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72-679: Zhar is a Great Old One and appears as a colossal mass of tentacles. The being came from the star Arcturus , but now dwells beneath the buried city of Alaozar on the Plateau of Sung. It is served by a cult known as the Tcho-Tcho's "Brotherhood of the Star Treader." When called upon by the proper incantations , Zhar can project itself astrally in the form of the Tulku . It can also telepathically transmit its urges to its worshippers. Zhar

144-614: A Great Old One as well as an appearance vaguely resembling that of Yog-Sothoth , and is invoked by a deranged prophet with words in Naacal or R'lyehan language almost coinciding with those featured in Cthulhu's invocation, with R'lyeh replaced with Z'lyeh . Azathoth , sometimes referred to as the "Blind Idiot God", is a dreaming monster who rules the Outer Gods, created them (along with many other worlds) and thus effectively serves as

216-554: A cult known as the Tcho-Tcho's Brotherhood of the Star Treader . It has the power to control great winds, which it can use to snare and capture any unfortunates who chance upon it. Like Zhar, Lloigor can project its image whenever Arcturus (the star from whence it came) is in the sky. A race of energy beings known as the Lloigor shares the same name with the eponymous Great Old One; however, there appears to be no connection between

288-575: A colossal, vampiric, red mass of both tentacles and eyes. It dwells within the realm of Rhylkos , which matches with the red planet Mars , and whoever summons Uvhash witnesses an atrocious death. He has affinities with the star vampires , and is rumored to have been one of mad emperor Caligula 's eldritch sponsors as well. There is enmity with both the Elder God Nodens and the Great Old One Gi-Hoveg. Xa'ligha ( Master of

360-400: A cross between Azathoth and Ubbo-Sathla : an amorphous, writhing mass of bubbling, nuclear, protoplasmic-gel. He normally dwells alone within an unnamed dimension beyond time and space, unless disturbed or summoned away. Darkness ( Magnum Tenebrosum , The Unnamed Darkness ) is a mysterious entity spawned by Azathoth , and is the progenitor of Shub-Niggurath . D'endrrah ( The Divinity )

432-485: A defiled cult described in the mysterious Cambuluc Scrolls of the wizard Lang-Fu, dating back 1295 AD. Peering through the eyes of this god, after a hideous and devastating ritual, allows one to see straight into Azathoth 's court. It is rumoured that the powers of Mongolian warlord Temujin (Genghis Khan) was a favour of Aiueb Gnshal. Aletheia ( The End of the Darkness ) is a god-like entity symbolizing or incarnating

504-514: A false prophet, appears in Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana , and Mynarthitep, a god described as "angry", appears in Dunsany's "The Sorrow of Search". 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

576-442: A holy place by the Tcho-Tcho people because it is home to Zhar and Lloigor. Great Old One American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) created a number of fictional deities throughout the course of his literary career. These entities are usually depicted as immensely powerful and utterly indifferent to humans. Humans can barely begin to comprehend them; however, some entities are worshipped by humans. These deities include

648-568: A human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. He has "a thousand" other forms, most of these reputed to be maddeningly horrific. Most of the Outer Gods have their own cults serving them; Nyarlathotep seems to serve these cults and take care of the deities' affairs in their absence. Most of the gods use strange alien languages, but Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being. The other Outer Gods and Great Old Ones are often described as mindless or unfathomable rather than truly malevolent, but Nyarlathotep delights in cruelty,

720-422: A more unsettling and tentacled appearance. Although it can be noted that when defeated for the last time, he switches back to the human appearance of one of the playable characters. In Charles Stross' series The Laundry Files , a human avatar of Nyarlathotep under the name Fabian Everyman becomes UK's prime minister. In the mobile video game Dragalia Lost , there is a dragon named Nyarlathotep who appears in

792-501: A pact with the entity) in the form of "the 'Black Man' of the witch-cult", a black-skinned avatar of the Devil described by witch hunters . Although inhuman, some characters mistake him as a human of African descent, though his facial features are described as Caucasian. Finally, in " The Haunter of the Dark " (1936), the nocturnal, tentacled, bat-winged monster dwelling in the steeple of

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864-581: A race of foul servitors. He has been permanently banished from the Elder Gods' Olympus and imprisoned beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea , near Greece , in a dark, basalt-built citadel named Atheron . However the exiled deity is not dead but just sleeping, and one day he will rise again from his abyss manifesting himself as a blue, 6-metre tall, cyclops -like monstrosity, with the bulk of his body covered entirely in crawling worms. A goat-like fiendish horror with bat wings and multiple horns, mentioned as

936-523: A rudimentary face or faces within the glowing mass. The Star Mother, also called "The Great Mother Of All", appears as a chunk of yellow-green stone about the size of an infant. Its shape suggests a plump, huge-breasted, faceless female figure. From it extend dozens of pencil-thin root-like strands. It is one of the Larvae of the Other Gods and has no cult, although served by zombie slaves. Suc'Naath

1008-499: A sort of cosmic yin and yang, whose meeting resulted in the creation of all things (although Azathoth is usually attributed to this). Their joinings routinely create and destroy matter and entities. One of the beings created in this way was the inimical Outer God Ngyr-Khorath. Mril Thorion is an Outer God who, along with Mlandoth, serve as Yin and Yang. Mlandoth and Mril Thorion were created by Walter C. DeBill Jr., but were suggested years earlier by Clark Ashton Smith. Walter C. DeBill Jr.

1080-425: A terrible shock from the grisly scene so witnessed. Sometimes The Hydra is treated as a Great Old One. Ialdagorth ( The Dark Devourer ) is both the cousin and servant of Azathoth , appearing as a black, shapeless, malevolent mist. The sight of such a fiend is unsettling if not traumatizing. Kaajh'Kaalbh is a lesser Outer God, servitor of Azathoth , but secluded in a parallel chaotic-dimension where everything

1152-534: A vast sea of gray ooze. A multitude of living heads, some human and some alien, sprout from the ooze, sobbing and grimacing as if in great agony. The Hydra's worshipers trick others into sending the god sacrifices through a pamphlet known as On the Sending Out of the Soul . The last page contains a magical formula for astral projection . When followed, the formula always works as expected, harmlessly transporting

1224-556: A wet, warty globe, covered with countless ovoid pustules and spider-webbed with a network of long, narrow tunnels. Each pustule bears the larva of a Great Old One. An invisible wolf-like fiend similar to Fenrir of Norse mythology (if not coincident). Mh'ithrha ( Arch-Lord of Tindalos ) is the lord of the Hounds of Tindalos , and the most powerful. Although not an actual Outer God as such, its form and astounding powers defy standard classification. Mh'ithra's eternal battle with Yog-Sothoth

1296-489: Is (as critics have termed it) a 'shapeshifter', why would he have to don the face and hands of Akeley instead of merely reshaping himself as Akeley?" Though Nyarlathotep appears as a character in only four stories and two sonnets, his name is mentioned frequently in other works. In " The Rats in the Walls " (1924), Nyarlathotep is mentioned as a faceless god in the caverns of Earth's center. In The Shadow Out of Time (1936),

1368-539: Is a "misty, shapeless thing" spawned by Azathoth , and is the progenitor of Yog-Sothoth . Ngyr-Korath ( The Ultimate Abomination or The Dream-Death ) is a dark blue-green mist that causes a sense of terror as it approaches. Once close, an eye of flame forms within. He was spawned by fission of the Great Old One (or the avatar of) ‘Ymnar, and his nemesis is the Elder God Paighon . He coincides with

1440-614: Is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos , a shared universe . First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem " Nyarlathotep ", he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers, to the point of often being considered the main antagonist of the Cthulhu Mythos as a whole. Later, writers describe him as one of the Other Gods, an alien pantheon. In his first appearance in " Nyarlathotep " (1920), he

1512-421: Is a sort of blurry female entity of supernatural beauty, dwelling within her obsidian palace located on Mars' moon Deimos . She lives in a hall composed of myriad mirrors that distort her appearance, which is that of a tentacled dark abyss. This Mythos entity is somewhat inspired by C. L. Moore 's Shambleau , the illusionary Martian she-vampires of lust. The Hydra dwells in an alternate dimension, and appears as

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1584-502: Is an author of horror and science fiction short stories and a contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos. He created the parallel Mlandoth Cycle. A Lesser Outer God composed of slime, tentacles, eyes, and mouths. The Mother of Pus was spawned through an obscene mating between a human and Shub-Niggurath . When summoned to Earth, the Mother of Pus seeks refuge in pools of stagnant, foul water. The Nameless Mist ( Magnum Innominandum , Nyog' Sothep )

1656-760: Is an unnamed Outer God at the court of Azathoth . C'thalpa ( The Internal One ) is a huge mass of living sentient magma, located in the Earth's mantle . She is mother of the Great Old One Shterot , and five other unnamed hideous children. She is also served by a race of mole-like humanoid burrowers known as the Talpeurs . Cxaxukluth ( Androgynous Offspring of Azathoth ) is one of the Seed-Spawn of Azathoth , grown to adulthood and monstrous proportions. In appearance, Cxaxukluth resembles something of

1728-528: Is based on the Cthulhu mythos, with the main character Nyaruko directly referring to Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep appears in the guise of the Dark Man in Larry Correia 's story "Dead Waits Dreaming" (2013). Though he does not appear in Lovecraft's original short story, Nyarlathotep in his "Black Man" form appears in the 1993 Caliber Comics adaption of The Music of Erich Zann , in flashbacks for

1800-474: Is believed to be physically connected to its "twin", Lloigor, perhaps by a long extension of tentacles. In Derleth's classification system, both Zhar and Lloigor are air elementals . Lloigor is another gargantuan monster that dwells beneath Alaozar with Zhar. Together, they are known as the Twin Obscenities . Lloigor appears as a titanic, winged mound of undulating tentacles and is also served by

1872-405: Is deceptive and manipulative, and even cultivates followers and uses propaganda to achieve his goals. Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of Azathoth , his father, whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep. It

1944-425: Is described as a "tall, swarthy man" who resembles an ancient Egyptian pharaoh . In this story he wanders the Earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers, the narrator of the story among them, through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator's increasingly unreliable accounts, the reader gets an impression of

2016-576: Is one of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth that reside in Kadath. He might also be the same being as Zo-Kalar. (HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, "Wizards of Hyperborea", Mike Minnis' "The Crawler of Pnoth") As it is known in the Mythos, the Outer Gods are ruled by Azathoth , the "Blind Idiot God", who holds court at the center of infinity. A group of Outer Gods dance rhythmically around Azathoth, in cadence to

2088-450: Is one of the mindless gods which twist and dance in the court of Azathoth . It appears as a formless spinning hurricane -like thing with strings of violet and golden colors across its shape, constantly emitting sickening smacking and screeching noises while showing pain-stricken faces across its body. Suc'Naath's essence is currently divided into three parts, one in a comet called Aiin , the other in some sort of statue located somewhere in

2160-570: Is said to be legendary. Mlandoth is a primal entity or force, not dissimilar to the Nameless Mist or Darkness, although it is uncertain if it is a place, conscious being, or an inconceivable maelstrom of unknown forces and properties outside the perceptible cosmos. It is mentioned in Uralte Schrecken as a kind of prime archetype from which all mythical god-heads are derived. According to the cycle surrounding these beings, they are

2232-676: Is the complete irrelevance of humanity in the face of the cosmic horrors that exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the "Great Old Ones": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a death-like sleep. Lovecraft named several of these deities, including Cthulhu , Ghatanothoa , and Yig . With a few exceptions, Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa, et al., this loose pantheon apparently exists outside of normal space-time. Although worshipped by deranged human (and inhuman) cults, these beings are generally imprisoned or restricted in their ability to interact with most people (beneath

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2304-468: Is unknown. As well as occasionally returning to white capped Thurai, Lerion and Hatheg-Kla on cloud ships under the cover of a light mist, they abandoned Kadath for a brief period for the "sunset city" that Randolph Carter conjured in his dreams. In the past, the Great Ones often married human women, so many human inhabitants of the Dreamlands have Great One blood in them. Lobon, also known as Lobon of

2376-522: Is unstable. The god itself is constantly formed or disrupted and has no true form at all. Whoever attempts summoning this entity needs the aid of a dimensional shambler , and the deity may manifest in a variety of forms, often as an immense lava lake or a vast pool of solidified quicksilver . Lu-Kthu ( Birth-womb of the Great Old Ones or Lew-Kthew ) is a titanic, planet-sized mass of entrails and internal organs. On closer examination it appears

2448-526: The Starry Wisdom sect's church is identified as another manifestation of Nyarlathotep. This avatar cannot tolerate light. Lovecraft suggests that the fake Henry Akeley that appears at the end of " The Whisperer in Darkness " (1930) is also Nyarlathotep. In the story, the Mi-Go chant his name in reverential tones, stating "To Nyarlathotep, Mighty Messenger, must all things be told. And he shall put on

2520-448: The supreme deity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Azathoth can't understand anything in his dream, hence his title. Azathoth also shifts in his slumber, causing reality to change. Azhorra-Tha is an Outer God imprisoned on the planet Mars , as it fled from Earth after the imprisonment of the Great Old Ones. Its appearance is that of an insectoid to toad-like squid, but its shape continuously changes, emitting an awful buzz. The Mi-Go discovered

2592-559: The truth . Named after the Greek goddess of truth , it manifests as a vast spiral of manifold titanic hands with a single cycloptic eye in each palm as in the Hamsa , and kilometric wire-like protrusions able to ensnare living beings, replacing their spinal bone in puppet-like fashion. Introduced in Dylan Dog issue 374, In the plot, the entity has clear features of an Outer God rather than

2664-607: The "Great Old Ones" and extraterrestrials , such as the "Elder Things", with sporadic references to other miscellaneous deities (e.g. Nodens ). The "Elder Gods" are a later creation of other prolific writers who expanded on Lovecraft's concepts, such as August Derleth , who was credited with formalizing the Cthulhu Mythos . Most of these deities were Lovecraft's original creations, but he also adapted words or concepts from earlier writers such as Ambrose Bierce , and later writers in turn used Lovecraft's concepts and expanded his fictional universe . A recurring theme in Lovecraft's work

2736-577: The "hideous secret of Nyarlathotep" is revealed to the protagonist by Khephnes during their imprisonment by the Great Race of Yith . Nyarlathotep does not appear in Lovecraft's story " The Crawling Chaos " (1920/21), despite the similarity of the title to the character's epithet. Lovecraft wrote to a correspondent that he reused the phrase because he "liked the sound of it". Nyarlathotep has also appeared outside of Lovecraft's own writings. The light novel and anime series Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009)

2808-419: The "waxen mask and the robes that hide", S. T. Joshi writes that "this seems a clear allusion to Nyarlathotep disguised with Akeley's face and hands; but if so, it means that at this time Nyarlathotep is, in bodily form, one of the fungi — especially if, as seems likely, Nyarlathotep is one of the two buzzing voices Albert Wilmarth overhears at the end." Joshi notes this is problematic, because "if Nyarlathotep

2880-491: The Accursed Archives raid event. Nyarlathotep appears as a playable unit in the 2016 Japanese mobile game Tokyo Afterschool Summoners , where he is depicted as a popular DJ with a rep for causing chaos simply to cause chaos. Nyarlathotep is the focus of an augmented reality game distributed by The Mysterious Package Company. Nyarlathotep appears in the loosely-based ' Azathoth Rising' by Joseph S. Dale, as

2952-484: The Dreamlands, the Great Ones are not as powerful as the Great Old Ones and are not even as intelligent as most humans. However, they are protected by the Outer Gods, particularly Nyarlathotep . While they once lived on peaks across the world they were driven off of lower mountains by the spread of humanity until they had to leave Earth entirely, leaving only a mark on Mount Ngranek. The Great Ones now rule from their hidden fortress of Kadath, whose location in time and space

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3024-462: The Journey") Oukranos is one of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth that reside in Kadath. ( The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ) Tamash is a Great One dwelling on Kadath. Tamash was one of the chief gods worshipped in doomed Sarnath along with Zo-Kalar and Lobon. ("The Doom That Came to Sarnath;" HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, "Wizards of Hyperborea") Zo-Kalar is a Great One dwelling on Kadath. Zo-Kalar

3096-478: The Outer Gods, instead calling them the Other Gods or the gods of the outer hells, as noted in his short story " The Other Gods ". Aiueb Gnshal ( The Eyes Between Worlds , The Child-Minded God ) is a mysterious Outer God, who has his abode in a forgotten temple located somewhere in Bhutan . He appears as a formless black void, with seven pulsing orb-like eyes, and is mainly worshiped by ghouls , which tribute him in

3168-463: The Sacred Spear is one of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth that reside in Kadath. He appears as an ivy-crowned youth bearing a spear. ("The Doom That Came to Sarnath"; H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, John Fultz's "Wizards of Hyperborea") Nath-Horthath is known as one of the chief gods of Celephaïs. ("Celephaïs", The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ; HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, "Kadath/The Vision and

3240-541: The Twisted Sound or Demon of Dissonance ) is an entity made of maddening sound, somehow similar to Tru'Nembra . There is some affinity with the Great Old One Hastur . Xexanoth is a fictional character from Clark Ashton Smith 's Cthulhu Mythos work. It appears only once in "The Chain of Aforgomon", where it is summoned by the main character. Apparently, Xexanoth is the bane and mortal enemy of

3312-582: The allegorical role of the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation , informing the protagonist that she has been impregnated and will soon give birth to Cthulhu. Carcosa takes a more active role in Moore's follow-up volume Providence , "rewarding" the protagonist, Robert Black, for his work as the "herald" of H. P. Lovecraft's effects on the world and later overseeing the birth of Cthulhu. In

3384-671: The brother of Shub-Niggurath . Olkoth ( God of the Celestial Arcs ) appears as a demoniacal god-like entity able to reincarnate in human bodies if the stars are right (sort of a "Cthulhian" Antichrist ). Olkoth may emerge in our dimension through an eyeless, grotesque statue of the Virgin Mary . Shabbith-Ka appears as a shapeless, roughly man-sized purplish aura, spitting and crackling with powerful electrical arcs. A sense of power, malignancy, and intelligence accompanies it and persons able to gaze at its form long enough can see

3456-447: The cosmos, yet is somehow locked outside the mundane universe. Nyarlathotep , the "Crawling Chaos", is the avatar of the Outer Gods, existing as the incarnation of space and functions as an intermediary between the deities of the pantheon and their cults. The only Outer God to have a true personality, Nyarlathotep possesses a malign intellect and reveals a mocking contempt for his masters. Lovecraft himself never made reference to them as

3528-509: The dream he had had—described as "the most realistic and horrible [nightmare] I have experienced since the age of ten"—that served as the basis for his prose poem "Nyarlathotep". In the dream, he received a letter from his friend Samuel Loveman that read: Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible—horrible beyond anything you can imagine—but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterwards. I am still shuddering at what he showed. Lovecraft commented: I had never heard

3600-450: The entity described in H. P. Lovecraft's story " The Festival ". Tulzscha appears as a blazing green ball of flame, dancing with its Lesser Outer Gods at the court of Azathoth . Called to our world, it assumes a gaseous form, penetrates the planet to the core, then erupts from below as a pillar of flame. It cannot move from where it emerges. Uvhash ( The Blood-Mad God of the Void ) appears as

3672-568: The entity known as the Magnum Tenebrosum . First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop role-playing games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods. He is a shape-shifter with a thousand forms, most of them maddeningly horrific to humans. Once an Elder God, Nyctelios has been punished by his peers—especially Nodens —for having created

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3744-441: The eponymous Erich Zann. Alan Moore 's limited comic series Neonomicon (2010–2011) utilizes Nyarlathotep in the form of Johnny Carcosa, a masked drug dealer who frequents Cthulhu-themed clubs and occult shops. His manner of converting new followers is to place them in a vegetative state, susceptible to "Aklo"—words related to Lovecraft's work, which alter the consciousness of those who listen to them. In Moore's story, he serves

3816-517: The form of an Egyptian pharaoh when he confronts protagonist Randolph Carter . Leiber describes Nyarlathotep as "evilly intelligent" in this story, in contrast to the mindless Azathoth , his master. The 21st sonnet of Lovecraft's poem-cycle Fungi from Yuggoth (1929/30) is essentially a retelling of the original prose poem. In " The Dreams in the Witch House " (1933), Nyarlathotep appears to Walter Gilman and witch Keziah Mason (who has made

3888-440: The game's story. In the 2017 game Sundered , Nyarlathotep appears as the final boss, the god of a group of worshippers based on Lovecraftian mythology. In the podcast Malevolent created by Harlan Guthrie, Nyarlathotep appears as an enigmatic, manic, unpredictable and dramatic antagonist. In the podcast he uses the name Kayne, but is later revealed to be Nyarlathotep. In a 1921 letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, Lovecraft related

3960-497: The great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep. Will Murray has speculated that this dream image of Nyarlathotep may have been inspired by the inventor Nikola Tesla , whose well-attended lectures did involve extraordinary experiments with electrical apparatus and whom some saw as a sinister figure. Robert M. Price proposes that the name Nyarlathotep may have been subconsciously suggested to Lovecraft by two names from Lord Dunsany , an author he much admired. Alhireth-Hotep,

4032-478: The guardian of the Necronomicon , as he tries to make wizards and other people of power use the spells in the book ostensibly to gain power. In the 2007 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow , Nyarlathotep is revealed to be the true identity of the character simply named 'the M'. The dimension of Sharnoth which is closely associated with Nyarlathotep also plays a significant part in

4104-723: The head of the Eastern Branch is a woman called Nyarlathotep who uses the title "The Chaos". She is a dark skinned woman, with the lower half of the eye of Horus below her right eye. Nyarlathotep is featured in several of the Shin Megami Tensei video games, as well as the Persona spin-offs, including Revelations: Persona and also the Persona 2 duology, in which he is the main antagonist. He showcases shape shifting abilities there, by donning several characters' appearances and when fought as "himself", changes to

4176-483: The human mind is incapable of processing; simply viewing them renders the viewer incurably insane. As written by H.P. Lovecraft, only the slumbering R'lyehians are Great Old Ones. The RPG Call of Cthulhu is the one that originally coined Outer God, and Great Old One. Despite misconceptions, R'lyeh is not the home of Cthulhu, just a point of travel between the Void and the Material Realm. The so-called "gods" of

4248-469: The letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence.... I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me.... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear

4320-409: The name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts—first, a horrible—possibly prophetic—cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received

4392-485: The old Hashashin cult as well). Tru'nembra ( The Angel of Music ) is the name given in the Malleus Monstrorum Call of Cthulhu roleplay game guide to the entity described in H. P. Lovecraft 's novel " The Music of Erich Zann ". It has no shape but manifests as haunting music. Tulzscha ( The Green Flame ) is the name given in the Malleus Monstrorum Call of Cthulhu roleplay game guide to

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4464-579: The piping of a demonic flute. Among the Outer Gods present at Azathoth's court are the entities called "Ultimate Gods" in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (called "Lesser Outer Gods" in the Call of Cthulhu RPG), and possibly Shub-Niggurath , the "Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". Yog-Sothoth, the "All-in-One and One-in-All", co-rules with Azathoth and exists as the incarnation of time in

4536-512: The prison of Azhorra-Tha the millennia after, and made everything to not reveal its location to any human being. The Blackness from the Stars is an immobile blob of living, sentient darkness, torn from the primal fabric of the cosmos at the center of the universe. It is distinguishable in darkness only as vaguely shimmering oily pitch. Although intelligent, it speaks no known language and ignores attempts to communicate. A man-eating cloudy mass, it

4608-406: The sea, inside the Earth, in other dimensions, and so on), at least until the hapless protagonist is unwittingly exposed to them. Lovecraft visited this premise in many of his stories, notably his 1928 short story, " The Call of Cthulhu ", with reference to the eponymous creature. However, it was Derleth who applied the notion to all of the Great Old Ones. The majority of these have physical forms that

4680-403: The semblance of man, the waxen mask and the robes that hide, and come down from the world of Seven Suns to mock." At the end of "The Whisperer in Darkness", the main character to his horror discovers a loose dressing gown and the dismembered head and arms of Akeley lying on the couch, presumed in the story to have been a Mi-Go in disguise. But due to the mention in the chant to Nyarlathotep wearing

4752-596: The time god Aforgomon and, because of Aforgomon likely being an avatar of the Outer God Yog-Sothoth , is probably an Elder or Outer God. Ycnàgnnisssz is a black, festering, amorphous mass that constantly blasts and erupts violently, spewing out bits of churning lava-like material. She spawned the Great Old One Zstylzhemgni . Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft . The character

4824-520: The two. Alaozar is a fabled, buried city on the mysterious Plateau of Sung in Burma (Sung is also believed to be an extension of the Plateau of Leng ). The city is said to be located on the "Isle of Stars" within the "Lake of Dread". It is here where legends claim that beings from the stars arrived several millennia ago. Though the actual site has never been discovered, it is nonetheless venerated as

4896-531: The user in astral form to whatever destination is desired. However, unbeknownst to the user, the ritual also brings the subject into contact with the Hydra, which then merges with the individual's astral self, using it as a host. Anyone present where the astral traveler appears is decapitated, the victim's head taken to become part of the Hydra. Afterwards, the astral traveler is returned safely to his or her original body, suffering no ill effects, except perhaps receiving

4968-422: The video game Dusk , Nyarlathotep appears as the final enemy encounter. Instead of taking the form of a humanoid in the fight, however, he takes the form of a leviathan eldritch beast. How he has been worked into the plot is deliberately very vague, as he only appears at the very end, though it is clear that he was up to the trickery and manipulation of his past portrayals. In the manga series Ghost Reaper Girl

5040-527: The world's collapse. Fritz Leiber proposes three interpretations of the character based on this appearance: the universe's mockery of man's attempts to understand it; a negative view of the commercial world, represented by Nyarlathotep's self-promotion and contemptuous attitude; and man's self-destructive rationality. Nyarlathotep subsequently appears as a major character in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926/27), in which he again manifests in

5112-711: The world, while the third has been genetically passed on for eons through prehuman, and now human races of Earth, mostly in the Middle East. The carriers of the Outer God's powers are said to have done great acts of magic and/or to have been insane. If these three parts are ever to be combined, Suc'Naath will be freed. This entity is served by a small Middle-Eastern cult known as the Golden Hands of Suc'Naath , who collect deranged intellectuals and trained assassins who wish to set Suc'Naath free (they may have connections to

5184-502: Was one of the chief gods worshipped in doomed Sarnath along with Tamash and Lobon. (HPL: "The Doom That Came to Sarnath"). It is also possibly the same being as Karakal or Karakal of Flames. ("The Doom That Came to Sarnath"; "Wizards of Hyperborea") Hagarg Ryonis, also known as The Lier-in-Wait is one of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth that reside in Kadath. He appears as a huge reptilian monster. (HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, "Wizards of Hyperborea") Karakal, also known as Karakal of Flames

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