Wouldn't Cthulhu be outside our human concept of gender? I never recall Cthulhu being described as male or female (don't quote me on this but I'm sure H.P Lovecraft explicitly stated Cthulhu was neither male nor female) and so many things about Lovecraft's writing are portrayed as being so far outside of the realm of human understanding as to defy any cohesive description (the whole point of an eldritch abomination).PinkiePyro said:
cthulhu one of the few males I think looks good shirtless
The general idea, at least as far as I've summed it up, is that Sithis is not a physical being at all and the whole skulls thing is just an artistic representation due to his connection with death and creation.BarryMcCociner said:Wouldn't Cthulhu be outside our human concept of gender? I never recall Cthulhu being described as male or female (don't quote me on this but I'm sure H.P Lovecraft explicitly stated Cthulhu was neither male nor female) and so many things about Lovecraft's writing are portrayed as being so far outside of the realm of human understanding as to defy any cohesive description (the whole point of an eldritch abomination).PinkiePyro said:
cthulhu one of the few males I think looks good shirtless
Anyway, my favorite eldritch horror in video games is Sithis (AKA Padomay) from The Elder Scrolls series.
At first Sithis seems to be your traditional God of Death and according to the Dark Brotherhood, the husband of the Night Mother but then when you delve deeper into the lore, you find that he's an equal and opposite force to Anuiel, he defies the concept of Daedra and Aedra, does not dwell in any plane of Oblivion.
Not only that but for some reason Sithis has a place in every single creation myth in the The Elder Scrolls universe under many different names, (his existence is even acknowledged by the Hist trees) I especially like the Redguards who call him 'Akel'. Rather than being a physical being, Akel is described as the hunger that drives the great serpent Satak (AKA Anuiel), to devour itself endlessly. And when Satak devours its own heart he will be reborn as 'Satakel; (Aurbis, The Gray Maybe) a snake in which 'things' will come to know themselves. Some lore suggests all the Daedra are of 'Sithis blood' and Sheogorath is described as a "Sithis shaped hole in the world".
But the thing I find most interesting about Sithis, if you bough Deepscorn Hollow in Oblivion, you found a Statue of Sithis and it showed him with his heart ripped out. Anyone who played Morrowind would know why that's a huge deal.
The thing that's creepy about Sithis though, is there's no real description of him that anyone in the TES universe can actually agree upon, the overarching theme is that he is an 'shapeless, empty void', to me all descriptions of Sithis seem to point to him being quite literally both nothing and the chaos contained within nothing at the same time.
It's wierd because I think describing Sithis as "nonexistance" both does him the right amount of justice but not enough justice at the same time.Kerethos said:The general idea, at least as far as I've summed it up, is that Sithis is not a physical being at all and the whole skulls thing is just an artistic representation due to his connection with death and creation.BarryMcCociner said:Wouldn't Cthulhu be outside our human concept of gender? I never recall Cthulhu being described as male or female (don't quote me on this but I'm sure H.P Lovecraft explicitly stated Cthulhu was neither male nor female) and so many things about Lovecraft's writing are portrayed as being so far outside of the realm of human understanding as to defy any cohesive description (the whole point of an eldritch abomination).PinkiePyro said:
cthulhu one of the few males I think looks good shirtless
Anyway, my favorite eldritch horror in video games is Sithis (AKA Padomay) from The Elder Scrolls series.
At first Sithis seems to be your traditional God of Death and according to the Dark Brotherhood, the husband of the Night Mother but then when you delve deeper into the lore, you find that he's an equal and opposite force to Anuiel, he defies the concept of Daedra and Aedra, does not dwell in any plane of Oblivion.
Not only that but for some reason Sithis has a place in every single creation myth in the The Elder Scrolls universe under many different names, (his existence is even acknowledged by the Hist trees) I especially like the Redguards who call him 'Akel'. Rather than being a physical being, Akel is described as the hunger that drives the great serpent Satak (AKA Anuiel), to devour itself endlessly. And when Satak devours its own heart he will be reborn as 'Satakel; (Aurbis, The Gray Maybe) a snake in which 'things' will come to know themselves. Some lore suggests all the Daedra are of 'Sithis blood' and Sheogorath is described as a "Sithis shaped hole in the world".
But the thing I find most interesting about Sithis, if you bough Deepscorn Hollow in Oblivion, you found a Statue of Sithis and it showed him with his heart ripped out. Anyone who played Morrowind would know why that's a huge deal.
The thing that's creepy about Sithis though, is there's no real description of him that anyone in the TES universe can actually agree upon, the overarching theme is that he is an 'shapeless, empty void', to me all descriptions of Sithis seem to point to him being quite literally both nothing and the chaos contained within nothing at the same time.
Sithis is a force, a concept, a necessity of existence, the cause of chaos. He is the root of change, both the start and finish, the finite nature of existence, the nonexistence that spawned creation. This is why he has the right to take life, as he is the both origin and final destination of all things in existence - ceasing to exist.
Without Sithins there would just be Sithis. No Aedra, no Daedra, no Tamriel, no Oblivion, no Elder Scrolls. Just the nothing that is Sithis.
Everything exists because Sithis exists, therefor the world is Sithis' to cull, as it all spawned from the nothing that Sithis. Not that you have to agree with the whole "Wops, I caused a universe so I have the right to kill anything in it" but that's pretty much how the Brotherhood justifies the whole "we murder for money based on what prayers Sithis feels like answering".
Everything has a beginning and and end though, except Sithis (because he is the end and was there before the beginning). Even when death is gone and nothing else exists Sithis will still be there. To deny Sithis is to invoke the Wrath of Sithis - and nothing can escape nonexistence forever.
TL;DR: Sithis is scary, but also a necessity of existence - as there would be no existence without nonexistence.
Kid, no. Saya is better.Thorn14 said:
It counts.
God I love the salt this anime produces.
while its not covered if Cthulhu has a gender on the terms of our biology he is in many references referred to as he/him as apposted to it (ex: he is calling) so he is masculineBarryMcCociner said:
Googled it, pretty nice, too bad she turns into a human that's kinda a turnoff to me. Why would a beautiful monstrosity turn into an icky human girl? Bleh.Thorn14 said:
It counts.
God I love the salt this anime produces.
