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Hastur, the king in yellow

"We spoke of HASTUR and of Cassilda, while outside the fog rolled against the blank window-panes as the cloud waves roll and break on the shores of Hali." 9th design in my Lovecraft series, although this wasn't an original creation by Lovecraft but by Robert W. Chambers. I tried to capture some of his key characteristics in a somewhat different way, like the two dark suns mentioned in the lore shining over Carcosa, being actually two of his illuminating tentacles and the symbol of the King in Yellow is shaped by his forehead light organ (maybe an eye). His "robe" is made of 5th dimensional matter (yellow color) which identifies him as a higher ranked Old One, as the 5th dimension builds a connection to the higher planes of existence in my project canon. As a little horror easter egg, I designed his robe in the shape of countless hands slithering slowly towards the viewer.