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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#1: Feb 1st 2011 at 6:19:28 PM

Any idea where we should start? It really does need a Character page.

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#3: Feb 1st 2011 at 6:39:01 PM

What do you mean, what do I mean? Should we start with the most famous of them, Great Cthulhu?

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slowzombie Platypus! from Way up North Since: Jan, 2001
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#4: Feb 1st 2011 at 6:45:34 PM

Ok, just to clarify, since there's apparently some confusion going on here. The statement is: There should be a Cthulhu Mythos character page. The question is: Which characters do we start with adding, do we limit it to purely Lovecraft stuff or is Dereleth and post-Dereleth also fair game, etc.

edited 1st Feb '11 6:45:48 PM by slowzombie

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#5: Feb 1st 2011 at 6:54:24 PM

Those written by Lovecraft. No Derleth, at the moment.

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#6: Feb 1st 2011 at 7:52:01 PM

Why is "Mythos" in ALL CAPS?

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#7: Feb 1st 2011 at 9:24:28 PM

It caught your attention, didn't it?

Anyway, does anyone know how to create a character page?

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#9: Feb 1st 2011 at 9:59:22 PM

Excellent. Thank you, O Viral Deliverer of Sleep.

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#10: Feb 2nd 2011 at 2:59:22 PM

Added my grain of salt to the character page. Needs More Cultists

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LizardBite Shameless Self-Promoter from Two Galaxies Over Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Feb 2nd 2011 at 3:51:39 PM

Re: Lovecraft/Derleth/etc: I would suggest dividing the page into three secions: Lovecraft Deities, Derleth and Contemporary Deities (So all the ones made by Lovecraft's friends— Derleth, Smith, Bloch, Howard, etc— basically), and Post-Derleth Deities for all the ones that have been introduced since. Of which there are admittedly very few (compared to the first two categories, anyway).

edited 2nd Feb '11 3:53:47 PM by LizardBite

JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
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#12: Feb 2nd 2011 at 4:25:35 PM

Well, if one doesn't count Campbell's contributions to the Mythos, which were fairly massive, albeit not so much as the combined efforts of Smith, Derleth, etc. Lumley has a decent share, too, though I'm not much of a fan of his work (too Black and White where it should be Blue and Orange).

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#13: Feb 2nd 2011 at 5:01:29 PM

Lovecraft and his circle of friends. Lets not get bogged down in Derleth right now.

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#14: Feb 2nd 2011 at 5:39:17 PM

I'm pretty sure Lovecraft's works actually aren't the beginning of the Mythos, though he is the trope namer.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#15: Feb 2nd 2011 at 5:42:26 PM

He was inspired by, for example, The King In Yellow and The Gods Of Pegana, but that mostly consisted of borrowing some names. There's even less continuity between those and Lovecraft than there is afterward.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#17: Feb 2nd 2011 at 5:53:39 PM

I never remember that one because I haven't read it and know little about it. sad

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#18: Feb 2nd 2011 at 6:13:14 PM

Was it also made part of the Mythos or not?

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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
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#19: Feb 3rd 2011 at 8:36:19 PM

It could be considered part of it, albeit in the same way that Ligotti's "Nethescurial" is a Mythos story: Because it feels like one.

Plus, there's the Nodens reference.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#20: Feb 3rd 2011 at 8:38:57 PM

It's the same feel, but the mythos is a (vaguely) defined set of entities within one particular set of cosmic horror stories, not every Eldritch Abomination there is.

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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
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#21: Feb 3rd 2011 at 9:12:15 PM

That's why I brought up the significance of the reference to Nodens on the pillar: It was made canon by Lovecraft's inclusion of the entity implied. But whatever.

How about we simply add in entities (sorted by author) based upon the overt inclusion by the author of the story into the Mythos? Admittedly, this becomes somewhat problematic with the inclusion of functional canon works like Ramsey Campbell's "The Voice of the Beach" (which Word of God declared to be a Mythos story but mentions no deity directly by name) or T.E.D. Klein's "Children of the Kingdom" (same basic universe as "Black Man with a Horn", which is overtly Mythos-based), but in general this model could prove quite sound.

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#22: Feb 8th 2011 at 2:45:27 PM

We could use some character pics. If possible, if we can find/if we're allowed to use, I'd suggest the art used for Arkham Horror. It's a very nice, single-artist/style collection for a large number of Mythos beings. There is a crapton of art for the Mythos which does range from hideously great to hilariously goofy.

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Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#23: Feb 27th 2011 at 11:08:12 AM

Marvellous amount of progress here.

Anyone know of any other significant human characters whom can be used?

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#24: Feb 27th 2011 at 9:10:31 PM

We probably need to get some Randolph Carter in there, to name one.

Colonial1.1 Purveyor of Obscurity from The Marvelous River City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#25: Feb 28th 2011 at 5:48:33 AM

The Whatelys as well?

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