[map making] - Cthulhu R'lyeh

[ywl]

Depends.

It's kind of hard to translate the Cthulu mythology of the book into your regular land-grabbing fantasy saga.

Cthulu mythology is not really your usual fantasy world. It's more a horror mythology. The original background was mainly in the New England (northeast) of the US during the late 19th century and early 20th century. The time when a pistol is the most powerful personal weapon, (machine guns didn't exist yet) and people travelled by horse-drawn coaches and train. There are later cyber-punk variations of the Cthulu mythology but I haven't read much of them.

According to my interpretation of the books, in Cthulu mythology, super-human beings (Outer-gods, or is it Elder-Gods?) are lurking at the edge of our dimension, and the fringe of our conscious. We are not forced to admit the presence of them except during the brief insight of insanity. The presence of them are so immense and aliened (a key description I got from the book) that a few glances are enough to drive any mortals insane. They don't come into our dimension unless called upon by some insane cultist, using the most obscure rituals. The struggles of the heroes of the fictions are merely vulnerable (bookish) types mortals trying to seal the gate before it's too late. Nothing short of a atomic bomb can touch them (details varied, depending on novels), not to mention your medieval weaponery in dominions. And a side notes, even though Cthulu is the most famous among these beings, he's just a pussy cat comparing to the real ones .

So, there would be no fight between the outer gods and us. No clash of armies. Just futile delay of the inevitable comings of them. Once they're here, we're all doomed.

Dreamland is basically a realm that is reached only during dream (when our denial of the other dimension is the lowerst?) - I'm only on-and-off reading those novels. Outer-gods (?) have a large presence there. It's also more similar to your normal fantasy world could be translated that into a Dominions map. But the fight in a Dominions game is not really the favor of the mythology (if you're looking for more just similarities between province names).

But on the other hand, you can always follow the D&D mythology of the Cthulu monsters - Illithids could be just another subterranean specie, like the Darkelves, hateful of the sun and any living beings under it.

Or we can just make up a Dominion Version of the story - the Nation of R'lyeh is trying to get to a special site called "The Void" (I would try to look for a better name though). Once they get it, the game is lost - heh, it's not a bad idea at all .