He is worshipped by a cult of seemingly long-dead Pharaohs, who try to sacrifice the narrator to him. Nyarlathotep, as "the unknown God of the Dead, which licks its colossal chops in the unsuspected abyss", appears in Lovecraft's story "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" in connection with the "huge and loathsome abnormality" that the ancient Egyptians worshipped and carved the famous Mysterious Sphinx to represent. In the short story The Other Gods, Nyarlathotep appears as one of "the gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth" at the peak of Hatheg-Kla that kill the high priest Barzai the Wise. The story ends with the narrator as part of an army of servants for Nyarlathotep. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator's increasingly unreliable accounts the reader gets a sense of the world's utter collapse. In this story he wanders the earth, gathering legions of followers through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments, the narrator of the story among them. Nyarlathotep's first appearance is in the eponymous short story by Lovecraft, in which he is described as a "tall, swarthy man" who resembles an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nyarlathotep would go on to mate with Yhoundeh and spawn his sons Ugga-Naach and the Abominations of the Ancients through a ritual that involved Nyarlathotep raping a woman who then gave birth to his children. He serves Azathoth as his messenger and as the soul of the Outer Gods, though Nyarlathotep usually interferes with mortal affairs at will. His siblings include Bärkatlànm, the Darkness and the Nameless Mist. Nyarlathotep was spawned from Azathoth himself. It is said that he will be the god who brings destruction to Earth. He spends his time manipulating and deceiving humans, or driving them insane, for his own sadistic pleasure. He often visits Earth and enjoys bringing madness and suffering to inferior beings (humans are among them). He is an evil Outer God who is seen as a shapeshifting agent of madness, chaos and ruin who serves the other Outer Gods, specifically his father, Azathoth, the Blind Idiot God, to whom he is subservient, fulfilling his wishes without question as his messenger and emissary, though he sometimes enjoys manipulating his master. Lovecraft (more than any other deity) and is unquestionably the cruelest and vilest entity in the entire mythos. He has appeared in numerous other stories written by H.P. He first appeared as the titular main antagonist of both the 1920 short story of the same name and the 1936 short story The Haunter of the Dark, and he continued to serve as the main antagonist of the 1943 fantasy novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Nyarlathotep, also known by many other names, most notably the Crawling Chaos, is the main antagonist of the Cthulhu Mythos, the work of the late famous cosmic horror writer and author H. ~ Nyarlathotep cursing Randolph Carter out of hateful spite and warning him of who he truly is. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.