Talk:Abbey of the Everyman/@comment-1931876-20130122034415/@comment-9301675-20130509023137

Yeah the Lovecraft influence is interesting, however the Abbey doesn't seem that pessimistic about it as most of the Lovecraft characters do.

The way I see it, while the Abbey's superstition and restricitive dogmas are obviously derived from the Abrahamic faiths, its cosmology is much more akin to a twisted form of Buddhism. It seems they also believe in a Nirvana-like afterlife for the faithful, since if you kill the high overseer the loudspeaker euology in the next mission talks about his spirit becoming one with the cosmos.