Mythos News & Events & Guides

Mythos is a multiplayer computer role-playing Mythos game that was originally under development by Flagship Studios Seattle, a subdivision of Flagship Studios, a video game company composed largely of ex-Blizzard North employees who were lead producers of the Diablo series. Due to financial issues at Flagship Studios, Flagship Seattle was subsequently dissolved, leaving the intellectual property rights in the hands of the Korean game company HanbitSoft.HanbitSoft’s corporate partners will continue to develop Mythos for a planned release in South Korea and North America.

Mythos is similar in style to Diablo, utilizing a similar interface and Mythos Gold perspective, extensive map and item randomization, and a high fantasy setting. Its development was led by Travis Baldree, creator of the action RPG FATE, now a co-founder of Runic Games.

The Official Cthulhu Mythos FAQ was originally part of the alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ (a.h.c. FAQ), maintained first by Dru Smith and later by Donovan Loucks.

Although Donovan has a great love of H. P. Lovecraft’s work and has done a great deal to promote it on the Internet, the a.h.c. FAQ was reaching critical mass on his website.

There were some, myself included, who felt that the Mythos section of the a.h.c. FAQ was far scantier than the material warranted, and wanted to add more Cheap Mythos Gold information to it. Donovan and I discussed this, and later at NecronomiCon III in 1997 proposed to the assembled alt.horror.cthulhu participants that the Mythos part of the FAQ be split off to become an independent entity in its own right.

No dissenters being heard (Mythos Gold), so it was done.
This page will explore each of the following:
History: How did the Cthulhu Mythos get started? Who has influenced or contributed to the Mythos? What works do people consider to be part of the Mythos?