Probably too Malevolent-pilled since I just got sucked back in since Threshold just started but since Part 3 is coming soon. This Theory kept popping up in my head. (Please keep in mind that I haven't re-read in a month so I might spout incorrect bullshit, and this is not well researched)
Anyway Kim Soleum is The King in Yellow,
Well not really. But he could be succeeding it from the previous Mountain Lodge Owner, Braun is Speculated to be Nyarlathoteph but he was considered low grade before Kse st(r)oked his passion and gained power. So maybe a ghost story could succeed an eldritch entity for some reason.
"The ruthless and powerful authority as a landlord exercised over the parasites, visitors, intruders, and challengers in one’s domai" that's what the lodge keeper said as one of the qualifications for existential nobility, What if possessing specific traits and feats resembling of existing lovecraftian entities and other unique circumstances allows a ghost story to embody the incomprehensible, like there are probably other Nyarlathoteph aside from braun.(God this is a mess, idk what I'm even talking about.)
Why I think That Kse is a/the King in Yellow:
★ Speculated to be an Apostle/friend of the (crawling chaos)Host
★ A figure clad in gold, Steeped and cloaked in mysterious fog.(13066 and Golden)
★ An entity associated with shepherding humans(Solnyan)
★ Basically Possessing the script play of the act, that would play out on the worlds stage(DER), a knowledge that drives man mad.
★Owner of a personal supernatural space (either or all of The Mountain lodge, Sekwang city and flower golden resort.)(y'know like carcosa)
★Incarnation of a mad god that has the ability to disintegrate any sanity of an entity that comprehend the forbidden knowledge it posses(either cocoon kse or Ireum-nim), a king that can make reality bend to it's words/presence (overwrite or supernatural nullification abilities aka the weakening of physical laws of the king's presence causing liquefaction).
BSH Yearn-maxxing for the apple of his eye alone in his room while waiting for a reply. Slowly filling up his self insert Yaoi wall, while somewhere else KSE is fighting for his life.
Anyways I didn't have more free time and didn't like how it's turning out since I haven't done digital in ages so I just stopped rendering halfway(Ignore the disproportionately more rendered bunch of emerald apples, just did a material study on glass)