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[astudyinviolet]

Type: Text
Sender ID: astudyinviolet (Sherlock Holmes)
To: Public
Subject: Who is familiar with this entity?
Warnings: The worst book club ever, talk of eldritch horrors, potential poking at the 4th wall for Sherlock

I made the purchase of ‘Encyclopedia Necronomica’ earlier but had not the opportunity to make a study of it until now. Having done so, I must ask: who is familiar with the entity pictured here? What do you know?

I shall include photographs from the book and of my sketches in reference to imagery related to my world.

Furthermore, if anyone else wishes to reference or compare this book with entities encountered recently, I am at your disposal.

S.H.

[ Sherlock had some sense of mind to not study this particular book while feverish and ill. He should be praised for that, honestly, because he spotted something frightening familiar when he finally did.

Wait a minute, when did Arthur Conan Doyle write about Holmes going up against Cthulhu? ]

[ photograph of a book page which claims there are Cthulhu-type entities out there that are almost squid-like but impossible to say without more research ]



[ A sketch of the painting, including the frame ]



[ A sketch of only the Cthulhu statue (no Sherlock) ]



[ A sketch version of the above image ]



[ A sketch pulled further back of a nondescript figure sinking in water with Cthulhu looking up at them from deeper below. ]

Comments

[astudyinviolet]

Were it not for Watson, the man might have succeeded. I could not stop the man alone.

Are you familiar the Naughilust? It is a leviathan with tentacles, and with the role leviathans play in this world, we may be able to classify it as god-like at the very least.

[ There has to be a good reason for Sherlock to step foot on that leviathan, and it often involves him needing outside support until he can no longer see what he walks on. Astares might be more of stretch to consider it having tentacles. Cassiopea... that might definitely be a god but so unfathomable as such for its supposed vastness. ]

[weisshappened]

Guess it's a good thing you don't work alone, then.

I've heard of it. Haven't been there. [It's not really his kind of place.] But I mean more along the lines of something actually considered "a god".

Leviathans feel like they're in their own class, here.

[astudyinviolet]

[ Should he mention that said partner isn't here? No... for something like this, Sherlock isn't alone here. ]

Yet some are worshipped all the same. Some have powers beyond our imagination. They would be considered gods in my world by some cultures. I've not yet heard of any entity named as a god in this world.

Where do you draw the line? For curiosity's sake rather than an argument. I am, for once, not trying to start a debate. I wish to understand.

[weisshappened]

Yeah, I guess they would be considered something like that, here. Nothing much else is.

[Whew. What a question. Davrin doesn't respond for a while, mulling that over.]

I think I'm the wrong man to ask about gods. I never much believed in ours, back in Thedas. Then it turned out they were real... but not divine beings. Just powerful mages. Strong enough to set themselves up like gods.

I guess I still don't really believe in anything "divine". Or godlike.

[astudyinviolet]

I could not give you any more concise answer in return, but as I cannot eliminate either option completely, I choose to keep an open mind.

[ As much as it also terrifies him to some degree. ]

What trouble have those mages caused back in your world?

[ They most certainly have caused some trouble. "weishappened" would not speak of one being crazy if they had been peaceful, benevolent beings. ]

[weisshappened]

Fair enough. Like I said... I'm probably the wrong guy to talk to about gods.

[If the Leviathans count, then they're already a far cry from the things terrorizing Thedas and calling themselves gods.]

[... Unless you count Andraste. But that's a whole other can of worms.]

Tried to rip apart the veil between worlds, letting in a flood of demons, with predictably massive loss of life. Enslaved my people for a good chunk of time. Cut off another race from magic and dreaming altogether.

Not to mention, they created an infection that affects the actual blood of the earth, people, animals, plants... the Blight even infects other gods. And when that happens, they start rampaging across Thedas.

[astudyinviolet]

[ Sherlock is not much better. Divinity is not something that truly felt real in his world until his last case there. Here, it seems like it is something could cross paths with or touch. There is far greater evidence of its existence. ]

I fail to see how causing massive amounts of destruction and chaos can benefit anyone, even the victors in a conflict. What is the point to such suffering? The truth that such aims exists in multiple world is a sobering one.

Were they stopped in your world?