Nathaire

Nathaire (c. 1230-1281) is a fictional character, the antagonist of Clark Ashton Smith's story "The Colossus of Ylourgne".
He is described as "thrice-infamous", being an "alchemist, astrologer and necromancer". He is noted for "his minikin stature, his deformity and ugliness." There were rumours about his "obscure nativity":People said that he was fiend-begotten...his father being no less a personage than Alastor, demon of revenge; and his mother a deformed and dwarfish sorceress. From the former, he had taken his spitefulness and malignity; from the latter, his squat, puny physique. Before coming to Vyônes in 1275, Nathaire "had travelled in Orient lands, and had learned from Egyptian or Saracenic masters the unhallowed art of necromancy, in whose practice he was unrivalled." 
Through his "remarkable power" of "mesmeric persuasion", Nathaire was able to attract a school of some ten followers, "young men of the most brilliant promise," whom he "plunged into bottomless and ghoulish iniquities," giving him a reputation as "a corrupter of youth." One of those students was Gaspard du Nord, who withdrew from Nathaire's fellowship "after learning the enormities that would attend his further initiation." 
Nathaire is permanently lamed by a cobblestone aimed by a mob in 1278. He mysteriously leaves the town in 1281, absconding with his followers to the fortress of Ylourgne, where they create the Colossus of Ylourgne by reanimating and combining the dead of Averoigne. He merges with this abomination and uses it to go on a grisly rampage across the province, finally assaulting Vyônes where his spree is ended by the counter-sorcery of Gaspard.
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Deceased (In Mythos)
Category:Other Supernatural Beings