This blog entry picks right up from April 19th's entry here. A combined Thirteen Parsecs: Beyond the Solar Frontier Rpg By Jason Vey & The Arduin Grimoire rpg campaign picks up with the Arduin elements taking center stage. The Nexus Gates of Arduin are rife with the rarer races and monsters of Arduin. Why?!
Because the Nexus gates of Arduin still connect to the corrupted worlds of the King In Yellow. These places are mockeries of what they once were. Temples, underground works, and more connect too Arduin but the trip is only one way. You can enter from Arduin but not go back. A preventative measure of the Ancients of Arduin. As we said last blog entry;"Ages ago Arduin's ancient races saw the spread of the madness of the King In Yellow and the plague of the Yellow Sign. They isolated as many of the Nexus gates locations as they could."
The cult of 'The King In Yellow' on Arduin and it's reach past the Nexus Gates is a subtle one. This is because the cult of the 'King in Yellow' on Arduin isn't found in isolated locations. Instead it's spread among corrupted performers, actors, bards, and minstrels who keep the play and it's eldritch horror alive in the popculture of Arduin. This in turn continuously fuels the dungeons and locations of madness of the King on Arduin itself.
Why is this important?! Because it has to do with the subtly powerful bleed through of the King in Yellow's power through realities and dimensions. According to the King in Yellow Mythos wiki entry; "The King seems, however, to be present in the 'reality' inhabited by the protagonists of Chambers' tales as well as within the fictional (to them) universe of the play's setting; part of the horror in the stories is the way the King's malice bleeds through from one layer to another. For those characters, to allow their minds to become open to the forbidden play and its world is to allow his grasp to stretch into theirs. The King's ability to possess the bodies (not necessarily still living) of those who have fallen under his thrall is evidenced by the fate of narrator Mr. Scott in The Yellow Sign:
"The gate below opened and shut, and I crept shaking to my door and bolted it, but I knew no bolts, no locks, could keep that creature out who was coming for the Yellow Sign. And now I heard him moving very softly along the hall. Now he was at the door, and the bolts rotted at his touch. Now he had entered. With eyes starting from my head I peered into the darkness, but when he came into the room I did not see him. It was only when I felt him envelope me in his cold soft grasp that I cried out and struggled with deadly fury, but my hands were useless ... I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now."
The dungeons and ruins of the Arduin Nexus gates locations are fueled by malice and power of the King as a self sustaining circuit of chaos & unreality. The dungeon themselves are part of the King in Yellow's power & serve as indirect alters to his power. The dungeon delvers who die with these dungeon's halls are sacrifices. Arduin's Ancients who were corrupted by the King are mere mockeries of themselves. Things have gotten very dangerous again and add to this fact that knowledge of the forbidden Nexus gates locations are part of adventurer's agendas
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