypse How scale, the few bare remnants of humanity watch as it suddenly stops moving. At first they think it's just "sleeping" or otherwise temporarily stopping. Eventually, the last enclave of mankind, perhaps some scientific think tank, or ultimate survival bunker folks, grow bold enough to examine the thing.

They find that it is well, truly, and really dead. They begin to celebrate. Then, baby abomination bursts from it's mother's womb, tearing the alien corpse apart with birthing cries to shatter minds, and in its throes destroys the last few human survivors.

edited 9th Mar '11 5:38:56 PM by Wanderhome

If you're concerned about protecting your story, then don't share the plot. However, sharing some details about what role Eldritch Abominations play in your world and nothing else will not really give away your plot in any way. We don't have to know what the heroes have to do with it to help you with this.

Okay. More details. Not that many, but some...

So a kid with limited Reality Warper abilities imagines a fantasy world and writes stories using it as a setting. It comes to life. The world itself is the primary antagonist, but the antagonist of his stories is only the secondary antagonist of our story (despite being the primary antagonist of the ones that he wrote). The antagonist of his stories is itself an Eldritch Abomination.

edited 9th Mar '11 5:34:15 PM by PDown

That's a start. But what exactly does the Eldritch Abomination in question do? Is it an Old God? Does it want to destroy the universe? Do you think it would fit in with the rest of the setting?

And can it be a lesser antagonist? If that's what you feel it should be, try it out and see how it goes.

edited 9th Mar '11 5:39:05 PM by CrystalGlacia

The Setting is an Eldritch Abomination motivated by its desire to create a good narrative-which is not neccessarily in our main character's interest, as he's NOT the main character of the story in the Setting.

The Antagonist of the Setting is an Eldritch Abomination motivated by its desire to destroy the Setting (well, convert it into a gray blob), but he's doomed to fail because the Setting is a much, much stronger Eldritch Abomination who is simply using the Antagonist to create a conflict.

Of course you can. With CosmicHorrors shit gets thrown out the window. Shoggoths were a slave race, that also served as spaceships to their masters.

...and various inexplicable things serve the cult of Cthulhu, which itself is basically its race's high priest to Yog-Sothoth.

It's like an onion. Made of glowing tentacles.