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More fragile and mentally sensitive humans are driven insane by the psychic emanations of the Old Ones as they rouse. War breaks out between the Old Ones with humanity caught in the crossfire. Civilization, western civilization in particular, ends. However humanity does not go extinct immediately. When Nathanial Peaslee is mentally abducted into the far past by the Great Race of Yith among his fellow captives are humans from 5,000 AD (Yiang Li from the empire of Tsan Chan) and Nug-Soth a magician from a powerful African nation in 16,000 AD.
This is the most explicit explanation we are given in The Call of Cthulhu (Lovecraft, 1926):
>That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
Worldwide “madness” – as in Lovecraft’s personal fears: “appreciation of marine life”, “acceptance of black people”, and “love and celebration of cold weather.”
We’ll explore the oceans (finally!), be less racist against black people, and there will be a wider appreciation of sledding and skiing.
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I believe his presence induces worldwide madness across all life, man or animal.
More fragile and mentally sensitive humans are driven insane by the psychic emanations of the Old Ones as they rouse. War breaks out between the Old Ones with humanity caught in the crossfire. Civilization, western civilization in particular, ends. However humanity does not go extinct immediately. When Nathanial Peaslee is mentally abducted into the far past by the Great Race of Yith among his fellow captives are humans from 5,000 AD (Yiang Li from the empire of Tsan Chan) and Nug-Soth a magician from a powerful African nation in 16,000 AD.
“bad.”
any and every possible way you could define that sentence will happen.
at once.
right in your face.
and then it will get worse.
This is the most explicit explanation we are given in The Call of Cthulhu (Lovecraft, 1926):
>That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
So, fair to say, nothing good.
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Worldwide “madness” – as in Lovecraft’s personal fears: “appreciation of marine life”, “acceptance of black people”, and “love and celebration of cold weather.”
We’ll explore the oceans (finally!), be less racist against black people, and there will be a wider appreciation of sledding and skiing.
The horrors!