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-...As the gods slept, there came from beyond the Rim, out of the dark and unknown, three Yozis, spirits of ill, that sailed up the river of Silence in galleons with silver sails. Far away they had seen [[Yum]] and [[Gothum]], the stars that stand sentinel over Pegana's gate, blinking and falling asleep, and as they neared Pegana they found a hush wherein the gods slept heavily. Ya, Ha, and Snyrg were these three Yozis, the lords of evil, madness, and of spite. When they crept from their galleons and stole over Pegana's silent threshold it boded ill for the gods. There in Pegana lay the gods asleep, and in a corner lay the Power of the gods alone upon the floor, a thing wrought of black rock and four words graven upon it, whereof I might not give thee any clue, if even I should find it—four words of which none knoweth.... These words the Yozis read, and sped away in dread lest the gods should wake, and going aboard their galleons, bade the rowers haste. Thus the Yozis became gods, having the power of gods, and they sailed away to the earth, and came to a mountainous island in the sea.
+...As the gods slept, there came from beyond the Rim, out of the dark and unknown, three Yozis, spirits of ill, that sailed up the river of Silence in galleons with silver sails. Far away they had seen [[River_Yann#The_Worlds_Beyond|Yum and Gothum]], the stars that stand sentinel over Pegana's gate, blinking and falling asleep, and as they neared Pegana they found a hush wherein the gods slept heavily. Ya, Ha, and Snyrg were these three Yozis, the lords of evil, madness, and of spite. When they crept from their galleons and stole over Pegana's silent threshold it boded ill for the gods. There in Pegana lay the gods asleep, and in a corner lay the Power of the gods alone upon the floor, a thing wrought of black rock and four words graven upon it, whereof I might not give thee any clue, if even I should find it—four words of which none knoweth.... These words the Yozis read, and sped away in dread lest the gods should wake, and going aboard their galleons, bade the rowers haste. Thus the Yozis became gods, having the power of gods, and they sailed away to the earth, and came to a mountainous island in the sea.
 There they sat upon the rocks, sitting as the gods sit, with their right hands uplifted, and having the power of gods, only none came to worship. Thither came no ships nigh them, nor ever at evening came the prayers of men, nor smell of incense, nor screams from the sacrifice. Then said the Yozis:

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 Name(s): Cult of the ''Yozi'' (or ''Yozis''; Spirits of Ill; Ya, Ha, and Snyrg, the lords of evil, madness, and of spite; the lords of malice, madness, and hatred)
-First Appearance:  [[Lord Dunsany]], "[[Time and the Gods (fiction)]]"
+First Appearance:  [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]], "[[Time and the Gods (fiction)]]"
 Short Description:  A cult of [[Frazetta Man|subhuman, ape-like beasts]] who have been granted the power to masquerade as humans by the [[Elemental#Aeiirii_and_Saiitii|Yozi, Spirits of Ill]], in exchange for the foul worship of the cult.
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 But in Pegana the gods awoke with a start.
-<br>— [[Lord Dunsany]], "[[Time and the Gods (fiction)]]"
+<br>— [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]], "[[Time and the Gods (fiction)]]"
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-* fiction: [[Lord Dunsany]], "[[Time and the Gods (fiction)]]"
+* fiction: [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]], "[[Time and the Gods (fiction)]]"

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	The cult's organization is a virtual anarchy, with the cult's leadership determined by whichever of the cultists happens to be strongest, loudest, most charismatic, or most disagreeable that day; the Yozi hold no genuine control over the cult beyond whatever temporary hold they can obtain over it via their feeble miracles, and the occasional threat of abandoning the cult and allowing it to revert to complete savagery as the members lose their dubious status of "humanity".		The cult's organization is a virtual anarchy, with the cult's leadership determined by whichever of the cultists happens to be strongest, loudest, most charismatic, or most disagreeable that day; the Yozi hold no genuine control over the cult beyond whatever temporary hold they can obtain over it via their feeble miracles, and the occasional threat of abandoning the cult and allowing it to revert to complete savagery as the members lose their dubious status of "humanity".
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		+	Wherever the followers of the Yozi go, they build their pitiful shrines to the Yozi from out of the shining scraps of their unfulfilled ambitions, and then send their foul prayers and impudent demands to the Yozi, who raised them up from the Isle of the Baboon, and whom the cult have never respected, but also never forgotten.

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 * The Yozi, apparently alien travelers in the Astral Plane, seem to have found themselves the butt of a cosmic joke, successfully stealing the secret of godhood from the gods, only to somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when they failed to successfully drive a bargain to gain human worshipers.  Still, the Yozi offer instant gratification to their worshipers, and may still seek a higher class of cult than to be worshiped by Voormis or Gnophkehs, perhaps offering their dubious services as gods to human cults, with results as disastrous for the Yozi as the are for the cultists.  It is likely the Yozi have more than once been tricked into bargaining with wizards which likely failed to fall far into the favor of the Yozi.
-* The Black Galleons of the Yozi might serve as a goal for a scenario, as ships capable of sailing far beyond Earth's Dreamlands; of course, the Yozi would not willingly let a Dreamer make use of a galleon, without first extracting a price - perhaps in human worshipers, or perhaps in dealing with the unruly cult to grant the Yozi some peace from the infestation of the cult's foul prayers upon their island.  The hazardous journey to the ominous, prayer-infested, and no doubt demon-haunted island can provide some adventure on its own....
+* The Black Galleons of the Yozi might serve as a goal for a scenario, as ships capable of sailing far beyond Earth's Dreamlands; of course, the Yozi would not willingly let a Dreamer make use of a galleon, without first extracting a price - perhaps in human worshipers, or perhaps in dealing with the unruly cult to grant the Yozi some peace from the infestation of the cult's foul prayers upon their island.  The hazardous journey to the ominous, prayer-infested, and no doubt demon-haunted island can provide some adventure on its own, and the investigators would, of course, need to obtain the secret of the island's location first from the bestial Cult of the Yozi....
 ==Quotes==

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 * location:
 ** isle of the Yozi - on a nameless island in the [[Dreamlands|Pegana]] stand gigantic, eroded, guano-spattered, basalt statues of the three Yozi, with their right hands uplifted in imitation of the gods; this island is sacred to the Yozi and their cult
-** isle of the Baboons - an unknown island in [[Dreamlands|Pegana]] where the "[[Frazetta Man|large baboons]]" from which the cult has ascended once originated
+** isle of the Cult of Yozi - an unknown island in [[Dreamlands|Pegana]] where the "[[Frazetta Man|large baboons]]" from which the cult has ascended once originated
 ** Black Galleons:  the Yozi arrived in ancient times in [[Dreamlands|Pegana]] on black galleons with silver sails from an alien star somewhere far beyond [[Yum]] and [[Gothum]], the stars that stand sentinel over Pegana's gate; the galleons are probably still harbored on the nameless isle of the Yozi in Pegana, and might perhaps be commandeered by Dreamers who wish to sail beyond Earth's Dreamlands, for a price to be paid to the Yozi
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 ** [[Frazetta Man]], degenerate ape-like creatures imitating humans, who worship the Yozi in exchange for humanity
 ** debased [[Human Cultist]]s may sometimes accompany the cult for any of a variety of foul and dubious rewards offered by the cult in exchange for their service
 ==Heresies and Controversies==