Quotes / Eldritch Ocean Abyss

Literature

There are places on Earth where light is unwelcome. Light has no power down here. Darkness is king. Light flees the dark, or gets devoured.

— The Deep (Nick Cutter)

This was where darkness went to live forever, growing deeper and more powerful as the eons passed it by.

— Into the Drowning Deep

And there was something else - something down there in the black abyssal trenches of the ocean. Something that wanted to rise. What was it? An army of giant squid? Cthulhu? Some last surviving Carcharodon megalodon? Quentin never found out. He hoped he never would.

—The Magician's Land

There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are devoured in their turn. Hideous shapes of living things, not created to be seen by human eyes wander in this twilight. Vague forms of antennae, tentacles, fins, open jaws, scales, and claws, float about there, quivering, growing larger, or decomposing and perishing in the gloom, while horrible swarms of swimming things prowl about seeking their prey.

— Toilers Of The Sea by Victor Hugo

Tabletop Games

There is no telling how deep the waters of Furia run; over the centuries many attempts have been made to reach the bottom, all equally fruitless. This has led to the belief in many of the inhabitants of Furia that there simply is no end to the World Ocean. An often-told tale even has it that a void ship once crashed and sank, but the ship’s intact saviour-beacon pulsed its continual, remorseless descent into the limitless depths for many years before it finally grew too faint to detect. The final readings indicated the vessel had descended to a depth that would put it far outside the orbit of the planet, still without any sign it was nearing the bottom.

— Black Crusade: Tome Of Blood

Video Games

Drowning Forests
You emerge from the mirror to the sound of lapping water. A lake the size of a country and the depth of an abyss lies before you, its waters tremulous and insubstantial, like a veil waiting to be pulled back.

— Fallen London

Bottom of the sea's the top of another world.

— Pyke, The Bloodharbor Ripper, League of Legends

This ecological biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans.

— Your PDA upon entering a Blood Kelp area, Subnautica

Web Video

For centuries, the bottom of the deepest seas have been shrouded in mystery and superstition. Some say it's a hostile place, inhabited by the strangest creatures. Others, that it serves as a prison for the most dangerous of outcasts. Legend has it that the only hope of ever getting out of there, is a mask, a mask that every deep-sea creature has been craving for years, a mask they say, that everyone is prepared to fight for, and risk their life to possess. But the only way of ever finding out is to go there and see for yourself...

— BIONICLE, ''Creeps From The Deep

Y'know, there's a reason the sun doesn't come down here! 'cause it too thinks this is an abomination!

— Jacksepticeye on Subnautica's Blood Kelp Trench

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