Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep was a malevolent being and servant of Azathoth that targeted humanity.
== Biography ==
=== 20th century ===
In or around 1920,The prose describes the events it relates as having occurred "months ago", and was published in November 1920. Nyarlathotep embarked from Egypt and achieved fame and glory, resembling a pharaoh and claiming to have emerged after twenty-seven centuries.
He began constructing fantastic machines and touring Western cities; leaving the populations to have devastating nightmares after his inevitable departure.
In one late-night demonstration, an audience member dismissed his abilities as parlour tricks and Nyarlathotep ordered them to leave. When they left, they saw the streetlights growing dark and perceived that something had altered the city. They all collectively and falsely declared that nothing was amiss and began to lose their sanity. They unwittingly converged into marching formations and walked through the dilapidated ruins of their city, beset with the ravages of time. One procession disappeared behind a corner, while another was lost inside a subway station reclaimed by vegetation. A third procession abandoned the city, marching out into the countryside and through a moor. An apparent temporal anomaly ensued when the countryside was clearly affected by winter and tapered off into blackness. The audience member who had objected to the demonstration was frightened enough to slow his progression into the cosmic void, but not enough to stop it. They experienced the horrors of extinct cities and dead worlds outside the universe, all while forced to listen to hideous piping and dancing from beyond, which Nyarlathotep was connected to.Nyarlathotep by H. P. Lovecraft - Wikiquote - Retrieved 8 May 2023
== Weapons and Abilities ==
=== Inherent Abilities ===
* Nightmare Inducement: Nyarlathotep caused nightmares to afflict entire cities he performed demonstrations in after leaving them. (PROSE: Nyarlathotep)
* Shapeshifting: Nyarlathotep could change his physical form into infinite shapes (PROSE: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath)
** Nyarlathotep often assumed the form of a dark-skinned pharaoh. (PROSE: Nyarlathotep, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath)
* Reality Warping: Nyarlathotep's presence was enough to distort entire cities.
** Nyarlathotep caused time to advance quickly for a city, causing its electrical power to fade; paving stones in the streets to be displaced by grass; a tram-car to be windowless and nearly flipped onto its side; a tower to have disappeared and another left ragged at the top; a subway entrance to be overrun by weeds; and for a sweltering autumn to turn into a snowy winter upon his victims leaving the city and entering the countryside. (PROSE: Nyarlathotep)
** The snowdrifts led exclusively into a shadowy wall that was actually a rift in reality. (PROSE: Nyarlathotep)
== Notes ==
=== Behind the Scenes ===
* Nyarlathotep was created by American author H. P. Lovecraft.
== Appearances ==
* Nyarlathotep (First appearance)
* The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
== References ==
Category:Anomalous entities
Category:Eldritch beings
Category:Villains
Category:Murderers
Category:Mass Murderers
Category:Inventors
Category:Reality Warpers
Category:Shape shifters
Category:Egyptian characters
Category:Literary characters
Category:Creator: H. P. Lovecraft
Category:Horror villains
Category:Human pre-history