Sometimes I have a bad premonition that all of the cosmos is a giant hell for the old ones to relentlessly and perpetually torture, kill, and reincarnate the souls whose emotional and physical suffering are what sustain said elder extra-dimensional deities.
The Cathars were a sect of Christianity that (at least some sects) believed God was the bad guy and mortal existence was actually punishment or otherwise bad, too.
Sometimes I have a bad premonition that all of the cosmos is a giant hell for the old ones to relentlessly and perpetually torture, kill, and reincarnate the souls whose emotional and physical suffering are what sustain said elder extra-dimensional deities.
The Cathars were a sect of Christianity that (at least some sects) believed God was the bad guy and mortal existence was actually punishment or otherwise bad, too.
I’m sure you can guess what happened to them.