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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3304868" data-attributes="member: 28553">I don't think that's exactly how it worked.  Maybe I'm alone in this, but I never really pictured scenes from Legend of the Overfiend playing out on top of Sentinel Hill.  But that's a good point all the same: The very fact that the various mythos deities and such can be called up by humans--whether or not such summonings are vital to some big, important plan of theirs--certainly sounds like it raises humanity's importance, a bit.Then again, maybe that's like saying that I'm important to gravity because I can experience its power by stepping off a cliff.Nyarlathotep is definitely a different case.  I don't think it can be denied that it has some kind of interest in humanity, for whatever reason.  It's probably the only mythos entity in its weight class with anything like a mind or personality that human beings can perceive (if not understand).The Deep Ones are pretty insignificant, too.  They're just a bunch of Cthulhu-worshipping earth natives, not monstrous space gods like Azathoth.Sort of.  Nodens showed up to help Randolph Carter in the Dreamlands.  Lovecraft's Dreamlands stories--despite a lot of shared mythology--always had a much different tone and outlook from his other work.</blockquote>