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Mordack: A Lovecraft Fan

Anakin SkywalkerAnakin Skywalker
edited February 2013 in Kings Quest Game
I was reading some comments on youtube and someone had called Mordack a fan of H.P. Lovecraft due to the way his house looks inside and out.

Could you point to anything Lovecraftian about his abode, inside and out?

And also, what influences do you see in the inside of his house?

Comments

  • BagginsKQBagginsKQ
    edited February 2013
    "Lovecraftian" is a term that gets overused, like "Epic", by people who probably don't know what Lovecraft's stories were like.

    The only thing that has a 'cosmic horror' from the darkside of the universe (or creature of nightmares, insanity and chaos) vibe is the Flying Sting, and that's only through the backstory given by Peter Spear in the King's Question Companion.

    http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/Sting


    The general decorative motive of Mordack is somewhere between generic D&D necromancer/evil sorcerer, and medieval concepts of hell... Some of the statues may be roughtly mesopotamian, or babylonian/assyrian.

    Of course satanic goat (organ)...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet
  • Blackthorne519Blackthorne519
    edited February 2013
    Quest For Glory 4 has more of the Lovecraftian Feel to it, with the mysterious cult in town.


    Bt
  • Blackthorne519Blackthorne519
    edited February 2013
    Quest For Glory 4 has more of the Lovecraftian Feel to it, with the mysterious cult in town.


    Bt
  • BagginsKQBagginsKQ
    edited February 2013
    Yep, basically pulled right out of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
  • exoexo
    edited February 2013
    I'm not comfortable commenting on this in such an Orwellian forum.
  • Blackthorne519Blackthorne519
    edited February 2013
    Perhaps we should talk somewhere more Vonnegutian?


    Bt
  • BagginsKQBagginsKQ
    edited February 2013
    Oh, so Machiavellian...
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