首先是基础世界观
not even the Zarr know the full attributes of black Zathog, mighty as they are; for they are only creatures of time and space, like ourselves, whereas Zathog is of a higher order of being altogether. This only we know—that Zathog came fleeing aeons ago from that primal war in which the Great Old Ones were overwhelmed by the Elder gods—the war that determined the very laws of time and space as we now know them. Now, since Zathog took over the rule of the Zarrian race—the mightiest race he could locate—he has directed their conquests toward even wider goals—goals that he means to extend through all time as well as all space. Thus he has shown the Zarr the means to accomplish travel through time to a limited degree—and therefore I am here, speaking with you!”
“Taggart—it is always so hard to follow what you say. I know that you are speaking of the age-old war between the gods of good and evil. Also, I have read in ancient, esoteric books of the conflict between the Elder Gods and the Great Old Ones...”
“Ah, but which are the good gods,” said Taggart, “and which the evil? Even on this universal scale the problem remains the same! All I know is that two groups of beings possessing powers beyond anything you and I can imagine are battling for the right to determine the laws that will rule all time and space. Yet this I have learned for certain: —that Zathog has sent forth the Zarr to conquer this island-universe in order to liberate certain of the Great Old Ones whom the Elder Gods imprisoned here on various planets after the war that took place aeons ago. I have learned, too, that the mightiest of Those whom Zathog seeks to release is Yahweh, whom the ancient Stygian records speak of as Yog-Sothoth.”
出自winds of zarr，旧日支配者和旧神的战争使当前宇宙的时空规律产生出来。

“I have told you of the Zarr and their hope to expand their conquest throughout all the universe. Well, this conquest was already well under way before the monstrous being called Zathog came to aid them; at the time of his arrival the Zarr were only the most powerful race of beings in their own island-universe. Zathog enlisted the aid of the Zarr, and in turn aided them with his near-cosmic power and intelligence, till at last the Zarr were the undisputed masters of their entire island-universe and ready to expand their power to the limits of infinity.
同样出自此书，整个宇宙可以说无限之大。

Unwilling to risk the possibility of losing the coveted planet altogether to the destructive forces of a second and greater war, the Zarr had organized a diplomatic mission to the Galactics, the race of metallic beings who supervised the entire island-universe to which the earth belonged.
the Galactics, the race of metallic beings who supervised the entire island-universe to which the earth belonged. Why the earth was so important to the Zarr, who had already conquered the worlds of the hundred billion suns of their own galaxy and now seemed intent on extending their conquests limitlessly,
The world dissolved away -- vivid vistas of a boundless universe whirled into being. All time and space seemed one compact yet infinite mass governed by laws of startling simplicity. Stars like motes of dust, countless in their profusion, whirled and coalesced into vast spiraling clouds. The pageant of Earth's past, and the pasts of a billion other worlds, seemed laid out in detail across a dimensionless background. In that instant, Judy comprehended the empire of the Galactics, comprising the hundred-billion suns of the galaxy in which Earth was but a tiny mote, and also the empire of the Zarr, equally vast and extending its first tendrils of conquest across the black intergalactic gulfs. In one flash she was able to sense the salient points in the histories of both these tremendous stellar empires, both spanning nearly twenty million earthly years from their origins, each on one small planet in their respective galaxies, to their present lordships over the worlds of countless suns.
island-universe，岛屿宇宙，由起码一个银河系这样的星系组成，地球所在的岛屿宇宙统治者和监管者是名为Galactics的旧神之仆，某种极度机械化，保护生命并算得上对人类和其它统治范围内的文明生物温和的种族……但他们的主人不是，而且Galactics应该不知道主人目的。

它们有自己的仆人，方才提到的银河族就是其中之一，这段前面是痛苦之主或扎尔之风，后面是混沌之鼓。

旧日支配者
上面其实也有说，是强大到几乎无法理解的存在，和旧神战争失败后想着消灭所有的生命，不只是时空之中的存在。

“But why?” cried Taggart. “Why should such a vast and powerful being require a following of human worshippers?”
So that he may return someday—and claim this planet for his own purposes.” Taaran’s manner was openly exultant now. “No human brain can comprehend those purposes, but this I know—that in that time this entire planet shall be stripped of all life and taken away to that vaster dimension! But in order that this world may be made a Gateway for his return, the psychic forces of millions of worshippers over many generations will be needed to build up the required energy. Do you see now why he requires a chosen people—a people who will work to spread his worship throughout this entire world? You’ve read Alhazred’s Azif: don’t you remember how important it is to have ‘the Rites howled through at their Seasons’ in order that the Great Old Ones may breed in the Outer Spheres? Well, now the Rites shall be howled—for three thousand years and more, by more and more of the peoples of thisplanet—until the days of the final destruction, when the Zarr shall come again and clear the globe of all life in preparation for the return of the Great Old Ones!”
As Nyala awoke, her head throbbing, she heard Taggart talking with the man called Taaran in their strange, alien language. She saw that Taggart’s face seemed to hold a kind of incredulous horror, while Taaran’s features were set in a rigid exultation. As she sat up, Taggart turned to her and helped her gently to her feet. Her head swam and throbbed.
“Zighar?” she asked.
“He is dead. He saw Yog-Sothoth, and the sight killed him. Now that demon has flown away to some darker universe—forever, let us hope! Come—we must leave this place.”
旧日支配者扎索格来到地球会导致地球上所有生命体被瞬间杀死，地球被炸到更广阔的维度中去。

When he recovered and dared to open his eyes, he saw Taaran kneeling beside Nyala, bathing her temple with water from a canteen and applying a treated adhesive bandage to her wound. The sight seemed somehow incongruous. Taggart rose unsteadily.
“How is she?” he asked.
“A bruise and a slight cut. She’ll wake up soon.”
“Strange—your concern for one Hyborian girl, when so many millions of humans owe their doom to you!”
Taaran’s features showed no expression, but his blue eyes seemed to glare with a slightly hardened intensity.
He rose and stood motionless beside the huge Zarrian and its steel counterpart, as if he were one with them.
“And that thing!” continued Taggart, a hideous half-memory stirring in his brain. “How could even you and the Zarr have released that on the universe? If only you could realize what you have done—if only you could have seen.. .!”
“Not upon this universe—at least, not yet,” said Taaran evenly. “Yog-Sothoth will remain in our space-time continuum only as long as it takes him to escape this planet’s atmosphere and accelerate to the speed of light—whereupon he will enter into his own vaster universe.”
“And will he return someday?”
Taaran said nothing, but his hard blue eyes seemed to flicker momentarily with a light of triumph.
“I feared so,” said Taggart. “I want you to tell me all. You have lived with the Zarr far longer than I; you say you have been to the Zarr-worlds, and even to the planet of Zathog himself. Is Zathog as terrible to look upon as the being that was prisoned here?”
“I have seen Zathog’s black planet only from afar,” said Taaran. “And I’ve never laid eyes on Yog-Sothoth, as you have just done.”
“I saw only its shadow. Zighar saw it—and I think he was dead from the sight before he ever hit the rocks below. I could not live in this universe if I thought that thing might ever return!”

“Yog-Sothoth has dealt with it even as he said he would.”
“When will he return?” asked Taggart. “And, how?”
“This planet shall be made a Gate!” Taaran’s eyes now burned fanatically, though his voice was still even and controlled. “For aeons he has used the minds of men to bolster his own vast mental powers, turning them to the exclusive worship of him in order that he might utilize their massed psychic power to beam his desires out beyond the stars to Zathog and others of his own kind who escaped imprisonment by the Elder Gods. Now we have come and liberated him.
“But I see you still don’t understand. Zathog, escaping from the defeat inflicted upon him and the other Great Old Ones by the ElderGods, fled this island-universe and sought out the race best suited to follow and worship him. That race was the Zarr, who had already conquered most of their galaxy and had given up all other emotions in preference for the drive to universal conquest. Zathog spurred them on to conquer not only the remainder of their own Galaxy, but all the rest of time and space as well! He taught them the secret of time-travel, which all the Great Old Ones know; and when Yog-Sothoth sent out his call, Zathog sent forth the Zarr to conquer this galaxy and release him.”
“But why the entire galaxy—just for the sake of one being imprisoned on one planet...?”
“Because Yog-Sothoth is not alone—there are a million others as great as he imprisoned on a million other planets—and the Zarr shall release them all!”
犹格索托斯叫自己的兄弟帮忙把自己释放，兄弟叫了自己的狗扎尔人过来帮忙，它则继续专注于宇宙中其它一百万个和犹格索托斯一样强大的旧日支配者被封印的行星。

以上内容出自混沌之鼓

in the ensuing silence menander again glanced at his old dark eyes of daramos, though still calm, reflected the light of the oil lamps solemnly.“and that means, taggart,” said the dwarfish mage quietly, “that you, too, would never have existed.”“yes.i have long dreamed that somehow, in some timeline, despite all the horror and suffering, something worthwhile might eventually come of the human race.butthis—!”the man clenched his fists in a sudden violent tension, as if at a loss for further words.“so that is why you defected.”taggart nodded.“but first, i went privately to the rabbi yeshua while he was alone in the wilderness and tried to persuade him to change his plan, to show him that he could rule the human race to their betterment rather than destroy every possibility of their existence—and his would not annul their sufferings, he will sacrifice even himself.”“and what of taaran, your companion?”asked
tsotho, zava’ot or zathog is not a being such as we know, for it has more… extensions… than those of mere space and time.therefore, in our cosmos it can exist in many places at is one; yet, to beings such as us, it can appear to be many.”menander’s mind had heard of such bizarre concepts from dositheus, who had tried to describe certain ancient writings to him, yet even taggart’s thought-disc could make such a thing seem only vaguely intelligible.“zathog has ‘gates’ to and from many worlds, the greatest being the mighty black vortices that lie at the centers of all the the primal gods closed all his lesser gates in the vicinity of earth and it neighboring worlds, zathog induced the zarrians, his mightiest minions, to invade this galaxy and conquer it for their task was not easy, for this galaxy was already controlled by mighty metallic servitors of the primal began the latest phase of the cosmic war, a phase which has raged for thousands of years between the zarria

Pitts shook his head. "It's no good -- I've thought of it, too. We can rearrange history all we want, but the outcome is inevitable."
"I can't accept that. History isn't predetermined; it's course is contingent, determined by choices and events which have multiple outcomes. It's just a matter of going back and making choices or influencing events so that they produce the right outcomes."
"How?" Pitts asked quietly. "There are nearly an infinite number of possible outcomes, most of which would produce the same results. How could you possibly find the vanishing few rare outcomes that would make even a tiny difference?"

Again, Pitts shook his head. "You still don't understand. The laws of the universe would never permit it, as long as even thepossibilityof certain things remains inherent within those laws. As long as the universe is the way it is, despotism will be the rule, not the exception. Because of that no time stream leading to an 'enlightened' world would be viable; because of that we would need to destroyeverytime stream that leads to the human race, not just this one. Perhaps, ultimately, even the universe and the laws that govern it shall have to be destroyed!"
"You must be insane to even talk of such possibilities -- unless you know far more of the Zarr and their potentialities than I can even suspect. What you're saying is that you'll slay God if you can! Don't you see, Pitts, that if you succeed in destroying human history, you will destroy yourself as well?"
"What of that?" For an instant Taggart sensed behind Pitts' tense features a weariness even greater than his own. "If the laws of the universe cannot be changed, then better to have never lived in it. Better that there be no universe at all! Yes, you are right -- I have told you little about the Zarr, for they themselves are only the pawns of tremendously more powerful beings whose ultimate goals they can but dimly understand. As the Zarr grow in power, their masters give them more and more knowledge. Next it will be time-travel, so that they can better fight the Galactics, who have already been given this knowledge bytheirmasters. Already I have learned things about the ultimate source of all power, and that it is possible to move closer and closer to that source. . . ."
"So you would be God, then," said Taggart, "and re-establish this world with laws of your own, with every being living or dying by those laws! What willyourworld be like, Pitts? Do you really think you can make it fundamentally better than this one? Can you have pleasure without pain, joy without sorrow, good without evil? . . ."

在darkness这本书中旧神赢得战争后订立的宇宙规则下有着近乎或者可以说是无限的可能性和时间线，但它们对生命体的需求使专制和恐怖会永远占据绝对多数，主角塔格特的队友，本书核心反派，另一个地球人塔兰正因为此事坚定的支持旧日支配者清空一切，如果可以，包括整个宇宙。

以及不管怎么变化时间线都会殊途同归