Pallid Dancer
Pallid Dancers and Courtiers of the King in Yellow created by Chad J. Bowser for Malleus Monstrorum.
Pallid Dancer
Dressed in tattered rags to match their king, they also wear small golden masks. Nothing is beneath the mask and the wooden frame of a marionette complete with cut strings is found beneath their rags.
— Chad J. Bowser, Malleus Monstrorum
A puppet-like creation of the King in Yellow, shaped like a small, child-sized, golden-masked, crowned humanoid figure, dressed in rags and bearing scimitars, which may be gifted to cultists by unnatural servants of the King in Yellow as silent heralds of the imminent arrival of their Creator, inert at first, but rising up like automatons at the arrival of their King to silently dance and whirl to the silent, unearthly rhythms of fevered madness, more and more rapidly and gracefully as the corruption of the King in Yellow advances. The dance is weirdly fascinating, effectively a spell which captivates and enraptures the viewer, who, falling under the spell, cannot look away, even as the Pallid Dancers advance, whirling and leaping about their razor-sharp scimitars, to cut the sanity from their victims, binding the doomed souls to the leprous spirit of the King in Yellow....
Courtiers of the King in Yellow
Attendant upon the will of the King in Yellow come the courtiers. Arrayed in flowing and tattered yellow-orange rags, they wear pale and uncanny flesh-like masks. Beneath these robes and masks none can say what form they take. Within the King's court, they perform elaborate dances to strange music that echoes through the dank corridors of Lost Carcosa. Dance not with the courtiers lest your flesh be corrupted and turn to decay.
— Chad J. Bowser, Malleus Monstrorum
Yellow-robed guards and entertainers of the court of the King in Yellow, typically seen dancing wildly by the King's side, synchronized in their wild, violent movements, until they attack with razor-edged robes. Their presence is often accompanied by mysterious plagues, panic, cruelty, and violence.
Associated Mythos Elements
- setting: Hastur Cycle
- tome: The King in Yellow (tome)
- deity: Hastur
- deity: King in Yellow
- race: Unspeakable Possessor
- race: Spawn of Hastur
- artifact: The Yellow Sign
References
- sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum
