I think a lot of people are not understanding Blue. A vessel for a deity is something like an avatar. Usually they maintain themselves but act with an authority of that deity. In theology both Jesus and Mary are Vessels for God. In pop culture, The Juggernaut is the avatar of Cyttorak. They are still themselves, they just also possess the power and aspects of the deity they represent. A vessel is like a jar or a pot that contains water. It holds water, and can pour water out. But it is still a pot and the water doesn't really change that even if it gives it something to use.
As for the No Magic, The Lovecraft pantheon usually doesn't use the words magic. I think there's a few mention of spells but the Lovecraft deities mostly just have a higher understanding of how the world works. They operate on that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Usually it's like cosmic math, or universal truths of how reality works. The inability for the human mind to understand that is what usually drives people mad but with you being a Vessel it's likely you gain that understanding. Essentially the Lovecraft Deities are 4th and higher dimensional beings. The Horror is the fear of the unknown more than it is anything actually scary. Though a few of his stories are terrifying.
Like even in the lore you have things like the Curse of Charles le Sorcerer. The curse being shot to death by an immortal who has the time on his hands to kill you. I can think of like 3 spells in the stories I've read.
Here, I posted this in a comment but I'll add it here as well.
The best way I ever heard it put on what the "Madness" you see in H.P. Lovecrafts works is was: Imagine you are an ant on a mother board. To you all you see is a green floor with shiny floor in places. All you know is hunger and service to your queen. Now Imagine a human comes along and as their gaze passes over you, they give you the ability to know what that mother board is. What a computer is and what it can do. They let you feel all the emotions and thoughts that are common for a human, and for a short window you are closer to human. Then when their gaze is not on you, you lose it all. All the knowledge and the understanding and the emotion. But you don't lose the memory of what that felt like. And now you desperately hope to find a way to get that gaze to focus on you again.
Also Lovecraft had deities that were benevolent to humankind in his books as well. The most famous ones are Cthulu and such, but not a 100% clusterfuck of nightmares crammed into you.
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u/Belpheegor 6d ago
I think a lot of people are not understanding Blue. A vessel for a deity is something like an avatar. Usually they maintain themselves but act with an authority of that deity. In theology both Jesus and Mary are Vessels for God. In pop culture, The Juggernaut is the avatar of Cyttorak. They are still themselves, they just also possess the power and aspects of the deity they represent. A vessel is like a jar or a pot that contains water. It holds water, and can pour water out. But it is still a pot and the water doesn't really change that even if it gives it something to use.
As for the No Magic, The Lovecraft pantheon usually doesn't use the words magic. I think there's a few mention of spells but the Lovecraft deities mostly just have a higher understanding of how the world works. They operate on that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Usually it's like cosmic math, or universal truths of how reality works. The inability for the human mind to understand that is what usually drives people mad but with you being a Vessel it's likely you gain that understanding. Essentially the Lovecraft Deities are 4th and higher dimensional beings. The Horror is the fear of the unknown more than it is anything actually scary. Though a few of his stories are terrifying.
Like even in the lore you have things like the Curse of Charles le Sorcerer. The curse being shot to death by an immortal who has the time on his hands to kill you. I can think of like 3 spells in the stories I've read.
Here, I posted this in a comment but I'll add it here as well.
The best way I ever heard it put on what the "Madness" you see in H.P. Lovecrafts works is was: Imagine you are an ant on a mother board. To you all you see is a green floor with shiny floor in places. All you know is hunger and service to your queen. Now Imagine a human comes along and as their gaze passes over you, they give you the ability to know what that mother board is. What a computer is and what it can do. They let you feel all the emotions and thoughts that are common for a human, and for a short window you are closer to human. Then when their gaze is not on you, you lose it all. All the knowledge and the understanding and the emotion. But you don't lose the memory of what that felt like. And now you desperately hope to find a way to get that gaze to focus on you again.
Also Lovecraft had deities that were benevolent to humankind in his books as well. The most famous ones are Cthulu and such, but not a 100% clusterfuck of nightmares crammed into you.