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wizard nelson:
 >:( :'( just when i'm tooting my own horn i discover something i'd overlooked. there is a Yeats' The Second Coming thread on here. according to the Nyarlathotep wiki i was idly browsing the second coming was put in the nyarlathotep cycle. a collection of works refering to or inspired by nyarlathotep. so nyarlathotep has already been vaguely refered to in storm front through the yeats reference. nice support of cowl/nyarlathotep. or cowl being possessed by him as this is one of his shticks. entering dark arts users under false pretenses of greater power. hell nyarlathotep could be nemesis actually.

KrelianZG:
Two issues here.

Nyx was described as being feared (or respected, or...well, the literature isn't sure) by even the other Titans. And preceded Gaia (who is assumed to be where the Mothers came from).

Nyarlathotep was, if what I gather from the Lovecraft stories is correct, on the level of at LEAST the Mothers, if not on the level of beings like Uriel. Cowl being his avatar makes no sense. Going by the Lovecraft model at least, Nyarlathotep had no problems interacting with the mortal world. That was what made him so creepy. He wouldn't disguise himself, he'd just act.

wizard nelson:
umm... narcowatsit is the god of a thousand faces... disguise is kinda his thing. he'd be more lvl with a queen. his purpose is to watch over the lesser of the great old ones who sleep close to the mortal world awaiting to awaken. those he watches would be mother lvl beings.
not sure your point on nyx.. i've mostly ignored nyx in my theories as i'm not sure her proper place in the DV or if she is now an aspect of another being.

KrelianZG:
If anything, I'd see Nyarlathotep as the Outsider version of an archangel. He doesn't put a direct hand in things, but he keeps an eye on mortals, and is interested in how they develop. He never disguised himself in an intent to deceive, from the stories I've read. Anytime he was confronted, he either spoke or fled.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I always saw him as being a guy that was involved, and either chose to reveal himself, or, when pressed, pretty much just vanished into thin air.

I always thought people like Erich Zann had a "line" on Nyarlathotep, much like the bearers of the SotC had on the WG, personally...

wizard nelson:

--- Quote ---Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the Earth in the guise of a human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. He has "a thousand" other forms,
--- End quote ---

--- Quote ---Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being.
--- End quote ---
no he does stuff with his own hands it seems to me. to clarify nemesis is probably Nyarlathotep and cowl is his chosen avatar. kinda like the direct line as opposed to having all of his power in one thing. still think it would equal out at cowl being Nyarlathotep more or less. in Nyarlathotep first appearance he gathers followers who lose touch with reality while its implied the world has gone apocalyptic without anyone realising in their stupor. idk though i've only really started studying lovecraft in the last two months. when ducky pointed out to me the connection. previously i'd owned a necronomicon tarot though... i threw the creepy bastards in the trash after some weird stuff with them.

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