Great Old Ones Cannot Free Themselves
[August Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos]
The Great Old Ones (3) cannot come forth until they are summoned:
. . . it has been shown in repeated instances that the Great Old Ones cannot come forth unless they are summoned by those minions who are ever ready to serve them here and on other stars and planets. [Curwen]
Before the Great Old Ones (3) can even be summoned, humanity needs to open the gates:
Their minions gather’d and sought means and ways with which to free ye Old Ones [Great Old Ones (3)], and waited while man came to pry into secret, forbidd’n places and open ye gate. [Lurker]
It could be that only humanity is capable of opening the gates, because we are immune to the magic of the star-stones, whereas the alien minion races, such as the Deep Ones, cannot touch them. In a similar way, Richard Billington convinced Stephen Bates to remove a stone with the Elder Sign. Although Billington was in human form, his long traffic with those Outside had left him susceptible to that Sign, and he needed the help of a comparatively innocent human to move it. [Lurker]
| <--Previous Topic |
Return to Cthulhu Universalis Contents Page
Return to CthulhuFiles.com Home Page
Send comments to jfm.baharna@gmail.com.
© Copyright 1996-2025 by Joseph Morales
