The Dreamlands - (Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos) 

Count me in!!

Don't know if you even made the game because it's so much later but I suggest you look at the Pathfinder adventure path called strange aeons. Much of the game is centered around traveling to the dreamlands. You also visit carcosa later on. It's a really good adventure path. Takes you from levels 1-18 I believe

You should include an experience with yidhra!

There is a Call of Cthulhu Dreamlands setting!

GURPs also probably has something.

Cool, thx! I have always loved Arabic and wish I knew it,but hear it's very hard to learn.☹️ Beautiful language.❤️

Alexander Bahn can i join you? I ❤️🐈

an extended life and all the cats to pet.. what else could a person want?!

They breed and die too fast

@@AThousandYoung I would form the Greatest Cat Army!

Alexander Bahn aThousand young at six at a time that’s gonna take you a while LOL

Woah, dick move

I remember reading historical accounts few centuries back, of people being attacked by giant man-eating spiders.

That's just par for the course of the eldritch great old ones.

Was it not obvious?

Candy coloured cosmic horror?

I never thaught about it but he does eat adorable creatures Alive

Whats a H.P?

@@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew h.p. stands for Howard Phillips he's the author who wrote these books.

In what "century" is cthulhu mythos set on?

@@gandalfthepurple9529 most stories take place in the 20th century, sometimes 18th and 19th depending (or transitioning to 20th).

@@ORLY911 thanks

Craig Fulco I may be mistaken, but I do believe this music is actually taken from a Dark Souls OST, my friend

Nikolaj Lindelsberg U r mistaken. It’s ‘Secunda’ from Skyrim’s OST

Nikolaj Lindelsberg I hope you’re trolling because it is for sure skyrim

welp i was wrong too.. i thought it was from the first fable game ×D

@@avery7690 shiiieet, i thought it was Starfox 64

I believe that azohoth dreams bring him to a diffent plain amoung the stars because he is able to adjust space and time in his sleep. But it was conjector

Just Some Guy with a Mustache No,we are the dream that Azohoth has, and Dreamland is the World "we" dreamed up,so whatever exist in dreamland is out of reach for azathot because he only dreams ouer universe,but he dosen t dream "ouer dreams",and then theiy is the concept of the Dark multiverse....that is also connectet to the dreamland via the fact that it itself is just a bunch of nightmares.

LARS Liljeberg so on that note couldn’t the human race somewhat escape Azathoth’s mind by living inside the dreamland?

@@ethanrajczak3041 Well you see the Dark Multiverse has many worlds wich only exist because someones "fear" manifest in dreamland while that person dreams, yet taking the Batman who laughs for exampel,he and all his friends would have stopped existing alltogether if theiy weren t extractet from theiy normal "universe" while the person in qestion was "waking up" wich means it dosen t matter if theiy were dreaming themselfs at that moment or not,theiy do have still just "vanished" as if theiy never had been there to begin with.in a sense this shows the connection "live" has to azathot because ouer dreams atleast for ouer nightmares stop being a thing upon waking up,same as ouer universe would stop being a thing if azathot wakes up. of course neither azathot or the real batman know what the Batman who laughs dreamed in his life before he went insane or what he dreams after being insane,his dreams are for him alone to know,so unless humanity literaly finds a way to "break reality" and go beyond the barrier that seperates awake-peopel from the dreamland,and then can travel there and live there,just as Batman who laughs tryed to do,we can t escape azathot at all, basically think of it like this: whatever a comic character doas he still is in a comic,so unless he somehow finds a way to literaly leave his page that the writter gave him,and go to a different comic alltoghether,he won t escape the writters influence even if the writter dosen t necessarly know about his creations dreams.

This actually goes back to Dunsany, one of Lovecraft's influences. It's explained there that Mana Yod Sushai dreamt everything. If Mana Yod Sushai wakes, everything ends. Lovecraft had the idea that his Azatoth was kind of an expy of Mana Yod Sushai and probably at one point somewhat implied that Azatoth (and it's surroundings) itself was a dreamer that was dreamt by another dreamer. Like something out of the movie Inception.

I got that reference

I was looking for a bloodborne reference 😁

We are borne of the blood,made men by the blood , undone by the blood, our eyes have yet to open, FEAR THE OLD BLOOD - Master Willem

@@Grimfaxe Same

Well there's the south fantastic area, seems to be a bit scary

DrFranklynAnderson Maybe that's why Atlach-Nacha weaves her massive web across the void; to bridge the gap between the Dreamlands and the Waking realm, to make them one, once again.

At the beginning of Celephais, Kadath dreams of a “great stone house covered with ivy” and at the end of the story SPOILERS the physical body of Kadath washes up by Innsmouth against “Ivy covered Trevor Towers”. Perhaps there is a link between these locations.

H.P. Lovecraft wrote to other authors encouraging them to use his mythos. He corresponded with Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan the Barbarian and Howard did include a Great old one in one of his stories.

IIRC Clarke Ashton Smith, another of Lovecraft's contemporaries who also shared some content originated the Serpent men that feature in the prehistroy of Conan's Hyborian Age.

Getting some beer for that if he does it lol

One of the god's is named Yog in Conan universe, which truly looks eldrich chtonian entity.

@The Gray Ghost the dreaming God Dagoth is one of pillar men

Heaven Leigh yup. I fall to sleep listening a lot.

His imagination was great, search up how creative the name of his cat is.

@@damianalexander4274 wow I have definitely never heard that about lovecraft before, I am so offended. Thank you for warning me about these horrible nasty words.

M Wellnow Lovecraft was a racist even for his time. That or you can blame his crippling fear over anything that wasn’t a white, rich, and New England person. Even for simple country folk he wrote many stories using them as incest hillbillies who’d sex fish for money. He got better before his early death, even wanting to destroy his early works.

@@ethanrajczak3041 I was being sarcastic, mocking the fact that this is a very very well known fact about Lovecraft and trying to express how tired I am of hearing this over and over again (as someone who frequents Lovecraft circles regularly and wants to hear more original discussion). It's the whole reason I clicked on the Dreamland video in the first place.

@@mwellnow5016 yeah I'm sick of the virtue signaling myself. The depth of the man's stories can't be explored by those who are so hung up on bullshit like his IRL racism.

Marko Babic Same.

I see the steps sometimes in my dreams, but the two guardians of the gate just want to tell me jokes instead of letting me pass. Decades ago, I did get in. The enchanted wood. I was chased by werewolves through the forest. My feet didn't touch the ground as I levitated inches above the grass and hovered at great speed. I heard them mimicking human speech in the shadows, crashing through trees, snarling, funneling me toward a central clearing. I was surrounded and had no choice but to enter a house there that flowed like cloth in the wind. The walls and floor were as water save where I put my foot or hand where it instantly solidified to hold my weight. In the center of the house was a solid stone slab, immobile. And on it, slept a beautiful princess. I leaned in but instead of a kiss, I got a face full of jagged needle teeth as the thing leapt up and moved as if to attack. I was saved by a creature that had been following me. It froze the house, froze the creature in mid-air. I got a good look at its red mad eyes, it's impossibly large maw dripping with saliva. The thing that saved me chided me for making such a dumb mistake. It had no form of its own and instead looked like me, with my voice, but eyes of solid black. I was a fool, The Fool. I was not ready. So I was cast out and have not been back in, not all the way. I was a child, figuratively but also quite literally. It didn't matter; I failed the test. I may never get past the gate again.

@@shoesncheese They want to fight me. The steps are concrete in my dream and the guardians are gypsies, not Egyptian. The second set of steps has white shoe marks like someone stepped in paint and I was lead by someone that introduced himself as Death. Ive been a lot in the Dreamlands,, just not lately. Ive been to Guardian Lake, Ive been to a place with pillars above water, to a desert road above a city, to a white city, to a tropical beach etc and I can describe them all in great detail. Id love to see if my notes are the same as someone elses.

Sometimes when I dream there is a person, or animal that is interacting in my dream as someone unimportant, like actors that are acting the pedestrians in a movie. The character is there, he follows you. But if you confront him and tell him you know who he is he will let you through to the Dreamlands.

@@Jobe-13 I think everyone has their own individual dreamscape, influenced by what they read and see while they're awake.

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gear machine it’s not an easy read, so I don’t blame you.

Loving the concept of D&D in Lovecraft dreamscape

If you'd prefer short ones, The White Ship, Celephais, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Cats of Ulthar and a few others are open to you. I highly recommend White Ship and Celephais.

Sono thank you!

@@gearmachine_4885 oh yeah Strange High House in the Mist is fantastic too, it doesn't take place IN the dreamlands but a dimensional crossroads to it. And no problem!

THANKS!

Brendan Klagu it's actually called Dreamtime or the Dreaming, not dreamland. But I absolutely agree with you that we need a video on these myths, as they are so unique and interesting.

An Emu laid an Egg whopty fricken do.

@@boulderthefat154 actually it was a giant serpent

B A ohhh no, im over americans saying things like mel-born and can-beara hahaha

@B A I'm good with the language they can't help it, but the virtue whores... Thanks for the warnings.

It was mythology already back then. Herakleitos, one of the earlier Greek philosophers, scoffed at gullible women prostrating before stone idols. And the whole era of hellenism, the great Greek philosophers spawned by Pythagoras and Plato, this started with the idea that a god that goes fucking around everything that moves, and generally being a giant dickwad next to a giant adulterer, can NEVER be the one great creator, the source where everything that is good emanates from. That was the very thought that caused Plato to think up his demiurg principle. This was all a REJECTION of the whole traditional Greek polytheist religion, in favor of eastern monotheism and dualism (good vs evil concept). So this happened 3-4 centuries before Christ, and was seen by the early Christians as proof for that scriptural statement that God was going to soften the hearts of men before the coming of the messiah.

I would read the stories

The concept of Mages / Wizards / Occultists go way back beyond Dragon Age and even gaming in general. But you're certainly not wrong about Dragon Age being inspired by Lovecraftian elements. - In Clive Barker's Undying, when attempting to open a door, it'll fly off it's hinges straight into the now exposed red sky, and you'll find yourself standing in the world of Oneiros. And later on in the same game after falling asleep I believe it was, you'll find yourself in the world of Eternal Autumn, a world created by Bethany Covenant. Highly recommend this game if only for the sudden moment when you walk from perfect normality into suddenly being in Oneiros.

i mean............you arent WRONG

DC lore is also 👌

Yeah, same with The Doom that Came to Sarnath

It kinda sounds heretical too... You might need to summon an Inquisitor.

Warhammer's chaos gods are lovecratian knock off so

Calling them "daemons" or "neverborn" would be more accurate than "xenos", as they are the denizens of the Aether, not aliens of physical reality.

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