The Yellow King was an eldritch abomination of some sort. In the 925th Universe, the wizard Artemas H. Whipple opened a wizarding school in Crieff to train young wizards, with the secret purpose of moulding them into weapons with which to fight the King, (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) or, by another account, “the Infernal Forces of Carcosa”. (PROSE: Good Crieff: The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (2024 reedit))
He was the apparent subject of a play called The King in Yellow. The Doctor Know who worked for the Multidimensional Finders Service in the 925th Universe was the writer of a video essay entitled “The King in Yellow is a Bad Play and Here's Why”. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division)
Behind the scenes
The King in Yellow, or Yellow King, is the titular figure of The King in Yellow, a 1895 short story anthology by Robert W. Chambers, appearing in a cursed play of the same name which sends all who read or see it mad. The anthology was later incorporated into the “Cthulhu Mythos”, with it becoming understood that the King in Yellow was a manifestation of Hastur, a fictional deity previously mentioned in a short story by Ambrose Bierce, and name-dropped elsewhere in The King in Yellow by Chambers with no particular implication that it and the King were the same entity; indeed, within the book, Hastur seemed to be a location rather than an individual. The King is, however, strongly suggested to be the ruler of the mysterious city of Carcosa.
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