Niklovich

## Villain Description

### Goals

Cause as many chaos and havoc across the omniverse as possible and expand his chaotic influence.
Release the Leviathans to devour everything and plunge the omniverse in chaos and turmoil (both failed).
Destroy the Champions multiverse then later destroy the omniverse and reduce to nothing but a void.

### Hobbies

Causing chaos
Manipulating others
Destroying dimensions
Committing mass murders

### Powers

Essokinesis
Omnimanifestation
Nigh-Omniscience
Necromancy
Immortality
Umbramancy
Telepathy
Infernokinesis

### Skills

Genius Intellect
Manipulation
Combat skills

### Type of Villain

Sadistic God-Wannabe

**Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos,** **also known as Ha'Kesh, Nihilathotep**, and later known as **Niklovich**(Pronounced as NICK-LOW-VITCH), is a major antagonist of *Multiversal Legends* and *Tales of The Omniverse*. He is a sadistic, ancient, unfathomably powerful, and manipulative Prime Omega and one of the off-springs of Nekrozoth who along with his henchdemon Y'golonac crashed landed on Earth and caused the extinction of the Dinosaurs. He was also responsible for creating the Vampires and helped cause the Fall of Humanity along with Strife and Nekrozoth. He is known for being a "Trickster" by other Primes for his manipulative tendencies and need to cause chaos and havoc. He is also the archenemy of Randolf Carter, Nodens, and Nosferatu.

As the Prime Omega/Omicron of Carnage, he tends to manipulate events which leads to a multitude of disaster and death. He once attempted to commit complete genocide of humanity and devour all life on the planet, an act that even the vampires were against and lead them to work with humanity to lock him in a coffin. He was soon released by his followers in Ancient Rome but was soon banished to the Pandora Dimension by his nemesis Nodens, but tends to return to wreak havoc once more if he manage to find ways in returning. He is known for his necromancy which he uses to create an army of horrid beasts and an army of the dead. He is also the creator and wielder of an ancient power known as the "*Vile*" which is a chaotic source of dark powers thought to be lost in history. During World War II, he has been known as Baron Vile due to his vile atrocities.

He is revealed to be the mastermind responsible for the events of the first season of the *Pandora Files*, as his cult is active during that time and were the ones who funded the Helsing Faction. He is revealed to also be the twin brother of the Master Magus himself. He is also partners with fellow Prime Omega Y'golonac, and acts as the brains to Y'golonac's brawns as well as being the most dominant of their partnership. Other than being the creator of all the vampires, he is also the creator of "Million Favored Ones" and the Vamperiacs. He is also one of the Pandora Foundation's most dangerous individuals due to his chaotic nature and his sadistic love for destruction. He is also a powerful crime lord in the criminal underworld, particularly the vampire mafia family where he acted as the shadowy head of a criminal organization that controls certain amount of crimes (ranging from trafficking to terrorism). He also is the founder of the Osiris Corporation, where he secretly controls the criminal underworld and perform unethical experiments on the dead (especially corpses).

He later continues his reign of chaos across multiple realities later on in *Pandora Files*, then later became a herald of the dread Leviathans in *Champions of the Multiverse*as an attempt to gain ultimate power over the omniverse and create an age of terror and nightmare and rule it as a all-powerful chaos god. In the crisis crossover event in the franchise called "The King of Chaos", Niklovich decided to end all of reality and plunge it to everlasting darkness with the help of the Leviathans.

He was a recurring antagonist of *Forces*, one of the main antagonists of *Pandora Files*, being one of the two most recurring villains in it (Along with Maestro). A major antagonist of *Champions of the Multiverse*and *The Travellers*. He is the overall major antagonist of *The Omega* saga of *Tales of The Omniverse*. He is one of the two main antagonist of Phase 5 of Champions of the Multiverse (along with Master Magus)

## Appearance

Niklovich normally takes the appearance of a vampire dressed in red armor and have blood red eyes, silver shoulder pads and belt, white gloves. He has black hair and a goatee, he has a very pale skin like a normal vampire has. In his other forms, he takes the appearance of a black skinned zombie like pharaoh wearing Egyptian wrappings, a bat-like humanoid, and often dress in a red ragged old trench coat with chains and a black top hat (sometimes sporting a monocle for a villainous style. He is technically genderless despite being referred as a he, as he can assume any form and gender he wishes. His true form is never truly seen, as it is primarily beyond the comprehension of most beings.

The hair on the form he takes is not exactly hair, it is a substance called Shadow-Flame which he can manipulate with his umbrakinetic powers. He sometimes use this substance to make clothing of. He also has a form known as The Dark Man, which is a being made of Shadow-Flame.

## Personality

He is the epitome of a psychopathic manchild and a world ending lover of chaos, while possessing a human like midnset. He is like many Prime Omegas, psychopathic, destructive, manipulative, and seek to wanting nothing be chaos across the omniverse. Niklovich is a extremely cruel and evil monster that's seemed to hate all living beings and seek to brings chaos and death every where he goes. Nyarlathotep enjoy driving mortals insane and even manipulating and deceiving his victims as he described it as his daily hobby. He uses propaganda, deception, and manipulation for his own goals as he is prophesied to be the doom of humanity itself. He relishes on the chaos and evil he brings that his followers had called him "the Crawling Chaos". He is also known for his insanity, twisted sense of humor, and distaste towards order itself. He has a passion for murder, torture, and cruelty as he sees them as the most beautiful things in the omniverse

In describing Niklovich's personalty, Randolf Carter described Niklovich/Nyarlathotep as a "wicked child playing god". His sadistic childish demeanor is what makes him dangerous, seeing himself as a god who thinks that both Vampires, Humans, and all mortals overall as equally worthless and unfit to live in his vision of a new world. Mainly this stems from his godlike reality warping powers and being gifted Prime Omega and Leviathan with immense powers. He is extremely narcissistic, murderous, power-hungry, egotistical, arrogant, and ruthless psychopathic demon that is even despised by the very vampires he created. They hate Niklovich so much that even they erased any recordings of him from vampire history, making him nothing but a enigma.

He is also a very deceitful and skilled Manipulator which is one of his most defining trait, and the one that others have to be careful for. Through his machinations, he brought havoc and madness while gaining followers for his twisted goals. Often posing as some sort of advisor to several dictators and tyrants to commit horrific acts or manipulate benevolent beings into becoming ruthless tyrants like how his father Nekrozoth does. He is cunning, highly intelligent and extremely competent, and tends to act persuasive in order to manipulate others for self help. His own insanity lead to his downfall in multiple occasions, since he tends to act reckless due to his behavior. Though despite his intellect and extreme cunning, he shows a rather animalistic side which leads him to randomly commit acts of murder and bloodshed out of his ravenous hunger for blood. He sees himself as a hunter while seeing other living beings as inferior preys for him to hunt down and kill for his entertainment. Deep down his calculating persona is that of a savage beast who enjoys causing havoc, during World War II he was also given the name "Jaw Ripper" for his brutal way of finishing his enemies. He is also shown to be cannibalistic like his father, as he tends to eat what remains of his victims, though he mainly allow his henchdemon Y'golonac to eat the corpses to leave no traces.

However his immoral nature leads him to be dislike by many, even by the other Prime Omegas who despise him for his murderously insane behavior even distrusting him due to his tendency to manipulate others like pawns and dispose of them once they no longer serve him. Even Nekrozoth doesn't trust the Crawling Chaos as he sees him as a potential problem to his plans, often referring him as a "trickster" as a result. Not even the psychotic Strife and D'Loki themselves cannot stand with Niklovich's chaotic sadism. Though a selfish egotist with little care for others even to his fellow Prime Omegas, he seemed to somewhat care for his henchman Y'golonac as he never seem to yell at him, hurt him, threaten to mutilate or kill him, and is very tolerate of his brutish behavior and does compliment on his gruesome killings. This "care" is limited however as he tends to sees him like some kind of toy of mass destruction and treats him like how he treats everyone else, a lackey, only using him because he is useful for his various schemes and knowing that he could end humanity. He only respects him due to Y'golonac's equally deprive nature and not as a person, since he tends to respects those who share a similar sadistic personality like how Nekrozoth does, who Niklovich does show a multitude of respects and praise for due to Nekrozoth's status as "the most evil being in the omniverse". Once Y'golonac did get killed, Niklovich was only upset due to the fact that he lost his "favorite toy" and a useful asset to his plans. He later shrugs it off and claims that he'll get another person to replace Y'golonac.

He is not loyal nor cares about his father Nekrozoth despite his great respects towards him, which is unsurprising as he was taught to not care for anyone as affection is designed by the weak. This is a recurring trait among many Omegas, which makes Niklovich one of the most treacherous of the bunch. He shown to be relentless and megalomaniacal that even his own men and his own allies shown to dislike him. Along with theses traits, he is also tyrannical towards his followers and often punishes them for the smallest reasons or just for his own enjoyment which demonstrates how pitiless he can be. He does fear his father's wrath, knowing full will about his abilities on inflicting pain that even masochists like himself dare not want to experience.

He is fully aware of what a narcissistic monster that he is and the atrocities he is committing, and takes great pride of the reputation he has of being so. He rarely ever try to excuse his actions if the person is aware of his true nature, and if they don't then he try to make up several backstories and excuses that paints him as a tragic figure in order to manipulate others. He also posses a hunger for power, just like his father, having a thirst for omniversal domination so that he could freely do whatever he please with no one getting in his way. Other than that, he also seeks to obtain ultimate power and has made multiple attempts at manipulating his father for his own gain. He would go to extreme length to gain power and complete omniversal hegemony, such as releasing the Leviathans for ultimate power and so that he could establish an age of nightmare and terror. He also has fascination for fascism, tyranny, and dictatorship, since he shows some admiration towards ruthless fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He also participated in World War II and the Nazi Party, using the war to kill Allied Soldiers and innocent civilians for sport. He also has been longing to make his own fascist empire which he hoped would expand across dimension conquering worlds and decimating those who oppose him, and spread destruction and chaos. This makes him a would-be conqueror of worlds, which makes him in similar ties with his other brother Mendax. He designed his fascist empire after the Nazis like any other fictional empires, this maybe a call-back to his time serving the Axis powers during World War II and he has since showed respects for their inhumanity and crimes against humanity.

He has some traits of an omnicidal maniac, since he had wiped out entire species, started a devastating war between two universe, wanting to bring destruction and death where ever he does and tried to release the Leviathans who in turn would devour universe, though he is not complete omnicidal maniac. As stated before, he is more hegemonic like his twin which also contrast his father who sought the destruction of the omniverse in order to reshape it in his image. While Niklovich is okay with "breaking his toys", he does not want to wipe them out completely unless he feels like it or grew bored out of them, since he prefer torturing others for pleasure and killing them in the most painful way imaginable even if it's slow and agonizing. He doesn't seek to annihilate all life in the omniverse since that would mean that he'll lose his favorite "toys" being all living beings in existence. While he does sought the destruction of all life on Earth he also has been reconsidering on enslaving them again and make them into cattle/prey for him to hunt while making the Earth his playground. However he does reveal that if he wanted too, he could attempt to bring the destruction of all realities and maybe reshape it in his own twisted image if he ever feels like it. However as of "King of Chaos" crisis crossover arc, he fully developed into being a true omnicidal maniac as he sought to end all of reality by destroying the Champions's multiverse and later expanding to other multiverses for him to destroy.

### Psychopathy

Despite being a powerful godlike being with immense powers, as mentioned before, he possesses some traits of psychopathy:

* He shows zero remorse for his actions or any signs of guilt, showing no care on who he hurts or how he hurts them.
* Has committed several crimes on an early age, from assault, animal cruelty to outright murdering one of his siblings.
* Very calculating and cunning than a low functioning psychopath. However he is extremely cold and ruthless.
* Being a very violent and impulsive to others.
* Lacks care and/or empathy towards others, even his own family and his henchdemon Y'golonac. Showing only care for nothing but himself, showing that he is noting but a egotistical monstrous narcissist with self-entitlement. Also he doesn't show any emotional connection with others.
* Despite his behavior that might have paint him as insane if not psychotic, he is actually a very sane and his so-called "insanity" was merely a facade to gain sympathy of others in order for him to manipulate them.
* Pretends to be nice, adopting a superficial personality. However, he is very cruel and sadistic and made painfully obvious in-universe that he is merely faking his affability. Only using his affability to blend in society and is an expert liar.
* Lacks any form of conscience, or any care of what he does or how does his it. Showing immorality, showing no signs of moral standards or limits in his cruelty.

Unlike his henchdemon and fellow Prime Omega, Y'golonac, he is high functioning psychopath or at least possess some traits of them. While Y'golonac is a low functioning sociopath. This trait possibly stems from the fact that he almost having a mindset that of a human being.

### Sadism and Masochism

One of his well known trait is his love for causing pain and madness to others, sometimes for no reason other than taking sheer pleasure in it. His only motive is to relish in spreading destruction across the omniverse, torturing others for his amusement and driving them insane after words. He also delights in psychologically abusing them like his minion Y'golonac does, and if he doesn't feel like torturing others than he either have the person killed or have one of his pawns to torture his victims for him. He will also kill anyone and anything his archenemy, Randolf Carter, cares for just to spite him as he did when making a recording of him brutally torturing one of Randolf's friends alive. As part of his sadism, he tends to make wise-cracking yet sadistic and twisted jokes, sometimes when he brutally murders a victim or tortures them mercilessly.

He particularly likes to record his victims being tortured to keep memories of them and so that he could sell them on the Black Market for fun. He also records the screams of his tortured victims mainly because he believes they are music to his ears, sometimes he even uses these screams make actually music out of them for the kicks.

### Childism Demeanor

As stated by Randolf Carter, he is simply "a wicked egotistical child playing god". Even despite being a powerful ancient immortal being, he has a very childish behavior like having tantrums similar to what a spoiled brat has when things don't go his way or if he doesn't get the things he wanted. Another thing is that he treats anything, even his ow powers as mere toys and doesn't really take responsibility for anything even his own failures. Even his acts of spite towards his enemies have childish reasons, including his reason on his multiple attempts on eradicating humanity and vampire as he believe they don't love him enough. He also has the tendencies to be envious of others if they have something that he doesn't have and would most likely kill them for that reason. He is also very, very petty such as his reason for his multiple attempts on eradicating all of humanity and vampire kind as he believe they didn't show enough love/worship to him. He would also kill any of his minions for whatever reason, from looking at him funny or simply correcting him on minor things.

### Nihilism

He is also something of a nihilist, just like his father Nekrozoth is himself. Since he believes that life and thinks he can kill and torture whenever he wants. If he ends up "breaking" one person then all well, there's billions of if infinite more left to toy with. He doesn't care if he dies, just as long as he gets his enjoyment. He views positive stuff such as morality, hope, and care as mere jokes to him and weaknesses designed by the weak to oppress the strong especially morality. As such, if reality is a toy then he thinks he could play with it whenever he wants and break it if he wanted, and do whatever he please even if his cruel actions would lead him to his own demise one day. He wouldn't mind if a hero would kill him, as long as he gets his fun then there's almost nothing that could stop him from having his twisted sense of entertainment. He fully succumb to being a true omnicidal maniac, wanting to reduce the omniverse to a void where he rule it as a mad tyrant god.

### Moral Agency

Nyarlathotep has full control over his actions and can tell the difference between right and wrong, despite being born in a lab facility and was created by Nekrozoth as a Leviathan-Omega hybrid. He has moral understanding on what he is, and takes pride in his behavior and atrocities and openly enjoys on what he is. He also can understand human emotions and how people would react and how they will behave as shown that he took advantage on Lilith's love for humans and her human lover Adam. He knows how other species moral standards works, even when facing the heroes he shown to know how to use their heroism against them in given situation.

He also stated that has full control over his actions and chose to be the monster he is due to his joy for causing pain, and claimed that he learns from others about the meaning of right and wrong in order to use that to easily manipulate others to do his bidding. He uses propaganda, fear tactics, and often uses the emotions of others such as they desires (like love, money, power) for his own advantage. He also has knowledge on psychology, which he uses to abuse others mentally and tell which person is sane or insane and know what sort of disorder they have. There is also the fact that he has nigh-omniscient knowledge on science, magic, and even different species (ranging from their culture, personality, and whatnot). Even when given the chance to redeem himself, but he simply rejected them as he believe "redemption isn't my style".

To strengthen this claim further, he unlike the other children who was born in the same lab willingly became a chaos-loving psychopath as he found his joy in murder and torture when he bullied, assaulted and later brutally murder some of his siblings born in the same lab as him. This was his reason why he took joy from the carnage he inflicts, and willingly became the monster he enjoys being.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Essokinesis**; He is a powerful being capable of twisting the fabric of reality in his image, and is shown to be more powerful than his twin brother Master Magus and even other beings like Legend in his god form, Tartarus, Xeron, and D'Loki. This ability allowed him to reshape certain objects into weapons for battle, from turning a chair into a gun to making a truck into a tank. He is also capable of travelling into other plans of existence, including alternate dimensions and planets.
	+ **Omnimanifestation**; Has the ability to shapeshift into anything he wishes, even taking forms for lesser beings to comprehend what they could see of him: To human he appears human, to a vampire he appears as a vampire. He tends to shapeshift into other people in order to mimic them to other blend in or to frame his victims of the crimes he committed.
	+ Nigh-Omniscience; He claims to know all sorts of forbidden knowledge, as he claims to be know almost everything across multiple realities. Having near infinite knowledge on alternate timelines, dimensional to omniversal travel, and even species. He know different types of cultures, psychology, science and magic which he uses often. He uses this to help him manipulate others who seek knowledge, psychologically abuse and torture others. This also go hand and hand with his torture methodology.
* **Necromancy**; Has immense power and influence over the dead as he is able to resurrect those he murdered in his lifetime and use them as his undead slaves soldiers. He used this power to perform experiments on the corpses, using the body parts to make monsters such as the Vamperiacs.
* **Immortality**; Due to being a deity (or probably a mere reality warping cosmic being), he is an extremely old entity who caused chaos and misery for several millennia. Also has an immense healing factor, as shown as he often starts slice and later cutting off his own face which later heals rapidly afterwords.
* **Umbramancy**; Controls a substance called Shadow-Flame which he uses to make his own hair, clothing, and sometimes use this substance for combat by summoning shadow tentacles or make a spear made of shadows. He also has a form/avatar known as "The Dark Man" which is an entity made of shadows.
* **Telepathy**; Can read the minds of others just so he could read what the person is thinking and unlock some of his secrets which he would use to manipulate them.
* **Infernokinesis**; When he was in Hell spreading carnage and bloodshed as usual, he has the ability to control Hell-fire. He once engulf his fists into hellish flame (making it a flaming fist) which would melt any human metal once he so touches it. In one of his forms/avatars, he was able to breath fire from his mouth.

### Weaknesses

As power he is, he is not really invincible and has a few weaknesses.

* **Prime Omega and Alpha weapons;** He is vulnerable to weaponry made by the Prime Omegas and Alphas as they were design to specifically kill one another. They (if used properly) can nulify his healing factor and cause actual damage to him.
* **Sadism and destructive behavior;** While he is indeed a extremely intelligent creature, his own sadism has proven to get the best of him in multiple occasions, since he tends to get reckless and make brash decisions for the sake of causing chaos for its own sake. He tends to simply torture his victims, or give them slow and painful deaths instead of outright killing them when they could pose a threat to him. It serves as a reason why Magus, while weaker than Niklovich, is smarter than Niklovich as he has some control over destructive behavior for the sake of his plans, while Niklovich doesn't bother trying to contain his hostile demeanor.
* **Daylight:** He is weaker in the day time, but it does not kill him like any other ordinary vampire. Though he is still powerful, he is much more powerful on nighttime which is why he prefers to operate during the nighttime where he is at his most strongest.

## Trivia

* He is based on the character of the same name made by Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos where Nyarlathotep came from.
* He is also has some inspiration from The Master from Doctor Who.
* BrandonDarkOne47 often compares him to the likes of Carnage from *Marvel* Comics and The Joker due to Niklovich's behavior. He even noted that he wanted to make him look like Black Hat from *Villainous* a little bit.
* Out of all of Nekrozoth's children, he is probably the only one not to be abused by Nekrozoth. However Nekrozoth does not trust Niklovich due to being a deceitful manipulator.
* Despite being a messenger to the Prime omegas, he rarely lives up to his role which is why he let Ezekiel Stayne to take his job instead.
* He is describe as a being so foul and horrific that he is worse than Satan himself at his most evil.
* Other than Nyarlathotep, plenty of villains helped in the creation of Niklovich himself such as Joker (DC), Carnage, Randall Flagg, Black Hat, Maestro (In a way that is), Crimson King, Dracula and Carmilla (Netflix's Castlvania), and Amatsu-Mikaboshi/Chaos King.
* As of now, Niklovich has became the creator's favorite character to write and considers him "his next Nekrozoth".