The clue is Cthulhu.
I am so reminded of this song I so love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut82TDjciSgHey there Cthulhu indeed.
So. The two I believe I know the most about:
Yellow King.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_YellowIt's a collection of short stories, three of which have a yellow/death/madness theme.
This book is believed to have been a primary inspiration for Lovecraft, the writer who 'created' Cthulhu.
The first, about a fictional play, 'The King in Yellow', supposedly those who read the play are forever changed in eerie but not necessarily evil ways, that the first act is ordinary but the second, to only see the first page of the second act is to be drawn in and unable to avoid reading the rest.
The second, a story about a specific King in Yellow, a supernatural and dangerous entity.
The third, the Yellow Sign, it drove people mad.
Much later 'The King in Yellow' was borrowed (for the Mythos RPG) to become an avatar for he who's name must not be said (Hastur), who has a mask, to remove its face with the mask removed is to go insane.
The Sleeper:
There's SO many great powers asleep in the Cthulhu mythos, from Cthulhu itself to ohh, so many great powers. Most of them should sleep, should and yes.
But these are names, names for Psisquid to take... or rather share?
The name Nihilism. The belief that traditional morals, goals, values have no meaning. Some adherents take pleasure immediate as is all there is or should be. It's not a very disciplined path.
Conflagration, as a name. Burning, not tearer or devourer, but the unstopable burning of all. We're right beside a volcano. The power of this one is so, so very close. But no. No.
The Sleeper, to share as a name. No. So many sleepers, so much might wake through Psisquid. But too, he might join their sleep. He might grow slower, sluggish. Names have powers, powers have price.
Yellow King. A concept from my childhood, the yellow king and his throne, alone upon an endless checker-board like field that compromises both the ground and the sky. There is only him there, if there is anything at all. Mystery. Power. Secrets. Insanity. Allure.
Yes.
Any and every bit of vote I am allowed, for Psisquid who is to me my avatar here - I say Yellow King.