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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:46:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: POOH

Re: Similarity of humans and Elder Things.

How about this for style.. humans ARE Elder Things?

Perhaps Elder Things wanted a fresh start, or saw a need to change the style of their race… or… well, I'll leave further musings to others.


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:36:33 +0200
From: Davide Mana

Will came dangerously close to the Truth when he wrote

How about this for style.. humans ARE Elder Things?

I generally assume that we are at least the moral inheritors of the Elder Things.

As already said, they seem to be incredibly close to us as far as mental processes and emotional activity are concerned.

The unpleasantness described in "At the Mountains of Madness" (we dissect one of them, they dissect one of us and kill the rest in a fit of rage and frustration) looks more like the kind of border incident that happens when intelligent races meet that the basic, deliberate and malicious attack the other Mythos critters usually reserve for us.

And their reaction makes sense from a human point of view, as do their historical basrelief make sense to the eye of a human observer.

So, like it or not, we are walking in their footsteps.

And maybe they designed things to go this way.

I'll put more theories and wild guesses about Elder things in a following post.


Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:30:01 EDT
From: Mark McFadden

So, like it or not, we are walking in their footsteps. And maybe they designed things to go this way.

If we are only walking in their footsteps because we chose the same path, that's good enough for me. I swear, those leathery five-sided frond wavers are about the closest thing to a friend we're going to find in a CoC universe. The fact that we can understand their art and their angles don't bite our faces off is a good sign.

And if the enemy of my enemy is my ally, then short of getting kissy-face with them, we're already on the same side in some important relationships. Too bad they are all dead.

(wait for it)

(now)

OR ARE THEY??!!??

?

DUNdunduuuuuum


Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:24:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: POOH

For what it's worth, part of my Endtime stuff includes technology and aid from the Elder Race. Notably, weapons designed to affect beings which are vulnerable to the Elder Sign.

It's not a HUGE load of help, but it's there…

Even if the Elder Race helps, though, remember that even at the height of their civilization, their wars with the other races were generally stalemates.


From: "Shoggoth"
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:40:22 +0200

Only a simply (yet not completly related to the original post) idea that came to me looking at the post..

The elder things came from other planet…but is not said in any site that there are not more of then wandering on the space…

What if the original few Elder Things were only an Outpost , or better , a tool to make the planet more habitable for the second wave?

Yes..I'm re-reading the Ender's game trilogy again (is hard to find the fourth book) , and the ungluing virus seems me a bit familiar


Date: 15 Apr 99 11:46:19 +0100
From: Peter Devlin

OR ARE THEY??!!??

Actually they're not :-) They're just waiting for the planet to be cleared off so they can reclaim suitable areas for themselves.


Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 03:11:33 +0200
From: "Shoggoth"

And if the enemy of my enemy is my ally, then short of getting kissy-face with them, we're already on the same side in some important relationships.
Too bad they are all dead.

Sure are they ALL dead?

I think not…even in our planet can be vestiges….and of course , there are more suitable planets to stablish an outpost…

What if the other outpost send a commando to see what happened to the "lost colony" ?

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