#kadath

Nyarla as hypnos version

We've completed demo on stream, it was amazing!

After Blackshard it feels like home, love dialogues (even if I can't read lmao), charas and how it feels. I love idea of touching kadath and so on, feeling for my op feels right (што я спизданула боже).

Visual oh my gooooood, art and landscape mammamia. It has some smoll bugs like falling down through textures, but maybe you don't need to jump ГДЕ-ТО ГДЕ НЕ НАДО. Can't wait till release

+ screens. Жопы мужиков 👁️👄👁️

If you've read some of Lovecraft's more well-known works and want to see his take on a fantasy adventure, if you're looking for a lesser-known pulp fantasy story, or you just want to read an evocative and weird piece of fiction, I definitely recommend checking out The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Randolph Carter (the only true recurring protagonist in Lovecraft's stories) is a lucid dreamer, and has the ability to explore fantastic alternate worlds in his dreams. Lovecraft's other stories imply that these aren't just dreams, but actual alternate realities that lucid dreamers can access.

Lately, Carter has been haunted by dreams of a city so beautiful he simply must find a way to dream of it again, but no matter what he does, he simply can't get there in his dreams. He thus sets out on a dream quest (say that again?) to seek out Kadath, the distant land of the gods of the dream world, who are said to have the power to grant Carter's wish.

On his journey, Carter encounters many strange and fantastical creatures, including talking cats (always a plus in any story imo), blank-faced "night-gaunt" monsters from Lovecraft's actual childhood nightmares, and ghouls, which Lovecraft helped popularize as a fantasy monster in western fiction.

One of the most interesting aspects of this story is all the characters from, and references to, Lovecraft's other works. While today we often talk about the "Cthulhu mythos" as this expanded universe of interconnected stories based on H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth's writings, Lovecraft's stories were originally intended as one-off, standalone shorts. Only later in his career did Lovecraft start incorporating connections between his stories into his writing.

In Dream-Quest, Carter visits many locations that were featured in Lovecraft's previous works, such as the wondrous city of Celephaïs, and Leng, a plateau region home to horrors beyond comprehension. He also meets certain characters that showed up in other stories, most notably the god Nyarlathotep, who is one of the only eldritch beings to act as the direct antagonist in multiple Lovecraft stories (not even Cthulhu gets that honour!).

If any of that sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend checking out the story. All his works are in the public domain, by the way. You can read them on hplovecraft.com:

Nightshade

And today, our new creature is from Chambers King in yellow book. This character made its presence known and is now quite common in the Eldrich realm of monsters and other entities :-)

This is an Eldrich creature illustration for my upcoming Dnd supplement. This cool design was created once again by the great sculptor @george_tsougkouzidis and I did the artwork based on his sculpture.Watercolor on A4 paper. I aimed to bring out a kind of rocky / bony texture for the body. I wanted to keep the yellow dominant while keeping some touches or red and brown for the inner flesh.

Rev ▪︎ over 25 ▪︎ white ▪︎ transmasc nonbinary guything ▪︎ they/them ▪︎ tme and afaik perisex ▪︎ bi/pan ▪︎ nontheistic satanist and norse pagan/heathen

Definitely autistic, probably adhd, potentially OCD, there's some other shit going on in here (gestures to my head) but I don't have the time or inclination to sort it all out.

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Art blog: @tenebris-metallum

Capitalism is the root of all evil. Long live the new flesh!