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<blockquote data-quote="Tristissima" data-source="post: 316081" data-attributes="member: 6162">And now for something completely different . . .Well, for a completely different, non-Lovecraftian explanation . . .In my homebrew, Nomenclature, which is inspired both by HPL and by certain elements of queer theory, sanity is a result of the World Before being ripped apart by Hamada of the Red Earth, who Named the world, creating the World Now.&nbsp; The resulting races, bound by names and labels and language, simply cannot handle viewing even the tiniest hints of what it was like before Hamada created the world.&nbsp; Unfortunately, hints like this are littered throughout the world.&nbsp; Indeed, every race except the humans (descendants of Hamada himself) resembles, in some slight way, what the world was like before.&nbsp; Thus, every race is rather insular and isolated from each other (although the non-human races will sometimes make contact with the humans and a few humans have become a sort of diplomat among the races).Sanity loss therefore is more the witnessing, or the remembering, of things which cannot be put into language, or words.&nbsp; These things cannot be completely conceived of by the mind.&nbsp; Such things are inherently un-understandable and will break the mind.Sorry for those who don't care, I'm just eager to post <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tristissima, post: 316081, member: 6162"] [b]And now for something completely different . . .[/b] Well, for a completely different, non-Lovecraftian explanation . . . In my homebrew, Nomenclature, which is inspired both by HPL and by certain elements of queer theory, sanity is a result of the World Before being ripped apart by Hamada of the Red Earth, who Named the world, creating the World Now. The resulting races, bound by names and labels and language, simply cannot handle viewing even the tiniest hints of what it was like before Hamada created the world. Unfortunately, hints like this are littered throughout the world. Indeed, every race except the humans (descendants of Hamada himself) resembles, in some slight way, what the world was like before. Thus, every race is rather insular and isolated from each other (although the non-human races will sometimes make contact with the humans and a few humans have become a sort of diplomat among the races). Sanity loss therefore is more the witnessing, or the remembering, of things which cannot be put into language, or words. These things cannot be completely conceived of by the mind. Such things are inherently un-understandable and will break the mind. Sorry for those who don't care, I'm just eager to post :-) [/QUOTE]

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