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Yet another take of the most powerful and dreadful being that lovecraft created.www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAeJSβ¦
(...)Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.
H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter Of the Dark
"that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity--the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes; to which detestable pounding and piping dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic Ultimate gods, the blind, voiceless, tenebrous, mindless Other gods"
"other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe where the daemon sultan Azathoth gnaws hungrily in chaos amid pounding and piping and the hellish dancing of the Other Gods"
"inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time wherein Azathoth gnaws shapeless and ravenous amidst the muffled, maddening beat of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes."
H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath
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Not so much related as just being the same guy!
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Bardzo ciekawie to wyszΕo. KiedyΕ rysowaΕem w trochΔ podobnym stylu.
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If a fool or lunatic summons Azathoth, he arrives with at least one piper to lull him, but, sooner or later, will start expanding outwards. In all cases, the amorpheous blight was still expanding when it was dispelled.
Nothing can be gained by summoning, save insanity. For that reason, AlHazred would not give his sigil. He also would not disclose the Nng formula, which, tho promising immortality, has horrendous consequences, should one err in so much as one syllable.
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I am wondering whether all the stories are exaggerated. It sounds like some anti-Great Old One propaganda. We know for sure that Keziah Mason made a pact with Azathoth and presumably stood before Him. Β She was definitely sane afterward and was gifted with great powers.
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According to Chaosium and TSR, viewing a mythos god or minion, reading a mythos book,...Β may result in a decided sanity drain. Such does NOt necessarily result in nonfunctional idiocy - madness, but perhaps in alignment reversal. Cult masters already totally insane, await the insanity and alignment reversal of a recruit before entrusting said person with cult secrets.
It is my sincere doubt that Azathoth even knows he is worshipped.
My chaosium manual even stated at the top of a list of spells, that said spells can cause alignment reversal and turn the investigator into a worshipper of the very god he was trying to frustrate (some spells involve murder & even cannibalism).
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I heard of this alignment reversal but I do not agree it is by any means is equivalent or close to sanity loss from medical perspective. These people are evil or amoral but nothing more. Just like vast majority of serial killers who were not found insane during their trial just took pleasure and satisfaction from their actions. My personal theory is that Azathoth and his like are not conscious being but they have subconscoious mind. Nyarlathotep might work as their consciousness, since he was called their soul and messenger. Most if not all secret cults worship Nyarlathotep in some form, even though he claims only to do his masters' will. Another option is that Azathoth is not mindless at all, just for us humans he seems so because his mind is too incomprehensible and abstract
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Blind, mindless, and only brings insanity to those foolish enough to those who summon it.
Will grow nonstop after summoning, from 15' in diameter until dispelled. Process is slowed by one or more attendants who play pipes.
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I personally have doubts if aΒ sight of this creature brings the only insanity to those who summon it. While it is said so by many of Lovecraft's characters, these often seem extremely cowardly people to me. More than once those guys, allegedly "men of science" go as far to destroy priceless archeological finds simply because their scary nature or contradiction to established world view.
There is at least one character, witch Keziah Mason mentioned to have been before throne of Azathoth without any damage to her sanity.
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Keziah Mason may have insane in a way . Alignment reversal. Chaosium delineates various spells (a few requiring human sacrifice and even cannibalism) and warns that usage of these can bring on alignment reversal: aiding mythos beings rather than combating them.
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I think to say that one has to be crazy to side with Great Old One goes a bit too far. Some people's personality and temperament will more naturally make them aligned with evil gods. Not to mention the powers they give. People are willing to kill others for money, often some insignificant amounts, killing for power to escape limits of time and space seems a better deal
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All the dark forces in the universe combined into one being, now that would be this thing...
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I hope I managed to portray it right then.
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either azathoth or yog sothoth could be equally powerful too, now if azathoth wakes up the universe will end in the most spectacular manner i think, all the galaxies turn into chaos as azathoth destroys everything with a arsenal of alien superpowers.
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Yeah and then what would it do? Probably fall asleep again. And the cycle begins anew.
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My friend saw Azathoth once in a vison--she said He seemed quite friendly, and waved a tendril at her!
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Maybe it was his good twin brother?
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Thank you.
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I agree this one is the best, but the others were still phenomenal
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Seriously...I'm not exaggerating. My jaw dropped when I saw this. Truth.
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I'm glad then.
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It is!
I know no creature is mentioned in THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN, but I'd still love to see your interpretation of the story.
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I always imagined these things to be Azathoths pipers though. And I'm drawing a new one right now.
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YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Sorry, Β but this is totally inaccurate. It's got 415982640 mouths, notΒ 415982639 U_U
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Argh, damn my incompetence...
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xD
Another astonishing work, by the way. Very cool concept quite faithful to the lovecraftian description. I also loved how you drew those 'accursed flutes'. Β
It'd be fun to stand before such gigantic abomination... xD
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Similarly with my interpretation of Azathoth's pipers i imagine the flutes as part of their anatomy. Thanks.
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It's just a small fraction of it.
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Do you know that there is a Yu-gi-oh! card dedicated to Azathoth? :-D
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I had no idea.
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Search in the Google for "Evilswarm Azzathoth" if you curious!
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CΓ³ΕΌ mam tu napisaΔ... ile bierzesz za komisze? ^^
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Takie rzeczy na privie
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Ok. Nie lubiΔ priva na dA, bo na komΓ³rce raz dziaΕa a raz nie ^^
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