

The majority of music in Terraria was composed by Scott Lloyd Shelly of Resonance Array. Music is individual to each player, and as such its volume can be lowered or disabled entirely within the settings menu. Each one will play and loop endlessly while the player is in a specific biome or while certain events are taking place. Terraria has over ninety music tracks across every version of the game. 1.6 Terraria: Otherworld (Otherworldly Tracks).1.5 Old-gen console and 3DS/ Mobile 1.2 soundtracks.

It could have been in possession of the Lihzarhds (an important part of the game curiously absent from the lore entirely, by the way) and then the cultists stole it from them and thought it was something else for all we know. If we knew where the cultists even got the tablet and why they waited so far into the game to use it, we would probably have a clearer answer. And it's not like the Moon Lord even has the right color scheme for either, he's neither dark green nor yellow like either of the brothers. It's a logical leap, but then again so is the idea that it's Cthulhu. In fact you could make a better case for it being Hastur than Cthulhu, as he is usually associated with the color yellow, and there is yellow energy emanating from the tablet, which could mean it was meant for him. In fact they said it's more like "cthulhu's brother" at one point which means that it's equally likely it could be his brother Hastur for all we know. I would prefer if people would submit evidence supporting or undermining this theory in an effort to figure out whether it's true or not, or to create a better theory that is fact.Įven then, where does the Moon Lord come in in Terraria's official lore? I have a few pieces of evidence that may point to the Moon Lord and Cthulhu being one and the same, this evidence being taken from his Bestiary entry which says the following:Ĭlick to expand.It just doesn't make logical sense for the developers to randomly do a 180 and decide that the boss they had been saying isn't Cthulhu for literal years is now Cthulhu. This said theory is plausible, and probably likely, but there's a chance it isn't correct. Now, I'm not saying the Moon Lord being Cthulhu is fact, I simply gathered the evidence I could find to make a theory stating this. Why would the Moon Lord's eyes have this name if the boss wasn't supposed to be Cthulhu himself?

With Cthulhu being "sent to the dark side of the moon" by the dryads, it is good to assume the Moon Lord underwent the same fate before being freed.Īs well as this, both the Moon Lord and Cthulhu could be referred to as gods, Cthulhu being an "unstoppable force" and the Moon Lord's "powers knowing no limits".Īlong with all of this, the design of Cthulhu and the Moon Lord are relatively similar along with the Moon Lord's True Eyes of Cthulhu. Second, both Cthulhu and the Moon Lord also seemed to be "locked inside a lunar prison" at one point. While Cthulhu is most likely not connected to all of the bosses in the base game, the description seems to fit pretty well nonetheless.

This pairs with the Moon Lord being "the mastermind behind all terrors which befall the world", which is most likely referring to Terraria's bosses. One, Cthulhu has multiple bosses connected to him, the most obvious ones being the Eye, the Brain, and Skeletron, as well as the three Mechanical Bosses. Practically a god, his power knows no limits." " The mastermind behind all terrors which befall the world, freed from his lunar prison. Click to expand.Even then, where does the Moon Lord come in in Terraria's official lore? I have a few pieces of evidence that may point to the Moon Lord and Cthulhu being one and the same, this evidence being taken from his Bestiary entry which says the following:
