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the creature looks like a primal spirit than an alien, but how do you envision Ithaqua?, those purple intestines seem vestigial.
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I envision Ithaqua as one of the not-so-great-old-ones. He's definitely a powerful alien but one on a more personal scale than cosmic. He's also one of the few to actively seek worship from mortals, purely to suit his alien ego. The purple intestines are... a secret for now. I have a follow up picture coming sometime in the next week.
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Those aren't intestines, they're actually tentacles curled up against the torso aren't they?
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waiting for these soon.
i remember you mentioned the Colour when we talked about the Vampire in the Shunned House, the Colour out of Space is possibly the most bizarre alien Lovecraft had thought of, so how do you envision that vague entity?, is it's organic meteor a vehicle where the Colour travels?, is the Colour itself some incomprehensible weapon?.
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I'll do my best but I'll be honest, Warframe Fortuna dropped and I haven't done anything but sick hoverboard tricks and murder space capitalists for 3 days.
The Colour is hard since it seems like a loose collection of every spooky thing and metaphor for the horrors of science Lovecraft could think of at the time.
Personally I think the Colour from the story are larva, the meteor they come to Earth in being seeded with eggs (those little Colour nodes). They make a nest in the well, converting nearby organic matter into a form they can use to grow themselves. I think it's more like fertilizer than directly eating them. Once they've grown enough from the farm's biomatter they launch themselves back into space to enter their reproductive stage. They're probably capable of FTL because we aren't constantly pelted with baby Colours. As for why the colors they emit are indescribable, my headcanon is that the radiation the Colour emits is actually Tillinghast rays! This is why the people who went "mad" where seeing and hearing things, they were actually interacting with The Beyond! They do have physical forms as they splash in the well and are felt brushing past at one point but they're only visible with our dormant shoggoth sensory organs.
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