Nyarlathotep ( Cthulhu Mythos )

## Nyarlathotep

> "Screamingly sentient, dumbly delirious, only the gods that were can tell. A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods—the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep."
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## 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:** Varies. At least 5-A, likely **higher** to High 1-A | High 1-A | 0

**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, 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:**

* Avatars
* Ultimate God
[Superhuman Physical Characteristics], [Immortality] (Types 1 and 9), [Reality Warping], [Spatial Manipulation] (Created a gulf in space that acted as a vortex leading directly into the Ultimate Void outside of existence), [Time Manipulation], [Magic], [Weather Manipulation] (Caused severe climatic havoc throughout the whole planet, resulting in the ocean eventually engulfing much of the Earth's land), [Air Manipulation] (Summoned and controlled gusts of unearthly winds directly from the Ultimate Void that overpowered an army of [Nightgaunts]), [Ice Manipulation] (His presence resulted in sudden, inexplicably gigantic snowdrifts forming all over the outskirts of a city), [Light Manipulation] (Made the moon itself emanate an unnatural green light that [Mind Manipulation|mentally controlled large flocks of people]), [Earth Manipulation] (Caused earthquakes that spanned entire cities), [Portal Creation], [Time Travel] and [Dimensional Travel], [Social Influencing], [Telekinesis], [Madness Manipulation] (Type 2. Can show visages of the Ultimate Void to entire groups of people, driving them completely insane as a result), [Clairvoyance], [Perception Manipulation], [Telepathy], [Darkness Manipulation], [Memory Manipulation], [BFR], [Animal Manipulation] (Wild beasts are described as naturally compelled to follow him, and he has command over races of his own creation such as the Hunting Horrors), [Chaos Manipulation] (Can summon waves of blackness and destruction directly from the Ultimate Void), [Shapeshifting], [Matter Manipulation], [Illusion Creation], [Technology Manipulation], [Elemental Manipulation], [Cosmic Awareness], [Electricity Manipulation], [Teleportation], [Higher-Dimensional Manipulation], [Dream Manipulation] (Influenced Walter Gilman's dreams, bringing his astral form into higher-dimensional space through them)

All previous powers and abilities on an unfathomably higher scale, as well as: [Beyond-Dimensional Existence] (Type 2), [Avatar Creation], [Conceptual Manipulation] (Type 1), [Large Size] (Type 11), [Invulnerability], [Incorporeality], [Abstract Existence] (Type 1), [Law Manipulation], [Physics Manipulation], [Acausality] (Type 5), [Void Manipulation], [Causality Manipulation], [Immortality] (Type 5), [Nonexistent Physiology] (Type 2), [Transduality] (Type 2), [Omnipresence]

**Attack Potency:** **Varies.** At least **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 moon), 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 centre 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 will) | **High Outerverse level** (Exists in the Ultimate Void, 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)

**Speed:** **Unknown** | **Unknown** or **Omnipresent**

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown** | **Immeasurable**

**Striking Strength:** **Unknown**, up to **High Outerversal** | **High Outerversal**

**Durability:** **Varies.** At least **Large Planet level**, likely **higher** to **High Outerverse level** | **High Outerverse level**

**Stamina:** Irrelevant

**Range:** High Outerversal | High Outerversal

**Standard Equipment:** None for most of them, though The Black Man in particular has the Book of Azathoth in his possession | Thousands of different avatars and forms spread throughout all of reality

**Intelligence:** Varies. Some avatars (Such as the Pharaoh and the Black Man) appear to be Omniscience 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 mindless 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. Other avatars have no such weaknesses, aside from a degree of overconfidence. | None Notable.