Nyarlathotep

**Nyarlathotep**, also known as **Mr. World**, is a major antagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

He serves as the unseen antagonist of volume three, the overarching antagonist of volume four, a major antagonist in volume five and the main antagonist of volume six. Overall, he is the penultimate antagonist of the series.

He is an ancient Old One that serves as the emissary of Azathoth and was the first to gain sentience after the first silence. Nyarlathotep's ultimate goal is to sow chaos and discord through the Natural Order so as to have it all collapse (the Big Crunch) and bring forth the ultimate silence for the Old Ones once again.

He does this by sending one of his children to infiltrate Hell in order to locate the Axis Mundi which is the main root of the Tree of Life that hold all the realms into place. It would not be long before he himself manages to slip through the rifts caused by Azazel's war against Heaven and place himself among the Overlords, masquerading as the enigmatic Mr. World who is the Overlord of Globalization.

## History

### Background

Nyarlathotep is among the many Old Ones birthed from Azathoth and fought against the incessant noise of the Genesis Jam. After their loss, Nyarlathotep gained sentience through the unfathomable chaos among the Old Ones and commissioned four others to soothe Azathoth with a lullaby. After that debacle, Nyarlathotep proclaimed himself as Azathoth's emissary and made it his mission to bring back the silence of the darkness that was taken from them by God and His ilk.

At some point, Nyarlathotep and a legion of Old Ones would slip through the cracks of the premature growing roots from the Tree of Life and attack Heaven but was brutally beaten by the Seraphim and jettisoned to a place far below the confines of Hell itself. Nyarlathotep and the surviving Old Ones fell through a mysterious realm below the space of Nowhere itself. It was mountainous and rugged, but consisted of a singular plane, and possessed a gold-brown sky full with floating boulders. Nyarlathotep came to view it as a 'dream' conjured by Azathoth that was "unspoiled by light”. Nyarlathotep began to traverse the terrain, encountering “so many things”, including a species of faceless humanoid predators.

Eventually, Nyarlathotep made this place his domain which gave him all the time he needed to think of a way to strike back against Heaven and all of creation itself. Later on, Nyarlathotep encountered “the most extraordinary thing of all”: a swirling, storm-like mass of shadowy particles. The mist would transform into a female humanoid entity resembling an eldritch tree with deer-like features. The entity would be called Yhoundeh and became his consort.

### Monster of the Book

Nyarlathotep's connection with Azathoth's dream greatly expanded his powers. He would harness every negative aspect of the collective unconscious within Azathoth's dream that opposed God's order and principles, compress it and mold it into a concept outside the realm of God and Goddess: Evil. Nyarlathotep then spread its pollen where it flew past the realm's atmosphere, out into Nowhere, until finally reaching the material universe where it infected and poisoned the spirit and mind of all living things.

Nyarlathotep's conception of Evil would set off a chain reaction that led to the events that occurred throughout the volumes of the *Divine Comedy*. This only made those who fell prey to Evil a pawn of Nyarlathotep where they would take extreme measures against those that wronged them, resulting in the slow destabilization of the Natural Order that would allow Nyarlathotep access to the material and immaterial realm.

Since Hell was close to Nowhere, it made sense for him to strike from below and would send one of his children to infiltrate the infernal realm so as to not only take notes of its strengths and weaknesses but also locate the Axis Mundi that serves as the main tunnel gate and support beam to all three realms: Heaven, Earth, and Hell. By finding it and spreading the Evil through it, Nyarlathotep would cause the whole of Order to collapse unto itself, shattering the borders and letting Azathoth and the Old Ones encompass everything.

## Trivia

* He is based on the fictional character of the same name created by H. P. Lovecraft. Similarly, he is an evil Outer God who is seen as a shapeshifting agent of madness, chaos and ruin who serves the other Outer Gods, specifically his father, Azathoth.
* His theme song would "Pure Evil" by Like a Storm.
* A running gag in the series is that the characters mispronounce Nyarlathotep's name.
* Nyarlathotep is the only character in the series that doesn't sing as Old Ones hate music.