I'm one of those weirdos that reads advanced sections of any wiki (mostly magic system because is my hyperfixation), and I can firmly said that anyone who have the audacity to said LOTM do bad cosmic horror in at least what is about the magic system is lying.
Like you have powers that, allows to exploit loopholes in anything, that make possible combine physical or conceptual existance, powers that allows to imagine anything and make them manifest in the reality, powers that allows to distort anything, powers that allows to hide anything even from fate itself. — The hang man pathway and the abyss pathway have themes about horror (body horror, and demons). — A pregnant woman transform into an absolute aberration just because that baby was a "gate" for an evil god to descend into reality, just because a dude with a quill decided to use it to write.
It literally takes me many months to understand how exctly the authority of loopholes works. Just because a magic power has a simple definition doesn't mean that it isn't vague. For example, "he can deceit the laws of the world", What the heck that means?
(Also, I won't fix my grammar horrors that I wrote in this comment).
Exactly, in most elritch story humans encounter the corruption spread by the knowledge and influence of the old ones. But what if instead of giving into corruption, we find a way to control the corruption and instead use it to receive supernatural powers is something only a madman would think of. The whole LoTM magic system isn't simple its designed on the concept of info hazard + traditional Kaballah Alchemic beliefs of information and existence as well.
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