Art (Homebrew lore) Wynn Cultists

Some homebrew lore I made base on the cultist art from the website

Children Of Bak’al
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Spoiler: Backstory

Once a part of the research guild on the corruption branch but later split off and form their own cult after years of interaction of corruption has drained them of sanity or having ideology that the guild looks down upon. Children of Bak’al has form from the members who in close with materials related to the scourge of Wynn, Bak’al resulting them worshiping him as a god.

Spoiler: Idealogy

Not being aligned with corruption itself but rather trying to control and harness it. They see Bak’al as a god ascending beyond humanity due to his power display during the Corruption War. They see anyone not within their cult as weak and willing to attack or raid any civilization to get what they want or further their own goals which is what causes them to be one of the main threats in Wynn province. Some of them even see Bak’al as a liberator who will ascend humanity even further by burning out the weak and ascending the strong. Due to this they see Bob as a false hero of Wynn.

Spoiler: Activity

Current Child of Bak’al activity are sabotaging and contribute to destroy Wynn province as a whole as to complete the Bak’al started. Their main base of operation currently is unknown but a smaller one can be found hiding throughout Wynn province even inside the settlements where they enact their sabotage or recruiting more members to the cult. Their current goal is to finally ascend their herald of war to lead a crusade to destroy Wynn province in the name of Bak’al.

Spoiler: Hierarchy

Slaves or laborers

Children of Bak’al do use slaves or laborers for some manual tasks within the cult activity. These slaves and laborers mostly end up as guinea pigs for the high rank members’ experimentation which is possibly a worse fate.

Initiate
Consist of followers, assistants, and guards. They do the main manual tasks of the cult activity and exist to support the higher ranks. Most of the initiative came from those who left the guild after going mad from the forbidden research, laborers who submit themselves, and more.

High Rank Members
The high ranking members of Children of Bak’al act as leaders of their own branch of the cults and lead specific tasks to contribute to the cults. Each of these groups oversee by an arch visors of their respective group

Ichor Guard
Elite of the guards within the cult in charge of protecting high rank members especially the leader of the cult. Ensure safety during ascension ritual especially to the high rank members that attend it and subdue the failed herald.

Blood Priests
Members in charge of the preparation ritual for the herald. They master in various of torture methods to inflict as much as pain to the herald as much as possible in various scale to make them numb to the pain to succeed in their ascension. They also master blood magic to heal their herald in between torture trials to keep them alive. They believe pain is an obstacle that humanity needs to overcome before being able to harness the power that corruption can offer and those who do not overcome it will become mindless undead for the strong to control.

Warsmith
Act as engineer creating machinery out of corruption ranging from the undead to creatures from the realm beyond. They are the emphasis of the cult’s goal to harness corruption as they conducted various experiments to learn how to control corruption like Bak’al.

The Herald Of War
The most promising member will be picked and taken in the care of the blood priests to become the herald of war where they are subject to torture method of various scales to the point of numbness to pain.


When the high priest decides it’s time for the ascension to happen, they would nail the herald to the spike for days for the herald becomes corrupted. If the herald succeeded in the ascension, they would become powerful undead champions capable of keeping their individuality and lead a crusade in the name of Bak’al. If the herald fails, they will be rendered into mindless undead and be given to warsmiths to enact their experiment on.

Arch Visors
Each group of high ranks overseen by generals(General Ichor Guard, High Priests, and Master Warsmith), they have direct contact with The Arch Magos and act as advisors.

The Arch Magos
The leader and founding member of the cult were in charge of every operation and activity. They are in charge of all the knowledge and research the cult gathers and oversee the ascension ritual to make adjustments for the result they wanted. The current Arch Magos is Cnaw Laewa, the first betrayer of the Research Guild.

Spoiler: Image

Disciple of Annihilation
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Minor cultist group that is active around the outskirts of Detlas. They devoted themselves to the devil called Annihilation that has been known to emerge from the root threatening to destroy the province on numerous occasions. The group is now entirely corrupted yet the core members become undead with the capacity of leading other undead through unknown means under the warband with the same name.


They are heavily militaristic and described as warhost with current warlords with lesser yet intelligent undead acting as his generals, Fordon leading the undead. They are involved in many attacks on Detlas in the aim of sabotaging and assisting Annihilation to unleash itself onto Wynn province.

Spoiler: Captain Fordon

 

Very cool. I am curious to ask you:
Where do you think Bak'al is going to be killed? Before or after dern beast?
Because i personally see DB as at least someone who can be reasoned with given enough force.
I think bak'al just is a nihilistic killer who wants to see the world burn.

 

after Dern Beast, because Dern Beast is something you cant jut kill so player unable to kill it would be anti climatic to some people which Bak'al can solve that issue as the final antagonist for player to defeat.

 

Interesting. I thought I was in the minority on Bak'al acting as the final boss. I know my headcanons tend to be batshit insane (probably in a bad way) but at least I am sometimes with the consensus of other players sometimes