Orcus and Cthulhu

[Upper_Krust]

Assuming Orcus could both defeat and fully assimilate Cthulhu, then survive the inevitable retribution of Cthulhu's allies, what would such a gestalted horror be like?

Slight aside, for those that have the recent Immortals Handbook Ascension 2023 update I did add a double page spread of C'thor'lu wielding Moon-jolnir on pages 44-45 of the book. Unfortunately, I messed up the double page layout on that illustration and his face is buried in the spine of the book (lesson learned though I don't make the same mistake in the new 5e book...I know my rule of thirds).

 

[Khisanth the Ancient]

I wouldn't really see Orcus as an entity that would "assimilate" others. Kill and raise as undead, sure; consume other outsiders/spirit beings and gain Power Points; but not literally take the powers and nature of others into himself. He's a death & undeath (and chaos/evil) power, not one of consumption and assimilation like the Borg or Xenomorphs/Aliens.

 

[FleshEatingBlackFlutterby]

I wouldn't really see Orcus as an entity that would "assimilate" others. Kill and raise as undead, sure; consume other outsiders/spirit beings and gain Power Points; but not literally take the powers and nature of others into himself. He's a death & undeath (and chaos/evil) power, not one of consumption and assimilation like the Borg or Xenomorphs/Aliens.

I see Orcus as willing to do just about anything to gain a significant edge on Demogorgon and Graz'zt, plus being a hateful and very spiteful god of necromancers, undead, etc., I totally see ritual cannibalism as being something he would definitely do as long as it had no severe drawbacks. The idea might just not have occured to him due to his extreme narcissism amd total fixation on murdering or enslaving everyone. We're also talking about a demon that died, came back as undead, roamed an upper plane in search of The Last Word, skinny dipped in Primus's energy pool, and resurrected himself.