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| “ | Whatever you do, at the crossroads, don't turn left. Don't be fooled. It's listening. You can't outsmart it. It's listening tom e. It's watching me. It isn't from this world. At the crossroads don't durn left. At the crossroads DONT turn left. At the crossroads don't turn left. ATt the crossroadsa dont durn left. At the crossroads don't turn left. At the crossroads don't turn left. At the crossroads don't turn left. Rvn Avery it's here. |
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| ~ d3rLord3's written warning to Avery about avoiding being lured in by the King of Yellow (with the final message being an encoded message). |
The King in Yellow, is the main antagonist of an unnamed Minecraft horror ARG created by Wifies, better known in title as Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist by Wifies.
In the video, the King in Yellow is depicted as an enigmatic entity with complete dominion over the Minecraft world in which both D3rLord3 and Avery find on their computers, seemingly hunting any players who enter his domain. While the King in Yellow’s initial inspiration is drawn from Robert W. Chambers’s work, the King in Yellow portrayed in Wifies’s video more closely resembles the interpretation influenced by H. P. Lovecraft, appearing to terrify D3rLord3 and providing him with an apparent glimpse into the future upon being observed.
It is important to note that Wifies’s version of the King in Yellow is distinct from prior literary iterations; this portrayal is clearly the creator’s own adaptation and should be treated as a separate character with its own abilities, traits, etc.
Personality[]
The King in Yellow is never addressed directly by name, nor does he ever speak a single word, only being told about through books and the occasional comment by D3rLord3. However, D3rLord3's book and quill highlight that the King in Yellow is exceptionally intelligent, describing him as "always listening" and unable to be outsmarted. True to the tale of the entity encompassing all knowledge, it is heavily likely the King in Yellow only allowed D3rLord3 to believe he had outsmarted him to give a false sense of security, only to lead him to the yellow gates and expose him to his true form regardless, implying that he's quite a sadistic entity that enjoys toying with his victims.
History[]
At some point, the King in Yellow began inhabiting a cursed Minecraft world where it would lure in players driven by curiosity and drive them insane with the knowledge of everything that exists. In the abandoned village of the world, it is implied through the book found that a civilization once tried to summon the King in Yellow. It is presumed that the King in Yellow either killed the civilization off or drove them insane.
On September 1, 2025, a player named D3rLord3 began exploring the world and mined into a cave whilst creating a strip mine, only to discover unusual world generation with large patches of moss and unusually shaped trees. At the end of the cave, D3rLord3 emerged into a huge, open cavern covered in moss and large trees. After briefly exploring the cavern, D3rLord3 entered a tunnel made out of mud and started to walk down it until he turned around and noticed a pair of torches behind him had been broken. After a few short seconds of walking, he turned around again to see another pair of torches gone before suddenly all the torches behind him began disappearing. As D3rLord3 proclaimed his lack of fear, he suddenly began hearing a mass of whispering voices all around him, prompting him to walk to the end of the hallway and jump into a huge lake.
After landing in the lake, D3rLord3 crafted a few doors to help him breathe underwater as he dived into the lake and swam to the bottom, taking the left tunnel until he reached a huge wall of tunnels. After swimming up for air, D3rLord3 heard the same whispers as he had earlier, believing that whatever had spooked him previously was nearby again and temporarily burrowing into the ceiling as the whispers of the entity passed by. After swimming back down into the depths, D3rLord3 picked a tunnel at random and swam down it until he eventually emerged on the other side in a huge underground forest surrounding the pond he had come from.
After taking in the view, D3rLord3 dove back into the pond and blocked off the entrance to prevent whatever was following him from entering the same way. Knowing that it would come in through the same way, D3rLord3 began creating a trap to catch the entity following him using a chunk loader. After building the trap, D3rLord3 began exploring the area, coming across several signs that appeared to point in one direction. Before deciding to follow them, he made a quick trip back to the chunk loader, finding it unchanged. However, D3rLord3 had set a second trap by placing a block of grass next to a block of dirt, which had now also grown into grass, meaning that the entity had followed through the pond and blocked off the entrance, loading the chunk and the grass. D3rLord3 escaped back into the forest and found the midpoint, digging down into another tunnel that turned into a maze, which D3rLord3 was gradually able to find his way through and locate the exit; a huge room consisting of a giant gate and large letters arranged above it in a cipher-stacked code. Unfortunately, D3rLord3 also had to deal with a combination lock made out of levers in front of him, but rejected the puzzle and instead simply mined through the gate with his pickaxe.
Through the gate, D3rLord3 discovered a huge, abandoned village that seemed to belong to some kind of civilization. Off in the distance, D3rLord3 spotted an abandoned house isolated from the rest of the village, containing a book and quill that appeared to catalog the villagers' attempt to summon a "king" before warning the reader to turn back and delete the world. Mining through a bookshelf to see if there was anything else he had missed, D3rLord3 found a pair of doors behind a bookshelf and travelled through, ending up in another hallway.
As D3rLord3 reached the end of the hallway, he found himself in a cave and went left, discovering that the cave was seemingly being corrupted by a black essence. As the cave became entirely black, D3rLord3 rounded a corner and discovered a building situated in the darkness, with only the glow coming from behind the two large yellow gates providing any illumination. As D3rLord3 approached the gates, he braced himself before passing by them and entering the building, only to freeze at the sight of the King in Yellow himself behind the gates, flooding his mind with the incomprehensible knowledge of everything that has ever and will ever exist. After a few seconds, D3rLord3 backed out of the building and ran for his life back to the hallway, turning away from it and going the other direction until he burrowed into the walls and found himself back in the room he started off in when he was strip mining.
After arriving back at the room he started off in, D3rLord3 pulled out a book and began frantically writing a warning message to Avery, whom he knew would be coming next as a result of the future knowledge given by the King in Yellow and addressed by name in an encoded message, telling him to not turn left at the crosswords before putting the book and quill in the chest and logging off.
After editing the footage to censor the King in Yellow and encrypting the footage after putting it in a Google drive, D3rLord3 left the laptop in a storage locker, his whereabouts unknown.
At some point, the laptop was obtained by a person named Avery, who ran a YouTube channel called "AveryTheMayo" and began using it as his personal laptop. At some point while playing Minecraft on D3rLord3's world, he stumbled across D3rLord3's mine a few hundred blocks away from his base, including his strange book and quill.
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Trivia[]
- As of yet, it is unclear how, when and why the King in Yellow is inhabiting a Minecraft world.
- It is possible that the abandoned village D3rLord3 finds is meant to be an in-game representation of a society that tried to summon the King in Yellow in the past.
- Why is Avery in creative mode when they find the warning?