cthuhlu appearance?

alsih2o

First Post

• Jun 12, 2003

• #1

i have some interest in trying to create a cthuhlu sculpture, but find myself lacking specifics. in the pictures i see he has a vague number of tentacles, did he/she/it have a set number? as for a scale item, how big is the big C? 2 eyes?

can someone point me to a good pic on the internet?

if anyone can help em here i would really appreciate. i am not a cthuhlu player, but the whole aura of it interests me.

 

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Robbert Raets

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• Jun 12, 2003

• #2

 

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demiurge1138

Inventor of Super-Toast

• Jun 12, 2003

• #3

By DnD standards, Cthulhu is colossal, maybe 80-100 feet tall. The best Cthulhu pic I've seen was in the Call of Cthulhu d20 game.

Here's the link:
http://www.wizards.com/cthulhu/images/gallery/5_x34p/Coc_58a.jpg

Demiurge out.

 

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Gellion

First Post

• Jun 12, 2003

• #4

Robbert Raets said:

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CUTETHULHU!!!!

 

Robbert Raets

Explorer

• Jun 12, 2003

• #5

Okay, maybe this one is a bit more useful:

 

AmerginLiath

Adventurer

• Jun 12, 2003

• #6

Then there's the image from D20 Cthulu of the Great One fighting the D&D Iconics...

 

Robbert Raets

Explorer

• Jun 12, 2003

• #7

This is just bizarre....

 

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F5

Explorer

• Jun 12, 2003

• #8

Cthulhu is generally big, gooey, enormous, and flabby. It's generally agreed that he had a squis head, bat wings, but more than that it's pretty much the artists' interperetation.

Going back to the source, here's stuff I cut-and-pasted out of HP Lovecraft's original Call of Cthulhu story:

Description of a stone statue of the Big C:

The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way clown toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees. The aspect of the whole was abnormally life-like, and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown.

And bits and pieces from the description of Big C himself:

…Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness…

…The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled...

…Three men were swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned. …only Briden and Johansen reached the boat, and pulled desperately for the Alert as the mountainous monstrosity flopped down the slimy stones and hesitated, floundering at the edge of the water…

Take that and do with it what you will...

The important question is...does ENWorld get to see the sculpture when you're done?

 

Tom Cashel

First Post

• Jun 12, 2003

• #9

My favorite Cthulhu picture of all time...I think it's from an old edition of an Arkham House book of Lovecraft stories.

Sorry for the huge image, but it's worth it, no?

 

Darth Shoju

First Post

• Jun 12, 2003

• #10

cthulhu

From what I know, Cthulhu can alter his appearance greatly, so he doesn't really have a set number of tentacles, and his wings can be as big or small as he wants.

Here's a couple of links to pics:
http://www.nightserpent.com/statue.html

http://www.miskatonic.net/pickman/mythos/vinyl.html

But there is a pic somewhere on the net that I think is a pretty good representation of Cthulhu. The pic is of a mock-up of a statue from a story by the man himself. I can't find the pic but here is Lovecraft's description:

[edit: I was going to post an excerpt from The Call of Cthulhu but F5 beat me to it ! ]

 

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