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Lovecraftian inspirations from the real life, science, history and culture

Adeptus

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The article contains anecdotes – either from real history and science or from beliefs that exist in the real world, and suggestions on how they can be related to the Cthulhu mythology and how they could be used in the RPG scenario.


You have my permit to use all those ideas as You wish, in Your scenario, video game, book, podcast, video, without the need to reward or mention me in any way. And of course, if You have Your own quasi-lovecraftian anecdotes, please share them.


Below is the table of contents:



GREEK MYTHOLOGY


Typhon – a classic but forgotten abomination


Zeus – embodied energy


In his house underground, dead Hades waits in sleep


Apollo – beautiful, deadly light


Hermes is the gate, Hermes is the key


Erysichton – slayer of living trees, eater of self


NORDIC MYTHOLOGY


A jotun is not the same as a giant, but it can be made into an abomination


Odyn = Nodens, Loki = Nyarlathotep


Or is Odin an abomination?


Einherjers and Odin the human


POLISH FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS


Jan Twardowski – the first man on the Moon


Silent night, starry night


Church in Trzęsacz – Deep ones do not leave their own, even after death


WESTERN EUROPEAN FOLKLORE


The Monstrous German Pied Piper


Ys – Deep Ones princess vs clan of eldritch saints


Jentilak and a Christmas cutthroat


Dragons come in every shape and size


TRUE (OK, SLIGHTLY FAR-FETCHED) HISTORY


Invasion of the Sea Peoples


Greater Germanic Antarctica


The emperor out of the time


The Indus civilization


Order of the Nine Angles – sometimes reality is just as bad and mad as a horror


TRUE (SERIOUSLY) SCIENCE


Mad mathematicians


Humans like ants, ants like zombies


Halny and other foehn winds – the whisper of the wind brings madness


There is more to dimensions than dimensional shamblers


ABRAHAMIC BELIEFS


Covenant with God and Melchizedek


Succubi/incubi, aliens and a sorcerer-pope


Double faith


Stone from the sky, genies and angels
 

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