“The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!„~ Barzai the Wise after seeing the Outer Gods.The Outer Gods are the overarching antagonists of the Cthulhu Mythos. They are the most powerful entities in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and are to the Great Old Ones what the latter are to humanity. Needless to say this makes the Outer Gods so utterly alien and vast that no human could even dream of beginning to understand them: though many have tried (at the cost of their sanity). There are 40 known Outer Gods described or mentioned in Lovecraft's corpus.The Outer Gods serve a cosmic function that the Great Old Ones do not, and although they may be worshiped as gods by madmen and heretics, they care little for such things and are dedicated to their tasks without questi...
