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Published: 2011-03-14 04:56:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 524; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 19
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The Lovecraftian shape shifter elder god, the"Daemon Sultan", In one of his/it's many guises.Here in the form of a Middle Eastern scholar,dapper,harmless and thoughtful looking.
If only we poor mortals knew...or on second thought, maybe it's better we don't !!
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The most harmless-seeming -and dangerous - avatar of Nyarlathotep. By walking among men as a man, he spreads his poison and madness.
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Well said, thank you my friend!
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It looks great~
Although I've always imagined him in a different way. It's interesting to see the way you've drawn him.
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Thank you Dear friend!
I find it interesting to see how different artists would portray a writer's character, such as how would so and so do Dickens' Bill Sykes or Stephenson's Mr. Hyde and so on.
It's very intriguing!
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Yes, I love seeing the same characters drawn by different people. That's why I was looking Nyarlathotep drawings here in DA
I love when books have drawings. For example, after reading La Divina Commedia with illustrations by DorΓ©, I can't imagine Vergil in a different way.
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The Penguin paperbacks show maps of Hell,Purgatory and Heaven that I see as canon.
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I know what you mean.
Dore` was a powerful artist, his illustrations are so timeless!
On a side note;
For years (when I was a kid) I was amazed how the pictures of the Roman poet Virgil looked like Basil Rathbone ( Which sort of makes sense,I guess, my sisters and I were really into the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films)
Odd how even with decades or centuries apart how life and art overlap sometimes.
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I saw once a Cthulhu mythos based horror movie - and yeah, the hero went to the middle east, library in istanbul maybe.. and things.. happens.
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That sounds very interesting! What was the movie's title?
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Sadly, I forgot... I should check wikipedia, maybe it listed it somewhere, or the IMDB.
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No worries,it's all good!
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Wikipedia led me to a possible one; H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon
It may have been a library of an eastern christian monastery... like in istanbul.
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I think(if it's the one I'm thinking of) a compilation of several of H.P.L.'s stories (the film, a late 1990s/ early 2ooos vintage I believe)There's an odd,old library(and "that" book)and the stories are told in the form of visions(or something like that) I think I saw bits and pieces of it on You Tube.
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yeah, maybe - a friend I was visiting rented several horror movies for the weekend, and I have vague memories of the scene at the said library...
'You can not take this book!'
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I tried to get a link to you tube of the movie but the you tube knuckle heads removed it.(DRAT!)
Maybe another time my friend.(sigh)
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Oh well...
Youtube's peoples are hard on copyrights for sure.
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I know they mean well,but they drive me crazy sometimes(and that's a short trip!)
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Thank you!(sorry for the slow reply,real life must be dealt with before we dream.)
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I am honoured my friend, you are most kind!
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This is so different to what younormally do, & it is a brilliant picture. Thank you for the info on him.
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You are most welcome my friend!
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Hehehehe.
Ironically enough, the character I created to be a "Scientist, comma, mad" for our Gothic Earth/Vampire Masquerade/Call of Cthulhu (we went through all 3 systems) game, wound up consistently rolling saves for sanity, and was the sanest of the whole group... His wife on the other hand... Boy once you get below 25% sanity it just ROLLS downhill.
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I have 2 Chaosium books on role-playing mythos interactive stories. So many ways you can lose sanity points ... any loss can be the one that is a 1-way ticket to the laughing academy.
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And sanity lost due to gaining Mythos knowledge,can not be repaired.Those who go to 0 sanity points either wind up in a back ward at the asylum, or become henchmen of the very god they started out opposing.
A good way to reverse alignment: study and practice mythos spells (like the one requiring 2 murders and cannibalism !)
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Great!
I'm glad you liked this piece.
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"Dapper, harmless, and toughtful looking..."
Nifty rendering JC!
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You are most wise to see past the shifty shape shifter's guise good Lady!
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Hardly, Nyarlathotep has his own agenda, It's just to show that sometimes great evil can look harmless, even kind.
No,Nyarlathotep is not a nice guy
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IF you can find it ! Arkham House, to my knowledge, chose not to republish the early pieces by Lovecraft. I have their books, DAGON, THE DUNWICH HORROR, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM, and these do not go to these small pieces that were published in private pamphlets.
Ballantine published them, as well as the poems, mythos and not such, but allowed them to go out of print again. They also allowed Derleth's stories to slide back into the shadows. I have them - thankfully.
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I once had the Dunwich horror and another selection of his short stories with the Lee Brown Coye dust jacket illos when I was a teenager, sadly it got lost in the shuffle of life. (DRAT!)
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I HAD some dust jackets by Lee Brown Coye, but they were put in a drawer and stayed behind when mother & I sold the upstate summer home, after father passed on. Some of my Arkham House hardbacks have dust jackets, by Utpatel and others, but not Lee Brown Coye.
Tho the Lovecraft books remain in print at Arkham, they let other authors go out of print. I'm particularly pleased that I have THE INHABITANT OF THE LAKE by Ramsey Campbell ,with the dust jacket, and THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS by Frank Belknap Long with its dust jacket.
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Maybe if fortune smiles I will have them again!
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