: The W'rkncacnter/Dreaming God -specifically the first one whose avatar
: (Deceit) we meet in PID- is also described as causing changes in its
: environment merely by dreaming, unaware it is doing so or unable or
: unwilling to stop it. The pyramid the game takes place in, the unknown
: depths below and the many otherworldly monsters living in them are living
: manifestations of the Wrk's dreams. If it wakes up, it would distort and
: scramble reality with mere thoughts. In short, the W'rkcacnter are
: basically an entire species of Azathoth. Yep, that's them alright; what
: almighty idiots!
The "dreaming god" idea is much more of a reference to Cthulhu, which the Cthulhu Mythos page of the MSP notes - Phnglui Mgwlnafh Cthulhu R'lyeh W'gahnagl Fthagn, "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming" as the Cthulhu cultists say. The idea that the dreaming god will wipe out all reality on Earth once it wakes up would be less in line with Cthulhu, who wakes up and gets rammed to sleep by a ship, but rather with the dreaming god MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI (All Caps in the original), a being created by Lord Dunsany in his fantasy collection Gods of Pegana, a major influence on H. P. Lovecraft.
MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI is kept asleep by the drumming of the god Skarl and the world is created around his dreams. But when Skarl's drumming stops and he wakes up, the world ceases to exist. Azathoth, of course, is a Lovecraftian adaptation of this dreaming god, being far more malevolent rather than merely neutral.
: Other than the Lh'owon god's screaming (i.e. how I interpreted the sounds of
: the terraforming station creaking), we don't see any evidence of its
: devouring the spacetime continuum in Infinity itself other than Durandal
: & Tfear bricking their breeches as it eats everyone on the station
: (minus those we meet in the failure maps) and even the shields.
The Garden of Forking Paths goes far back into the past. Whether or not Yrro really tossed a W'rkncacnter into L'howon's sun depends entirely on whether the player succeeds or fails in doing what they have to do - if we succeed, the creature may as well not exist, and therefore no evidence is ever found for its existence. If we fail, we may as well be destroyed, and the monster comes into being.
