Nyarlathotep is probably the most interesting (and approachable) of all the Lovecraftian deities. One of the few that actually engages with humans. Plus, it seems to have a sense of humor!
I have to say that I did not come up with the original idea of the joke, the webcomic Sequential Art made a similar allusion in one arc. This comment's wording was all mine own, but I think the comic used the punchlines; "Uwe Boll? What kind of powers does he have then?" "Everything he touches turns to shit."
I think the reason Nyarlathotep is so enjoyed in the Lovecraft pantheon is that he comes down the the human level. We're not just bugs for one second, we're above bacteria.
A story about Nyarlathotep protecting humanity with all his might from something else. Only because he wants to keep tormenting us himself would be a fun one if done right...
Spanks Cthulu. "What did I tell you about absolutely destroying my project? You can cause insanity, cause a couple dozen deaths, but THE ONLY ONE WHO GETS TO ANNIHILATE THEM IS ME. GOT IT? Now go find another planet." Kicks him out into the cosmos.
People have made this comparison before. He's basically the Joker without the need for Batman and with Cosmic powers that allow him to destroy and devour universes like candy.
That's a good guess or he is the infamous Indrid Cold aka The Grinning Man linked to the Mothman incident. People have met this strange, perpetually grinning fellow who turns up at random places usually connected to paranormal events and UFO sightings.
Makes you wonder if Azethoth's long slumber is at the hands of nylarthotep. In fact maybe all of the slumbering great ones do so because they would ruin Nylarthotep's game. Maybe he controls when people discover cthuloid artifacrs. Maybe he influenced the creation of things like the necronomicon? Maybe Im full of crap? YOU DECIDE
Bobsap Dagger One of my favorite theories is the Nyarlathotep _is_ Nodens. Or rather, Nodens is one of Nyarlathotep's avatars. The theory goes that, Nodens often at odds with the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods, is nominally on the side, for lack of a better term, of humans.* Thus he prevents our total destruction. This is really Nyarlathotep seeing to it that his playthings are not wiped off the board until he is good and ready for them to be. An interesting idea, methinks. *Note: I do outright reject Derleth's ideas of "good and evil" gods, but the Elder Gods being in opposition to the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods I like. We cannot truly understand or conceive their meanings and motives, so to call them on our "side" would be wrong. Most of them probably don't even know we exist. It's just that the Elder Gods happen to, for entirely their own reasons, doing things that prevent our destruction.
That's actually a very interesting thought because it implies that Nylarlathotep existed before Azathoth fell asleep and would thus survive (maybe) if Azathoth woke up. I can't imagine how weird/boring (by his/its/whatevers standards) it is when the universe doesn't exist. It's like that parent-child situation where the child waits for the parent to go to sleep so they can pull all sorts of mischief.
A theory I came up with is...maybe Nyarlathotep is a part of Azethoth. A part of its mind that enjoys...playing with its creations. Its emotional side given form. Makes it a bit spookier in my mind because now you can't know where you will find it. Sometimes the destructive trickster, sometimes the "benevolent" protector, and always toying with you.
I thought if Nyrlethotep as being an actual PHYSICAL form of Azothoth in any universe he happened to inhabit and Yog-Sethoth as being Azothoth's mind in his dreams
So on one hand, we've got monsters who barely even notice our existence and destroy us either accidentally or because they see us as mere pests. On another hand, we've got monsters who need followers/mates/sustenance. On the mutated hand that has somehow grown from my back, we've got the sleeping god whose dream is all of reality. And on the other mutated hand that has somehow grown from my stomach, we've got Nyarlathotep, who's the closest thing to really "evil". After careful analysis, keen observation, and much consideration, I can safely conclude that we...are fucked.
When placed in the context of a Lovecraftian story starring Nyarlathotep, Lex Luthor’s line from BvS takes on a new meaning: “The devils don’t come from Hell beneath us... they come from the sky.”
Nyarlethotep has always been one of those stories i love to listen to and read, the theory he could be worst than Azathoth and has apeared in many of Lovecrafts stories (or are they just stories.) fascinates me. If you could I would love to see you have an LP of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the earth.
The time will come when He shall tire of this existence and, with precision, take the blubbering fools cracked flute and snap it, snuffing out all of existence. We shall be long gone by then, as his will as messenger will herald in the time of the Great Old Ones long before. Amazing bio for a truly iconic fictitious "deity". I recommend any and all fans of Lovecraft to read the Donald Tyson novels The Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred, along with Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon. Nyarlathotep takes center stage.
Happy to see the series continue I feel like any fan of sci-fi or horror should have some lovecraft knowledge. TH-cam is bullshit with the notifications though I still haven't gotten one for this video.
The perfect shape shifter. Has powers even rival most Marvel comics' characters. Although he sows chaos and loves to harm humanity, he is no way wanted to destroy mankind until he gets bored with it (That I highly doubt)
Nyarlethotep to me is the most interesting character's in any form of media and has inspired so many other chdaracter's and in my opinion is the cthulu mytho's version of the devil. He is a shape shifter who take's great enjoyment in our suffering and pain and is know for manipulating people and has done dealing's with them aswell and doing a deal with Nyarlethotep is like doing a deal with the devil.
I had a nightmare of nyarlathotep before, I was up in the mountains and I saw him trudging through a wooded forest, trampling trees creating a loud chorus of snapping branches and trunks, and then he turned his focus in my direction and started my way. This freaked me the fuck out and I woke up.
Nyarlathotep is definitely my favorite in that he is so invested in humanity. From my understanding of the Mythos, Nyarlathotep, like Nurgle in Warhammer 40k lore, has almost a love/hate relationship with humanity. However, where as Nurgle sustains his plague ridden minions out of a near grandfatherly but utterly twisted level of kindness, Nyarlathotep has in spite of the many gifts he bestows humanity (of which one was the knowledge to split the atom, according to the Encyclopedia Cthulthian from Chaosium Inc) there is a more sinister and ruthless reason for these actions of gift giving.
Mark Caro well if you think about it, if he has a love hate relationship with us and they say the gifts he bestows on us may have sinister intentions, then allowing us the knowledge of splitting an atom is a perfect example. Splitting atoms is literally the building blocks used for atomic bombs which were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2 causing immense suffering for millions. Maybe he planned and knew we would all along use it for evil and that's how he made his torment more enjoyable.
I think he knows what we might be capable of in the far future and wants to nudge us in that direction, but he seems to have a super twisted sort of affection for us. We're a primitive chaotic species with vast potential for destruction, but also good deeds. Once we become super advanced there's hardly any telling of what we will do and how or why. i think our chaos and something else appeals to him and thus we might be his favorite toys. It struck me that he lets some humans go and others not. In unknown kadath he let carter go even giving him clues on how to escape and he keeps the earth gods around even he doesn't seem to respect them.
Nyarlethotep is probably the most interesting in the Cthulhu pantheon simply because he has the most personality out of all the great old ones or outer gods. Most Cthulhu entities don’t have character, they simply do. We don’t know if the enjoy it, it’s all they can be or why they interact with people at all. All mythos gods create and grow their own esoteric cults but it isn’t clear what the end goal is
Masterfully done. You have a very special style of narration. With respect to the Dagon story you did (you did it very well, btw)... some narratives fit this style more than others, i think. Have you ever considered Clark Ashton Smith? Vaults of Yoh Vombis should fit quite well.
In my headcanon, Nyarlathotep has a role in every act of chaos, madness, death and destruction perpetrated in media ever (and possibly in real life), even if it was a simple case of him whispering "do it do it do it do it do it do it" in the villain's ear so quietly that's it's only heard on a subconscious level. Nyarlathotep is the devil on _everyone's_ left shoulder. That said, this does NOT absolve the perpetrators from blame or guilt. It's their fault for listening to him, after all.
Mr H ...ok, i see you can nail the atmosphere of these charactetrs bloody well (even without the audiobook style..yes hello again) I swear its the voice! But one cannot ignore that your script is well written sir. Another job well done. Elder Things? Hauster?...just planting seeds of thought.
These are my favorite vids of yours so far! Lovecraft didn't have time to develop his mythos further. I think it is prime to be expanded upon. Keep up the Cthulu! :P
Man I keep rewatching this. We ran into a form of Nyarlethotep in our Call of Cthulhu game the Dark Man. Fun fact under “Spells Known” on his stats it just says, “All.”
Probably the thing that makes him dangerous is his versatility. The entities from beyond tend to merely not be compatible with us, causing deadly confusion at worst, while at best they just shamble around not really acknowledging us. Nyarlathotep is actively... mischievous, for lack of a better word. He causes more direct havoc among people, he led Egypt at one point, he even speaks. Since he walks freely among people and can make them crazy just by looking slightly monstrous, the only reason he refrains from using his full power is because it's more fun to do so.
Nyarlathotep seems to like us; one decade he's manipulating wars and horrible people into power and the next giving us new technology and concepts and repeat. For an Outer God to pay attention to us that's extremely rare and weird. Always wondered if he was somehow involved in our creation. May even his favorite project/experiment.
I think if you want to understand what he's all about, you have to look at which of Lovecraft's fears he represents. He's the embodiment of change, of the fear of science taking us away from God. Tesla might very well have been a direct inspiration (I mean, tall, thin, swarthy, giving strange lectures? That's Tesla in a nutshell), he scared quite a few of his contemporaries with his ideas and experiments. Scientific advancements have always shaken the status quo and for men like Lovecraft, hermit-like, xenophobic, set in their ways, desirous of rigid societal structures, of "everyone knowing their place" - threatening the status quo is the most horrible thing you can do. Hence, Nyarlathotep.
Hp was an atheist and wanted to be a scientist. Specifically an astronomer. His math skills weren't good enough though, but he spent a lot of weekends at the observatories. Seems more like what science can do in the hands of the ultimate charismatic & chaos loving manipulator (Tesla or Tesla on steroids).
The way I would put it is this, from what I looked up. Nyarlathotep seems to basically be the Joker from Batman, if he had Lucifer/Satan’s knowledge and otherworldly power/nature, without there even being an Abrahamic God or benevolent angels (like Michael/Gabriel/Raphael) to limit the corruption, suffering, and chaos he sows.
@I see it like this I feel like I was mainly making a comparison to the Abrahamic religions and the Devil archetype associated with it, so I wasn’t planning to bring up beings from other ancient religions into it. But supposing this was a franchise like Indiana Jones or the Marvel universe, where characters from vastly different mythologies can readily coexist, I’d say it depends on the individual polytheistic gods involved. With polytheistic “gods” like Zeus and Thor, those guys are actual corporeal beings with human bodies, who just happen to have cosmic level strength, super powers, and immortality. It sounds like those kinds of gods would be similar to the Cthulhu Mythos’ great old ones or elder gods like Dagon, Cthulhu, and Nodens (only if you did not have to worry about going insane just by seeing them). Even then, there seems to be vast differences in power, like Zeus living on Mount Olympus and hurling down thunderbolts to fight a mountain-sized Typhon, while Thor’s realm of Asgard is among the universe’s stars and he fights beasts like the Midgard Serpent, who holds the roots of the cosmos’ nine realms in its coils. Going up to the outer gods, who seem to be completely non-corporeal and far more incomprehensible to our earthly minds, those seem more comparable to beings like angels of Abrahamic religions or devas/asuras from Hinduism. Such things would be pretty complicated for me to figure out, especially since the abilities of certain characters are over-lapping, incompatible, vague, and/or not very defined in a quantifiable way. But if I had to create some kind of scaling, based on the levels of power or otherworldliness, I am guessing this is how I would split it... *Corporeal created beings with otherworldly power:* The Olympian gods, demigods, Norse gods, Egyptian gods, Typhon, Midgard Serpent, great old ones of Cthulhu Mythos, and the Behemoth/Leviathan of the Old Testament (interpreting them as literal giant monsters rather than symbols, metaphors, allusions to regular large animals like the hippo, etc.). *Supernatural and completely non-corporeal created beings:* The angels/demons of Abrahamic religions, devas/asuras of Hinduism, the outer gods of Cthulhu Mythos, etc. *Interpretations of the “One God” from various religions, who are ascribed to be the author of all creation, “I am”, not “a being” but more like “the act of being itself”, omnipotent/omnipresent/eternal, etc.:* Yahweh, the Christian Holy Trinity, the “Clockmaker” God of Deism, Azathoth of the Cthulhu Mythos, Brahman from Hinduism (who reveals himself as a trimurti of creator/preserver/destroyer in the respective forms of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, each with own avatars too), etc.
Do people ever realize Lovecraftian monsters shouldn't suppose to be drawn or pictured? Because the whole point of their existence is being inconceivable to human nature...
Overworked CNA I do remember in the Stand a character talking to Flagg uses the name Nyarlathotep (amongst others) to describe him, or something like that. I like the parallel.
TheSoulAspect LOL "Take your time. I can't wait." Which is it? Personally, I am thoroughly enjoying the Lovecraftian lore and hoping for more audio-book style videos from Mr. H, with the voice that H.P. Lovecraft himself heard in his head while writing his stories, or so I imagine. Keep them coming, good Sir!
There are so many crazy beings in the Mythos, you gotta do them all, Mr. H. I recommend picking up Donald Tyson's 13 Gates of the Necronomicon. It's an excellent reference.
In my Call of Cthulhu campaign, my players work for a man named Dr. Nyar. They have no idea that he's really Nyarlathotep in disguise, and the missions he sends them on are his means of watching them suffer time and time again as they're exposed to the mythos and plunged into madness.
Where do you get this information that Nyarlathotep could destroy the Earth at will? Yes, he is sinister and powerful, but he doesn't seem like a world-ender to me like Cthulhu. At least this is what I can gather from reading the short story Nyarlathotep. I also read The Dream Quest for Unknown Kadath (I think that is the title) and he seemed more powerful in that story in the Dreamlands, but he doesn't seem to be as powerful as say, Cthulhu, in my eyes.
Will you make an audiobook video where you are reading one of the books, because the way you talk is just perfect for reading Locecraft and alike. Personaly my favourite is Hastur manly due to his name simply but also the way he effects certain people.
My first experience with this outer god was when it appeared as a mysterious bespectabled woman in black working as a Liberian and keeping the necronomicon in a book form which later transformed into a little girl wearing a frilly white dress. -Demonbane
Nyarlathotep is that guy who finds an anthill on his lawn and instead of just walking by or poisoning them, decides to use them as a source of entertainment.
Do some WarHammer 40k lore. Although there are channels devoted to it, I feel you have a better way of exploring the facts and voicing an opinion on the subject matter.
Let's say that he appears in a media, would you rather see him in a movie or a t.v series, making chaotic cults born from isolation, himself being among them sewing seeds of madness and despair? would they drag on too long in a series or be too short as a movie?
If done correctly it would go on for a long time and be fascinating all the way. Dreams in the Witch house, the unknown kadath, and the all the cults. It'd be pretty cool.
Is Nyarlathotep free or imprisoned? He's able to walk through time and space with relative freedom but he is at the beck and call of the Great Old Ones / Elder Gods etc. He's more like the youngest member of a family that, although he can go about town and to some extent do his own thing, ultimately he's answerable to his older relatives. Yes, I know others may disagree but just read a story (Cthulhu Armageddon 2 : Tower of Zhaal) and he's in it a lot and that's kind of a thought that came into my head.
I like to believe that Nyarlathotep is the thing keeping Cthulhu sleeping and Hastur in his place. Once he gets bored he'll awake Cthulhu, let him fight with Hastur and move on to find a other race of beings to toy with...
Nyarlathotep is probably the most interesting (and approachable) of all the Lovecraftian deities. One of the few that actually engages with humans. Plus, it seems to have a sense of humor!
A very dry sense of humor. And albeit all knowing and all seeing and all powerful, he is still really bad at poker.
Nyarlethotep, Great C'Thulhu, Azathoth, Nub-Shiggorath and Uwe Boll. Dread beings who bring madness where they tread and chaos in their wake.
David North Holy fuck. 10/10 comment.
I have to say that I did not come up with the original idea of the joke, the webcomic Sequential Art made a similar allusion in one arc. This comment's wording was all mine own, but I think the comic used the punchlines;
"Uwe Boll? What kind of powers does he have then?"
"Everything he touches turns to shit."
David North Now that is a true terror to behold.
It's Shub-Niggurath. Is Nub-Shiggorath the politically correct version?
David North Uwe Boll fits in surprisingly well,
I think the reason Nyarlathotep is so enjoyed in the Lovecraft pantheon is that he comes down the the human level. We're not just bugs for one second, we're above bacteria.
A story about Nyarlathotep protecting humanity with all his might from something else. Only because he wants to keep tormenting us himself would be a fun one if done right...
Spanks Cthulu. "What did I tell you about absolutely destroying my project? You can cause insanity, cause a couple dozen deaths, but THE ONLY ONE WHO GETS TO ANNIHILATE THEM IS ME. GOT IT? Now go find another planet." Kicks him out into the cosmos.
@@maxredjasper55 that's a great idea
I have always seen him as a blasphemous version of "Christ" to Azathoth (The idea of an idiot creator god.).
Appears as a tall, thin man.
Delights in our suffering.
Something of a showman.
Is Nyarlathotep the Joker?
People have made this comparison before. He's basically the Joker without the need for Batman and with Cosmic powers that allow him to destroy and devour universes like candy.
He very well could be, They DO call a section of old Gotham "Arkham", which was the name Lovecraft used for New York.
Oh someone please make this into a comic....
That's a good guess or he is the infamous Indrid Cold aka The Grinning Man linked to the Mothman incident. People have met this strange, perpetually grinning fellow who turns up at random places usually connected to paranormal events and UFO sightings.
slenderman
One of the thousand forms of Nyarlathotep is actually a silver haired anime girl.
+BlueMachine we don't speak of that
lol
Too horrible to comprehend
good response :P
+BlueMachine
...and that's exactly how he manipulates humans. How devious of him!
Possibly my favorite alien in the Cthulhu mythos.
But Mr.H HAVE YOU SEEN THE YELLOW SIGN?
Look away from the yellow sign for it will destroy you
Makes you wonder if Azethoth's long slumber is at the hands of nylarthotep. In fact maybe all of the slumbering great ones do so because they would ruin Nylarthotep's game. Maybe he controls when people discover cthuloid artifacrs. Maybe he influenced the creation of things like the necronomicon? Maybe Im full of crap? YOU DECIDE
Bobsap Dagger One of my favorite theories is the Nyarlathotep _is_ Nodens. Or rather, Nodens is one of Nyarlathotep's avatars.
The theory goes that, Nodens often at odds with the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods, is nominally on the side, for lack of a better term, of humans.* Thus he prevents our total destruction. This is really Nyarlathotep seeing to it that his playthings are not wiped off the board until he is good and ready for them to be. An interesting idea, methinks.
*Note: I do outright reject Derleth's ideas of "good and evil" gods, but the Elder Gods being in opposition to the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods I like. We cannot truly understand or conceive their meanings and motives, so to call them on our "side" would be wrong. Most of them probably don't even know we exist. It's just that the Elder Gods happen to, for entirely their own reasons, doing things that prevent our destruction.
That's actually a very interesting thought because it implies that Nylarlathotep existed before Azathoth fell asleep and would thus survive (maybe) if Azathoth woke up. I can't imagine how weird/boring (by his/its/whatevers standards) it is when the universe doesn't exist. It's like that parent-child situation where the child waits for the parent to go to sleep so they can pull all sorts of mischief.
Templar Knight not the universe, the omniverse
A theory I came up with is...maybe Nyarlathotep is a part of Azethoth. A part of its mind that enjoys...playing with its creations. Its emotional side given form. Makes it a bit spookier in my mind because now you can't know where you will find it. Sometimes the destructive trickster, sometimes the "benevolent" protector, and always toying with you.
I thought if Nyrlethotep as being an actual PHYSICAL form of Azothoth in any universe he happened to inhabit and Yog-Sethoth as being Azothoth's mind in his dreams
So on one hand, we've got monsters who barely even notice our existence and destroy us either accidentally or because they see us as mere pests. On another hand, we've got monsters who need followers/mates/sustenance. On the mutated hand that has somehow grown from my back, we've got the sleeping god whose dream is all of reality. And on the other mutated hand that has somehow grown from my stomach, we've got Nyarlathotep, who's the closest thing to really "evil". After careful analysis, keen observation, and much consideration, I can safely conclude that we...are fucked.
+Nietzsche's Heir brilliant comment
Thank you.
I'd rather encounter Yog-Sothoth. At least he isn't the sadist that Nyarlathotep is.
When placed in the context of a Lovecraftian story starring Nyarlathotep, Lex Luthor’s line from BvS takes on a new meaning: “The devils don’t come from Hell beneath us... they come from the sky.”
loved the joke!!
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Nyarlethotep has always been one of those stories i love to listen to and read, the theory he could be worst than Azathoth and has apeared in many of Lovecrafts stories (or are they just stories.) fascinates me. If you could I would love to see you have an LP of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the earth.
The time will come when He shall tire of this existence and, with precision, take the blubbering fools cracked flute and snap it, snuffing out all of existence. We shall be long gone by then, as his will as messenger will herald in the time of the Great Old Ones long before.
Amazing bio for a truly iconic fictitious "deity". I recommend any and all fans of Lovecraft to read the Donald Tyson novels The Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred, along with Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon. Nyarlathotep takes center stage.
Happy to see the series continue I feel like any fan of sci-fi or horror should have some lovecraft knowledge. TH-cam is bullshit with the notifications though I still haven't gotten one for this video.
really? man that is really annoying, have you got push notifications turned on your phone? as that can potentially stop it.
The perfect shape shifter. Has powers even rival most Marvel comics' characters. Although he sows chaos and loves to harm humanity, he is no way wanted to destroy mankind until he gets bored with it (That I highly doubt)
Love that picture with Persona Nyarly at the beginning lmao
Nyarlethotep to me is the most interesting character's in any form of media and has inspired so many other chdaracter's and in my opinion is the cthulu mytho's version of the devil. He is a shape shifter who take's great enjoyment in our suffering and pain and is know for manipulating people and has done dealing's with them aswell and doing a deal with Nyarlethotep is like doing a deal with the devil.
The Devil is one of my many masks
Hes more powerful than cthulhu
He has a longer name
Archduke no he don’t when I read his family Cthulhu is not on there
the hogfather I just call him N
LOL
I had a nightmare of nyarlathotep before, I was up in the mountains and I saw him trudging through a wooded forest, trampling trees creating a loud chorus of snapping branches and trunks, and then he turned his focus in my direction and started my way. This freaked me the fuck out and I woke up.
Nyarlathotep is definitely my favorite in that he is so invested in humanity. From my understanding of the Mythos, Nyarlathotep, like Nurgle in Warhammer 40k lore, has almost a love/hate relationship with humanity. However, where as Nurgle sustains his plague ridden minions out of a near grandfatherly but utterly twisted level of kindness, Nyarlathotep has in spite of the many gifts he bestows humanity (of which one was the knowledge to split the atom, according to the Encyclopedia Cthulthian from Chaosium Inc) there is a more sinister and ruthless reason for these actions of gift giving.
Mark Caro well if you think about it, if he has a love hate relationship with us and they say the gifts he bestows on us may have sinister intentions, then allowing us the knowledge of splitting an atom is a perfect example. Splitting atoms is literally the building blocks used for atomic bombs which were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2 causing immense suffering for millions. Maybe he planned and knew we would all along use it for evil and that's how he made his torment more enjoyable.
I think he knows what we might be capable of in the far future and wants to nudge us in that direction, but he seems to have a super twisted sort of affection for us. We're a primitive chaotic species with vast potential for destruction, but also good deeds. Once we become super advanced there's hardly any telling of what we will do and how or why. i think our chaos and something else appeals to him and thus we might be his favorite toys. It struck me that he lets some humans go and others not. In unknown kadath he let carter go even giving him clues on how to escape and he keeps the earth gods around even he doesn't seem to respect them.
Nyarlethotep is probably the most interesting in the Cthulhu pantheon simply because he has the most personality out of all the great old ones or outer gods. Most Cthulhu entities don’t have character, they simply do. We don’t know if the enjoy it, it’s all they can be or why they interact with people at all. All mythos gods create and grow their own esoteric cults but it isn’t clear what the end goal is
Nyarlethotep is the reason Cthullu can never awake.
Nyar will never allow the misguided child Cthullu, destroy his playpen that is earth
RebelOfTheNorm242 hehe
Crawling chaos under ground
Cult has summoned twisted sound
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet ......... great wrk Mr H .... when I finished that art I'll get it scanned and sent to you .... keep it up fella awrsome
Nyarlathotep, the god that turned into an anime teen girl who crushes on a guy.
Alejandro Delgado, Really?
Sadly, she's not at all evil but has cool powers though
What anime are you talking about?
who she also fucked and killed in the end.
Is that an actual anime lol
Masterfully done. You have a very special style of narration. With respect to the Dagon story you did (you did it very well, btw)... some narratives fit this style more than others, i think. Have you ever considered Clark Ashton Smith? Vaults of Yoh Vombis should fit quite well.
In my headcanon, Nyarlathotep has a role in every act of chaos, madness, death and destruction perpetrated in media ever (and possibly in real life), even if it was a simple case of him whispering "do it do it do it do it do it do it" in the villain's ear so quietly that's it's only heard on a subconscious level. Nyarlathotep is the devil on _everyone's_ left shoulder.
That said, this does NOT absolve the perpetrators from blame or guilt. It's their fault for listening to him, after all.
I am really loving the Lovecraft series, you are putting on, as you make it very attractive to listen to the narration, excellent work!
Nyarlathotep is hands down my favorite Lovecraftian horror. Everything he does his priceless.
Mr H
...ok, i see you can nail the atmosphere of these charactetrs bloody well (even without the audiobook style..yes hello again)
I swear its the voice! But one cannot ignore that your script is well written sir. Another job well done.
Elder Things? Hauster?...just planting seeds of thought.
He is one of my favorites, I love that fact he can shape-shift into anything and, if so desired, everything all at once!
One of the thousand forms of Nyarlathotep is actually Slenderman.
I think so
That is a possibility.
The King in yellow!!! Hastur and the yellow sign next!!
These are my favorite vids of yours so far! Lovecraft didn't have time to develop his mythos further. I think it is prime to be expanded upon. Keep up the Cthulu! :P
Takes a form of a man everywhere but japan, where he is a teenage girl
Man I keep rewatching this.
We ran into a form of Nyarlethotep in our Call of Cthulhu game the Dark Man.
Fun fact under “Spells Known” on his stats it just says, “All.”
Nyarlathotep is my favorite fictional character ever. Especially as the howler version.
I could see the government in that movie Cabin in the Woods working for this, to keep him entertained.
He would be the director, flipping an Egyptian coin in his left hand, then running it over his fingers.
Probably the thing that makes him dangerous is his versatility. The entities from beyond tend to merely not be compatible with us, causing deadly confusion at worst, while at best they just shamble around not really acknowledging us. Nyarlathotep is actively... mischievous, for lack of a better word. He causes more direct havoc among people, he led Egypt at one point, he even speaks. Since he walks freely among people and can make them crazy just by looking slightly monstrous, the only reason he refrains from using his full power is because it's more fun to do so.
Sounds like a well written villain.
“Who you were before is insignificant, who you’re now is inconceivable”
HEY! I requested this one! Thanks mate! :D
Nyarlathotep seems to like us; one decade he's manipulating wars and horrible people into power and the next giving us new technology and concepts and repeat. For an Outer God to pay attention to us that's extremely rare and weird. Always wondered if he was somehow involved in our creation. May even his favorite project/experiment.
I think if you want to understand what he's all about, you have to look at which of Lovecraft's fears he represents. He's the embodiment of change, of the fear of science taking us away from God. Tesla might very well have been a direct inspiration (I mean, tall, thin, swarthy, giving strange lectures? That's Tesla in a nutshell), he scared quite a few of his contemporaries with his ideas and experiments.
Scientific advancements have always shaken the status quo and for men like Lovecraft, hermit-like, xenophobic, set in their ways, desirous of rigid societal structures, of "everyone knowing their place" - threatening the status quo is the most horrible thing you can do.
Hence, Nyarlathotep.
Hp was an atheist and wanted to be a scientist. Specifically an astronomer. His math skills weren't good enough though, but he spent a lot of weekends at the observatories. Seems more like what science can do in the hands of the ultimate charismatic & chaos loving manipulator (Tesla or Tesla on steroids).
fuck yeah been waiting on this one nyarlethotep is the best
+colpolryan :)
Dude you have the best voice for these Cthulu mythos videos, I'd love to hear you read some of Lovecraft's books!
+zetsugami00 I have already :) Dagon is on the channel buddy and available as an MP3 download to all patrons
So he's the lovecraft version of Loki
Dude...your voice...is otherworldly.
Subbed
+Rudofaux thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it to the point of subbing! I just recently released the audiobook of this story as well actually
he's lovecraft's joker
He's basically joker + Satan
Haden Wilson but so much more
The way I would put it is this, from what I looked up. Nyarlathotep seems to basically be the Joker from Batman, if he had Lucifer/Satan’s knowledge and otherworldly power/nature, without there even being an Abrahamic God or benevolent angels (like Michael/Gabriel/Raphael) to limit the corruption, suffering, and chaos he sows.
@I see it like this I feel like
I was mainly making a comparison to the Abrahamic religions and the Devil archetype associated with it, so I wasn’t planning to bring up beings from other ancient religions into it. But supposing this was a franchise like Indiana Jones or the Marvel universe, where characters from vastly different mythologies can readily coexist, I’d say it depends on the individual polytheistic gods involved.
With polytheistic “gods” like Zeus and Thor, those guys are actual corporeal beings with human bodies, who just happen to have cosmic level strength, super powers, and immortality. It sounds like those kinds of gods would be similar to the Cthulhu Mythos’ great old ones or elder gods like Dagon, Cthulhu, and Nodens (only if you did not have to worry about going insane just by seeing them). Even then, there seems to be vast differences in power, like Zeus living on Mount Olympus and hurling down thunderbolts to fight a mountain-sized Typhon, while Thor’s realm of Asgard is among the universe’s stars and he fights beasts like the Midgard Serpent, who holds the roots of the cosmos’ nine realms in its coils. Going up to the outer gods, who seem to be completely non-corporeal and far more incomprehensible to our earthly minds, those seem more comparable to beings like angels of Abrahamic religions or devas/asuras from Hinduism.
Such things would be pretty complicated for me to figure out, especially since the abilities of certain characters are over-lapping, incompatible, vague, and/or not very defined in a quantifiable way. But if I had to create some kind of scaling, based on the levels of power or otherworldliness, I am guessing this is how I would split it...
*Corporeal created beings with otherworldly power:* The Olympian gods, demigods, Norse gods, Egyptian gods, Typhon, Midgard Serpent, great old ones of Cthulhu Mythos, and the Behemoth/Leviathan of the Old Testament (interpreting them as literal giant monsters rather than symbols, metaphors, allusions to regular large animals like the hippo, etc.).
*Supernatural and completely non-corporeal created beings:* The angels/demons of Abrahamic religions, devas/asuras of Hinduism, the outer gods of Cthulhu Mythos, etc.
*Interpretations of the “One God” from various religions, who are ascribed to be the author of all creation, “I am”, not “a being” but more like “the act of being itself”, omnipotent/omnipresent/eternal, etc.:* Yahweh, the Christian Holy Trinity, the “Clockmaker” God of Deism, Azathoth of the Cthulhu Mythos, Brahman from Hinduism (who reveals himself as a trimurti of creator/preserver/destroyer in the respective forms of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, each with own avatars too), etc.
Do people ever realize Lovecraftian monsters shouldn't suppose to be drawn or pictured? Because the whole point of their existence is being inconceivable to human nature...
I'd like to get drinks with nyarlethotep. Seems like a chill guy
only if your partial to
1.losing your sanity
2.possibly getting your soul and body simultaneously eaten by him
Cr1mson 1 sounds like a crazy night, count me in.
I'll bring the alcohol
Darn it. I've missed the party
He is very intriguing and frightening, good video, Mr H.
It's said that Nyarlathotep is Azathoths soul outside his sleeping body.
Yessss my favorite! I always wondered if Stephen King took some inspiration from H. P. when he was developing his “Randall Flagg” character.
Overworked CNA I do remember in the Stand a character talking to Flagg uses the name Nyarlathotep (amongst others) to describe him, or something like that. I like the parallel.
I think he is my favorite character of the mythos.
Will you be doing any videos on some of the locations as well? Like innsmouth or the dreamlands?
yes, I plan to fully explore the mythos, just working my way through it :)
Mr H Reviews awesome, take your time. I can't wait
TheSoulAspect LOL "Take your time. I can't wait." Which is it? Personally, I am thoroughly enjoying the Lovecraftian lore and hoping for more audio-book style videos from Mr. H, with the voice that H.P. Lovecraft himself heard in his head while writing his stories, or so I imagine. Keep them coming, good Sir!
Mazerin IV yeah, I know how backwards it sounded but he knows what I mean. 😂
And yes, I'm loving them too
There are so many crazy beings in the Mythos, you gotta do them all, Mr. H. I recommend picking up Donald Tyson's 13 Gates of the Necronomicon. It's an excellent reference.
just subbed. dope channel
thank you
In my Call of Cthulhu campaign, my players work for a man named Dr. Nyar. They have no idea that he's really Nyarlathotep in disguise, and the missions he sends them on are his means of watching them suffer time and time again as they're exposed to the mythos and plunged into madness.
An "avatar", if you will? He is said to have a multitude of faces.
Sounds like a politician
I needed more of this in my life. Thanks.
Nothing like waking up to this ^^ very fascinating :)
The Changer of Ways has plans so complex that.... oh, sorry wrong one. though I think they are best friends.
we need to line our brains with more eyes.
Moerakski eyes..... Grant us eyes....
Kos... Or some say Kosm.
Moerakski no! We must not forget our adage.
Moerakski
Hah- blood borne.
Oh no im waking up ill forget everything
In b4 acidglow
Fuck acidglow
year after TheExploringSeries, it doesnt matter
Where do you get this information that Nyarlathotep could destroy the Earth at will? Yes, he is sinister and powerful, but he doesn't seem like a world-ender to me like Cthulhu. At least this is what I can gather from reading the short story Nyarlathotep. I also read The Dream Quest for Unknown Kadath (I think that is the title) and he seemed more powerful in that story in the Dreamlands, but he doesn't seem to be as powerful as say, Cthulhu, in my eyes.
Yes. Been waiting for muh boi Nyarly. Been loving the J B Fuckmake videos.
Will you make an audiobook video where you are reading one of the books, because the way you talk is just perfect for reading Locecraft and alike. Personaly my favourite is Hastur manly due to his name simply but also the way he effects certain people.
+wchmn 3 I have already, think you missed it, but I read Dagon
My first experience with this outer god was when it appeared as a mysterious bespectabled woman in black working as a Liberian and keeping the necronomicon in a book form which later transformed into a little girl wearing a frilly white dress.
-Demonbane
This creature turns up at the final act of Disc World Noir.
There are still videos of this game on TH-cam.
Nyarlathotep is that guy who finds an anthill on his lawn and instead of just walking by or poisoning them, decides to use them as a source of entertainment.
Nyarlathotep he's my favorite Lovecraft and God he's more destructive than the other outer gods
love this ,until it comes and get you.
I assume they just pick letters out of the scrabble bag and that's it , that's the name we want
introverted guy imagine if we were allowed to use names in scrabble. Lovecraft would win us every game 😂
Ian actually sounds Egyptian.
The names are great though
LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE VIDEOS!
Nice dark voice! Lovely to listen to... most female musicians I know looove a nice dark voice! Say... have you seen the yellow sign?
+Ozzy Fozzy lol i have, indeed
Can you do one of the nameless mist and darkness? Or is there not enough information to cover them
Do some WarHammer 40k lore. Although there are channels devoted to it, I feel you have a better way of exploring the facts and voicing an opinion on the subject matter.
its been heavily requested so I will be :)
I love the design of Nyarlathotep, specifically the tentacle-headed one and the black pharaoh.
PewDiePie is Nyarlethotep! There, I said it!
Is he a personal fave?
Absolutely!
Nyarlathotep comes closer than any to having a personality in the Cthulhu pantheon
I loved when I got to read lovecraft for a college project
Nyarlathotep is a favorite of mine, same with Hastur
All praise the crawling chaos, Lord Nyarlethotep; son of Azathoth.
sounds like Pennywise, only I believe Nyarlathotep is more terrifying.
Let's say that he appears in a media, would you rather see him in a movie or a t.v series, making chaotic cults born from isolation, himself being among them sewing seeds of madness and despair?
would they drag on too long in a series or be too short as a movie?
If done correctly it would go on for a long time and be fascinating all the way. Dreams in the Witch house, the unknown kadath, and the all the cults. It'd be pretty cool.
Can you do Hastur next
Is Nyarlathotep free or imprisoned? He's able to walk through time and space with relative freedom but he is at the beck and call of the Great Old Ones / Elder Gods etc. He's more like the youngest member of a family that, although he can go about town and to some extent do his own thing, ultimately he's answerable to his older relatives. Yes, I know others may disagree but just read a story (Cthulhu Armageddon 2 : Tower of Zhaal) and he's in it a lot and that's kind of a thought that came into my head.
+Briscoe the Collie he's free
Yeah, it's just an idea I had after reading the book, (I highly recommend it by the way).
I like to believe that Nyarlathotep is the thing keeping Cthulhu sleeping and Hastur in his place. Once he gets bored he'll awake Cthulhu, let him fight with Hastur and move on to find a other race of beings to toy with...
I like the way someone else described Nyarlathotep: He is Heath Ledger's Joker mixed with Satan.
I got bored at school and decided to draw this dude.
Good stuff H.
Nyarlathotep is my ferret outer God from Cthulhu mythology
I've watched this for the hundredth time never gets old . sic
Nyaruko-chan!!
Len Kagamine ffs
He and Hastur remind me of each other. How they work. It's interesting. Indirectly influencing society and such
He will become the center point in our upcoming video game but i cannot say anything more for now!
Is that a name or did he just slam his hand on the keyboard?
Most names H.P. Lovecraft comes up sounds like he accidentally slammed his whole fucking body into a type writer.
How
Do
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Kill
It?
I can't understand his form its been said he's Randal Flagg from the Stephen King Novels * aka*The Man in Black
1:07 Among what?
If you've played Bloodborne and Dark Souls I would like to see you make lore videos about that if you can please?
reason for subscribing = your awesome voice ^_^
So he choose to look like earthworm Jim ?