On
Kadath and
the Creants
It's well known
that the Earth-Sea gods we all worship were the
relatively benign entities of Kadath. Lesser beings of the
madness and power that destroyed oh so many who journeyed to
Kadath. But what was it that drove them so utterly mad?
What could possibly hold more power than a god? How could the greater
gods of Kadath, beings of inconceivable horror and power, terrors known
to madmen since the earliest of days, be unknown?
It's entirely
possible that these horrors aren't unknown.
We have met beings of power greater than the gods. Things that
scared the Earth-Sea gods so much that their vast power could
only seal Temuair from them: Law and the Creants.
A Creant is a
greater being of Kadath? Could this be
true? Well, consider their nature. It was said that the
Creants were invaders "from another dimension" or some such.
Certainly they come from beyond the veil, places like the depths of
Kadath. They were also said to war with Temuair and the Earth-Sea
gods. Consider that while the Earth-Sea gods helped the peoples
of Temuair, that which dwells deep in Kadath sought only destruction,
chaos and madness. The two would not have gotten along. A
war of ideology between the lesser and greater beings of Kadath over
Temuair's fate would have been inevitable. Such a
"pan-dimensional
war" of the Creants and Earth-Sea gods would fit the bill nicely.
Some would laugh at
the thought of the Tauren being of greater
power than a god, for every Master Aisling defeats it quite
handily. Medenian trained Aislings can rip through a Creant with
one arm tied behind their back. This is a being of madness and
power? Yes, indeed. You see, EVERY Master Aisling defeats
Creants. Yet, they keep coming back. Fresh and
untouched. As if the shells the Aislings are defeating are as
nothing to the Creants; That their true power and forms cannot fully
"fit" in Temuair. Defeating these monsters could be nothing more
than trimming the toenail of the true being. The Creants we have
seen are more a mish-mosh of things we know to be natural in Temuair, a
concoction of flesh to house a tiny fragment of a greater being's
power, perhaps? Truly, the power of a Creant is fitting what we
would expect of a greater denizen of Kadath.
Further
evidence came when Law revealed his "true form" in his
duel with Cedric. Nearly identical to an Aosdic Pattern
Walker. This proves beyond a doubt that the Creants are doubtless
tied to Aosda, the civilization that was built upon the powers of
Kadath. Whether Law was a simple Pattern Walker driven mad with
power lust, delving into the depths of Kadath, reaping its power and
enlisting the aid of the Creants dwelling within, or if the Pattern
Walkers of Aosda were merely poor imitations of the glory of the
greater Kadath-kin known as Law, the connection is quite clear; Law and
the Creants at least spent time in the depths of Kadath, if they in
fact do not call it "home".
The barrier of
Temuair was an oddity, too. How was Cedric
able to pass through it? If it was meant to keep Temuairians in,
it didn't work too well. Cedric returned to Temuair with Law,
too. The barrier didn't keep Law or his Dark Aislings out,
either. It's almost as if the barrier wasn't meant to keep anyone
in nor out; it merely shielded Temuair from being found by the Creants
or lands beyond Temuair being found by Aislings. A veil of
confusion, so to speak. The sort of thing one would expect a
weaker force would use against a greater force.
Further, why do
Medenians stare blankly at those who mention
"Creants"? This implies that the Creants don't hail from Medenia,
so perhaps Medenia's merely a place the greater gods of Kadath could find, and from there Cedric
led Law back through the barrier. Even if Medenia is the home of
Creants, that does not preclude their origin being the deepest
madness of Kadath. Medenia is governed by the Elemental
Spirits. The Elements played a key role in Temuairian
civilization as well. These Elemental Spirits most likely
hail from Kadath as well, as Kadath is where all elemental knowledge we
have ever encountered hails from.
So, is it
true? Are the Creants greater gods of Kadath,
bent on un-doing that which the Earth-Sea gods and the Aosdans
achieved? A power and madness so great that Aislings cannot hope
to defeat, merely prevent their madness from wiping out everything
we've ever known? It certainly makes a whole lot of sense to me,
anyway. The horrors of the depths of Kadath have been known since
the first Grinneals, we know what they want - Madness and
Destruction. Now, perhaps, we know what to call these nightmares
that bleed their form all over the world: "Creants".
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