Nyarlathotep (Cthulhu Mythos)

Cthulhu Mythos · Stories · Soul and Messenger of the Ultimate Gods, Servant and Child of Azathoth

Avatars

Tier
5-A, up to 1-A
Attack Potency
Unknown
Speed
Average Human, up to Immeasurable
Durability
Large Planet Level, up to Outerverse Level

True Form

Tier
HIGH 1-B, up to 1-A
Attack Potency
Unknown
Speed
Omnipresent
Durability
High Hyperverse Level, up to Outerverse Level

Powers and abilities

  • Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Immortality (Types 1 & 9)
  • Reality Warping
  • Dimensional Travel, Dimensional Manipulation, Portal Creation, Time Travel & BFR (Capable of traveling across higher dimensions. The Black Man is capable of bringing people into the Court of Azathoth, and can send them back to the natural universe at will)
  • Light Manipulation & Mind Manipulation (Made the moon emit an unnatural green light that mentally controlled large flocks of people)
  • Ice Manipulation (Caused inexplicably gigantic snowdrifts which formed all over the outskirts of a city)
  • Darkness Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Type 2) & Chaos Manipulation (Can directly summon waves of blackness and destruction directly from the Ultimate Void, and can show visages of the Ultimate Void to entire groups of people, driving them completely insane as a result)
  • Dream Manipulation (Influenced Walter Gilman's dreams, bringing his astral form into higher-dimensional space through them)
  • Animal Manipulation (Controls the Hunting Horrors, Wild beasts are described as naturally compelled to follow him)
  • Earth Manipulation (Caused earthquakes that spanned entire cities. Can control sand and use it effectively against enemies)
  • Power Bestowal (Capable of bestowing abilities upon its worshippers that lesser mortals wouldn't be able to understand)
  • Precognition, Cosmic Awareness & Nigh-Omniscience (Granted a pharaoh the ability of prophecy, showing him the fate of Egypt and was capable of knowing unfathomable truths and futures)
  • Haunter in the Dark:
  • Flight & Body Control (Avatars like the Haunter in the Dark are capable of flight, and is described as an amorphous blob of smoke when doing so)
  • Corrosion Inducement (The Haunter in the Dark is capable of producing a corrosive substance)
  • Electricity Manipulation (The Haunter in the Dark is capable of producing electricity)
  • Fragrance Manipulation (The Haunter in the Dark is capable of producing a foul smell and 'evil odours')
  • Air Manipulation (The Haunter in the Dark was capable of producing incredibly powerful winds with the flap of its wings, blowing off hats and wrenching the dripping umbrellas of the crowd watching)
  • Faceless God:
  • Shapeshifting & Bodily Weaponry (Conventional - Avatars like the Faceless God seemed to have talons and claws)
  • Likely Resurrection (Said to be able to bring the dead back to life)
  • Social Influencing (Incredibly well-spoken and left his spectators speechless, advising one another to see Nyarlathotep)
  • Likely many more left unseen.
  • Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2)
  • Large Size (Type 10)
  • Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 2, All Aspects) & Abstract Existence (Type 1 - All ultimate gods exist purely as archetypes within the Ultimate Void)
  • Acausality (Type 5 - The nature of the Ultimate Void is different from any conceivable cosmos and is a changeless totality)
  • Sound Manipulation & Madness Manipulation (Type 3 - Should be comparable to its counterparts, which caused Hypnos to go mad by merely viewing their visage. The Ultimate Gods are capable of making noises of 'whirring, drumming, and thundering' as 'Bands and rays of colour utterly foreign to any spectrum of our universe played and wove and interlaced')
  • Paraconsistent Physiology (Type 2 - As one of the Ultimate Gods, Nyarlathotep exists in the highest level of reality, the "All-in-One and One-in-All" and true oneness of existence that "belies all local perspectives and partial views" and the multiplicity that comes of them, abolishing and trivializing distinction and making everything identical)
  • Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1)
  • Avatar Creation
  • Immortality (Type 5)
  • Omnipresence

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

Ranked #5 of 23 in Cthulhu Mythos by strength.

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