Nyarlathotep: Domains

[Xuldarinar]

Nyarlathotep is said to possess a thousand different forms (the actual number could certainly differ), and each may have its own favored weapon, fifth domain, and subdomains associated with it. As such, a question naturally follows. Just how vast are the options through Nyarlathotep? Naturally any cleric of nyarlathotep will have the Chaos, Evil, Knowledge, or Magic domain as one of their domains, but pending upon the form they revere, is there any domain that definitely lies outside his purview? Im not going to ask a list for all of his forms and their associated domains and weapons, as I doubt there is any source to detail this either official or unofficial, but this does present something to be remarkably versatile. Something that, at least I think, is worth addressing.

[BWR]

(I wanna) Chaos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7H35PHIqUo), Love, Transformation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51LFKXtjeY), Protection, Madness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRpXtnxMpZ4)

Jokes aside, PF's take on the Great Old One (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/bestiary4/greatOldOne.html#great-old-one)s might be of use. N's CoCd20 write-up had Destruction and Trickery Domains as well as Madness and Magic

[grarrrg]

is there any domain that definitely lies outside his purview?

His default domains (http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Nyarlathotep) are: Chaos, Evil, Knowledge, Magic, and either Trickery or Darkness.
Titles: The Crawling Chaos, the Haunter of the Dark, the Black Pharaoh
Portfolio: Conspiracies, Dangerous secrets, Forbidden magic

We can instantly rule out Good, Law, and Sun (as they are directly opposed to current Domains).
He likes Chaos, so Community, Nobility, and Protection are out.
On a related note, we can probably eliminate Artifice, Glory, Healing, Liberation, Plant and Repose for various reasons 'too good aligned', 'creating instead of destroying', etc...

As an 'Outer God' Madness and Void seem like shoe-ins.
Probably a good chance of Charm, Death, Destruction, Strength, Rune, and War

That leaves the following as "maybes"
Air
Animal
Artiface
Earth
Fire
Luck
Scalykind
Travel
Water
Weather

[Xuldarinar]

(I wanna) Chaos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7H35PHIqUo), Love, Transformation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51LFKXtjeY), Protection, Madness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRpXtnxMpZ4)

Jokes aside, PF's take on the Great Old One (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/bestiary4/greatOldOne.html#great-old-one)s might be of use. N's CoCd20 write-up had Destruction and Trickery Domains as well as Madness and Magic



"The god Nyarlathotep is unusual among the Outer Gods in that he seems to possess a singular desire to toy with and cause discord among mortal race,"

...Well, that is one way of going about it.



Anyways. The two forms i've seen specifying the domains, right out of Wake of the Watcher, put the darkness domain on one and trickery on another. Void seems obvious for atleast one. For all I know though, there could be an obscure form that throws the law domain, simply because. I'll have to look at the write up some time.

[AmberVael]

On a related note, we can probably eliminate Artifice.

"Into the lands of civilization came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger..."

[Xuldarinar]

Didn't notice when I posted, so I'll address this now.


His default domains (http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Nyarlathotep) are: Chaos, Evil, Knowledge, Magic, and either Trickery or Darkness.
Titles: The Crawling Chaos, the Haunter of the Dark, the Black Pharaoh
Portfolio: Conspiracies, Dangerous secrets, Forbidden magic

We can instantly rule out Good, Law, and Sun (as they are directly opposed to current Domains).
He likes Chaos, so Community, Nobility, and Protection are out.
On a related note, we can probably eliminate Artifice, Glory, Healing, Liberation, Plant and Repose for various reasons 'too good aligned', 'creating instead of destroying', etc...

As an 'Outer God' Madness and Void seem like shoe-ins.
Probably a good chance of Charm, Death, Destruction, Strength, Rune, and War

That leaves the following as "maybes"
Air
Animal
Artiface
Earth
Fire
Luck
Scalykind
Travel
Water
Weather

The entry there is wrong, sort of.

From Wake of the Watcher:
Domains Chaos, Evil, Knowledge, Magic, plus one more (fifth domain varies; Darkness for the Haunter of the Dark, Trickery for the Black Pharaoh).

The fifth domain depends upon the form that is worshiped, as does the symbol, the subdomains (Arcane, Divine, Memory, Thought, plus 2 associated with the fifth domain), and the favored weapon.
The two specified, just address the two most well known forms. There are, supposedly, 998+ other forms Nyarlathotep possesses. So, going from there.

Good and Law, I'll agree are unlikely (though you never know, there could be a form that messes with those groups). Sun is possible, but it is certainly attributed to a fairly different form from the Haunter of the Dark. Artifice isn't off the table because it is believed that he "-led the dwarves of Dongun Hold to invent the first firearm." Most of the others, odds are they are attributed to atleast one of his forms. Favored weapon.. statistically speaking.. Though, I think a form needs discussed with the DM, to some extent, to set out the options even if they don't draw upon the fifth domain or ever touch the favored weapon.