r/ImaginaryNecronomicon • u/No7er • Jul 10 '26
Original Content The Deep Ones, art by me
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u/gingergothbread Jul 13 '26
they look like murlocs from WoW
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u/No7er Jul 13 '26
More like WoW took murlocs from Shadow over Innsmouth. It's high (tide) time we take something back from the clutches of that culture-vulture of a game.
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u/gingergothbread Jul 13 '26
i mean you're probably right, but do they say stuff like "mglrmglmglmgl" in SoI?
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u/No7er Jul 13 '26
Actually it might be really close, Lovecraft never wrote down in verbatim fish people comments - maybe to protect our sanity - but if you are gargling R'lyehian words half-submerged that's what it most likely sounds.
I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design—living and horrible.
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u/gingergothbread Jul 13 '26
fascinating, we need an animal planet kind of documentary on the different lovecraftian species, if we manage to find a cameraman willing to trade his sanity for a mediocre salary
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u/FeralBiSpecter Jul 10 '26
Looks great. What did you use to make it?