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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In MLP:FiM Celestia and Luna make the sun and moon rise and fall. Most of the time this isn't a problem. Such powers are classic mythology, and I have no problem just accepting them as true. The problem comes when you crossover with a Sci-Fi universe or any other fiction which forces a real-world cosmological model.

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Not writing much at the moment. I'm a bit too busy with MSc work. But I thought I'd put up some thoughts all the same.

In that vein I give you... Why mathematics is magic.

One of my favoured concepts from At the Mountains of Discord is Twilight's Doctorate in Friendship (and the magic thereof). Specifically she is a Doctor of Thaumaturgy. In my slightly warped Equestria, magic has its own doctorate.

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