imahobbit4062 said:
Threads like these that make me want to read up on both Lovecraft and Warhammer Lore...except, it's so vast I don't have a fucking clue where to begin.
Buy a Lovecraft book. That's a good start. They have pretty good story collections. Just any, I suppose, most are a collection of stories, more often than not related. Or maybe there is a the whole Cthulhu mythos contained in several books somewhere. At any rate, there isn't a start or an end to Lovecraft's works - they are just some stories that are only connected through the setting and sometimes through common names referenced. Some stories even contradict or misrepresent facts from others. It's rather fitting though, knowledge of some beings can shatter the minds of mortals. A lot of stories are told from the point of view of a character who is relaying their experience with the forbidden knowledge, as such they are already either insane or on the brink.
Hawk of Battle said:
I don't think we can really have a contest between these 2 entities. The Chaos gods can't ever really manifest in the material universe and only ever work through intermediaries, which is also where they draw their power from. The only way to destroy the Chaos gods would be to either kill every living thing in the material universe, or enter the warp directly, at which point you'd be outnumbered by an infinite amount of deamons. Any battle fought in the warp would also involve immense psychic power and would probably be completely incomprehensible to mere mortals.
Admittedly though I don't know a lot about the Lovecraft horros and their powers, so I can't say how much psychic power they have.
See, this is the problem, the Chaos gods
need their servants and followers. The Lovecraftian horrors don't. They aren't gods as much as aliens so powerful that humans don't even fit on their power scale and are below their attention. And we are. Few of the Lovecraftian abominations are even concerned with humanity, much less malicious or evil. Their thought process and morality are incomprehensible to people. We are but ants compared to them, maybe even less than that.
Lovecraftian beings don't
need followers. Perhaps they don't even want them in the first place. They cannot even be reasonably confronted, much less "killed" by us. Unlike Chaos gods that can only be directly influenced in the Warp, the Lovecraftian "gods" simply cannot - they exist in more layers of reality than we, humans, can actually comprehend or access. Also, anything that can be called a god will most likely destroy every human being that came close to it. Without conscious effort or even without noticing. Much like you might not noticing stepping on an ant. When Cthulhu awoke only briefly, at least a quarter of the planet felt it - nightmares, shaken mental health and other manners of strange things. And that was only for its brief waking period, it wasn't fully awoken or active. And Cthulhu isn't considered a god. It isn't as powerful or important as some of the other beings out there.
, too cute.