Referring to a being approximately 7 feet tall, body composed of scales colored like the void of space, tentacles for legs and hair, glowing eyes, levitating crown of golden light. Self described as: "I'm not something most minds are built to comprehend, and encounters with my kind tend to end in madness, terror, or... well, death, ultimately."
It sounds like maybe it's referring to a segment of an ancient Eldritch deity, but that's... just kind of a shot in the dark. The tentacles are a dead give-away. Classic Eldritch horror.
HP Lovecraft turned out to be a racist old asshole, but he was considered the father of the genre if you're interested in reading up on some relevant works.
I think the dictionary definition is 'weird and sinister', but it's generally associated with things old, horrifying, and beyond the scope of human comprehension. The tentacles don't help, but that's kind of a side problem.
I've got a copy of The Shadow over Innsmouth. It's not his best, but it gives you a general idea.
I'm not sure I'm the best representation to speak for all of humanity about things that we're supposed to find weird, but if I had to guess, it's the vast endlessness and the incomprehensible scope of time? And the unknown. Humanity has a pretty good imagination. If you leave them a vacancy, they tend to fill it in with the worst, most horrifying possibilities they're capable of conceiving of.
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He was nice.
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HP Lovecraft turned out to be a racist old asshole, but he was considered the father of the genre if you're interested in reading up on some relevant works.
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Do you have any of the racist old asshole's books?
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I've got a copy of The Shadow over Innsmouth. It's not his best, but it gives you a general idea.
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[ i'm not going to try understanding the beef with cephalopods. prehensile limbs would be so useful but i guess mankind's allergic to utility. ]
I'll take it.
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That explains a lot about the excellent story-telling, but persistent crippling anxiety.
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