I was just reading through some Lovecraft quotes, and the following one caught my eye:
"The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom"The image that immediately struck me was a shrouded figure, sitting regal on a throne, with its great and terrible sense of Noblesse Oblige (or Terreur Oblige (excuse the mangled French)). Its decrees are law, as arbitrary and nonsensical as they are; its law triumphs over those of all others, for lo, if it commands that all wearing white are to be slain, who would not gladly lend their hand to the task.
Now, I'm kinda stuck; part of me wants to see if I can wrangle a monster out of this, while another part of me wants to see if I could get an Elder Evil out of this concept; after all, I'm already kinda starting to combine this idea in my head with
the Prince of 100,000 Leaves, because being attended by regal spirits of cannibalism sounds just about right.
Or, finally, I could see if I could make a character out of this...
Thoughts?