To Stay or Leave

Question: Under what circumstances does one plus one not equal two? Answer: Other than when you calculated it wrong, Yog-Sothoth could make one plus one not equal two under any circumstances.

Such a change was exceedingly simple for The One Who Unifies All, but the consequences it produced were impossible to predict.

One plus one equaled two. It looked like a math problem, but what was mathematics? Mathematics was measurement. Mathematics was statistics. Mathematics was the most fundamental means of comprehending all rules. And one plus one equaling two was the foundation of mathematics, which meant it was the foundation of rules.

What would happen if that foundation were altered? Consider light traveling one extra meter per second, the universe's rate of expansion increasing or decreasing by one percent, or even time no longer being linear and space becoming capable of overlapping.

Once that foundation changed, it meant that all existing rules would be rewritten. One possible outcome was that everything currently in existence would change along with it. Naturally, that was the best possible outcome. The other possibility was much worse: everything created upon the old rules would be denied and unable to exist.

This was the power of The One Who Unifies All. This was the authority of the Three Pillars.

Yet Nyarlathotep's role was even more extraordinary. At the dawn of antiquity, the God of Blind Idiotcy had instinctively created the Orderly Triad Gods, from which everything that existed today had developed. But this change had been a division. It was no longer complete chaos, but fragments of chaos.

Confusion, order, wisdom, life—everything was like this. The most important meaning of Nyarlathotep's work was to reconcile these things that had split from chaos once more, forming them into a complete cycle and feeding the final chaos back