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<blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1523188" data-attributes="member: 6398">Gothmog's got a kewl angle there...&nbsp; Another thing to consider is that Lovecraft went with the idea that these beings were known in the most ancient of times and by the most ancient of people.&nbsp; To our current knowledge, that is Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egypt, and China.&nbsp; However, RE Howard also used Lovecraft's mythos in his Conan stories, and that brings knowledge of these beings into the Hyborian Age.&nbsp; While this era is completely fictionous, so are the mythos themselves, so the idea of sunken ruins beneath the Atlantic or Indian Ocean, or even beneath the Mediteranean, could be a source of lore.&nbsp; The markings on the wall of an Aztec Temple (or perhaps the ruins that the ruins were built ontop of) could be a suitable source.&nbsp; An ancient scroll of ancient writting found within a forgotten Native American burial site in central Illinois could be a source.&nbsp;Off the wall suggestion: Have a Lunar or Mars Mission find a tablet, ala 2001: A Space Odyssy, but instead of Jupiter, have the tablet translate to point at Maine.&nbsp; Stephen King's address would likely be appropriate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bendris Noulg, post: 1523188, member: 6398"] Gothmog's got a kewl angle there... Another thing to consider is that Lovecraft went with the idea that these beings were known in the most ancient of times and by the most ancient of people. To our current knowledge, that is Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egypt, and China. However, RE Howard also used Lovecraft's mythos in his Conan stories, and that brings knowledge of these beings into the Hyborian Age. While this era is completely fictionous, so are the mythos themselves, so the idea of sunken ruins beneath the Atlantic or Indian Ocean, or even beneath the Mediteranean, could be a source of lore. The markings on the wall of an Aztec Temple (or perhaps the ruins that the ruins were built ontop of) could be a suitable source. An ancient scroll of ancient writting found within a forgotten Native American burial site in central Illinois could be a source. Off the wall suggestion: Have a Lunar or Mars Mission find a tablet, ala [i]2001: A Space Odyssy[/i], but instead of Jupiter, have the tablet translate to point at Maine. Stephen King's address would likely be appropriate. [/QUOTE]

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