Lovecraft vs. Warhammer!

[Indecipherable]

I'm a bit late to the party but this is a pretty interesting read!

The big problem I see is that Lovecraft's powers are totally inscrutible and you can't fight them. You basically can't even acknowledge they are there without your brain turning to jelly and your body dissolving. They really are a blight upon all things logical, material, and upon our known existence itself. Now, whether this is necessarily an impediment to some of the forces of Chaos remains to be seen.

IMO: too hard to even begin to guess at, it's not even an apples and oranges style debate.

 

[MrPeanut]

Since Chaos Gods are too powerful to fully enter the materium, I don't see this fight happening.

A better one would be Cthulhu and pals vs the C'tan, which would probably boil down into a never ending fight since either side can't really be killed.

 

[Silvaarius]

I know posting a reply to a topic that hasn't had a reply in 12 months, but I must say that I genuinely want to write a Warhammer 40K and Lovecraft Mythos crossover. Anyway Wouldn't, according to my limited understanding of physics, a being from one universe (GRIMDARK Future) be exempt from the natural laws of another universe? I know this might sound crazy, but I think Azathoth might not be able to erase an invading force of Imperium, Eldar, Tau, etc.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Er...what has physics got to do with it? But, yeah, the way the universes work would be incompatible, the warp doesn't exist in Lovecraft.

Anyway, in some of the older better fluff it's theorised that Chaos hasn't destroyed the world because that's no fun. Literally playing on god mode is too easy, and there's only one game going, you've got nothing to do once you've won.

 

[Greg White]

I may be off a bit on my Warhammer mythology, but didn't the Chaos gods kill the elder gods in the war of heaven?

 

[Thaluikhain]

I may be off a bit on my Warhammer mythology, but didn't the Chaos gods kill the elder gods in the war of heaven?

Slaanesh ate most of the Eldar gods in a war in heaven when Slaanesh first came into being. "The" war in heaven was between the C'tan/Necrontyr/Necrons and Old Ones/Eldar/everything else, and Chaos only sorta kinda cropped up towards the very end.

According to the fluff the Eldar "dominated" the galaxy for 60 odd million years afterwards. For a very loose definition of "dominated", in that various other races seemed to have ruled the galaxy on and off, GW wasn't big on one galaxy spanning empire per galaxy at a time.

Unless/until that's retconned.

 

[Greg White]

I may be off a bit on my Warhammer mythology, but didn't the Chaos gods kill the elder gods in the war of heaven?

Slaanesh ate most of the Eldar gods in a war in heaven when Slaanesh first came into being. "The" war in heaven was between the C'tan/Necrontyr/Necrons and Old Ones/Eldar/everything else, and Chaos only sorta kinda cropped up towards the very end.

According to the fluff the Eldar "dominated" the galaxy for 60 odd million years afterwards. For a very loose definition of "dominated", in that various other races seemed to have ruled the galaxy on and off, GW wasn't big on one galaxy spanning empire per galaxy at a time.

Unless/until that's retconned.

That's 40k's mythos. WHFB's story was a bit different since most of the other gods are just aspects of the Chaos gods.

 

[Thaluikhain]

That's 40k's mythos. WHFB's story was a bit different since most of the other gods are just aspects of the Chaos gods.

Oh, right. Well, there's much debate over the gods being aspects thing.

Anyway, the coming of chaos drove the Old Ones off or something, and the Great War against Chaos was when mumble mumble mumble Aenarion mumble.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I'm a little curious about people saying that Azathoth waking up and bringing an end to all of reality classes as a "win". I mean, that's just an end. He's just wiped out the battlefield and both sides, right?

 

[DoPo]

I'm a little curious about people saying that Azathoth waking up and bringing an end to all of reality classes as a "win". I mean, that's just an end. He's just wiped out the battlefield and both sides, right?

He It would still exists. Erm, maybe. But assuming Azathot does indeed wipe out everything if awoken, then that'd be 1 Lovecraftian entity standing vs none from Warhammer.

 

[Beautiful Tragedy]

"The Pantheon of the Eldar is considered to have been destroyed by the creation of Slaanesh. While the Eldar still revere all the gods and preserve their stories within the mythic cycles, they do not call on them for aid or hope for their intervention any longer."

from the lexicanum

Also;

"Cegorach (or The Laughing God), God of the Harlequins is the other surviving god of the Pantheon, the Laughing God was the trickster and artist of the pantheon. When all the other gods were destroyed, Cegorach fled before Slaanesh until Khaine rose to do battle with it. The Laughing God took this chance to escape into the realm of the Webway, as only he is said to know all the secrets of its passages. The master of the Harlequins, Cegorach is the only Eldar god that still remains in their original form."

I thought he was the only one left

 

[FalloutJack]

It's a matter of fact that Nyarlathotep's power is unparalleled. And as the soul/servant of a mindless idiot god, he has much much much much MUCH a desire to screw around with the cosmos. He's worse than a Q, even John De Lancie. He's like a Q that gets exceptionally bored, hates his existence, and hates you too. Welcome to hell as told by Lovecraft.