#hastur the unspeakable

[el-desenladrillador]

Crush it already, would ya?

Had a sudden urge to draw Hastur.

#hastur #the king in yellow #hastur the unspeakable #2023 #novel #my drawings #fanarts #lineart #new stuff #general

[o5-10]

YOUR PASTA BEAST OF A SIBLING WONT STOP GIVING THEM TO ME. THEY KEEP TRANSMUTING THINGS AROUND ME INTO CEILING FANS. FAE TURNED MY COFFEE INTO A GODDAMN CELING FAN LAST WEEK - D.B.

That's actually really funny. Sorry about your coffee, except I'm really not. There will be no consequences for this action. Thank you.

#hastur the unspeakable #under a watchful eye #identity redacted #the answers sought

[jshubofchaos]

btw I have a list of Cthulhu fuckerz

a...

AN ENTIRE LIST??????

#brb gonna go pray for my life to hastur the unspeakable/god of shepards

[sharkestry]

Carcosa? The monstrous city at which unspeakable horrors are done in name of the great old one Hastur they call their leader? Great. How much is the average rent price?

The king of Carcosa will eventually consume and destroy the entire city with everyone in it when the time comes to increase his power? Well that's every politician ever for you, tell me something new.

The entire city is populated by a cult that worships the King and they often do unspeakable horrors in his name? Yes im aware with how political parties work

The nearby lake of Hali is said to be inhabited by a being of unspeakable power which sometimes comes into conflict with the spawn of Cthulhu at that lake? YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS PLACE EVEN HAS A NICE LAKE TO SIT NEXT TO!? And yes I am also aware about how tourists can be annoying sometimes.

Your spooky "Black stars on a bright sky" you keep mentioning imply there is little air pollution, since seeing a large amount of stars in a city is often wishful thinking. Housing crisis considered this place doesn't seem half bad

#hastur #the king in yellow #the feaster #lovecraft #lovecraftian horror #funny #literature #books #book #feaster #carcosa #Cthulhu #cthulhu mythos #cosmic horror

[macabrecabra]

LOVECRAFTOBER: DAY TWENTY-THREE: HASTUR

The King in Yellow, The Unspeakable One

Affiliation: The Court of Yog-Sothoth

A fan favorite makes his debut! Hastur, the King in yellow is finally on the scene at last!

The design for Hastur was taken from the fact he is often shown manipulating artists or involved in the arts, so I felt he fashioned himself after classical Greek statues, wearing a mask to help give the appearance of one who is vain with appearances. Also, has arms for days and can manifest just as many.

The Golden sun of the Court of Yog-Sothoth, the most active and powerful spawn of Yog, Hastur takes immense pride in how he conducts his business and mortal followers, spreading his sign across the universe. Known to be a bit of a show-off, not taking things seriously at times, and obsessed with well...himself, sometimes he can come off as annoying to some of the older horrors out there. Very defensive of his kin though and does not hesitate to throw down with elder gods when he's in a full fury. Just don't mention a certain someone's name or he can get very depressed and upsetti very quick....

#Live Laugh and Lovecraft #Hastur #The king in yellow #Lovecraft Mythos #Lovecraft Mythology #Lovecraft AU #the king has arrived!

[opencharacters]

Copyright Smuggling: Doctor Who

I've talked in the past about how The Doctor not having a name or permanent appearance is very easily molded to be put into your own derivative fiction.

Even so, perhaps you want to incorporate more whovian elements into your story. While things like the Daleks are obviously off the table, there are characters and enemies that are public domain in the whoniverse that are ripe for the picking.

I'm linking pages to the public domain versions of these characters. But have listed here where they show up in the Doctor Who expanded universe.

Cernunnos - Leader of the Original Mammoths (proposed identity of "the Enemy" from the War in Heaven) appeared first in the Faction Paradox books The Book of the War.

Doctor Omega - 1906 novel about a scientist who builds a machine that can travel through time and space. He's similar enough to be able to be molded into the role of the Doctor.

Dorian Gray - Character from the Bernice Summerfield audio drama "Shades of Gray" that has similar abilities of eternal youth as the literary character we know. He eventually got his own Big Finish audio drama series The Confessions of Dorian Gray

Ganieda - Said to be Merlin's sister in the short story A Honeycomb of Souls.

Hastur the Unspeakable - Fenric according to the novel All-Consuming Fire

Merlin - From various accounts is suggested to be an incarnation of the doctor, including the aforementioned A Honeycomb of Souls

Nyarlathotep - Suggested to be the doctor in the novel The Death of Art

Sherlock Holmes - According to The Book of the Enemy during the War in Heaven although he was a real person in the whoniverse his life got erased and turned into fiction

Thomas Carnacki - Has met the second doctor as well as Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax according to The Screaming Ceiling audio and the Foreign Devils novel

Yog-Sothoth - The Great Intelligence according to the book Millennial Rites

In addition to this there's also the Land of Fiction which is a realm canon to the doctor who series filled with public domain characters

Go forth and write your Doctor Who pastiches, nothing is stopping ya!

#doctor who #copyright #dweu #public domain #writing #writing tips #the doctor #sherlock holmes #cthulhu mythos

[ozzgin]

Can I have Yandere Ben Drowned with Reader as powerful Eldritch being like Nyarlathotep, Hastur(it’s ok if you don’t know them, if you don’t know them, then a reader who is powerful being like Bill Cipher instead.) A reader still loves Ben so much after all.

I have no idea who Bill Cipher is (Google shows me a funky triangle), but if you want Lovecraftian horror you’ve come to the right place! I mostly read Gothic fiction so I’m very excited to see familiar names pop up in my requests. Thank you for the prop.

Yandere! Creepypasta x Eldritch! Reader

Featuring Ben Drowned and an ancient reader of cosmic origins. Abstract romance.

The world is a disorder of matter and antimatter that has come together through analytical laws of unknown origins. And yet somehow, throughout this chaos of slithering threads and tentacles, one path in particular has led him to you. The Dweller of the Depths, The Devourer of Space. Surely the Universe could not have conceived such fate out of a mere string of coincidences. Perhaps your hand crept its way into the mechanisms of the world itself to force the necessary arrangements, but Ben lacks the very fundaments to even begin to imagine such a process. His existence is a brief flash of light compared to your seemingly eternal linger.

(Y/N). That’s how he’s known you ever since your encounter. He quickly learned, however, that your name stretches and turns and rolls so differently out of the tongues of many mortals and creatures. You have many names, some so old and ancient that even you have to ponder their veracity. He has never questioned your origins and would rather not delve into incomprehensible cosmic history. Would having all the answers change anything? Not at all. He’s known it from the very beginning. The instant he laid his eyes on you and his blood froze in place - as if his very tissue became autonomous and cowered before your presence - he knew. He was immediately enraptured by your blasphemous, boundless being. From the nethermost bowels of the Nameless Mist, your vile essence leered down at him. He was overwhelmed, nauseous with unspeakable terror, fear and … love. Adoration. Obsession.

And so his purpose was rather clear. What greater cause could there be other than serving you? In his most feverish dreams he wouldn’t have dared to hope for your acceptance, and yet you welcomed him with open arms. You’ve had many servants and followers, prophets that wandered the world to warn of the mythical horned beast. All dull theatrics that bored you greatly. You hold no interest for perishable humans. Ben, on the other hand, caught your attention quite rapidly. A smudge in the orderly principles of reality. A spontaneous glitch of Earthly origins that alerted you out of your slumber. What could have caused his birth? The novelty of this mystery amuses you, so much that you’ve decided to keep him by your side.

An abyssal creature of forgotten genesis and a digital entity of unexpected source. Perhaps this bizarre partnership will eventually sneak its way into the forbidden Necronomicon for the future generations to uncover. Although Ben is more concerned with ways to profess his undying dedication to you. He might have walked these realms for a much shorter time, but he has an eternity left to catch up. As long as he’s blessed with your presence, everything else becomes trivial. He has found his reason to live and he will cling to it forever.

#creepypasta #creepypasta x reader #yandere creepypasta #creepypasta headcanons #ben drowned #ben drowned x reader #eldritch reader #yandere #cosmic horror

[rpgsandbox]

Elder Mythos is a cosmic horror tabletop role-playing game in which players will play frightening Lovecraftian Entities vying to destroy or control the world. 

Venture beyond the veil of reality with Elder Mythos, become one of the ancient entities and unleash unspeakable horrors. Join us in a cosmic horror saga that transcends human comprehension. The fate of the world is at stake: will you rule it or will you throw it into chaos? 

Elder Mythos is a cosmic horror tabletop role-playing game in which players will incarnate frightening Lovecraftian Entities vying to destroy or control the world. 

Through shared worldbuilding or by choosing a Scenario, players will weave a conversation that will create a cosmic horror narrative.

Choosing among 12 different Entities - including Hastur The Unspeakable One and Cthulhu The Great Dreamer -  each with its own Attributes and Powers, each player will have to pursue unique and disturbing purposes. 

Using adepts of ancient cults, nightmarish creatures and priestly figures of immense power as expendable resources, players will create a terrifying plot amid catastrophes and consequences.

In this tabletop RPG, the Cthulhu Mythos, once again, come to life - and you will incarnate them!

Elder Mythos uses a Year Zero System hack designed to handle cosmic horrors without necessitating preparation from the Eldritch Master.

This game is characterized by an emergent and intuitive gameplay, where the fate of entire cities will be mapped out with a few dice rolls. 

Building a pool of D6s using the Entities' Attributes and Resources, players must strive to get at least a 6, but beware! Obtaining more than a 6 will lead to Catastrophic Success: the chaos will be out of control for the Entity's emanations, and even if it succeeds, incredible twists and turns could upset the narrative.  

By performing Actions on the Scenario’s Map, players will fight for the control of the setting, but it will not be easy! Other playing Entities, as well as the Eldritch Master Resources, from occult detectives to human organization, will hamper your plots.  

You are an Elder Entity: for you, twisting the rules using your unspeakable powers it's effortless. Take possession of the Eldritch Master Resources with Cthulhu’s effigies, and drive them mad; swap the initiative order with Nyarlathotep’s omnipotence on the Dreamlands. 

Elder Mythos is a game designed to be played collectively at the table, without preparation from the Eldritch Master. Using one of the 5 Scenarios, or through collaborative worldbuilding, each element of the game world, alongside the triggering main events, will be outlined rapidly, in an easy and intuitive process. 

In Elder Mythos, players will incarnate the most powerful Lovecraftian Entities. 

They won’t be mere RPG characters, they will be terrific deities with immense and frightening powers, each described in great detail within the Corebook. 

These Entities rarely take the field: some of them prefer to operate from distant galaxies, while others are unable to do so, forced in a lethargic state. On the contrary, they will use minuscule fragments of their power, their Manifestations, and will act primarily through their evil cults, their treacherous creatures, channeling some of their immense strength within their ministers.

Elder Mythos is a shared narrative role-playing game, where by playing different Entities, players could pursue different purposes and goals. 

Conflict between the playing Entities is not only possible but an integral part of the game system, and for some of them it might even be part of their Great Design.

But better not to get too distracted by Azathoth or Hastur, because fearsome interference, played by the Eldritch Master, could seize the opportunity to hamper the schemes of all the Playing Entities!

Kickstarter campaign ends: Wed, April 24 2024 10:29 PM BST

Website: [Mana Project Studio] [facebook] [twitter] [instagram]

#RPG #kickstarter #Elder Mythos #Mana Project Studio #cthulhu mythos

[chaoscrawls]

【ＢＡＳＩＣＳ】

Name: Hastur Alias: The King in Yellow, The Unspeakable One Pronouns: He/him

【Ａｐｐｅａｒａｎｃｅ】

Mortal:

Hair Colour & Style: Long blond almost golden, reaching to below his waist. Is messy on top and around his face, but straight and neatly brushed the further it goes. Recently has begun styling it in a high ponytail because his cousin complimented it offhandedly. Eyes Colour: Yellow. Complexion: Pale, with faint bags under his eyes, no other blemishes are noticeable. Height: 6 ft 2 inches

Eldritch:

Usually seen in the form of a large human skeleton wrapped in intricate yellow robes. Under the surface of the bones, there is a pulsing oil-like substance that seems to make up his core. When he speaks in this form his words sound like a whisper, no matter how loud he is speaking.

【Ｐｅｒｓｏｎａｌｉｔｙ】

Positive Traits: Curious, trusting, enthusiastic, family orientated Negative Traits: Impulsive, lazy, tactless, mischievous, fussy

【Ａｂｉｌｉｔｉｅｓ】

- Teleportation - Liquid shadow - Inducing madness (Passive - Explained in detail further on.) - Amorphous Physiology

【Ｒｅｌａｔｉｏｎｓ】

Yog-Sothoth - Father - Asleep Cthulhu - Half brother - Asleep Nyarlathotep - Cousin - While Hastur loves and seeks approval from his cousin, the feeling is not reciprocated. Nyar finds him to be a frustrating burden.

【Ｌｏｒｅ】

Hastur has been a resident of the void for a long time, which can get incredibly lonely when most of your family is in a deep… seemingly endless slumber. It used to be better for him, once upon a time as he was allowed to wander the mortal plain as much as he liked, meeting humans that worshipped his family. That is till all of the cult members he was spending time with started going insane and killing themselves. Deciding that he was no good for the family’s goals and the mortal members they were amassing, he was banished back to the void by Nyarlathotep. The mortals were left, only a play with his name and a strange symbol to remember him by.

【Ｗａｒｎｉｎｇｓ】

When interacting with Hastur he has the passive ability to make mortals go slowly insane in his presence. He has very little control over this power (except the ability to expedite it). The rate at which the insanity takes root depends on what origin the mortal is (human or supernatural) and how often his name is spoken. Other Lovecraftian deities are not affected by this power and there are some creatures that are less susceptible to it and some that are completely immune. Before writing with Hastur I would prefer to speak to the mun about what category their muse will fall under.

#✺;;|| the king in yellow #✺;;|| a resident of the void approaches #✺;;|| guest muse #long post #tw cult mention #tw death mention #tw insanity #guess whos back #back again #with a new fc and all wowe

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

HASTUR - THE UNSPEAKABLE 

by Bigeggs

#tentacles #fhtagn #bigeggs #hastur #the king in yellow #lovecraft #cthulhu #black and white #creature #great old ones #elder gods #concept art #chara design #fhtagnnn

[o5-10]

Key word: Other father. Whose the first father? Did James commit mitosis? - D.B.

Rakesh Bhatt?

#hastur the unspeakable #under a watchful eye #identity redacted #the answers sought

[azdoine]

"it was all just a bioresonance dream sequence! signalis is just about elster's struggle to do the unthinkable and let go of ariane-!"

no actually i'm pretty sure signalis is a game about fighting off the mutant robot zombie armies of hastur the unspeakable in order to escape his retro horror time loop. RIP to carcosa deniers but I just opened my girlfriend's floaty water tank and she's completely fine

#signalis #spoilers

[gayhectocotyli]

Hastur the Unspeakable by Robert M. Price

Licensed under CC BY-SA.

#alterhuman #monsterkin #eldritchkin #hastur #eldritch #found this image whilst roaming around wikimedia commons #tryna use it for the art project #@alterhuman community fucking credit your shit #obligatory fuck hp lovecraft but this isnt from a lovecraft story

[whatliesbeneath-ao3]

MANAGERIAL NOTE

The mess is starting to lessen, it feels.

Looking around, you realize it definitely doesn't look it, even though you feel like you're getting a handle on all of this now.

Ambrose books it down the concrete alleyways of the Backstreets, sweat dripping down her cheek as she runs, a take out box tucked underneath her arm as she curses. “Fuck, shit, fuck, this was a horrible idea, Hastur!!” 

Her partner’s voice comes crystal clear, with a laugh, Oh come on, it wasn’t that bad.

“We’re never going to be allowed back there!” 

Oh, we will. I’ll make sure of it. 

Ambrose slows her pace, hands on her knees as she catches her breath. “I don’t even want to know what you’re implying. Don’t say things like that so casually in this District, or I’ll think you’re eating everyone who looks at me wrong.”

I may as well be, Hastur replies, smug, arms crossed over her chest. Rose rolls her eyes, despite how crazy it made her look—responding out loud to something—someone unseen, unspeakable—but she traces the pathway to their seedy home, keeping her eyes on the ground and a weapon clutched in her hand as she climbs the steps two at a time to their apartment. 

She lays face first on the floor with a groan as loud as she can manage. It comes out more akin to the sound of a cat getting its tail stepped on; she feels remarkably similar. It’s a minor inconvenience, all things considered, and Hastur knew that—she knew Rose knew, too. 

She sits up, opening the takeout box with a sigh. 

Are you mad it smells good?

“I’m going to be even angrier it tastes good,” Rose mumbles, taking a hearty bite of pre-ordered Bagbagis with a side of Saag Aloo—she groans again. “It’s so good…” 

Hastur laughs. I told you so.

“Yeah, yeah. ‘Dear Diary, Hastur’s always right.’” 

I approve of that entry.

“Of course you do,” Rose laughs, and then adds, “I’m glad you do.” 

The letter hasn’t come for them yet, but it will. Instead, twilight falls upon them, long before it ever will. They fall asleep together, one existence, two souls in a shared body—never wondering, always worrying, never voicing it; the fear that when the dawn breaches, they’ll be left alone again, unspeakable.

...

You're a little bit hungry now, and unsure if you should feel guilty about that or not...

#Managerial Note #The First Day Event #Rose #Hastur

[redacted-metallum]

Image description: two scans from the 1980 edition of the TSR Advanced Dungeons and Dragons sourcebook Deities and Demigods.  The first is of the text accompanying the entry for Hastur, a full transcript of which is under a readmore link.  The second is a close-up of the illustration and depicts a lizard like creature covered in tentacles behind a castle.  It is considerably larger than the castle and there is a bolt of lightning in the background.  The upper right corner has a stylized signature of the letters E and O, indicating that Erol Otus is the illustrator of this particular image.

End image description.

My dad owns a copy of the Deities and Demigods book from before the copyright strike, and I haven’t seen any scans of Hastur from it around tumblr so.  Here it is!  The whole thing is very influenced by August Derleth’s interpretation of the Cthulhu Mythos, and I have Opinions about that, but this is specifically where the “don’t say Hastur’s name more than four times or he’ll come Get You” thing comes from, which I think is a very neat bit of history and trivia!

One other thing I find interesting is that there is no mention of The King in Yellow (the play) in this section.  There is also no mention of the Yellow Sign, Cassilda, or Camilla, though Lake Hali and Carcosa are mentioned as part of an “alien planet”.

The book is credited to James M. Ward and Robert J. Kuntz, and edited by Lawrence Schick.

The illustrations are credited to the following: Jeff Dee, Erol Otus, Eymoth, Darlene Pekul, Paul Jaquays, Jim Roslof, David S. LaForce, David C. Sutherland III, Jeff Lanners, and D. A. Trampier.

Text transcript is as follows:

HASTUR THE UNSPEAKABLE (He Who Must Not Be Named) “Master of the Air” Greater God

ARMOR CLASS: -2 MOVE: 36″/36″ HIT POINTS: 400 NO. OF ATTACKS: 2 DAMAGE/ATTACK: 20-200/20-200 SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below MAGIC RESISTANCE: 50% SIZE: L (600′ TALL) ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil WORSHIPER’S ALIGN: Chaotic evil SYMBOL: Image of the god PLANE: Prime Material Plane (distant planet) CLERIC/DRUID: Nil FIGHTER: As 16+ HD monster MAGIC-USER/ILLUSIONIST: 23rd level in each THIEF/ASSASSIN: Nil MONK/BARD: Nil PSIONIC ABILITY: I S: 25 (+7. +14)  I: 22  W: 23  D: 21  C: 23  CH: -4

This god has a scaled, elongated body, a lizard’s head and maw, and taloned lizard claws.  It also has 200 tentacles projecting from its body that give it the ability to sense all things around it.  It is able to strike twice per round and also attack magically.

At will, it can teleport anywhere in the Prime Material Plane.  Hastur regenerates 5 hit points per melee round, and can summon 2-20 Byakhee to aid it in battle.  It cannot be magically controlled.  Creatures that are able to fly naturally will never attack Hastur, even if controlled.  Any being trying to attack the god must make a saving throw against fear.

Hastur is half-brother to Cthulhu, and like him Hastur has been imprisoned by the star-shaped Elder Sign.  He lies in a crypt at the bottom of Lake Hali near the alien city of Carcosa.  Hastur exists partly on the Prime Material Plane (and this part is imprisoned in the crypt) and partly on the Elemental Plane of Air (thus he is immune to cold and the vacuum of space).  Hastur is never more than partially on the Prime Material Plane and is therefore not completely solid.  This accounts for much of his great size.

Any time the name “Hastur” is spoken, there is a 25% chance that Hastur will here and send 1-4 Byakhee to slay the speaker.  If the Byakhee are defeated, there is a 25% chance that Hastur himself will appear to destroy the blasphemer.

#cthulhu mythos #hastur #the king in yellow #dnd #carcosa #advanced dungeons and dragons #deities and demigods

[agentgrange]

Somehow I just know Hastur the Unspeakable is behind this Goncharov shit. The ticking clock motif is all actually a countdown to the appearance of the Yellow King, and this script is trying to manifest itself into the real world so some dumbass movie executive makes Scorsese cash in on the meme and turn it into an actual movie. Just so the Yellow King can pop out at the end in movie theaters across the country.

Martin you fool. You absolutely god damn fool. You'll doom all of us.

#goncharov #carcosa #king in yellow #yellow king #hastur #scenario seed #SANposting #lovecraft mythos