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<blockquote data-quote="AngryMojo" data-source="post: 5632491" data-attributes="member: 83096"><p>Strange aeons ago, Pelor glimpsed far into the sky above his domain, far above creation itself and saw the vast darkness for what it was. Fearful for what would come, he quickly willed a barrier against the stark nothingness into existence, hoping it would stem the tide. Far down on the newly created natural world, life continued as normal for centuries. The barrier set up by the god held, and kept the blackness from creation.</p><p></p><p>However, cracks were found. Several races of creatures bearing the unnatural mark of the dark spaces between the stars emerged, and began interfering with the gods creation. Illithids manipulated the biology and psychology of cultures both above and beneath the ground while aboleths enslaved and mutated mortals. Beholders gibbered across the land, never speaking coherently enough for the mortals, or even the gods to understand. The gods fought against these slavers and corrupters, never realizing the aberrations loved their home. They sought to strenghten it in the only ways they knew, to fully comprehend it and make it able to stand against the endless expanse of the far realm. The illithids, the beholders, the aboleths have been touched by the far realm, and understand the horrible implications of that unknowable expanse. When the time has come and the stars are right, the barrier will collapse and the far will come into creation. A day that even the gods fear, for compared to the endless expanse they are as ants to the highest of divinity.</p><p></p><p>The far realm does not concern itself with that day. To them, it has already happened.</p><p></p><p>That's the appeal behind the far realm. Lovecraftian horror, from the cosmic aspect at least, isn't about tentacled beasts or dripping ooze, it's about nihilism. Not only is the constant struggle against the unknowable unwinnable, doom is coming. When the stars are right, Cthulhu will rise from R'yleh and lay waste to the earth as he awakens/resurrects. Humanity will be eradicated, and Cthulhu won't even notice. The fine folks at Chaosium do a better job of explaining it than I, or probably anyone on this board, can. Read through the Call of Cthulhu rulebook, and you'll at least see what the unknowable can appear to be, and how the term is not a cop-out but a narrative challenge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AngryMojo, post: 5632491, member: 83096"] Strange aeons ago, Pelor glimpsed far into the sky above his domain, far above creation itself and saw the vast darkness for what it was. Fearful for what would come, he quickly willed a barrier against the stark nothingness into existence, hoping it would stem the tide. Far down on the newly created natural world, life continued as normal for centuries. The barrier set up by the god held, and kept the blackness from creation. However, cracks were found. Several races of creatures bearing the unnatural mark of the dark spaces between the stars emerged, and began interfering with the gods creation. Illithids manipulated the biology and psychology of cultures both above and beneath the ground while aboleths enslaved and mutated mortals. Beholders gibbered across the land, never speaking coherently enough for the mortals, or even the gods to understand. The gods fought against these slavers and corrupters, never realizing the aberrations loved their home. They sought to strenghten it in the only ways they knew, to fully comprehend it and make it able to stand against the endless expanse of the far realm. The illithids, the beholders, the aboleths have been touched by the far realm, and understand the horrible implications of that unknowable expanse. When the time has come and the stars are right, the barrier will collapse and the far will come into creation. A day that even the gods fear, for compared to the endless expanse they are as ants to the highest of divinity. The far realm does not concern itself with that day. To them, it has already happened. That's the appeal behind the far realm. Lovecraftian horror, from the cosmic aspect at least, isn't about tentacled beasts or dripping ooze, it's about nihilism. Not only is the constant struggle against the unknowable unwinnable, doom is coming. When the stars are right, Cthulhu will rise from R'yleh and lay waste to the earth as he awakens/resurrects. Humanity will be eradicated, and Cthulhu won't even notice. The fine folks at Chaosium do a better job of explaining it than I, or probably anyone on this board, can. Read through the Call of Cthulhu rulebook, and you'll at least see what the unknowable can appear to be, and how the term is not a cop-out but a narrative challenge. [/QUOTE]
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