Khisanth the Ancient
Explorer
'Vastly' you say...can you expound upon that?
The Dreamlands stories very clearly distinguish between the 'mild gods of Earth' including beings like Nodens, Neptune, Hypnos, etc. -- basically, those worshiped historically by Earthly cultures -- and the "Other Gods" led by Nyarlathotep. The gods of Earth are limited to Earth and its dreamlands and have no power beyond, and can sometimes be tricked or overcome (if you're someone super-experienced like Randolph Carter with all sorts of dreamland lore) -- but are still quite dangerous to deal with. The Other Gods are universe-wide, and seem to be far more powerful than the gods of Earth even in the places of power of those Earthly gods, and can overpower their control even of their own servants in their own places (Nodens's nightgaunts on Kadath itself in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath) -- and Nyarlathotep is the most powerful of the active Other Gods (Azathoth is not very active being blind, mindless, and in the center of the universe).
Nyarlathotep is also sometimes associated with the destruction of the Earth, so he seems to be pretty powerful. It's implied that the forms that appear aren't *all* of him but just the tip of the iceberg; he has all sorts of avatars and forms distributed throughout time and space (a weird magical-electrical showman, some Egyptian pharaoh or other, the 'devil' Dark Man form encountered by witches, the form encountered by Randolph Carter in the dreamlands, the Haunter of the Dark which is a sort of darkness-serpent thing, some Mi-Go form) but he's also the soul of the Outer Gods. I'm pretty sure he's supposed to represent Entropy ("crawling chaos" seems to be Lovecraft's poetic term for that).
So, in Immortals Handbook terms, he'd probably be a powerful sidereal, something like a super-Tharizdun, or possibly like Tamas, first one of entropy.
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