Nyarlathotep

NYARLATHOTEP IN THE MYTHOS

Nyarlathotep differs from the other beings in a number of ways. Most of them are exiled to stars, like Yog-Sothoth and Hastur , or sleeping and dreaming like Cthulhu ; Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the Earth in the guise of a human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. Most of them have their own cults serving them, while Nyarlathotep seems to serve them and take care of their affairs in their absence. Most of them use strange alien languages, while Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being. Finally, most of them are all powerful yet purposeless, yet Nyarlathotep seems to be deliberately deceptive and manipulative, and even uses Propaganda to achieve his goals. In this regard, he is probably the most human-like among them.

Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of Azathoth , whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep.Harms, "Nyarlathotep", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 218–9. In this sense, he strongly resembles the traditional role of the Devil .

According to the Necronomicon , Nyarlathotep will play some part in the End Time. It is stated that he will allow Nyogtha to wipe the Earth clean in preparation for the return of the Great Old Ones - although it doesn't specify how Nyarlathotep will accomplish this. It also fails to mention any timeframe for this to occur, although it would presumably be after the fall of Xothique some 5,000 years in the future.

TABLE OF NYARLATHOTEP'S FORMS

Nyarlathotep has many forms (some literature refers to these forms as Masks and claims that he has a thousand of them) and is thus known by different avatars.

Overview

This table is organized as follows:

''Name''. This is the name of Nyarlathotep's form.

''Region''. This is the geographical location where Nyarlathotep's form is active.

''Description''. This entry describes Nyarlathotep's form.

''Notes''. This field contains additional information.

''References''. This field lists the sources that contain references to Nyarlathotep's form. If the source is a story, it is denoted by a two-letter code—the key to the codes is found Here . Otherwise, the source is denoted as follows:

---''rpg'' means a Role-playing Game and includes a footnote to the source.

---''MofN'' means the ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' web site.

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Table-c (N–W)

QUOTATIONS

And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.

—H.P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"

What his fate would be, he did not know; but he felt that he was held for the coming of that frightful soul and messenger of infinity's Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.

—H.P. Lovecraft, '' The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath ''

There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers - the 'Black Man' of the witch cult, and the 'Nyarlathotep' of the Necronomicon.

—H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House"

There are references to a Haunter of the Dark awaked by gazing into the Shining Trapezohedron , and insane conjectures about the black gulfs from which it was called. The being is spoken of as holding all knowledge, and demanding monstrous sacrifices.

—H.P. Lovecraft, " The Haunter Of The Dark "

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