creepermin3 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Ok so I'm a fan of HP Lovecraft but not huge I've only read his books Call of Cthulhu, and Shadow over Innsmouth all of my other knowledge on the cthulhu mythos is from other fans and references to it in other media speaking of that's another thing I love is HP Lovecraft refrences and themes in video games and no video game company makes more refrences to HP lovecraft than Bethesda who's games can be seen littered with HP Lovecraft references such as the Dunwich Borer Company and the cult the CEO Charles Dunwich founded, the book titled the Krivbeknih, and the dagger Krimvh's tooth in Fallout, then in the Elder Scrolls games you have the entirety of Hermaeus Mora his realm Apocrypha, the black books and the oghma infinium, and the daedra he commands like the seekers, lurkers, and the watchers, and maybe the Ascended Sleepers, and then there's the topic of this story the town of Hackdirt and the quest surrounding it "Shadow Over Hackdirt" in The Elder Scrolls Oblivion, since this thread is already super long I'll just give you a link to a youtube video that tells you the story of the quest and the town, aswell as some theories on the mysterious creatures/entities worshiped by the townsfolk called "the deep ones" here...www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7BqEE1udgI highly recommend watching the video before reading onward if you've never seen it before. Now the deep ones are obviously a refrence to the fishlike creatures in Shadow Over Innsmouth but in the Elder Scrolls lore the deep ones are a mystery but I think I may have found a clue as too what they are(even though it is likely that they are daedra or maybe another demonic entity that calls Oblivion it's home, like the hist trees) but I digress, I believe I found another HP Lovecraft reference in Oblivion that is unknown to the fanbase, In the game if you kill a member of the brethren they will always be carrying a nightshade flower, now I was wondering what significance nightshade has in the Cthulhu mythos if it does at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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