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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8118418" data-attributes="member: 93670">Your comment shows why it's so problematic how they tried to strip the lore to pretend it was lovecraftian rather than admit the setting lore it came from.1:  It's not based on those creatures you note, it's transparently based on <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dolgaunt" target="_blank">this</a>.  Like beholder  & mind flayer/illithid  ithe <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dolgaunt" target="_blank">dolgaunt</a>, <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dolgrim" target="_blank">dolgrim</a>, <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dolgrue" target="_blank">dolgrue</a>,& others... they were all created by the <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Daelkyr" target="_blank">daelkyr</a> from <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Xoriat" target="_blank">xoriat</a>, not the far realm.  The far realm is a completely different place from xoriat.  Although there are some similarities they are distinctly different places with lore of their own much like how the cities of waterdeep kalaman & greyhawk are not the same despite some similarities.2. They got sued over that deities & demigods link you are citing & can read about it <a href="https://dmdavid.com/tag/the-true-story-of-the-cthulhu-and-elric-sections-removed-from-deities-demigods/" target="_blank">here</a>3.  in case you missed it, it's based heavily on the daelkyr creations with oddly fitting lovecraftian elements bolted on... because of that it has jarring incongruities just as an archtype of defilers & preservers centered around mystara's weave & Mystryl's desire to subvert it would be both confusing and rage inducing.</blockquote>

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