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First Appereance: "At the Mountain of Madness"Heres another monster from the Cthulhu Mythos, the Elder Things, plant-like aliens that came to earth millions of years ago and are said to be the creators of all life on earth. The last part here I never really cared much about, for one its the fact that writers insisted they made everything (including their "servants" the Shoggoths) but in the CO universe they didn't make everything on earth they only observed life evolve for a curtain amount of time, experimented on some life forms, and when they first arrived on earth they made contact with an entitie that agreed to let them use it's spawn the Shoggoths as "servants" to help expand their cities and fight off the other alien and nonalien invaders.
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I think this is the most accurate drawing of an elder thing that i have ever seen.
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Most of your work requires gallons of brain bleach to handle.
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The mystery kids crossover fandom
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Yeah it requires a lot unfortunatelyΒ
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You poor poor thing.
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Nah that's the intent
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I know that's the intent. I was being slightly sarcastic. Most of your work is based off of h.p. lovecraft and his work. Lovecraft's work requires an ocean of brain bleach but there's a monster probably in the bleach-ocean that eats children or something.
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Eh Lovecraft, Doom 3, Warhammer, Silent Hill, and a few other things I can't think of at the moment
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Probably one of the most dynamic drawings of an Elder Thing I've seen recently.
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HE ONLY WANTS TO MAKE METAPHORS
WHY DO YOU FEAR HIM SO
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In At the Mountains of Madness, the Elder Things were presented as a metaphor for the direction humanity was headed, and were spoken of as "mere scientists, much like we were" who awoke from their ancient slumber and escaped to their pre-determined rendezvous site, only to find "terror and madness" at the hands of the shoggoths, who'd long ago destroyed the last of the survivors.
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Oh I understood the metaphor, and weren't there some surviving Elder Things the scientists who unintentionaly revived them?
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Yeah, they revived, dissected the scientists out of curiosity, then attempted to open the gateway to the inner Earth, where their kind had fled long ago, only to find that the shoggoths had broken into it ages ago and had eaten all the other survivors; the narrator, of course, relates this, putting himself in their shoes, imagining what he might have thought after awakening to mysterious creatures prodding at his body, then fighting them off, escaping to what he imagined to be a safe place, only to find nothing but terror and madness waiting for him.
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I can see that, it also mentions that one of the main scientists saw something that wasn't a Shoggoth or an Elder Thing but something far worse
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Yeah! "What lay back of those other violet westward mountains which the Old Ones had shunned and feared."
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Stinks that it was never explained what the guy saw that drove him mad
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Oh, I've seen that in a book about book aliens
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I heard about the alien book its supposed to have just about every alien lifeform from literature
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Yeah, I really like that book
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It's looking as weird as this picture.
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I've...noticed...greatly
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