Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160125214134/@comment-25936766-20170126000334

MiniDaggers wrote: Eh, haven't read Lovecraft. I presume the spelling isn't the actual name in that case? Otherwise seems odd due to it looking easily pronounceable. Lovecraftian eldritch monsters are supposed to be too....out there, for the human mind. Just looking at one can make you insane.

Chulthu, Nyarlathotep, Yog Soggoth....all of them and more have names that, in Lovecraftian canon, are unpronounceable, and have no real way to be written or said. So if you misspelled their names and made gibberish that cannot be pronounced....you're being faithful to the canon.