Aspects of Mount Targon. Are they lovecraftian?

Uuno01·2/22/2019, 9:59:06 PM·2 votes·3,279 views

Are the Aspects/Gods of Mount Targon more Greek/Norse mythology or essentially a more subtle and more grounded version of lovecraftian. Since what I have gathered from the lore is that they are essentially abstract concepts made manifest in some kind of mental transcendent state. Since all of the character they choose to carry out their will or they choose to sponsor(?) seem to have parts of them that correspondingwith their concepts more defined and dominant. Like how Kayle and her mother are defined to become more and more unshackled from the world and driven to a extreme. And how Leona and Diana describe their contact with them as something greater. And then there's the way Pantheon was treated made into a instrument of war nothing else( Since what else would you want where you the aspect of war) and how hes family reacts, simply dismissing him essentially treating him as being dead, since for all intents and purposes hes just a direct puppet for the aspect. They seem to change people with even a glimpse of them they define things in their mold, they seem to dissolve personality corrode the parts that are not aligned to them. And taking all that it makes Zoe being chosen at a young age quite fucked up, since even if it's not the total brain washing of Pantheon it's still quite evident that her mind was being altered at a extremely young age meaning even her personality couldn't have completely formed before an aspect did what ever they do with minds. Morgana just seems the odd one out of the bunch I know of being in some contact with the Targonian Aspects since she doesn't seem driven for justice as it would seem she should be but that may just be her actively fighting the aspect from cutting up her wings and despising how forceful Kayles justice is.

But hey maybe I'm full of shit. I have no idea and that's why I'm posting a forum post to see if someone actually answers and then maybe I can get insight from other people and not go in to a self affirming loop. Edit: Completely forgot about Taric. But hes encounter with a Targon aspect is the most vivid. In it the aspect speaks through meaning and not through words, taking the form that most suited form to confront him. And is the most direct way the aspects have communicated( For my knowledge at least). And void creatures they bring a interesting thing to variable to the theory I have build of the aspects being more conceptual and indescribable, since void creatures are more the traditional lovecraftian otherworldly horrors are described as when actually confronted.

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BoringLittleF2/22/2019, 10:21:09 PM4 votes

I would say, they are closer to Greek gods. Not their romanticized versions, but the jackass gods of Ancient Greece. While sounding like they love all the living things, Targonians felt it was perfectly fine to destroy and conquer other worlds by using an enslaved dragon. They do good deeds sometimes, but only if it benefits them/strokes their ego. Also there is an infighting between them, which shows that they are not as perfect as they want to seem.

And how Leona and Diana describe their contact with them as something greater.

Leona revered Targon and was zealous, while Diana wanted a place to belong. So this is why they accepted the Aspects.

With Morgana it seems that she never had any reason to be joined with the Aspect. And since she never went up Targon's summit again, she never trully embraced her aspect and only used the power passed to her by her mother. Maybe, to ultimately become one with your Aspect, you have to go to Targon. However, you will lose your identity in this case.

Warlord Dienekes2/23/2019, 1:22:04 AM1 votes

Well, Lovecraftian means that the “gods” are unknowable, unfathomable, and mankind is beneath their notice except as food, maybe. The point is we are insignificant.

Since they seem pretty tied to people for some unexplained reason, I would guess that no. They can’t be.

They’re definitely closer to the Greek gods though. Petty bastards that have their own problems and make mortal lives worse for the most part, while occasionally earning their place by dealing with actual monsters. Unless of course they decide to leave monsters for humans to deal with for no good reason.

That’s actually a good enough description of how the space parasites handled the Darkin.