Nyarlathotep

First and Favored Form of the Crawling Chaos (Art by Mario Zuccarello)

### Affiliation

Azathoth, Outer Gods, Chrysalis Corporation, Randall Flagg (Possible Alter Ego), H.P. Lovecraft (Personal prophet)

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Chaos, Discord, Entropy, Despair, Madness, Darkness, Trickery

## Relatives

### Siblings

Magnum Tenebrosum, Magnum Innominandum, Cxaxukluth, Māna-Yood-Sushāī

### Offspring

* Creations
	+ Million Favored Ones (including the Four Horsemen of Nyarlathotep)
	+ Ugga-Naach

**Nyarlathotep** is an Old One of many names, although Nyarlathotep is how he is referred to by other paranormal entities. He is apart of a group called the Outer Gods and is the spawn and messenger of Azathoth.

## Overview

Nyarlathotep is an Outer God and one of the first spawned by Azathoth, which makes them far older than almost any other Outer God. He has an unknown amount of other forms, each of which is more horrifying and capable of shredding a mind to madness. Few are capable of being perceived by Humans, with the most well-known being the Black Pharo. Where most Outer Gods are incapable of manipulating humans without killing them or driving them mad, Nyarlathotep is an expert in it.

Unlike most Outer Gods, who have no real goal in mind other than a return to the void by destroying everything, Nyarlathotep is always scheming and attempts to wreak saddle havoc by manipulating anything to spread chaos. Due to its high population and value to other paranormal factions, Earth and its peoples are Nyarlathotep's favored target. His objective is to bring madness and tragedy wherever they go. As they do so, they spread the darkness of the void, allowing for a slow overtaking of God, thereby spreading the chaos that he was born from and engulfing the light of God in his darkness. While he claims to be a simple messenger, his actions spawn monstrosity and are heinous to be viewed.

Nyarlathotep is said to be one of the most "human" of the Outer Gods due to his many human forms along with the fact that most Outer Gods use strange alien languages, while Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can easily pass for a human being if he chooses to do so. These forms are worshiped as gods or demons, which Nyarlathotep uses to influence society and form multiple cults working in unison without any knowledge of each other. These cults are also able to work without Nyarlathotep's direct guidance, which is rare. He is known to create these cults using propaganda, deception, manipulation, and subliminal messaging. Nyarlathotep is able to walk freely among the mortals. Thus, it makes him the second most terrible of the Old Ones.

Nyarlathotep is believed to be the will of dreaming Azathoth, and as such, fulfills the roll of messenger and right hand/tentacle/other thing. He is also a messenger of the Outer Gods who has been trapped in the Outerverse in exchange for favors unless Azathoth wills it. Unlike the other Outer Gods who do nothing but destroy, Nyarlathotep believes that manufacturing and spreading madness is more important. He was described as the very soul of "gigantic, tenebrous, ultimate gods – the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles" by Hastur, who deems them to be a greater threat than his own half-brother. His evil is absolute, as he is not only an Outer God but the very consciousness of Azathoth himself.

## Appearance

Nyarlathotep, however, is active and is oft to walk the Earth as a human being in order to spread and personally handcraft certain people to newer depths of madness. He tends to manifest as a tall, slim, happy-looking man. He is known to have a nigh unlimited number of forms and manifestations, most reputed to be quite horrific and sanity-blasting. He often uses some of his more horrible forms to manifest and pretend to be separate gods to corrupt various religions.

## Personality

Quite unlike other Outer Gods, Nyarlathotep is consistently enacting a plot or corrupting Humans, and when they are not ordered to do something else by Azathoth, Nyathaotep wreaks havoc across the cosmos, although most of their more potent actions are reserved for Earth in particular. Other than their loathing of the Earth and God Nyarlathotep has no stated goal with most of their schemes being dedicated to the destruction of light and goodness. In doing that, they spread the chaos and darkness that fuels his kind in hopes of engulfing the light of God in Azathoth's darkness.

Even Lucifer freely acknowledged Nyarlathotep is more malevolent than any demon, to the point of being cruel enough to give even Demons pause. However, even he is not immune to his own madness, as he once made a pact with a little human girl that summoned him on accident to not harm her or anyone who did not deserve it.

Despite his seemingly terrifying and cunning disposition as an all-powerful Old One, Azathoth claims that he is still immature, impatient, and flawed by his arrogance because of his overwhelming pride and ego. As he (Azathoth) states, if he recklessly challenges and wages war against God and the Heavens, it will be his greatest downfall in the end. So much that he once warned Nyarlathotep (when he arrogantly states he will storm the Heavens) to never ever recklessly challenge or belittle God and His supreme status as the "Supreme Being of the Multiverse." And if he does, God will only swat him like a fly. This is clearly seen when he angered Khaos and got completely obliterated, only to return thanks to Azathoth.

## Power and Abilities

Many of the avatars, like the Black Pharaoh, the Bloated Women, and The God of The Bloody Tounge are worshiped as gods themsevles which Nyarlathotep exploits to do unspeakable acts in his name. Observing more potent forms of Nyarlathotep is know to drive the viewer to insanity and can even kill them outright. They also have nigh unlimited range telepathy which they use to communicate with their followers. He also has the ability to travel anywhere in his capacity of messenger of Azathoth. He far surpasses the True Archangels Michael and Merkabah along with the Archdemons Beelzebub and even Lucifer. It is believed that only a full-powered Satan, the strongest archdemon of Hell, can rival or perhaps even superior than him. For he and Satan battled for days, and due to his unpreparedness and Satan's near-omnipotent power, he is force to retreat in the darkness of the Universe. He is also not powerful enough to even battle an elder Primordial Entities, that came into existence before him.

* **Astral Manipulation**: Nyarlathotep through the world of dreams can speak to any living being and manipulate it.
* **Dark Crystals**: He can shoot from his hands a myriad of crystals made of darkness that if they hit can make any living being less than him cease to exist (he can choose whether to manifest them as a swarm).
* **Lovecraftian Physiology**: Like old ones it is immortal and if seen by a human they can go crazy.

## History

Nyarlathotep was created by Azathoth during the primavel wars, his opponents were Brahman and Tartarus, but lost during the war.

## Myth and Legends

Nyarlathotep is a fictional character originating from the poem of the same name created by H.P. Lovecraft.

## Gallery

*Second form* (Art by Jens Heimdahl)*Third form* (Art by Ernő Juhász)*Fourth form* (Art by Dominique Signoret)*Fifth form* (Art by Katharsisdrill)*Sixth form* (Art by Chase Norton)
## Trivia

* He is the only being to enrage Khaos, a feat that even God has not accomplished
* Tartarus is particularly mad at Nyarlathotep for escaping his realm from punishment.
* Nyarlathotep has said that he is the most wary of the Amatsu-Mikaboshi among all primordials.
* It is said that he was baptized with the name "Nyarlathotep". The reason for this is because your real name cannot be pronounced or understood by humans. In fact, Nyarlanthotep mentions that if he revealed his real name to a human "his mind wouldn't be able to handle it".
* He is also believed to be the creator of the monster specie known as shapeshifters. He didn't confirm anything, but several hunters described the shapeshifters as a "creeping chaos" and some who saw their true forms went mad, describing them as a "faceless existence".
	+ Furthermore, some shapeshifters have already said that they, like humans, have a God, a "faceless God".
* Befitting its true nature, Nyarlathotep is shown to like reading books of Lovecraftian-like horror.
* Although Nyarlathotep is often said to be an obedient son of Azathoth, in reality, Nyarlathotep despises and deeply hates Azathoth, not caring about him even if the God himself killed him. The reason Nyarlathotep follows the Nuclear Sultan's orders is only out of fearful submission from his father.
* Nyarlathotep is interpreted to be the Eldritch equivalent of Jesus Christ, due to his role as the son of Azathoth, the Lovecraftian counterpart of God. He is also identified as the equivalent of Satan or Gabriel, with the latter being in relation to him being the Messenger of Azathoth.
	+ While Nyarlathotep is interpreted as the equivalent of Gabriel, his wife, Yhoundeh is interpreted as the equivalent of Mary of Nazareth, which in itself is considered blasphemy.