What aspects of Eldritch Horror really horrify you?

[ShadowsOfParadox]

More than all the scary monsters, I think the most terrifying thing Lovecraft portrays is the sheer meaninglessness of his vision of the cosmos.

If nothing matters, then nothing but what we do matters.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

If nothing matters, then nothing but what we do matters.

Except that which we put value into regardless, also because dudes like Conan when confronted by it can “Just Not Care” and go on loving life and flirting with death regardless

 

[Deleted member]

If nothing matters, then nothing but what we do matters.

Lovecraft is very Nietzschean, he just removes the hope of at least being the Ubermensch.

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

Lovecraft is very Nietzschean, he just removes the hope of at least being the Ubermensch.

but thats the whole point of Nietzsche, "You've fucked up the underlying basis for your belief system so you have to invent new values"

If nothing matters, then nothing but what we do matters.

which is another way of saying "if nothing has meaning, what I think has meaning has meaning."

 

[ShadowsOfParadox]

which is another way of saying "if nothing has meaning, what I think has meaning has meaning."

this is true .

 

[Scottty]

Lovecraft is very Nietzschean, he just removes the hope of at least being the Ubermensch.

Just reading that makes me want to invent a story in which humanity comes out on top in that universe over all the crazy tentacle critters.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Just reading that makes me want to invent a story in which humanity comes out on top in that universe over all the crazy tentacle critters.

Dwemer

The Dwemer (also referred to as the Dwarves, Deep-Elves, Deep Folk, Deep Ones, People of the Deep, Deep-Counseled or Secretive People or the under-Elves) were an ancient "Lost Race" of Mer who were remnants of the early Aldmer, and lived primarily in the region of Dwemereth. Mer used the term...

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They do this by becoming the Dwemer, they don’t go insane or be in awe when confronted with Eldritch Supernatural beings because they are able to analyse them scientifically and go “they are JUST really powerful beings”

I think it can be said that the Great Race of Yith and Elder Things can be counted as having had a similar mindset, the latter fought against Cthulhu’s forces, I think, and did NOT go mad

Though it should be remembered, even the latter fell

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

Just reading that makes me want to invent a story in which humanity comes out on top in that universe over all the crazy tentacle critters.

Conan, more or less.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Conan, more or less.

But with more advanced technology and constantly and willingly traveling throughout Space-Time

Civilization however, as shown in REH’s works, even mere bronze to iron aged settled ones, could degrade this sort of spirit

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

But with more advanced technology and constantly and willingly traveling throughout Space-Time

Civilization however, as shown in REH’s works, even mere bronze to iron aged settled ones, could degrade this sort of spirit

Well that's kind of trying to have your cake and eat it too, like I mentioned earlier, the conceit of the setting seems to be that the conditions of modern life specifically leave us more vulnerable to the horrors of the Lovecraftian world.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Well that's kind of trying to have your cake and eat it too, like I mentioned earlier, the conceit of the setting seems to be that the conditions of modern life specifically leave us more vulnerable to the horrors of the Lovecraftian world.

Not just modern life, but I think even "civilised life" in an Iron Aged society counts

 

[Guncannon]

The hopelessness. The void of happy endings or ability to fight back is just as horrifying as the eldritch horror (be it monster or something else) itself.

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

The hopelessness. The void of happy endings or ability to fight back is just as horrifying as the eldritch horror (be it monster or something else) itself.

Steamboat goes BRRRRRRRR

 

[PsihoKekec]

Ramming speed equals stars not right.

 

[Typhonis]

The boot has no argument with the ant when it comes down. That is horrifying. Not that they can wipe us out because , we are a threat but that they do it because they do not care that we are here.

 

[Syzygy]

Lovecraft is scary because he implies stupidity is a universal constant, and humanity hasn't done much to refute that. Sure, our species produces the occasional brilliance, but like the stars they will eventually collapse leaving everyone else in darkness.

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

Lovecraft is scary because he implies stupidity is a universal constant, and humanity hasn't done much to refute that. Sure, our species produces the occasional brilliance, but like the stars they will eventually collapse leaving everyone else in darkness.

Literal Sauronposting.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Lovecraft is scary because he implies stupidity is a universal constant, and humanity hasn't done much to refute that. Sure, our species produces the occasional brilliance, but like the stars they will eventually collapse leaving everyone else in darkness.

Robert E Howard who shares the very same setting however shows that the REAL stupidity is "civilized men" with real big brains and too much hyper-analysis or pseudo-intellectualism care too much about their own significance even when deep down they know even without eldritch horrors they do not matter much at all

And the setting or entire universe is in the mind of Azathoth and thus not really real

But hey, if everybody else is an illusion then the world may as well be real to them and who the fuck really cares, you're STILL going to be waiting for John Wick 4

 

[ATP]

Normal horror is something about eating me/my family.Eldrith horror is about replacing my family by things which look like them,speak like them,move like them - BUT ARE NOT THEM ANYMORE.
That is why it is far more horrific.

 

[Scottty]

Steamboat goes BRRRRRRRR

I just want to say here: I regret that I have but one like to give that post.