The Four Horsemen of Nyarlathotep, also known as simply the Horsemen of Nyarlathotep, are a demonic quartet of supernatural beings who serve the messenger of the Outer Gods, Nyarlathotep. They are part of the "Million Favoured Ones". They are supporting antagonists of Fall of Cthulhu, a supernatural horror comic book series published by Boom! Studios in 2007.
Members[]
- Sysyphyx: known as the "Scourge of Atlantis", she was an oracle of that civilization. Once a bloated woman with auburn hair, she is now a multi-eyed worm-like shapeshifter who, after beheading a victim and modifying their spine with her own, can take the form of the victim. She was on the brink of death in the Arctic after being thrown into a chest that was scheduled to be blown up, but the intense cold froze the wick. In the comic, she takes different bodies.
- Gr'nuk of Vol'Kunast: known as the "Devourer of the Royal Corpse of Thuln", it is a disembodied essence in an empty box. Whoever opens it will be possessed by the essence and transformed into a corpse-eating monster. In the comic, Sysyphyx offered it to a seven-year-old boy named Jacob, whose personality and body changed until the boy's eventual transformation, who then proceeded to murder and eat his parents. The more corpses it eats, the more it transforms.
- The Masked Mute: known as the "Sister of the Lost Abyss", she manifests herself as a young girl covered in endless masks with which she expresses her emotions. It is said that her true face could kill even the greatest beings in the Dreamlands.
- Gith: known as the "Father of Pestilence" and the "Champion of Damnation", it is an irrational force found on the mountain of Kundai'i, in the Dreamlands. Under certain rites which include vomiting one's own soul and wearing a jackal's head, as well as undergoing brain surgery and bonding using the colour out of space, it can possess a human. Its appearance is that of a mummy from which purple-blue fire appears where the eyes and mouth should be.
Gallery[]
The chest in which Sysyphyx was kept in.
Sysyphyx.
Sysyphyx as an Atlantean.
The box in which Gr'nuk of Vol'Kunast was kept in.
Gr'nuk of Vol'Kunast.
Gr'nuk of Vol'Kunast transformed.
Masked Mute.
Gith.