Hypnos (Cthulhu Mythos)

==Summary==
Hypnos is the Greco-Roman deity of sleep and dreams, being their lord. Within H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, he appears in the eponymous short story, Hypnos.
The Lord of Sleep meets by chance with an unidentified mortal, who immediately sees his divinity in his Olympian beauty and the fathomless wisdom within his eyes. When the narrator begs Hypnos to be their friend and teacher, he accepts without a word. Hypnos lectures his mortal companion on the nature of dreams, the true scope of all reality, and of how the physical universe, bound by space and time, is but a bubble to the infinity that is the universe of dreams.
Through the usage of exotic, most-likely mystical drugs, Hypnos takes his friend through the realm of dreaming, which the two explore in eternal, timeless voyages. It is in these travels that the nameless human learns of the Lord of Sleep's final intentions: Becoming the sole and absolute ruler of all existence. They become fearful and horrified at Hypnos' grandiose ambitions, but nevertheless continue being his follower.
During one night, however, Hypnos and his human friend are carried by abstract winds through a bottomless ocean of aether. The two continue, and Hypnos takes the decision to pass through the final obstacle that leads to ultimate Chaos. This decision cost him greatly, the sight of what lied beyond driving Hypnos into permanent insanity. Horrified by the glimpse of the Other Gods, Hypnos refused to ever sleep again, lest he fall prey to such entities. Alongside his human friend, he grew old and weakened, yet always watched the movement of the stars, particularly the Corona Borealis, fearful and vigilant.
One night, Hypnos can no longer stand not sleeping, and collapses into slumber, his forces and godly youth returning to him. However, this left him open to the actions of the Other Gods, and through the Corona Borealis came a horrific sound from beyond, the sound of the maddening whining of flutes, and with it a faint red-golden rod of light which hit him in full. Screaming in madness and pain, the Lord of Sleep was no more. All that left of him was a petrified carcass of his physical form, to which his now clinically insane friend prayed every day and night.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | , eventually 
Key: Material World | Astral Plane
Name: Hypnos, The Lord of Sleep
Origin: Cthulhu Mythos
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Greek God of Dreams
Powers and Abilities:
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*Genius Intelligence
*Astral Projection (Capable of exiting his body and exploring planes)
*Immortality (Type 1 - Time became nothing but an illusion to him, with the speaker questioning why they haven't aged) 
|-|Astral Plane=All previous abilities on an unfathomably higher scale plus:
*Superhuman Physical Characteristics
*Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2)
**Telepathy, Dimensional Travel & Dream Manipulation (Can travel through planes beyond matter, time, and space and experienced 'dreams beyond dreams' with his friend)
**True Flight
**Reality Warping
**Acausality (Type 5 - Traversed through many planes, some of which beyond time, and beyond all thought and entity)
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Attack Potency: Human level (A man that was residing in a railway station) | Outerverse level (Hypnos is the Lord of Dreams, being capable of existing in, effectively navigating, and possibly ruling over the "appaling universe of dim entity and consciousness which lies deeper than matter, time, and space", from which the dimensioned cosmos of waking knowledge is born of as a bubble of smoke is born out of a jester's pipe, only to be sucked back into its source at its master's whim), eventually High Outerverse level (Capable of slowly ascending through "limitless vacua beyond all thought and entity" that correspond to increasingly deeper and more abstract perceptions of infinity in a world of pure dreams that lies completely beyond a fractal of infinite-dimensional spacetime, eventually traversing past the final obstacle leading to the Ultimate Void when his friend was unable to do the same, though what Hypnos saw beyond it drew him to complete insanity and horror)
Speed: Average Human | Immeasurable
Lifting Strength: Average Human | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Human level | Outerverse level, eventually High Outerverse level
Durability: Human level | Outerverse level, eventually High Outerverse level
Stamina: Unknown | Unknown
Range: Standard Melee Range | Outerversal, eventually High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Supergenius (Hypnos has comprehended realms far beyond human understanding and consciousness, and holds far vaster knowledge of the cosmos than its inhabitants can ever hope to know, including that of the universe of dreams beyond matter, time, and spaceHypnos (1922))
Weaknesses: None notable
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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Category:Time Users