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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 5424209" data-attributes="member: 29746">Wonderful thread idea, since so many threads have been posted on exactly this topic. Not to mention posts within other threads, such as the estimates of the power of various sci-fi races in the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/eternity-publishing-hosted-forum/270245-ih-sci-fi-edition.html" target="_blank">Sci-Fi</a> thread.&nbsp;My own answer to that specific question would be: Greater God, tops (for Cthulhu &amp; Hastur), Elder One (or less powerful Old One) for Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep is an Outer/Other God himself, after all: he just happens to be the least powerful of them. So he's beyond the power of a mere deity, if Azathoth and the others are too. Cthulhu and Hastur are apparently ascended mortal beings of some weird alien race or other, and clearly haven't reached the level of Cosmic Force that (say) Shub-Niggurath or Azathoth have. So that makes them deity-level, not Sidereal-level, possibly even as low as Demigod. I'd doubt their power is any lower than that, though, given how long their cults have stuck around and how powerful/widespread said cultists appear to be within the society depicted in the stories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 5424209, member: 29746"] Wonderful thread idea, since so many threads have been posted on [B]exactly[/B] this topic. Not to mention posts within other threads, such as the estimates of the power of various sci-fi races in the [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forum/eternity-publishing-hosted-forum/270245-ih-sci-fi-edition.html]Sci-Fi[/URL] thread. My own answer to that [I]specific[/I] question would be: Greater God, tops (for Cthulhu & Hastur), Elder One (or less powerful Old One) for Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep is an Outer/Other God himself, after all: he just happens to be the least powerful of them. So he's beyond the power of a mere deity, if Azathoth and the others are too. Cthulhu and Hastur are apparently ascended mortal beings of some weird alien race or other, and clearly haven't reached the level of Cosmic Force that (say) Shub-Niggurath or Azathoth have. So that makes them deity-level, not Sidereal-level, possibly even as low as Demigod. I'd doubt their power is any lower than that, though, given how long their cults have stuck around and how powerful/widespread said cultists appear to be within the society depicted in the stories. [/QUOTE]

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