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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6256398" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think that is the key to the proper tone.  Lovecraft's heroes can never win; they can only delay and postpone the inevitable.  Humanity will go extinct.  That is unalterable cosmic and physical destiny.  Fundamentally, Lovecraftian Horror is the horror of modern physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, and the vast spaces of the atom.  Humanity can make bargains with physics to prosper by its own limited standards for a time, but it can't change the rules.   Heat death and the cold uncaring universe creeps steadily on, quite as oblivious to humanities struggles as it is to any other random heated vapor.I will say that technically, Cthulhu isn't king of the universe, but the Lovecraftian universe does have a king and creator -  mindless faceless mad Azathoth, the star sized 'god' who is incarnate the primordial nuclear inferno, and who is served by Nyarthahotep that ensures in a perverse version of the anthropomorphic principle that the reoccurring universes Azathoth births are eternally bleak, violent, unjust, and callous.   Cthulhu is merely a parasite of Azathoth, like a tick or a flea, and potent as he may seem he can no more change the fundamental rules of the universe than humanity can.   And yet, the horror of the Lovecraftian universe is that cosmicly speaking, the fact that Cthulhu dwells on the Earth is the only thing important about this otherwise unremarkable speck of dust.   Humanity is no more important in the grand scheme of things than the scum on a stagnant pond, and will never arise any higher than that.</blockquote>

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