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[monstersdownthepath]

There's quite a few plot devices built into the Primeval Ideal, but an understated one is that it fulfills the generic cosmic horror trope of "learning certain topics make you go crazy-cuckoo-bonkers-bananas" in how it functions.

There's numerous reasons why eldritch knowledge might make you go off the deep end spanning the gulf of "the human mind was not built to process this information" to "reading this changes you so fundamentally that you can no longer relate to anyone else who isn't in the know," but reading something so spooky that you inexplicably and immediately go insane is, arguably, a little silly. Now, if reading this information caused a nightmare brain spider to start invading your dreams to eat your thoughts, a sudden descent into madness is a little more understandable.