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| | #REDIRECT [[Million Favoured Ones]] |
| The '''Million Favoured Ones''' (AKA Million Favored Ones), a cult of Nyarlathotep, are briefly mentioned in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s ''[[Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)]]''.
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| ==History and Scope==
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| <blockquote>
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| Nyarlathotep, Great Messenger, bringer of strange joy to [[Yuggoth]] through the void, Father of the Million Favoured Ones.
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| <br>— H.P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"
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| </blockquote>
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| ===Identification, Psychology and Behavior===
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| (How to identify members of the organization or who the members typically are,
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| typical members, level of secrecy, level of aggressiveness to outsiders.)
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| ==Resources==
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| (Brief lists for the unique Mythos people, places, and things available
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| * race: [[Mi-Go]] (aware of and apparently in contact with the cult)
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| * location: [[Yuggoth]]
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| ==Heresies and Controversies==
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| * Chaosium suggests for their RPG that the Million Favoured Ones are individual unique entities of a million races touched in some way by Nyarlathotep who may or may not be children, avatars, and/or cultists of Nyarlathotep, of varying descriptions and abilities; no stats or description are provided because they could be anything. (''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'')
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| * The "Lurker in the Star-Pool", an Avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]] from [[A.A. Attanasio]]'s "[[The Star Pools (fiction)]]", may be one of the Million Favoured Ones. (''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'')
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| ==Keeper Comments==
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| (Comments to Keepers about this cult. Possibly how to use it
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| ==Appearances==
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| (Stories and other works the cult appeared in.)
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| * fiction: [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s ''[[Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)]]''
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| [[Category:Mythos:Cults]]
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| [[Category:LovecraftMythos]]
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