Cthulhu Cthursday: Elder Gods Chess Set
Posted by John Brownlee
The kings (Cthulhu) have precious stones for eyes; the white piece has spherical lab-created rubies, the black piece has salt water pearls.
The queen is Nyarlathotep (has a single large tentacle for a face).
The bishops are Father Dagon/ Mother Hydra (take your pick).
The knights are Hounds of Tindalos (the knights move in angles, and in the mythos the hounds are supposed move through angles).
The rooks are shoggoths.
The pawns are Deep Ones.
Cthulhu Chess Set [Wet Canvas] : Thanks to The Lovely Manga Witch
Categories: Cthulhu Cthursday
Posted at 10:04 am on July 5, 2007
5 Comments -
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Comment by Mono — July 5, 2007 @ 11:21 am
Ah, my chess is extremely rusty, but aren’t bishops the ones that move at angles? Knights move forward two and left/right one. Not that it would be all that hard to declare the hounds as bishops..
Comment by Mojo — July 5, 2007 @ 11:54 am
You’re right. Bishops move diagonally. What I think they mean by angles, two up and one across, or one up and two across at right angles, which would be the knight.
Either way, it’s probably an arbitrary choice.
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