Quote Originally Posted by Eldan View Post
In the original lovecraft stories, humans frequently get away more or less unscathed or even pull off what could be called wins against various mythos creatures. Of course, the top tier creatures like the gods only feature rarely (Cthulhu doesn't really rate all that far up there), but Nyarlathotep does admit defeat. And they are not remotely united.

That would make for a more interesting setting, anyway. Where different groups of humans live under the rule of different alien gods and fight each other. The Carcosan Imperial Dynasty of America with their fascism disguised as Utopia. Cthulhu's realm of murderous madness and unsettling art at the fringes of civilization. Nyarlathotep's technocracy. Ancient and immortal deep ones ruling fantastical underwater palaces of gold and coral. Dyonisian fertility cults reclaiming Rome and Greece in the name of the Magna Mater. Grotesquely mutated sorcerer-kings.
So different countries on earth serving or being conquered by different gods? And these nations being at war with each other? And these humans evolving or devolving into different species of homogenization sapiens because of this?