#xexanoth

Oh, Xano? Yeah, he’s a tool.

Okay, the technical term is “psychopath,” but tomato, tomahto. 

In order to understand Xexanoth, you need to understand a few things about Nytep (a.k.a Nyarlathotep). Those things can be found here! In short, Nyarlathotep was, once upon a time, a terrifying, ruthless, destructive mega-god of Chaos, destroyer of worlds, etc. In LLtHW book 1, Nytep explains Xexanoth’s creation thusly:

“My purpose as I understood it then was to destroy. And I did. If ever I felt I needed more than one form to most effectively do that, I used Xexanoth. Meaning I put him together of all my most dangerous features. My indifference. My spite. My strategy. I intentionally made him as vicious and lethal as possible.”

Being Nytep’s oldest avatar, he’s also the most developed, the most fully realized, if you will. He is incredibly dangerous and malicious and all but completely lacks the ability to care for anyone outside himself. :)

In personality terms, he’s sarcastic and combative, cruel and condescending, unpredictable in that he might toy with you in an almost playful way or he might lose his temper completely and blow up. He genuinely lives to cause/enjoy the suffering of others. Including--maybe even especially--Nytep. In short: