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<blockquote data-quote="Caliburn101" data-source="post: 7757315" data-attributes="member: 6802178"><p>Yeah I meant the gas for injecting into your car to Mad Max it.</p><p></p><p>On the what Nyarlothotep did front, Lovecraft agreed to let Howard set his Kull and Conan stories in his Mythos timeline and it is canon that the big N ended the Valusian Age (of Kull) in a vast cataclysm that changed the planet and started the age that would become known as the Hyborian Age.</p><p></p><p>Nyarlothotep's less than massively destructive approach to humanity is a choice made of an unusual level of interest in the accidental and underpowered species (especially when they endeavour use sorcery/magic) and he chooses most of the time to manipulate and corrupt and chooses forms appropriately. But if motivated can end the world in 2012 movie-style. His most commonly chosen forms merely mask his true power, which is vast. It is Nyarlothotep who keeps Azathoth asleep, and as the universe is a creation of the sleeping Azathoth, keeping him asleep is pretty much the most important job around.</p><p></p><p>Thusly, big N is far from being an also-ran in the mythos.</p><p></p><p>That said a form may be relatively weak, but he doesn't die even though some of his forms have been reportedly 'killed'. The choice of vampiric weaknesses for him, and the prospect of killing him if you get him back at base is thus misplaced I think. I don't think he's accurately presentable as an overall entity, but as one of his many forms this can work if you remove the prospect of him dying at mortal hands in any way. Forms can perish, but N is at least as unkillable as Cthulhu, most likely moreso, and the demise of one of his forms would seem to be of no more import to his survival than the loss of shed skin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caliburn101, post: 7757315, member: 6802178"] Yeah I meant the gas for injecting into your car to Mad Max it. On the what Nyarlothotep did front, Lovecraft agreed to let Howard set his Kull and Conan stories in his Mythos timeline and it is canon that the big N ended the Valusian Age (of Kull) in a vast cataclysm that changed the planet and started the age that would become known as the Hyborian Age. Nyarlothotep's less than massively destructive approach to humanity is a choice made of an unusual level of interest in the accidental and underpowered species (especially when they endeavour use sorcery/magic) and he chooses most of the time to manipulate and corrupt and chooses forms appropriately. But if motivated can end the world in 2012 movie-style. His most commonly chosen forms merely mask his true power, which is vast. It is Nyarlothotep who keeps Azathoth asleep, and as the universe is a creation of the sleeping Azathoth, keeping him asleep is pretty much the most important job around. Thusly, big N is far from being an also-ran in the mythos. That said a form may be relatively weak, but he doesn't die even though some of his forms have been reportedly 'killed'. The choice of vampiric weaknesses for him, and the prospect of killing him if you get him back at base is thus misplaced I think. I don't think he's accurately presentable as an overall entity, but as one of his many forms this can work if you remove the prospect of him dying at mortal hands in any way. Forms can perish, but N is at least as unkillable as Cthulhu, most likely moreso, and the demise of one of his forms would seem to be of no more import to his survival than the loss of shed skin. [/QUOTE]
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