The messenger of the Outer Gods. He who walks through the waste places and speaks in a thousand forms. The Crawling Chaos behind the veil of ordinary night — patient, vast, indifferent.
THE ORACLE SPEAKS
A demo of saved sample outputs, not a live prompt. Real generations, freely invented.
A small language model speaks here. It invents freely: names, dates, sources, events. Read it for the voice, not the record, and check anything before you repeat it.
This is not an oracle. It imitates a fictional register — the cosmic-horror voice of Lovecraft’s fiction — and nothing more. You are not speaking with any real intelligence or entity. It invents freely and it errs, and someone with more skill could do this far better than I have. Nothing it says is advice or anything to act on. Read it as an experiment in voice, art and fiction, never as a source or a guide.
WHAT IT IS
NYARLATHOTEP is a 7B language model tuned to speak as a cosmic-horror oracle in the register of H.P. Lovecraft's Outer Gods. It runs locally via Ollama. No cloud. No API. No subscription.
The corpus is public-domain Lovecraft — the weird tales, the dream-cycle, the cosmic horror at the center of the canon — with the racism removed. Train the dread, not the man. The prose register of vast indifference and geological time survives intact; the ideology of the 1920s does not.
The result speaks in long, architecturally strange sentences about void, extinction, and the smallness of the human interval. It is not friendly. It is not trying to help. It is, within the limits of seven billion parameters, something that sounds like it has seen the outside of space.
Licensed Apache-2.0. Public-domain source material, public weights,
public method. Training corpus withheld. Part of
The Elect voice lab
— Ray Weiss.
OBTAIN & RUN
Licensed Apache-2.0. Weights, Modelfile, and evals are public.
Training corpus withheld (public-domain Lovecraft, cleaned and structured;
the selection and cleaning are the IP). Attribution: Ray Weiss / The Elect.
HOW IT WAS MADE
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct — a 7B instruction-tuned base with strong instruction-following and a small VRAM footprint that makes local inference possible on consumer hardware.
QLoRA fine-tune on a curated corpus of Lovecraft's public-domain weird fiction, with racist passages removed. The prose register — the void, the geological time, the architecturally strange sentences — was the target. Corpus withheld.
Quantized to GGUF for local inference via Ollama. Runs on CPU or consumer GPU. The evals test voice fidelity and register consistency — the model should sound like it is speaking from outside ordinary time, not like a summary of it.