So, Glimmervoid, you may ask, how do you think the Mythos cosmology works?

There are of course more answers to that question than stories on this site. Quite possibly the only correct answer is that the Mythos is a shared and fictional mythology and as such, its disparate elements don't fit together perfectly, just as how real world mythologies don't. (Two creation stories in the Bible anyone?)

But where is the fun in that?

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One of the things that made the Cthulhu Mythos the Cthulhu Mythos was a collection of shared elements that were reused by multiple authors. Gods, places, ideas, eldritch tomes and more, these sketched out the shared and fictional mythology that, however tenuously, held the Mythos together.

When developing At the Mountains of Discord, I came up with my own set of such elements, often semi-ponified versions of Lovecraft canon concepts. I thought I'd collate them together here.

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