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>>6413943
>Old Ones have radial symmetry and are pretty much spoopy anemone/starfish/octopus hybrids
The crazy part is that Old Ones are the MOST comprehensible Lovecraft monster, though.

They are freaky flying starfish monsters but are very recognizably "human", they have families and friends and clans and civilizations, thoughts and feelings and fears, they're even made out of terrestrial matter. Shit, eventually most of them died out of a catastrophe caused by sheer greed and laziness, it doesn't get more human than that. If they didn't tend to murder humans on sight because they saw us as intruders, I'd say they would be our best bros fairly easily.

I wonder how conventional creatures like them were supposed to have fought the actual "Lovecraftian" space gods and won, whereas it's always clear that humanity would be utterly helpless in the same situation?