Hastur! Hastur! Hastur!

[Azzemmell]

I hope that answered you question, Deedlit...


Deedlit?...


(gasp!)


Poor Deedlit!

 

[Alzrius]

For even more He-who-is-not-to-be-named fun, check out Delta Green: Countdown.

That a d20 product? I glanced at the Warehouse 23 order page, but it didn't say.

 

[spacecrime.com]

Re: Re: Hastur! Hastur! Hastur!

Hastur is a demigod from the Cthulhu Mythos. If you say his name, you draw the attention of said deity.

Which is one reason my players' favorite NPC from my last Star Trek campaign was the hapless communications officer Ensign Hastur.

cheers,

 

[Aaron L]

Delta Green: Countdown is a supplement for BRP Call of Cthulhu, but it hardly matters, because it has all of 10 paragraphs of rules stuff. Everything else is setting and info.

 

[jdavis]

The Hastur Cycle, a collection of stories about Hastur:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568820941/ref=ase_inktomi-bkasin-20/103-8313648-8033448

They didn't nickname him "the unspeakable" or "He who must not be named" for nothing.

 

[Celtavian]

Re

Does anyone know what H.P. Lovecraft story Hastur is mentioned in?

 

[jdavis]

I don't know if Hastur was one of Lovecraft's, a lot of authors contributed to the mythology. I know you can find Hastur in "The Gable Window" by August Derleth

 

[omro]

I don't know if Hastur was one of Lovecraft's, a lot of authors contributed to the mythology. I know you can find Hastur in "The Gable Window" by August Derleth

from http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/myths.htm#hastur

"I found myself faced by names and terms that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connexions - Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R'lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L'mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum - and was drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the Necronomicon had only guessed in the vaguest way."

it seems hastur was only mentionned by hp Lovecraft AND the unspeakeable (Magnum Innominandum) was also mentionned later in the sentence.

So it's safe to say that all description of Hastur, and all mention of him as "the unspeakable" doesnt come from hp Lovecraft.

 

[jdavis]

There was a group of writers at the time that all fed off of each others work, Lovecraft was just one of the more famous ones, The group also included Clark Aston Smith and Robert E. Howard among others. August Derleth coined the term "Cthulhu mythos".

 

[ruleslawyer]

Hastur (along with Cthugha and Ithaqua) is pretty solidly an August Derleth character, his first major appearance being in "The Gable Window," as jdavis mentioned earlier. IMHO, Derleth's pastiches are pretty weak compared to Lovecraft's original stories. Hastur certainly is mentioned in Lovecraft, and is effectively fleshed out in the BRP CoC (the Cthulhu Now! supplement has one of my favorite Hastur adventures, which I won't spoil for ya).