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{{quote|''There was a darkness ''[[Void Between the Worlds|outside reality]]'', they say -- a darkness full of ''things''. Hungry, ''nasty'' things with no shape or form, not as long as they were ''out there''.''|'''[[Kurt Busiek]]''', "Storms of the Heart," ''[[Astro City]]''}}

How to describe these grotesque mockeries of natural law? There are no words that can encompass such disgusting foulness, not in English or any other human tongue. They are The '''''Other.''''' The ~~[[You Keep Using That Word|~~Inconceivable]]. [[Starfish Aliens|Alien]] [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|beyond comprehension]], their sole existence [[Go Mad From the Revelation|is an affront to all reason]]. We could speak of [[Brown Note|painfully dissonant noises and nauseating colours]], [[Freud Was Right|ichor-dripping vermiform tentacles and abyssal yonic voids]], or complex [[Everybody Hates Mathematics|mathematical]] [[Alien Geometries|geometries]], but those are mere superficialities. Monstrous and sick though these stigmata are, they do not define the abominations; they are merely among some of the more common symptoms of their underlying wrongness.

How to describe these grotesque mockeries of natural law? There are no words that can encompass such disgusting foulness, not in English or any other human tongue. They are The '''''Other.''''' The Inconceivable. [[Starfish Aliens|Alien]] [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|beyond comprehension]], their sole existence [[Go Mad From the Revelation|is an affront to all reason]]. We could speak of [[Brown Note|painfully dissonant noises and nauseating colours]], [[Freud Was Right|ichor-dripping vermiform tentacles and abyssal yonic voids]], or complex [[Everybody Hates Mathematics|mathematical]] [[Alien Geometries|geometries]], but those are mere superficialities. Monstrous and sick though these stigmata are, they do not define the abominations; they are merely among some of the more common symptoms of their underlying wrongness.

Eldritch Abominations are not simply creatures that look horrible on a metaphorically cosmic scale. They are alien, madness-inducing [[Reality Warper|reality warpers]] who literally '''are''' horrible on a cosmic scale. Eldritch is not just anything that looks like an ugly mashup of different kinds of [[Body Horror]]. What actually defines the Eldritch Abominations (or as we [[Puny Earthlings|puny Homo sapiens]] can only define them) is their defiance of natural law, as humans understand it. They are the things that should not be, the ultimate aliens. It is this that makes them abominable, and it is this that horrifies and [[Go Mad From the Revelation|reduces to gibbering madness]] all but the strongest of those who encounter them. Such laws as they do obey, such as [[When the Planets Align]] or [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], are their nature, not ours.