Talk:Salem Chapter Release/@comment-108.31.162.100-20171202024459/@comment-4802891-20171202032039

Not really. If, in the Nasuverse, Lovecraft (or rather Randolph Carter) is presented as a man who was exposed to the Elder and Outer Gods and just index anything related to them until his death (and with the help of other people who were also in contact with those creatures), it won't contradict anything.

The Chinese discovered things about the Cthulhu, Prelati translated what they translated, and that's just one little layer of it. There's also that Persian guy who wrote/translated the Necronomicon I think? He might also be a real person in the Nasuverse, but a fictional one (or unrecorded one) in our world. The Book of Eibon is also a thing in this singularity, presented as the "Livre d'Ivon", a French translation of the original text by a fictional author, albeit real here.

And, since Lovecraft wasn't born yet during the witch trials, maybe he discovered Carter's works, which would make them different people? Or maybe Carter found immortality and pull a Prelati/Michael Roa on us.