Nyarlathotep (Cthulhu Mythos)

==Summary==
Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, is one of the all-powerful entities residing in the formless chaos outside of existence known as the Ultimate Gods, being essentially a manifestation of their collective soul and psyche, and acting as their messenger within lower planes of existence, often serving directly under Azathoth, which he is implied to hold deep contempt for and whose orders he only grudgingly follows. Due to that, unlike the other Ultimate Gods, who are either mindless or so incomprehensible to the human mind as to be no different from that, Nyarlathotep possesses a malignant, calculating personality, often tormenting lower species such as humans for his own amusement, driving them to insanity by sharing parts of his vast repertoire of knowledge, cosmic or otherwise.
As Nyarlathotep's true form resides in the ultimate chaos beyond ordered existence, he interacts with lesser realities only through avatars and projections of himself, spread throughout countless worlds and universes, and at all times carrying his own evil intent behind them. For that, he is often known as a god of a thousand faces and forms, each maddeningly horrible and beyond dangerous.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: from , likely higher to | 
Key: Avatars | True Form
Name: Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos, The Black Man, The Haunter of the Dark, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Unknown God of the Dead, The Faceless God, The Black Pharaoh, The Idiot Chaos, God of the Bloody Tongue, as well as thousands of other titles for each of his different forms | None.
Origin: Cthulhu Mythos
Gender: Inapplicable, though its avatars can assume both male, female and genderless forms
Age: Irrelevant. Transcends all conceptions of time
Classification: Soul and Messenger of the Ultimate Gods, Servant and Child of Azathoth
Powers and Abilities:
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*Superhuman Physical Characteristics
**Immortality (Types 1 & 9)
*Reality Warping
**Dimensional Travel, Dimensional Manipulation, Portal Creation, Time Travel & BFR (Capable of traveling across higher dimensions. The Black Man is capable of bringing people into the Court of Azathoth, and can send them back to the natural universe at willThe Dreams in the Witch House p. 21The Dreams in the Witch House p. 22)
**Light Manipulation & Mind Manipulation (Made the moon emit an unnatural green light that mentally controlled large flocks of peopleNyarlathotep (1920))
**Ice Manipulation (Caused inexplicably gigantic snowdrifts which formed all over the outskirts of a city)
**Darkness Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Type 2) & Chaos Manipulation (Can directly summon waves of blackness and destruction directly from the Ultimate Void, and can show visages of the Ultimate Void to entire groups of people, driving them completely insane as a result)
**Dream Manipulation (Influenced Walter Gilman's dreams, bringing his astral form into higher-dimensional space through them)
**Animal Manipulation (Controls the Hunting HorrorsThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Wild beasts are described as naturally compelled to follow him)
**Earth Manipulation (Caused earthquakes that spanned entire cities. Can control sand and use it effectively against enemiesThe Opener of the Way p. 171: The Faceless GodThe Opener of the Way p. 172: The Faceless God)
**Power Bestowal (Capable ofWeird Tales (1937) p.668: Fane of the Black Pharaoh bestowing abilities upon its worshippersWeird Tales (1937) p.673: Fane of the Black Pharaoh that lesser mortals wouldn't be able to understandWeird Tales (1937) p.671: Fane of the Black Pharaoh)
***Precognition, Cosmic Awareness & Nigh-Omniscience (Granted a pharaoh the ability of prophecy, showing him the fate of Egypt and was capable of knowing unfathomable truths and futures)
*Haunter in the Dark:
**Flight & Body Control (Avatars like the Haunter in the Dark are capable of flight, and is described as an amorphous blob of smoke when doing soWeird Tales (1936) p. 552: The Haunter of the Dark)
**Corrosion Inducement (The Haunter in the Dark is capable of producing a corrosive substanceWeird Tales (1936) p. 546: The Haunter of the Dark)
**Electricity Manipulation (The Haunter in the Dark is capable of producing electricityWeird Tales (1936) p. 553: The Haunter of the Dark)
**Fragrance Manipulation (The Haunter in the Dark is capable of producing a foul smellWeird Tales (1936) p. 550: The Haunter of the DarkWeird Tales (1936) p. 549: The Haunter of the Dark and 'evil odours'Weird Tales (1936) p. 551: The Haunter of the Dark)
**Air Manipulation (The Haunter in the Dark was capable of producing incredibly powerful winds with the flap of its wings, blowing off hats and wrenching the dripping umbrellas of the crowd watching)
*Faceless God:
**Shapeshifting & Bodily Weaponry (Conventional - Avatars like the Faceless God seemed to have talons and clawsThe Opener of the Way p. 161: The Faceless God)
*Likely Resurrection (Said to be able to bring the dead back to lifeThe Opener of the Way p. 160: The Faceless God)
*Social Influencing (Incredibly well-spoken and left his spectators speechless, advising one another to see Nyarlathotep)
*Likely many more left unseen.
|-|Ultimate God=All the powers and abilities of its avatars on an infinitely higher scale minus Immortality (Type 9) plus:
*Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2)
**Large Size (Type 11)
**Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 2, All Aspects) & Abstract Existence (Type 1 - All ultimate gods exist purely as archetypes within the Ultimate VoidThrough the Gates of the Silver Key p. 93)
***Acausality (Type 5 - The nature of the Ultimate Void is different from any conceivable cosmos and is a changeless totality)
**Sound Manipulation & Madness Manipulation (Type 3 - Should be comparable to its counterparts, which caused Hypnos to go mad by merely viewing their visage. The Ultimate Gods are capable of making noises of 'whirring, drumming, and thundering' as 'Bands and rays of colour utterly foreign to any spectrum of our universe played and wove and interlaced')
**Transduality (Type 2 - As one of the Ultimate Gods, Nyarlathotep exists in the highest level of reality, the "All-in-One and One-in-All" and true oneness of existence that "belies all local perspectives and partial views" and the multiplicity that comes of them, abolishing and trivializing distinction and making everything identicalThrough the Gates of the Silver Key p. 87-91)
**Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1)
*Avatar Creation
*Immortality (Type 5)
*Omnipresence
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<tabber>|-|Avatars=Attack Potency: Varies from Large Planet level (Completely devastated the Earth and reduced its oceans to a thick cloud of steam that covered the entirety of its surface in instants, and then proceeded to casually destroy it in a blast of fire that engulfed both the planet and its moonThe Crawling Chaos (1921)), likely higher (Gradually destroyed the sun over an unknown period of time, eventually reducing it to a dying, cooling star) to High Outerverse level (The Black Man is capable of accessing the Court of Azathoth at the center of the Ultimate Void, and another one of his avatars could bring a human past the confines of dimensioned space and into the chambers of the Daemon Sultan at willThe Dreams in the Witch House p. 12)
|-|True Form=Attack Potency: High Outerverse level (Exists in the Ultimate VoidThe Other Gods (1921)Hypnos (1922), a changeless, absolute totality beyond all perspectives that likewise transcends all conceptions of being, size, and boundaries, holding the entire cosmos as nothing but an atom in its genuine and ultimate infinity, residing beyond a vast hierarchy of "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 infinite-dimensional spacetime. Should be immensely above his aforementioned avatars, and serves as the collective soul of the Ultimate Gods, acting as their direct messenger and proxy within the world)
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Speed: Varies, from likely Average Human to possibly Massively Hypersonic+. up to Immeasurable (Most of Nyarlathotep's avatars don't seem to be very remarkable in their movement, although the Haunter in the Dark was able to attain 'meteor-like speed', which is roughly around this level (133,200 mph), if this statement about the haunter is meant to be taken as literally however is unknown. The Black Man is capable of ascending to the court of azathoth with seeming ease) | Omnipresent
Lifting Strength: Varies up to Immeasurable (None of Nyarlathoteps avatars have shown feats of lifting strength, although it can be assumed that it's variable like nyarlathotep's other statistics. Certain avatars like the black man can reach into the Ultimate Void, a changeless, absolute totality beyond all perspectives that likewise transcends all conceptions of being, size, and boundaries) | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Varies from Large Planet level to High Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Durability: Varies from Large Planet level, likely higher to High Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Stamina: Irrelevant
Range: High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: None notable for most of them, although The Black Man, in particular, had the Book of Azathoth in his possession | Its multitude of different forms across reality
Intelligence: Varies (Some avatars, such as the Pharaoh and the Black Man, appear to be Nigh-Omniscient and to be merely manifestations of Nyarlathotep's own mind and personality within lower planes of reality, while others, such as the Haunter in the Dark, are simply animalistic beasts)
Weaknesses: The Haunter of the Dark is extremely vulnerable to light, and especially large concentrations of it will cause its physical form to disperse.Weird Tales (1936) p. 548: The Haunter of the Dark Other avatars have no such weaknesses, aside from a degree of overconfidence. | None notable
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