Nyarlathotep

For the first time appears in the story “ Nyarlathotep ”: he comes from Egypt in the form of a dark-skinned, thin man, reminiscent of the pharaoh of antiquity, and travels the world, predicting the death of mankind, while making strange experiments.

And then Nyarlhothotep left Egypt. Nobody knew who he was, only he was of ancient native blood and looked like a pharaoh. The fellahs prostrated themselves upon seeing him, although no one could say why. Nyarlhothotep said that he had risen through the darkness of twenty-seven centuries, and that voices not from this planet were accessible to his hearing. Nyarlototep, dark-skinned, slender and sinister, came into the land of civilization.

Description from Alhazred's Wanderings:

“Of all the lords of the Ancients, only Niarlathhotep appears completely in the likeness of a man ... Niarlhothotep prefers to come to his worshipers as a man taller than average height, except for one: he has no face, but only blackness where it should be seen. Just as the face of Azathoth is dark and bright and emits rays outward, so does the face of Niarlathotep, his half-brother - it is a void that absorbs heat and light, and never releases them. He is a devourer of souls ... It is not so difficult for him to come into our world as other Ancients, although why this is so remains unknown. Whatever the reason, he serves the Ancients as their messenger among the people. It is he who holds the true gods of our race hostage in Kadat in the cold desert of the south, deprives them of their minds and makes them dance to the flute of Azathoth ... Niarlotthotep is a deceiver who can temporarily take any form to mislead the minds of those before whom he appears ... Wise from the Ancients with the exception of Yig. ”

In the work “The Somnambulistic Search of the Unknown Kadat ”, he appears in human form and tries to deceive the main character and prevent him from finding the city from his dream.

... a lonely figure appeared between two columns of black slaves - a tall slender husband with a young face of the ancient pharaoh, dressed in an iridescent tunic and crowned with a golden crown from which the radiance emanated. A magnificent husband walked directly to Carter, whose proud posture and pleasant features were full of the charm of a dark-skinned god or fallen angel, and in whose eyes the hidden sparks of a whimsical disposition played.

According to Lovecraft himself, the image of Nyarlathotep appeared to him in a dream, after which he woke up with a monstrous headache, and immediately began to write to capture the atmosphere of horror that he felt ^[2] . Allegedly, Nyarlathotep got his name under the influence of the works of Edward Danseni , in whose stories the god Minhartep and the prophet Alhirethotep (“Gods of Pegans”) appear ^[3] . W. Murray suggested that Nikola Tesla influenced the appearance of the image of Nyarlathotep, who was described in his first work devoted to him as a wandering magician ^[4] . S.T. Joshi, the largest specialist in Lovecraft's work, agrees with him: Nyarlathotep is the embodiment of decay and decay; his “experiments” symbolize the destructive forces of science ^[1] .

Nyarlathotep appears in many books and games based on the worlds of Lovecraft.

• Nyarlathotep in the image of a young girl Nyaruko is the hero of the manga and ranobe Haiyore! Nyaruko-san .
• In the game Annetto Futatabi - Nyarlathotep in the form of Siegfried is the main antagonist.
• Nyarlathotep is one of the central antagonists in the Megami Tensei series of games .
• The character based on Nyarlathotep is the main antagonist in Dean Kunz's novel Phantoms (1983) and the film made on it (1998) ^[5] .
• A reference to Nyarlathotep is present in the MMORPG World of Warcraft , in the guise of Wrathion, also known as the Black Prince .
• In the Elder Scrolls series of games, one of the Daedric Princes named Hermeus Mora during the games was portrayed similarly to the description of Nyarlatothep, in particular, in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn , where he did not have a clear shape and appeared mortal in a shapeless and grotesque heap of tentacles and eye.
• He is one of the secondary characters of the Metaverse Universe Russian science fiction writer Alexander Rudazov .
• A prototype of the Presence of the Moon - the secret final boss in the game Bloodborne .
• In the Marvel comics , the reference to Nyarlathotep is probably the ancient Egyptian mutant Apocalypse .
• The image of Nyarlathotep was presented in the work of the dark ambient project A Cryo Chamber Collaboration Nyarlathotep (part 1 ^[6] - part 2 ^[7] ).
• Is one of the final bosses in Sundered.
• Also is the final boss of the third episode in the game DUSK

• Harms, Daniel. "Nyarlathotep" in The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed.), Pp. 218–222. Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0 .
• HP Lovecraft. The Nyarlathotep Cycle / Selected and introducted by Robert M. Price. Chaosium, 2006. ISBN 1-56882-200-6 , 9781568822006