Cthulhu Mythos

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==Summary==
The Cthulhu Mythos, known to Howard Phillips Lovecraft as Yog-Sothothery, encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the canon that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used — and continue to use — to craft their stories. The term "Cthulhu Mythos" comes from August Derleth. Though this legendarium is sometimes called the Lovecraft Mythos, most notably by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, it's long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception.
The Mythos' central theme is that the human world and humanity's role are illusions; humans exist inside a fragile bubble of perspective, oblivious of what lies beyond the curtains, not even knowing the curtains exist. Humanity's seeming dominion over the world is illusory and ephemeral; humans are fortunate in that we are unaware of what lurks in the dark corners of the Earth and beyond. As Lovecraft famously began his short story, The Call of Cthulhu, "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
Note: This wiki only considers the works H. P. Lovecraft and his close friends wrote during his life as canonical despite the Cthulhu Mythos now being public domain. Profiles here primarily use Lovecraft's primary writings, with occasional contributions to the Mythos from close friends like Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith, and consider the expanded Mythos as non-canonical fan works.
==Power of the Verse==
As the pioneer of the "cosmic horror" genre, the Cthulhu Mythos is an enormously powerful verse reputed as one of the strongest settings in fiction despite being much older than most prominent verses.
At the bottom of the Mythos's power levels, some more grounded characters and small-scale horrors are human or comparable to humans; a few higher ones are Tier 8 and Tier 7. Great Old Ones, some of the more well-known eldrich horrors, are High 6-B from scaling to Cthulhu causing an earthquake as he slumbers in R'lyeh. Speed-wise, some of these beings are comparable to or slightly faster than humans; others vary from Supersonic with the Wolf-Like Mountains' size, High Hypersonic+ with the Nightgaunts accelerating to a planet's orbiting speed, and Massively FTL+ with the Colour Out of Space flying from the solar system in seconds; the Hounds of Tindalos reach Immeasurable speeds for moving through time. These beings have impressive hax, many holding sway over eldrich magic, exotic biology, psychic powers, space, time, dimensionality, immortality, causality, and other high-end powers.
In the Mythos's higher echelons, it receives a massive power spike with the transcendent realms and deities beyond the infinite multiverse of infinite-dimensional universes. Such beings include the Ancient Ones and Hypnos, who are 1-A from scaling to the trans-dimensional Outer Extension and Dreamlands, respectively, and the Outer Gods, a host of High 1-A entities residing in the nigh-all-encompassing Ultimate Void, among which are the Ultimate Gods, such as Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath. The most powerful beings in the setting are Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth, the Tier 0 twin halves of the godly Supreme Archetype, the animating essence of all existence that subsumes even the Ultimate Mystery, a final secret belying all other transcendent realms and beings equally. These transcendent beings' haxes are as esoteric as their level of existence, including such powers as trans-dimensionality, acausality, abstract nonexistence, transduality, omnipresence, omniscience, and more.
==Explanations==
*Cthulhu Mythos Cosmology
*Great Old One Physiology
==Calculations==
*Dagon and the Deep Ones sink an island - 11.9 Megatons of TNT (City level)
*Cthulhu causes an earthquake in R'lyeh that reaches New England - 427.82 Teratons of TNT (Large Country level)
*Nyarlathotep destroys the Earth - 866.628318 Yottatons of TNT (Large Planet level)
==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*Apex Predator GX
*Apotheosis69
*ShivaShakti
*Dreaming Serpent
*Matthew Schroeder
*Saikou the Lewd King
*Ultima Reality
*Elizhaa
*HeadlessKramerGeoff777
*Gewsbumpz dude
*Sans2345
*Roachman40
*Edenstar
*Planck69
*Emirp sumitpo
*OnsokunoSonic
*EnnardTrap1987
*Ikhvagracia
*Zexer1
*IdiosyncraticLawyer
*Javenplayz253
===Opponents===
*Mariogoods
*Scottycj256
*Bernkastelll
*CosmicWreck
===Neutral===
*TheDivineHost
==Characters==
===Ultimate Gods===
Ultimate Gods 	Ultimate Gods 	Ultimate Gods 	Ultimate Gods	Ultimate Gods
 	 	 	 	
The Blind
Idiot God	The All-in-One and
One-In-All	The Crawling Chaos	 	
Azathoth 	Yog-Sothoth 	Nyarlathotep 	 	
 	 	 	 	
The Black Goat with
a Thousand Young	The Archetypes 	 	 	
Shub-Niggurath	The Ultimate Gods	 	 	
===Great Old Ones===
Great Old Ones	Great Old Ones	Great Old Ones	Great Old Ones	Great Old Ones
 	 	 	 	
The Sleeper of
R'lyeh	The Father of
The Deep Ones	The Spider God	The Dark God 	
Cthulhu 	Dagon 	Atlach-Nacha 	Ghatanothoa 	
 	 	 	 	
The Sleeper of
N'kai	The Father of
Serpents	 	 	
Tsathoggua 	Yig 	 	 	
===Ascendant Beings===
Ascendant Beings	Ascendant Beings	Ascendant Beings	Ascendant Beings	Ascendant Beings
 	 	 	 	
Lord of The
Great Abyss	Lord of Sleep 	The Dreamer 	 	
Nodens 	Hypnos 	Randolph Carter 	 	
===Cosmic Entities===
Cosmic Entities 	Cosmic Entities 	Cosmic Entities 	Cosmic Entities 	Cosmic Entities
 	 	 	 	
The Cosmic
Virus 	The Star Spawn
of Cthulhu	The Children
of Dagon	The Hunters
From Beyond	
Colour Out of Space	Cthulhi 	Deep Ones 	The Shamblers 	
 	 	 	 	
The Old Ones 	The Floating Ones 	The Projectors 	Extradimensional 
Predators	
Elder Things 	Flying Polyp 	Great Race of Yith	Hounds of Tindalos	
 	 	 	 	
The Silent
Giants 	Servants of
Nyarlathotep	The Fungi
From Yuggoth	The Faceless
Dreams	
Wolf-Like Mountains	Hunting Horrrors 	Mi-go 	Nightgaunts 	
 	 	 	 	
The Formless
Amoeba	Son of
Yog-Sothoth	 	 	
Shoggoth 	The Dunwich Horror	 	 	
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