Azathoth (Cthulhu Mythos)

“	Out in the mindless void the daemon bore me, Past the bright clusters of dimensioned space, Till neither time nor matter stretched before me, But only Chaos, without form or place. Here the vast Lord of All in darkness muttered Things he had dreamed but could not understand, While near him shapeless bat-things flopped and fluttered In idiot vortices that ray-streams fanned. They danced insanely to the high, thin whining Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw, Whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining Gives each frail cosmos its eternal law. “I am His Messenger,” the daemon said, As in contempt he struck his Master’s head.	„
	~ Fungi from Yuggoth, XXII. Azathoth

Summary

Azathoth is the lord and master of all existence, governor of the outer chaos that serves as the residence of the all-powerful Ultimate Gods and primordial creator of all things, who resides on a black throne at the center of the Abyss, from which he rules all of time and space, lying in a seemingly dormant state while his subjects mindlessly dance around it, playing cacophonic, discordant music for their Master for reasons yet unknown, while the Daemon Sultan himself gnaws and mutters his own dreams, which lie beyond even his own understanding.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 0

Name: Azathoth, The Daemon Sultan, The Nuclear Chaos, The Blind Idiot God, The Lord of All

Origin: Cthulhu Mythos

Gender: Inapplicable, referred to as male.

Age: Irrelevant. Transcends all conceptions of time

Classification: Lord of All Things, Ruler of the Ultimate Gods

Powers and Abilities:

Powers and Abilities:

• Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2)
  • Large Size (Type 11)
  • Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2, All Aspects) & Abstract Existence (Type 1 - All ultimate gods exist purely as archetypes within the Ultimate Void)
  • Acausality (Type 5 - The nature of the Ultimate Void is different from any conceivable cosmos and is a changeless totality)
  • Immortality (Type 5)
  • Omnipresence & Transduality (Type 2 - As the ruler of the Ultimate Gods, Azathoth exists in the highest level of reality, the "All-in-One and One-in-All" and true oneness of existence that "belies all local perspectives and partial views" and the multiplicity that comes of them, abolishing and trivializing distinction and making everything identical)

• Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1)

• Bodily Weaponry (Conventional), Sound Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Type 2 & 3) & Body Control (Should be comparable to its lesser counterparts, which are described as 'shapeless bat-things' with 'monstrous paws and being 'Formless, Ineffable' beings. Hypnos merely viewing the visage of the Ultimate Gods drew him to complete insanity and horror. The Ultimate Gods are capable of making noises of 'whirring, drumming, and thundering' as 'Bands and rays of colour utterly foreign to any spectrum of our universe played and wove and interlaced')

Attack Potency: Boundless (Azathoth resides at the center of the Ultimate Void as the boundless ruler of all existence, ruling The Ultimate Gods from his throne and having been responsible for their birth and the creation of all things. Azathoth embodies the infinitesimal point in his godly paradigm with Yog-Sothoth, existing as the microcosm half of the Supreme Archetype, an all-encompassing oneness/"All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self" of animating essence that subsumes even the Ultimate Mystery that underlies all manifested phenomena and eclipses even the Ultimate Void and its transcendent inhabitants the same way they transcend the rest of existence)

Speed: Omnipresent

Lifting Strength: Immeasurable

Striking Strength: Boundless

Durability: Boundless

Stamina: Infinite

Range: Boundless

Standard Equipment: None notable

Intelligence: Unknown (Exists in a realm of ultimate Chaos beyond dimensioned space and mathematics and is described in the same manner as the Ultimate Gods - being perceived as idiotic, blind, ravenous and muttering the chaotic contents of his dreams, although is ultimately inscrutable)

Weaknesses: None notable

Note: As discussed in this thread, the common idea that Azathoth dreams the cosmos into existence and will destroy it when he wakes up is a misconception. The oft-cited passage from Fungi from Yuggoth to support this notion only says Azathoth sits on his throne at the center of the Ultimate Void and mutters the contents of his dreams, which he can't understand, which isn't evidence for all of reality being Azathoth's dream. Eldrich entities existing in a state of "dreaming" is a common motif in Lovecraft's stories, as shown with Cthulhu's "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" (In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming) and the Ancient Ones partaking in cosmic dreams; there's no reason for Azathoth to be any different. Ample evidence exists for him existing on the same general level as his servants despite being superior to them; the Ultimate Gods play music and dance around him, Nyarlathotep strikes his head, and he's only tiered higher than them due to additional context regarding the Ultimate Mystery and Supreme Archetype.

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