GenocideHeart said:
Watashiwa said:
GH: Uh, dude? The Dark Hour sure as hell ain't normal. It's a vision of what the world will look like after the fall. If that isn't a paradox I don't know what is. But I'm not disagreeing with you; on the contrary I'm saying we need to expand what you were saying there. Persona powers are only granted when reality is compromised.
Also, arcana affinities totally cross over. Check Persona 1 again. More than one characters can have "Best" affinity for an arcana.
The Dark Hour is different from Nyarlathotep's dickery in that it's a direct result of humanity's suicidal desires. Also, the game bashes you over the head with the fact that it's a naturally-induced phenomenon caused by the majority of the race being in a precise state of mind - simple natural cause and effect - it's not NORMAL; but it's not unnatural either, which Nyarlie's dickery most likely WAS (rumors coming true? Hitler and the Nazi army being revived? No way you can lump that in the same category with negative feelings causing an avatar of destruction to wake up on the wrong side of the bed - P1 and P2's events were about as natural as the Large Hadron Collider).
Here's a little something.
At the start of time according to the Greeks, there was <a href='http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Nyarlathotep' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Chaos</a>. From Chaos rose two beings, Erebus and Nyx, who laid together and gave birth to several children: Thanatos, Hypnos, Moros and Gaia, among others.
HM. Erebus and Nyx... why does that sound so familiar? And don't forget; Nyarlathotep exists in much the same way as SMT YHWH. As long as people need a scapegoat, a reason for things to go wrong, he will exist.
So no, I think that Nyarlathotep differs from Nyx only in that he's consciously working to destroy humanity, as opposed to Nyx's regretful need to and Erebus' dumb singleminded drive.