Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24503208-20181212165020/@comment-4802891-20190108040729

''@Necor: It gets confusing sometimes. Dantes for example, seems to really exist in TM lore, having an extended lore not present in the books and a sidestory (might not be canon, who knows) in which he dealt with a dead apostle. Jekyll is stated to possibly be the model for the fictional character (seeing as we meet the legit article in London, not the Servant), and we have Sherlock who purposefully stayed ambiguous when asked if he is a real person or a fictional one (could be just to fuck with us, but I like to think the TM way is more about hints and foreshadows than trolls... or am I delusional here?)''

''The fact that fictional beings, if universal enough, can be summoned without meddling with the system (unlike the phantoms), makes me question mythological heroes as well: are they fictional like ours are, or are they real in this lore? What about legends that were written late but still count as a mythology? I think it's written in Abby's bio that Outer Gods were created by Lovecraft, but still exist somehow... What kind of sense does that make? If they straight said "they existed, Lovecraft just got inspiration from them" it would have been clear, but here it's confusing as hell... It's a fictional medium altogether so why still going with such convolution when you can just say "in our lore, it exists"? UUURGH''

But that's not the subject matter here, and I have no nicknames to come up with so... Sorry. If one want to answer, maybe come to my wall. Whatever.

Oh wait, I have one :

Beowulf: Brad Pitt