Talk:Human Cultist

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Y.Whateley, Feb 20, 2017:

I'll get around to completing this page eventually. It's meant to at least describe the generic, stereotypical Mythos Cultist in more or less the same tone used for describing the generic, stereotypical Mythos Tentacle Monster.

I've got a sort of generic-cultist/cult-generator outlined somewhere and mostly completed, which I'd started a couple years ago. I might put it to use in this article, as I wrote it based on a loose assumption that generic Human Cultists as they are generally used is a core concept of "Lovecraftian" horror.

My point of view about "cultists" has evolved over the last two years, however, and I regard them now as the product of unreliable narrators more than of actual "devil" cults worshiping the Old Ones as gods. (For all intents and purposes, each Investigator party can be thought of as a "mythos cult"; "Delta Green" and similar organizations are certainly "mythos cults"; the scientist who wanted to try to talk to the Thing from "The Thing from Another World" and any of the other scientists who helped him or supported him are a "mythos cult", the kids from "Village of the Damned" are a "mythos cult", etc....) Not sure whether the clarification and explanation of what that means is best included on this page, but it's another possibility.