Hastur, The King in Yellow, The Unspeakable One
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Chaos, Evil, Rune, Void
Symbol: The Yellow Sign
Garb: Yellow hooded robes
Favored Weapon: Rapier
Form of Worship and Holidays: Enactments of the play The King in Yellow to attempt to bring a manifestation of the Yellow Sign into mortal existence and bring about an era of madness and destruction. Rituals on nights of mysterious alignments of strange stars.
Typical Worshippers: Anarchists, nihilists, murderers, madmen, debased rulers
The Unspeakable One, as he is oft times called, is a Great Old One, a chaotic being from before the universe existed in its current form whose true home is in the darkness between the stars. He is currently said to be trapped on a dark planet orbiting a remote star in or near a city called Carcosa beside a dark lake called Hali. Whether this is true and Hastur is trapped on some remote world remains a matter of conjecture for the most erudite of occultists, but some claim Hastur has a particular interest in the world of Lloegyr and that it is, in fact, that selfsame planet. The matter is confounded by Hastur’s apparent connection to the Shadowlands of the far north and the ancient tragedy that destroyed the Hundaei race and created the wasteland known as the Haunted Steppes of northwestern Akados. This is further exacerbated by rumors of some tribes of the wandering Shattered Folk who whisper of a ruined city at the base of the Lost Mountains in the northern Haunted Steppes and of a dark lake they call “Hallee”
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