Editing Cthulhu Mythos (section)

==Deities of H.P. Lovecraft==
This section details the [[Sanity|maddening]] deities that appeared in the works of '''[[H.P. Lovecraft]]'''.
*Outer Gods, The Big Four: Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, & Shub-Niggurath
** [[Azathoth]], ''the Nuclear Chaos'': Currently residing in the center of our galaxy, inside the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A. He slumbers while around him dance a number of bizarre entities, serenading him with maddening music played on celestial flutes and drums to keep him asleep. In the Necronomicon, Azathoth is implied to be the sole survivor of a great war in Heaven that happened long, long ago; he lost and now he is kept a confused prisoner of his own conscience. The entire universe is the dream of Azathoth, and when (not if) he wakes up, everything you know and love will alt-f4. [[Grimdark|There is nothing that anybody can do to stop this.]] Used to be a clam-like gigantic entity with cylindrical arms until it made a brain fart and the universe popped to existence. Don't ask.
*** Appearances:''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'';''The Insects From Shaggai'' (the latter is post-Lovecraftian canon)
** [[Yog-Sothoth]], ''the All-in-One'': For you [[/co/|Marvel]] fans out there, imagine the Marvel Universes merging together and becoming sentient. Now you have a shred of the idea of the all-encompassing ("literally") power and [[AWESOME]] that is the King of Infinite Space, Planetmover, Lord of Dimensions, etc. Yog-Sothoth is the wisest being in the entire Mythos Universe, which considering it is "everything" is very natural. Being spacetime while being excluded from all the fun within occasionally prompts Yog to do something like impregnating mortals. Most benevolent of the Big Four, it will ask whether you wish to proceed before revealing secrets that drive you mad, instead of simply shoving it in your face like Nyarlathotep. He is also the progenitor of Cthulhu and Hastur.
*** Appearances: ''The Dunwich Horror''; ''Beyond the Gates of the Silver Key''
** [[Nyarlathotep]], [[Tzeentch|''the God of a Thousand Forms'']]: The progenitor of [[Tzeentch|Just as Planned]], responsible for countless plots, with almost every single one beyond mortal comprehension. Records include trolling the Egyptians for the lulz, disguising himself as an inventor by the name of Nikola Tesla and giving humans the gift of AC, [[Delta Green|trolling renegade US special agents as a shady crime boss by the name of Stephen Alzis]] and [[CthulhuTech|corrupting an important human corporation to toy with its government]], once again for the lulz. Fulfills the garbled demands of its boss Azathoth while secretly resentful of being dominated, making it plot endlessly to bring down the source of creation. [[Grimdark|The only Outer God to actually enjoy driving people insane instead of crushing them by collateral when embroiled in godly struggles]] - if we continue the analogy that humans are nothing but ants next to the Outer Gods, then Nyarly is like a cruel child who burns ants with a magnifying glass for his sick fun.
*** Appearances:''Nyarlathotep''; ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''; ''The Dreams in the Witch-House''; ''The Whisperer in the Dark''.
** [[Shub-Niggurath]], "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young": Shub-Niggurath. Not only can you not say the name around black people, but she is the fertility god of the outer gods, of sorts. She is constantly giving birth to all kinds of revolting creatures that are either immediately eaten again by their monstrous mother, or they manage to crawl away and plague the universe. Nasty. She's also Yog-Sothoth's wife.
*** Appearances: ''The Last Test''

*Great Old Ones: Imprisoned on earth, these are the ones you're most likely to run into.
**[[Cthulhu]]: The big C himself, the most well-known of all Lovecraft's deities... despite only showing up in one of his stories. Cthulhu is the high priest of the Old Ones, locked away in R'lyeh. Has a vast cult of people infected by dreams he sends them who want to wake him up and let him conquer the world. The one time he was woken up, it wasn't by his cult, but a group of stupid ass sailors who managed to find his island after killing the cult then ''let him out'', at which point he did what all eldritch monsters do and began wrecking shit left, right, and center, ready to march across the earth and devour our souls - then he got hit in the head by a boat and forced back into his prison. While hilarious as all shit, this defeat isn't as humiliating as one thinks, given Cthulhu was already reforming until the stars stopped being right. Now he just has to keep waiting while we all die. After all, with stranger aeons even death may die...
*** Appearances: ''Call of Cthulhu,'' any piece of media dealing with the Cthulhu Mythos in any way, including a [[/co/|Ghostbuster's episode]].
**[[Hastur]], The Unspeakable: The King in Yellow. Hastur is Cthulhu's half-brother, who often appears as a figure in yellow robes. Has a fairly interesting history, having originated as a god of shepherds in an Ambrose Bierce story, then being mentioned in the King in Yellow, which Lovecraft incorporated into his Mythos, codifying Hastur as a Great Old One. Before hand, even in the King in Yellow, it wasn't exactly clear if Hastur was a god at all. Now, he's the ruler of Lost Carcosa. Will impregnate Cthulhu's daughter with... his half-brother, Cthulhu...
** [[Yig]], Father of Serpents: Bit self-descriptive here. Yig is the father of serpents and snakes and his only concern is making sure they are safe. Hurt one of his children and guess what? You'll be mutated into a snake-monster thing. Notably one of the least eldritch of Lovecraft's deities.
*** Appearances: ''The Curse of Yig''