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Offline HeWhoSucksAtWalking

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Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« on: April 04, 2022, 04:44:28 AM »
Back in BR ,the porno witch hag tried to call up his servant HWWB  . It didn't gotoo well for her but it got me thinking..If this thing has freaking servant that's on par with Uriel then it can't just be some paltry god. Maybe the big umero Numero Big Bad.

Bad ass title by the way..Maybe this is the true head of the outsiders and Elder Things
.Hopefully Jim addresses it soonish .

Okay last newbie thread for a while. Pinkie swear 🤗
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Re: Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2022, 07:02:18 AM »
It's been speculated in some very entertaining theories (you can look in the Dresden Files Reference Collection for some of them) that the Old Ones are beings in the same order as The White God, and TWG is a "rebel" Outsider who created the multiverse etc.

It's certainly possible when you look into some of the theories and the evidence given for them.

So this "Lord of Slowest Terror" could be one such entity, of a series (perhaps limitless) amount of entities.

What seems clear to me is that it doesn't matter how much "power" a being possesses, it's about the will guiding it. The Outsiders clearly have power, more than just about anyone given the threat they pose to Creation. But they are time and time again defeated by choice, by will. Something they perhaps possess very little if any of.

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Re: Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2022, 04:44:33 PM »
“Slowest Terror” suspiciously sounds like “boredom” it’s the boring god?

By the scope of the Outsiders that would be the White God, The Multiverse is basically just the White Gods elaborate trainset which he happily tinkers with all day to to consternation of his family and peers.

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Re: Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2022, 07:14:50 PM »
Sounds more like a Rick and Morty bit to me.

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Re: Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2022, 08:09:57 PM »
“Slowest Terror” suspiciously sounds like “boredom” it’s the boring god?

What about Time. Could it be a Time god? Or even time itself?

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Re: Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2022, 01:06:19 AM »
Time is entropy, or rather it's measurement. Interchangeable enough for our purposes though.

But time is a part of Creation. If there is no cause and effect, time becomes less relevant.

The Outsiders exist outside of Creation, outside of time and space. They existed before Creation began. I don't think they care much about time.

Consider Nemesis in Battle Ground "Mortal time is such a limited concept".

“Slowest Terror” suspiciously sounds like “boredom” it’s the boring god?

By the scope of the Outsiders that would be the White God, The Multiverse is basically just the White Gods elaborate trainset which he happily tinkers with all day to to consternation of his family and peers.
Lovecraft had it that the universe was a dream of the Blind Idiot God, Azahoth. If he were to stop dreaming...the universe would cease to exist.

I doubt this is the case in the Dresden Files, but if TWG is more like Azahoth than we suspect...well that changes things.

Considering that the Outsiders, the Angels, the older Gods like Zeus and Odin, and presumably some Demon Lords - all existed prior to Creation, one might ask the question about where they all came from? Who was first?

If "Before Creation" was a primordial chaos soup, then it isn't unreasonable to have them all related. Who was "first" is sort of irrelevant as time had not yet been invented i.e. everything was happening simultaneously.

However, I believe Serack was first to posit that there might be two poles of all reality - Chaos and Order. Considering Jim is a big fan of the Amber Chronicles, and has referenced them with his imagery repeatedly...come to think of it I actually believe he confirmed in a recent interview that his version of Creation is the same as Ambers in that there are two poles of Chaos and Order and every universe in the multiverse sits between them (to the point you would consider each a point on a spectrum, radio wave style).

This would suggest that TWG may have come from one pole of reality (Order) and the Outsiders from the opposite pole (Chaos). In the Amber Chronicles there is originally only the one pole - Chaos - and a rebel Chaosian goes and creates a second pole (Order) which in turn creates the multiverse as a by-product.
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Re: Who is the Lord of Slowest Terror?
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2022, 02:19:55 AM »
It's been speculated in some very entertaining theories (you can look in the Dresden Files Reference Collection for some of them) that the Old Ones are beings in the same order as The White God, and TWG is a "rebel" Outsider who created the multiverse etc ...

So, I'm just gonna ask folks to recall Harry's descriptions of Outsiders.  Too many limbs (that generally run to tentacles) &c; but moreover, they're often just plain confusing...

Then I'm gonna offer the following Google:
(it's a Google Image Search for "Biblically accurate angels")
https://www.google.com/search?q=biblically+accurate+angels&tbm=isch
 
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