Nyarlathotep ~Persona 2 fanart~ By DarkusTerror Watch

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'Understand that there is no point in living. Cry, that there is no answer. Where there is darkness, there are shadows. I, myself, am all of you humans!'



An artwork of Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, final boss of the Persona 2 duology, and the second piece in my Persona final boss set.



This piece was actually planned to be done much earlier, but events occurred that changed my priorities. Since then, I've watched a lot of further videos and done more practice on composition, lighting, etc, and so this piece is stuck in a weird place where it was started before that knowledge, and modified afterwards to make it a bit more presentable.



I mentioned in my previous Persona piece that butterflies are a recurring symbol in Persona, and have meanings in reality regarding souls, life and death, etc. As it so happens, Nyarlathotep is also symbolised in the series by a black butterfly. The name 'Nyarlathotep' itself originates from H.P. Lovecraft's works - in that setting, Nyarlathotep is an Outer God, and the only one that is actively malicious towards mankind. Fittingly, Nyarlathotep's true form in Persona is a mass of writhing tentacles with the facsimile of a human at its core, covered in masks representative of all who fuel his existence. From here, the enemies of the series only become more complex in both meaning and design - so it'll be interesting to see how I'll approach them.

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Published : Sep 28, 2019