The Elder Scrolls: 7 Weirdest Skyrim Enemies (And What They Represent)

Considering that Skyrim can be argued to take inspiration from literary works in other aspects of its creation, it makes sense that H. P. Lovecraft would get a reference at some point.

Enter Apocrypha from the Dragonborn DLC is the closest one can get to opening up a page of the Cthulu Mythos and jumping in - with Seekers being an integral part of establishing such an unsettlingly strange vibe.

Seekers themselves are tentacle-faced abominations that roam this plane of Oblivion to attend to their duty of protecting forbidden knowledge. Drawing on the common theme of secrets and information driving men insane, the Seekers are a physical embodiment of the transformational properties of knowing everything a person shouldn’t - horrific looking, aggressive, and wildly protective of their magical charge.

Of course, Lovecraft and Skyrim come together under the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora too, the ruler of Aprocrypha and even more a derivative of this work than even the Seekers. Again tentacle-clad, but shapeless and cosmically terrifying as he appears in his black void, Hermaus Mora is surely likened to Yog-Sothoth: An all-knowing deity appearing spherical, shifting, and glowing to those that find him.

Interestingly, Yog-Sothoth is rumoured to requite eternal servitude for his favour, something the Seekers, Lurkers, and ghosts of his Oblivion plane seem to have taken to with ease.