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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tsadkiel" data-source="post: 110772" data-attributes="member: 262">Lovecraft never envisioned a mythos.  (Let alone a Mythos.)  he and his friends wrote a bunch of stories, some of them with tongue firmly planted in cheek (see Luveh-Keraph, High Priest of Bast, for instance) and used common elements in many of those stories.  There was no attempt at any sort of coherent mythology.  And the futility-of-human-existence meter varies wildly form author to author, and even among stories by the same author (Nyarlathotep and company seem almost envious of humanity in parts of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, for instance.)The Mythos as we know it is really the creation of Sandy Peterson, who looked over the stories, picked the thematic elements that appealed to him, and created a setting for a role-playing game.</blockquote>