Hastur

Hastur, known popularly as the King In Yellow, the Yellow King, Hastur the Unspeakable, and the Repairer of Reputations, is one of the nefarious and unsettling Great Old Ones of the Eldritch Beings. He is a particularly powerful being, the half-brother of Cthulhu himself, who rules a silent empire of creative minds across the cosmos. 
AKA: The Unspeakable One, He Who Should Not Be Named, the King in Yellow, Repairer of Reputations. 
== Facts: ==
-Hastur is the half-brother of Cthulhu. Despite this kinship, according to the Gnostics, the two Great Old Ones have nothing but distrust and disdain for one another.
-Hastur's true form is that of an impossibly sized, many-tentacled squid. However, he usually assumes a more congenial form as one of his many Avatars. He particularly favors his 'Yellow King' form in which he appears as a giant humanoid entity wrapped in a tattered, bright yellow robe. 
-Hastur is a powerful psychic being, with special emphasis on creativity. He is said to have a talent for influencing the minds of creative people and he has developed a large following within the Order of Muses. Those Gnostics who worship Hastur regularly develop powers similar to the Muses. 
== Influence Within the Artistic Order: ==
Hastur is a member of the Order of Muses, although his role within the Order is less than patronly. He has an occult symbol known as the 'yellow sign' which infects the minds of creative people. When a person with an advanced sense of creativity looks upon the sign, their minds become linked to Hastur and he uses it to influence them. 
Artists and creative types thus 'infected' will often feel a compulsion to show the yellow sign to other creative people, thus passing on the infection. 
Because of this, the rest of the Order of Muses reject Hastur and his following. He is also rejected whole-sale by the Theater of the Arts. While some of the more deranged or perturbed elements of either the Order or Chapter may actively seek out Hastur to gain his favor and power, should their allegiance become known they will be shunned. Or worse. 
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