I did notice straight away that Dagon and Hydra were absent in the Cthulhu section, but Deep Ones, whom they rule, were included.
That's canon for Call of Cthulhu, but I don't think it's specified in Lovecraft's own work. As best I can remember, the name 'Dagon' appears in two places in Lovecraft's stories: as the title of a story where a shipwrecked sailor sees a very big marine monster, and the 'Esoteric Order of Dagon' in Shadow over Innsmouth. Making Dagon a god of the Deep Ones is fairly consistent with that, but it's not something HPL really spelled out. I don't recall Hydra appearing at all in his stories, though I may have missed something.
But like I noted a while back, the Cthulhu mythos neither began nor ended with Lovecraft; there really is no definitive version on this, and Lovecraft's own stuff was vague enough that RPGs looking to detail mythos beasties and their stats often add in a lot of the later stuff.
BTW, you might be amused to know that Dagon has resurfaced in last year's Hordes of the Abyss as a demon prince (obyrith, which basically translates to 'old fogey demon that drives men insane').
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Date: 2007-03-27 01:39 pm (UTC)I did notice straight away that Dagon and Hydra were absent in the Cthulhu section, but Deep Ones, whom they rule, were included.
That's canon for Call of Cthulhu, but I don't think it's specified in Lovecraft's own work. As best I can remember, the name 'Dagon' appears in two places in Lovecraft's stories: as the title of a story where a shipwrecked sailor sees a very big marine monster, and the 'Esoteric Order of Dagon' in Shadow over Innsmouth. Making Dagon a god of the Deep Ones is fairly consistent with that, but it's not something HPL really spelled out. I don't recall Hydra appearing at all in his stories, though I may have missed something.
But like I noted a while back, the Cthulhu mythos neither began nor ended with Lovecraft; there really is no definitive version on this, and Lovecraft's own stuff was vague enough that RPGs looking to detail mythos beasties and their stats often add in a lot of the later stuff.
BTW, you might be amused to know that Dagon has resurfaced in last year's Hordes of the Abyss as a demon prince (obyrith, which basically translates to 'old fogey demon that drives men insane').