Cthulhu, The Great Dreamer

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Cthulhu is descended from Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath, through Nug, and was born on the planet Vhoorl in the 23rd Nebula. 350 million years ago, Cthulhu and his star-spawn arrive on Earth from the star Xoth. He makes war with the Elder Things, but they eventually form an uneasy peace. The Deep Ones serve Cthulhu and aided in building R'Lyeh ("Timeline of The Cthulhu Mythos", Appel). Cthulhu warred with the Outer Gods, and they sealed him inside R'lyeh until the stars were right again.

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• Even while asleep in the Pacific, Cthulhu can reach out to sensitive souls in their dreams. When he wakes, this influence becomes global and panic-inducing, though colder, scientific minds are still less affected.
  

The Call of Cthulhu - Chapter One: "The Horror in Clay"

 

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see. That is why I continued to feel that Wilcox, somehow cognisant of the old data which my uncle had possessed, had been imposing on the veteran scientist. These responses from aesthetes told a disturbing tale. From February 28th to April 2nd a large proportion of them had dreamed very bizarre things, the intensity of the dreams being immeasurably the stronger during the period of the sculptor's delirium.

Over a fourth of those who reported anything, reported scenes and half-sounds not unlike those which Wilcox had described; and some of the dreamers confessed acute fear of the gigantic nameless thing visible toward the last. One case, which the note describes with emphasis, was very sad. The subject, a widely known architect with leanings toward theosophy and occultism, went violently insane on the date of young Wilcox's seizure, and expired several months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some escaped denizen of hell.

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• Has a physical body, but that body is not composed of the same matter as is found in our universe.
  

The Call of Cthulhu - Chapter Two: "The Tale of Inspector Legrasse"

 

These Great Old Ones, Castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape--for did not this star-fashioned image prove it?--but that shape was not made of matter.

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• Can survive in the vacuum of space and in a variety of extraterrestrial environments.
  

The Call of Cthulhu - Chapter Two: "The Tale of Inspector Legrasse"

 

When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky;

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• Can survive underwater indefinitely.
  

The Call of Cthulhu - Chapter Three: "The Madness from the Sea"

 

Cthulhu still lives, too, I suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young.

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• Can recover almost instantly from normally fatal wounds, such as having his head split open by a boat. However, such damage will leave him incapacitated.
  

The Call of Cthulhu - Chapter Three: "The Madness from the Sea"

 

There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper.

For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where--God in heaven!--the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.

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• Can never be truly destroyed, as death is only sleep to Cthulhu, and he will outlast death itself.
  

The Call of Cthulhu - Chapter Two: "The Tale of Inspector Legrasse"

 

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

That's all folks!

Ssj3 Vegeta

Jun 22 2015, 04:28 PM

Cool post but what's it doing in the "other verses" section?

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Wow. I guess a lot of his power is based on hype?

lazerbem

Jun 22 2015, 05:07 PM

Wow. I guess a lot of his power is based on hype?

xHyrule

Jun 23 2015, 04:11 AM

Who is Cthulhu?