What is the goal of Cthulhu?

The Cthulhu Cult was founded around the same time as mankind first appeared on Earth by the Great Old Ones
Great Old Ones
The Great Old Ones are a group of unique, malignant beings of great power. They reside in various locations on Earth, and once presided over the planet as gods and rulers.
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. Its purpose was to serve the Old Ones on Earth until such a time as they could be freed, and then to free the Old One Cthulhu and bring about the end of the world.
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What is Cthulhu's motives?

The cult that follows Cthulhu is driven by their innate desire for freedom, but a freedom we simply can't describe.
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What is the idea of Cthulhu?

Cthulhu is characterized as the priest or leader of the Old Ones, a species that came to Earth from the stars before human life arose. The Old Ones went dormant, and their city slipped under Earth's crust beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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Is Cthulhu good or evil?

Evil as a given in stories. Cthulhu and the others of his kind inflict madness and death on those who interact with them. To Lovecraft, this isn't evil, it's just the nature of the universe.
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What does the Cthulhu do?

He is one of the Great Old Ones, an old race of deities that are comparable to cosmic beings and archdemons in other works of fantasy. Cthulhu is infamously known for his grotesque appearance and gigantic size, as well as his ability to drive any human that gazes upon his form to insanity.
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What happens if you look at Cthulhu?

It is known that if you stare at Cthulhu, you will lose your mind.
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What does Cthulhu eat?

Like the Psilotoad, the Cthulhu can only eat Pet Food type 2, and can eat Human corpses.
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What is Cthulhu weakness?

Lovecraft tells us that Cthulhu and his kind used to walk the Earth, but the planet changed forcing him to retreat into a deathlike sleep until the stars are right again. So, he is vulnerable to certain environmental conditions.
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What type of God is Cthulhu?

Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, this creature has since been featured in numerous popular culture references. Lovecraft depicts it as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, in the shape of a green octopus, dragon, and a caricature of human form.
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What is the point of killing the eye of Cthulhu?

Once players can reliably beat the Eye of Cthulhu it can be a great way to make money as it drops three Gold Coins on normal and seven Gold and 50 Silver on Expert. The Demonite and Crimtane ores also fetch for a high price and can be used to craft powerful items.
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What is the moral of The Call of Cthulhu?

The story's main theme is that humanity should know its limits and not search beyond them because too much knowledge will be our downfall. Thurston's life is in danger because he has pursued forbidden knowledge.
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What is the Cthulhu Mythos in a nutshell?

The Cthulhu Mythos is sort of like a self-contained literary universe ruled by a pantheon of fearsome deities, many of whom resemble insects or aquatic life. The name is derived from Lovecraft's character Cthulhu, who is the subject of his story “The Call of Cthulhu” which was first published in Weird Tales in 1926.
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What is the scariest Lovecraftian creature?

Cthulhu. Cthulhu is the quintessential Lovecraftian god monster. It's what first comes to mind when people think about Lovecraft's writings.
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Who is the most powerful Lovecraftian?

Azathoth is technically "God", and additionally the "Blind Idiot God" who is absolutely mindless and unconscious but is omnipotent and the most powerful being of all. He created all of existence as part of his dream and is not even aware of it.
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Is The Kraken Cthulhu's daughter?

Cthylla, also known as The Kraken or The Secret One, is an offspring of Cthulhu and Idh-yaa. She is the daughter of Cthulhu, and is critical to his plans, as should Cthulhu somehow die, Cthylla will give birth to him once again.
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What is Cthulhu made of?

The creature is described as a combination of an octopus, a dragon, and a human being, and just looking upon it will drive the viewer insane.
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What is Cthulhu's full name?

So far, the full sentence, exact and correctly spelled, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" has never been mentioned in Marvel Comics in its original spelling.
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Where does Cthulhu sleep?

According to H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", Cthulhu rests in a tomb in the city of R'lyeh, which sank beneath the Pacific Ocean aeons ago. Cthulhu is dead but not truly dead, as he and his fellow inhabitants of R'lyeh sleep the aeons away. (Cthulhu is generally thought of as a "he" for some reason.)
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Who is Cthulhu's parent?

Family tree. According to correspondence between Lovecraft and fellow author James F. Morton, Cthulhu's parent is the deity Nug, itself the offspring of Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath.
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Who is the most powerful Elder God?

Azathoth is the Greatest God, who rules all infinity from his throne at the center of chaos. His body is composed of all the bright stars of the visible universe, but his face is veiled in darkness.
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What is Cthulhu's religion called?

The Cthulhu Cult, also known as the Cult of Cthulhu, is a loosely-organized cult that appears in the Cthulhu mythos, as created by Howard Philips Lovecraft.
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Who is more powerful Cthulhu or Kraken?

The Kraken can rip ships apart, but Cthulhu is implied to have destroyed stars, which is pretty powerful. Unless the Kraken's fight with Perseus proved that it had incredible strength, Cthulhu wins this category hands down.
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Is Cthulhu real or fake?

Is Cthulhu real? - Quora. Look pal, Cthulhu's existence is only present in the works HP Lovecraft, in fact, he was a creation made by Lovecraft himself. Meaning that… he's just that, a creation, a figment of imagination made by the human mind. So he's obviously fictional cause he was made up.
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What race is Cthulhu?

Biology. Little is known about Cthulhu's origins, other than he's the offspring of a being called Nug and the grandchild of the Outer Gods Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath - both of which are grandchildren of the primordial Azathoth, who created the universe.
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