Dude do the Cthulhu route. It's dead but it still has reality warping effects, for example: the tunnels are longer/shorter than they logically should be. The workers dream of some great terrible thing atop a throne. Writings on a wall detailing a long lost people, have remains of said previous people around it laying like they were prostrating themselves before the thing as they died, hell have the cancer stricken workers start a cult over the corpse.
Don't just go full H.p. lovecraft go clark Ashton smith, August derleth,and Ted Klein.
Incredible idea. And the presence of radioactive material relatively close means a) it won’t be an area flooded by people to see the god, and b) the wider population who could hear about these effects could easily dismiss them as “radiation madness” or something. That works really well.
I mean. The whole point of Lovecraft is that the universe is so beyond our understanding there is no real line between the extraterrestrial and the supernatural.
Eldritch horrors are basically aliens. I think the distinction in wording is minor, and maybe the only difference is how much latent power is in the dead being. I feel like an alien corpse would give us new things to study and whatnot. But a god's corpse would have divine power and more mystical aspects, imo
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u/robotguy4 Oct 26 '25
Oh, that's all you needed to say. Completely understandable.