In the Hack Dirt quest, who are these Deep Ones they worship.

I believe they were miners that got trapped down in the Hackdirt caves (Hence the creepy screams/noises you'll hear down there) and something changed them.

The quest is an Easter Egg based on the Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft. The Deep ones are the sort of unknowable monsters that lurk in dark corners of the earth or universe that often figure in his writing.

The Bible of the Deep Ones is a copy of the Book N'GASTA! KVATA! KVAKIS! written by the Sload Necromancer N'Gasta. The text is in Esperanto about a newsletter of a group called the Little Frogs.

The setup of the quest suggests that the Sload are the Deep Ones but considering a lack of underwater caves and being such an obvious Easter Egg that can be ignored.

I always wondered what the deep ones were, I wish Beth made the quest more in depth. Why is it written in Daedric, but translates to be Sload(which is Aldmeris, correct me if I am wrong)?

Can you say unfinished quest?

It's an easter egg. It is not an over arching plot against the Empire to secretly bore away the earth beneath Tamriel, and make way for a Sload invasion force waiting just off the gold coast. Or is it...?

makes you think

They are the Great Old Ones. Like, the real Great Old Ones. I thought that was common knowledge.

Unless of course it's the minions of Morgoth. That is possible too.

No it doesn't. Just read what proweler posted.

No, the deep ones are originally Cthulhu's 'army' for lack of a better word. forog-creatures worshipping their master, laying dormant in the city of R'yleh.
Think, those frog-thingies from the Shivering Isles.

That said and that connection established, makes you wonder with all that insanity if a certain daedric prince has had a hand in this....hmmm

The font is Daedric, the language it's written in is Esperanto. The Imperial Library has a translation of sorts.

Just translated the bible of the deep ones to endlish using a website.


It only translated a few words...but one of them was "internet"

There's even a Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_One for those who couldn't be bothered reading the story.

I cant believe that people dont know this already, I mean H.P Lovecraft was a genius.

No it doesn't.

If Tamriel was real, you could bet that upon visiting it and finding a copy of N'Gasta! it wouldn't look like the Esperanto newsletter. That easter egg was just used as "indecipherable gibberish" text which was reused out of laziness for the Bible.

Even if there was a connection, it would likely be in the reverse: the Sload (and N'Gasta alongside the others) have been influenced by the Deep Ones. But the one-shot, easter-eggish nature of the Hackdirt quest makes either cases unlikely.

To sum up, the Deep Ones are neither the Sload nor are they the Dwemer.

Easy Gez. You can put that pitch fork down again that is not what I said.

Aaaw, but it's the latest 2-in-1 model with an integrated torch!

The model for the Deep Ones ( Amphibious Frog-Like People) has been used in multiple fantasy worlds, ranging from the Elder Scrolls to WoW with the Murlocs. Lovecrafts are more like the Archtype for mysterious Frog- People. This is based off a wiki article I read connecting Lovecraft to modern fantasy.

Yes... I think a lot of people know that by now thou.

The Deep Ones worship Dagon and Hydra, not Cthulhu in particular. Dagon and Hydra worship Cthulhu, so by method of association, yeah. Cthulhu's army is not made up of Deep Ones. Cthulhu's lies in R'lyeh with Old Ones, not Deep Ones. The most direct army Cthulhu has is his ilk, the Cthulhu spawn or Star Spawn, which are just much smaller creatures that resemble him. Some of the Star Spawn are the size of men and just stumble around without the characteristic bat wings of Cthulhu, while others are larger and are capable of free flight. As for the Deep Ones, they represent the lowest rung on the ladder leading up to the Great Old Ones. I don't think the Hackdirt quest represents anything more than an easter egg for those who have played CoC: DKotE.

But still CoC: DCotE is based on Shadow over Innsmouth.

The first half was. The Yith thing and the stuff after Innsmouth was more like The Shadow Out of Time.

True but still it was heavily inspired by it... I cant wait until Del Toro has completed "At the Mountains of Madness".

the deep ones might be The Dwemmer read this: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dawn_Era

No they are not.
- They are not because the Dwemer are all extinct.
- They are not because the Dwemer are not Lovecraftian.
- They are not because the Dwemer did not live under Hackdirt.
- They are not because nobody can decipher what the Dwemer wrote, so the Brethren couldn't have understood anything from a Dwemer book.
- They are not because I said so above already.
- They are not because the depth of the Deep Folk is spiritual and intellectual, while the human name for them is "dwarves", not "deep ones".
- They are not because it would be really dumb.
- They are not because I have a two-in-one torch-&-pitchfork combo.