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Yellow Sign Cult Gifts

‘‘ Commune with the King: The King himself,
at his pleasure, can give the cultists information,
useful items, or direction. Usually, this is not in
person, but one might, for example, recognize the
King’s handiwork in something scrawled on a wall.
‘‘ Desecration: Creative atrocities can
cause the King in Yellow to manifest and
bless cultists and their activities.
‘‘ Passion: When cultists focus on something
(spellcasting, an objet d’art, a dance, or the
like), their concentration often consumes them.
They favor the Mad Passion feat (page 77).
‘‘ The Pallid Mask: A cultist can become an
avatar of the King in Yellow (page 254)
by wearing the Pallid Mask. After an avatar
has departed or been destroyed, a lesser
pallid mask (page 168) remains behind.
‘‘ Third Eye: Cultists are able to see other realms
more easily than others, either in divinelygranted glimpses or by way of the Third
Eye Masterpiece bardic masterpiece (page
58), and only their madness helps them
comprehend what they see. This also tends
to make Yellow Sign cultists take actions that
seem even more bizarre and crazy to those who
only exist in the normal plane of existence.
‘‘ Treasures: Cultists often have access to
clithni, the lamp of Alhazred, pigments from
Yuggoth, selenine, and wine of Pnoth.

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