Books Humanity in Lovecraft is even more depressingly insignificant than first thought

[CarlManvers2019]

This is a timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos, which so happens to share a setting with HP Lovecraft’s other writing friends like Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith

One thing that is definite is that humanity will eventually go extinct

But here’s one thing that’s more depressing

Humanity here never truly reaches the stars, let alone gets to compete with the Elder Races or Aliens who aren’t eldritch horrors

Instead, it’s technology level remains stagnant or even cyclical as humanity eventually goes back to even more primitive times thousands of years from the time of Lovecraft’s stories

It’s depressing in the sense that humanity doesn’t really even shine much in this vast cosmos, even for a moment

Even the Dresden Files makes humanity feel more important to the world in the extreme long run

 

[Doomsought]

Actually, Humanity reaches Venus in one of Lovecraft's stories.

 

[ShadowLord]

While I can't speak of much besides Lovecraft's work, he's generally pretty vague about humanity's future. The closest he gets, I think, is The Shadow Out of Time. Where its said that a beatle-like race would 'follow mankind' and live on the Earth on it's dying days.

I don't think he ever ruled out the idea that humanity might make it to other solar systems in his work and so on. Then again, its possiable that the idea just never occurred to Lovecraft.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Actually, Humanity reaches Venus in one of Lovecraft's stories.

While I can't speak of much besides Lovecraft's work, he's generally pretty vague about humanity's future. The closest he gets, I think, is The Shadow Out of Time. Where its said that a beatle-like race would 'follow mankind' and live on the Earth on it's dying days.

I don't think he ever ruled out the idea that humanity might make it to other solar systems in his work and so on. Then again, its possiable that the idea just never occurred to Lovecraft.

Fair, though while the Lovecraft Circle probably never constantly 100% consulted each other on everything

I think humanity may have done a bunch of repeated rise and falls to the point they devolved into the Worms of The Earth or similar

 

[Doomsought]

Not all of Lovecraft's works were meant to be in the same universe. He made some artifical myths, and he also experimented with scifi.

 

[Yinko]

The first part of the time-line is a false-premise. It claims that the universe began therefore Azathoth began dreaming, there is no causal relationship between these two things. It is far more plausible that this is either one of many dreams that he is having concurrently or that this is one of many that he is having sequentially.

Pretty cool that the timeline goes past the present though.

 

[GoldRanger]

Humanity in the Dresden Files isn't insignificant at all, on the contrary. Humanity is weak and serves mostly as prey, true, but it's also kind of the center of the universe in a cosmic sense, since it seems that the Christian paradigm is correct in the Dresden Files.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Humanity in the Dresden Files isn't insignificant at all, on the contrary. Humanity is weak and serves mostly as prey, true, but it's also kind of the center of the universe in a cosmic sense, since it seems that the Christian paradigm is correct in the Dresden Files.

Yeah, that was sort of what I meant

The NeverNever looks to be highly tied to Human/Mortal lifeforms.

Though, I think beings such as the Fae and the Angels might have existed long before variations of Homo Sapien came into existence

The Free Will of Mortals DOES matter and God IS on humanity's side, though he prefers "Mysterious Ways" and/or making use of the Knights of The Cross, and TBF he does more directly intervene the moment the other side starts messing with Free Will to make things fair-er

Hell, I am onto the theory that it will be mankind's turn to defend the Outer Gates or even somehow seal them forever or manage to destroy whatever's on the other side. Human weapons can kill "Gods" even when they're supposed to die by some prophecy