Cthulhu Question

I won't say why I need some info on him, but if Cthulhu were to have an enemy amongst the old gods that he might want to mess with and have Twilight join him, who might it be? Also, this was really just a random thought, and TOTALLY won't show up in Fear Me.

I never said anything for side stories or true sequels that might have the word love in them though.

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[Fuzzbutt]

Hastur, Lord of the Interstellar Spaces .3.

[Grey Ghost]

The Ghostbusters. They did beat him after all. Or Gozer, the Gozerian.

[the other sans]

So can we expect Love me for I am love Twaith?

[Michael Hudson]

3910344 Ah, no! W-why would I ever call something such a stupid title? B-baka.

[ethschman23]

I´m whit Fuzzbutt, Hastur seems to be the perfect choice. I got this text from a site:

At least one of the other Great Old Ones acts as a rival to his power and a personal enemy to Cthulhu. This is Hastur, "Lord of the Interstellar Spaces", currently residing in the Hyades. Derleth did not create Hastur, but he was responsible for his introduction to the Mythos as Cthulhu's worst enemy and half-brother. Various stories present Hastur's cult offering assistance to those trying to prevent Cthulhu's awakening, or make other mention to the rivalry between the two. In Derleth's The Return of Hastur, first published in March, 1939, the two Gods even physically confront each other, albeit briefly.

[Vinyl_Scratch-14]

it would actually be zeus becuz of how he was as a god

[Traveling Soul]

Hastur, the yellow king.

[Michael Hudson]

3910384 Quick check, because I saw this a lot, but yours is a little different from it: Is Hastur Chtulhu's nephew, or his half brother?

[Traveling Soul]

3910406
Half brother

[Sigmacipher]

I would be thinking some thing like Anubis or Hel because they would have to put up with the casualties of Chtulu's crap.

Maybe Epona or Slepnir if we want to milk this whole, "I pissed off these gods Twi...please help." thing for all it's worth.

[PhycoKrusk]

So... when you say "old gods", whom do you mean, exactly?

I mean, the above information is probably fine, because there's not really a "standard" for the mythos outside of "The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be."

Generally speaking, I'm wary to incorporate things that Derleth came up with because as good a writer as he was, his vision of the mythos is starkly different from Lovecraft's: Whereas Lovecraft only imagined the Great Old Ones as alien beings existing beyond our comprehension who were interested in mortal affairs only insofar as it served their own desires, Derleth imagined them as more akin to actual gods, with an actual battle between good and evil taking place in the cosmos at large (in part, this is likely owed to Derleth being a fairly devout Christian while Lovecraft was not).

I think the point I'm getting at is that you should do what you feel works best for the story. The Mythos have been interpreted and reinterpreted many times over the years, which I feel is rather the point. The Elder Things have since gone extinct, to be replaced by new creatures better suited to their unique environments. Why should it be any different with the ideas of the Mythos?

[Michael Hudson]

3910826 I really just needed a victim.

[PhycoKrusk]

3910834
Oh! Well, rest assured, we'll have no shortage of that around here, on account of many of us (myself included) being pretty terrible people.

[Michael Hudson]

3910859 Hastur worked well though. I'm just waiting another day to publish the thingy with this in it.

[ImMadScientist]

3910834 Well Hastur is quite the victim... of Old Man Henderson static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_henderson.jpg
If you include the yellow king, you need to at least mention this guy.
This is his TvTropes page and this is his whole story. And here is a Eleven minuet reading if you want an overview and a laugh

[Trithtale]

The main monster from the Dunwich Horror! Or you know, that one creepy old wizard that is also from one of H.P Lovecraft's stories.

[rainbowdarth]

I can't imagine much standing up to him.
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[ValNitak Choas]

simple it be slinderman who the two most face,