The Society of Yellow Perfection

*Cultists of the Yellow Sign tend to have an artistic temperament and to view their horrible master, the King in Yellow, as the ultimate performance artist and the true embodiment of perfection. They see the destruction and havoc he wreaks as a great display of true perfection, and in a sense, they are absolutely correct. Of course, only the cultists are fully able to appreciate the king's creativity. These cultists strive for their own perfection through their twisted ways of performing in what they see as the arts. They strive to become just like their king so much so that they are willing to undergo transformations to become eldritch being servants worthy of serving their king. Many Yellow Perfectionist cultists are cunningly insane: deceptively refined serial killers and urbane sociopaths. Often they only "realize" they are devoted to the Yellow king after years of compulsive cruelty, always in the name of art and perfection. The Yellow Perfection gives cultists free reign to their whims while the cult provides aid for their goals and machinations.*

*The King in Yellow is among the most accessible of all the Forsaken Gods, and his cultists enjoy a great deal of his personal patronage. Surprisingly the king is unusually attentive to his followers, the King in Yellow appears periodically at cult services or the doorsteps of those who believe in him, ready to dispense gifts or knowledge or in some cases transformation into their perfect beings only to the loyalist of followers. He might leave a single pot of paint with the cultist or group that they create the perfect color for their mural. He might instead leave a small razor, for use in carving away the body feature that prevents their loved one's physical perfection. Exploiting their madness, the king in Yellow often communicates with the cultists in ways undetectable to sane individuals. For example, a cultist might derive meaning from a random phrase overheard on the street. Or perhaps what the cultist interprets becomes the King's intent. It's hard to say because to a follower the King in Yellow, madness, reality, art and perfection become one.*

*The King's holy text is also a play, simply entitled The King in Yellow. Either reading the play or watching it performed can lead to madness and worship of the King. Those aware of the danger it poses are constantly at risk of being exposed to the Yellow King and being magically compelled to serve the King in Yellow., since it is easy to create and innocuous to the uninitiated.*

The Cult of the Society of the Yellow perfection is not as tightly-organized as the other cults in Dephiron. Cultists occasionally meet in groups for activities other than worship, as signaled to them through the King's insane mental dramas. For instance, a cultist might realize that their cat's persistent meowing for food is a call from the King, while another might hear the summons by looking closely at the pattern formed by wine they accidentally spilled. The Society of the Yellow Perfection does not have persistent cult leaders. When they meet, regardless of how they came together this time or originally, one of them naturally takes the lead. This may be a different cultist each time. usually the person who takes over is the one most suited for the task at hand. For instance, if they need to capture a certain individual and torture them for information, a cultist who has a deep sadistic nature might become the leader. If they must organize a performance of the King's play, the most artistically-inclined might take over instead.

Because of the King in Yellow's foreknowledge, he can send his cultists to seek out and extract wisdom from other beings. An example of this in Dephiron's history was when this cult would make it a regular practice to hunt down tiefling for creative torture, whether to learn secrets or for no obvious reason. Even ghouls, powerful entities, and even some other Forsaken Gods fear being taken by the King in Yellow and their cult, whose ingenuity and extravagance in causing pain is beyond compare.