"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die. "

Love me some Lovecraft! Well done!

I wholeheartedly agree - Chthulhu Fthagn and all that.

Glad you like this betentacled friend! ^^

Great stuff! As an aside, "end of this dream"... Bloodborne reference?

Possibly, although the concept of 'dream worlds' had already been explored by the man Lovecraft himself in some of his more surreal writing.

Gotcha, and yeah, Bloodborne was referencing Lovecraft a lot, too, so that makes sense.

As a Lovecraft fan, I enjoy this sequence quite a bit...! Sounds to me like he's gonna take up a job much like Nyarlathotep, if that makes any sense...!

Nice work on this, dude! ;)

Oh, trust me, it very much does - I feel like I need to refrain from striking up a lengthy conversation on the matter of Lovecraftian lore.

Suffice to say, my own interpreation of the character of Nyarlathotep is somewhat different, as I like to see him as the closest thing the original mythos has to a truly mephistophelean figure, as opposed to the incomprehensible and aloof Great Old Ones who rarely if ever directly meddle with the business of puny, mortal humans. By contrast, I get the impression that our betentacled friend in the above sequence ended up being entrusted with a task they did not quite have in mind when they first summoned powers far beyond their control...

Of course. I have a similar thought-process towards The Crawling Chaos as well, though I always felt that he's still just as 'incomprehensible and aloof' as his Outer God brethren; by contrast to them, he just delights in presenting himself as quite the opposite of that when it comes to his interactions with lesser beings... He 'could' destroy us if he wants to, seeing as he's supposed to be a messenger to the arrival of the Outer Gods, but that would leave him with nothing to toy and play around with...!

Exactly - and again, that is what makes him such a compelling character.
He is closely linked to the other Cosmic Horrors that populate the mythos, but he is the only one who deems humans worthy of his attention, even if it is as mere playthings whose frail little minds he just can not resist the temptation to confuse, twist and warp to his heart's content. If I am not mistaken, he is the only Elder God who regularly apperars in human form, with his entire demeanor seeming to be at least partially inspired by classical depictions of devils, demons and similarly chaotic, destructive trickster entities that populate traditional folklore.

Same, here. He is my personal favorite of the deities Lovecraft has created for those very reasons you listed down. Though, here's a slight bit of correction for some of the statements made here:

For starters, Nyarlathotep was not the only god-like Eldritch Abomination who could take on human (or at least human-like) forms, for Yog-Sothoth has been said to have taken on some similar forms as well; the former just happens to have a larger variety of forms he can disguise himself as compared to the other deities, and as you said, he tends to use them more often. He also wasn't the only Eldritch Abomination that took a fancy to us small little human beings. The Great Race of Yith from The Shadow Out of Time were also heavily interested in us, but it was more-so on a scientifically curious level like it was for most other races (even other Eldritch Abominations like them, considering they swapped minds with Elder Things from At the Mountains of Madness!)as opposed to Nyarlathotep just seeing us as nothing more than little playthings...

Still, you're pretty accurate with those examples. :)

I actually was not aware of the part on Yog-Sothoth, and there I was thinking I had the fundamentals of the mythos internalised. ^^
As for the Great Race of Yith and the Elder Things, I always saw them more as sentient species which, while vastly superior to humans in both power and intellect, still could not really compare to entities such as Cthulhu (the virtually immortal patriarch of the Star Spawn) or Azathoth (literally an incomprehensible entity of pure, distilled madness residing within its own pocket dimension). When I hear 'Great Old Ones' or 'Elder Gods', it is usually the latter I think of.

Yeah,in Through the Gates of the Silver Key, a figure simply called 'The Entity' that the story's main character encounters is implied to be a form Yog-Sothoth; but I'm not too sure I'm right on that...

Fair enough argument, there...! :)

But yeah, this is what happens when I go on a cosmic horror fanboy rant - don't say I didn't warn you. ^^

Hey, no worries there. I get into very long conversations with people both on here and DeviantArt all the time. This kind of talk here's what I'm used to! ;)

This is really giving me a whole lot of ideas

Neat - feel free to share if you come up with something!