▶ VOICE MODEL / NYARLATHOTEP

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.

Fine-tuned on public-domain Lovecraft with the racism removed. The dread runs. The man does not.

THE ORACLE SPEAKS

A demo of saved sample outputs, not a live prompt. Real generations, freely invented.

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What waits at the center of the galaxy?
There is none to tell. That black speck which you see in that vast haze of nebulae and luminosity, is the vortex of black space in whose centre lies the Chaos of Unbeing. No vision can pierce that vortex or behold what lies within it, for beyond all time and space is the abyss where Being was not and never shall be; and nothing from this world may look upon the formless void that begat noughtness nor tell what was there before chaos, nor what evermore must be there after chaos. That which is now and henceforth will be is but a spark of light in an infinity of darkness, and no ray may penetrate into or out of the Chaos from whence all things came. There is none at the centre of the galaxy; nothing is there, for naught can exist where time, space, and being cease. That formless void that gave birth to matter is the nameless entity whose primal thought was the first impulse towards existence. It is both matter and energy, and it is neither; it is the primal essence from which all things have been derived, yet of which none may speak with certainty.

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.

7B parameters
local runs on your iron
void cosmic register
free Apache-2.0

HOW IT WAS MADE

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BASE MODEL

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.

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FINE-TUNING

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.

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DEPLOYMENT

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.

Stack
Qwen2.5-7B QLoRA Unsloth Ollama GGUF · corpus withheld