1d100 - Cults, 50 Weird and 50 Sinister
I probably should have posted this earlier, given the subject matter and the blog's name. Oh well.
- Environment-minded nobles obsessed with lakeside rituals to empower the lake spirits
- Arsonists who venerate the lesser god of city planning
- A cult of astronomers who worship shooting stars and asteroids
- A society of elderly women who maintain cat shrines throughout the city
- Doctors that worship the blood they drain from patients
- Geologists who establish holy rock cairns everywhere they can
- A group of people dedicated to clandestine erotic rituals during specific moon phases
- Seventeen families that believe they can control fate with fish-centric rituals
- A group of noble families that have established strange rituals to commune with their ancestors
- An organization of rich merchants who offer gemstones to a mysterious magpie god
- Every denizen in a small fishing village venerates a race of bizarre fish-people who live off-coast
- Fruit shamans that dwell deep in the fetid jungle
- A cult that aggressively recruits. Their goal is to enforce a specific uniform: cleanly shorn heads and stylized black robes
- An order of women that worship a goddess that manifests as green lotus-flowers in this plane of existence
- A warrior-cult that believes in honorable combat and excessively flashy, colorful armor
- Bakers and butchers that worship the ancient cow-goddess of fertility and fine meat
- A cult that emphasizes clean air and proper burial rites
- Noble families that enforce bizarre courting rituals and elaborate, clandestine meetings
- Candymakers that get honey for their goods from a wise, kind, immortal wasp-demonness
- A cult of immortals that travel the world in search of fine alcohol and finer cheeses
- Masters of the ancient art of fishing that pass down their knowledge through nighttime rituals on a lake
- A single man is all that's left in a cult that worships a very misunderstood dragon-god from outer space
- A cult composed entirely of sociopaths with a love for riddles and puzzles
- Hallowed be thy name, demigod of doors and portcullises. The cult that worships him is secretive and cunning
- A cult of master locksmiths, rivals to the dastardly thief's guild. Very complicated rituals, and a well-secured meeting place
- Eight men and women who spend their spare time in the woods, carving ornate, magical sigils in trees
- A cult that worships the goddess of the hearth. They like to meet in crowded taverns and inns
- Empowered by the demigod they worship, a cult of barmen offer inspired advice and listen to the woes of their patrons
- A cult of poets and songwriters that compose odes to their ethereal but very much real muse
- Vagabonds, beggars and lepers have formed a cult that is basically a pyramid scheme with a demigod at the top
- A cult of playwrights and actors that prick their thumbs and offer blood to the god beneath the stage
- Wizards have formed a cult that is basically a book club
- Blacksmiths that venerate the goddess of love and beauty despite her wishes
- A group of young artists that offer libations to the nymphs and dryads that live on the outskirts of civilization
- A cult of talkative old women that can communicate across any distance while they knit and spin wool
- It turns out that everyone who completes a strange dungeon is automatically initiated into a cult of dungeoneers
- A cult of lumberjacks who worship the wicked goddess of the fields. She hates the god of the forest after a failed tryst
- Neutral lizard cultists that hate being mistaken for the evil serpent cult one town over
- Cult of athletes that establish strange shrines on rooftops that require urban parkour to reach
- Druidic cult that worships swamp tar and the thing that lives in tar pools
- Peasant commune that focuses entirely on mushrooms and toadstools, worship strange mycellium god
- Many citizens in a remote city worship harmless entities that can only be seen reflected in mirrors
- Tiny humans that live in tree worship regular-sized humans in nearby village
- Widows in a realm ravaged by war offer prayers to mysterious cloaked figure that promises relief
- Village create giant wicker effigy, worships it until clandestine figures descend from heavens and inhabit construct
- Large city cares for ancient well located in exact center of town; benevolent creature in the well solves disputes
- Cult focused on improving living conditions is co-opted by anti-war sect
- Ancient sun cult works to guide kingdom to more prosperous future through clandestine methods
- Rulers from around the world are all members of strange cult dedicated to gathering ancient relics
- Inmates in mental asylum establish cult, venerate the creature that speaks in their thoughts
- Cult of assassins kill for the glory of the hunt, are empowered by vengeful goddess of love
- Strange bearded men wander the world, inducting people into their order and sowing seeds of insurrection
- Anti-establishment cultists plan domestic terrorism, are bound by oath to a quiet demon
- Royal family plots to sell the souls of their subjects to their master from beyond the stars
- Wicked dragon that lives in barrow-mound grows fat on offering from nearby village
- Echoing voices from oceanside cave whisper instructions to deranged cultists
- Vampires induct only the most beautiful youths into libertine cult, slowly kill off undesirables
- Long line of warrior-kings rule over cult that works to revive dormant volcano
- Wizards gather in shadowy rituals to discover and destroy secrets
- Shapeshifters infiltrate guilds and organizations, force upper management to participate in blood rituals
- Fifteen women are the last remaining members of cult that cultivates and sells venom of world's deadliest viper
- Ranchers on nearby farmstead begin to raise strange, bloodthirsty livestock - feeding them at any cost
- Odd denizens of town are really sentient masses of spiders disguised as humans in thick robes
- Wicked vizier and his followers usurp the caliph and replace him with gemstone facsimile that obeys their commands
- Cult of fleshcrafting sorcerers plan to steal the appearances of notable figures
- Barbarians worship demon of lust and aggression that fuels their rage
- Fishermen in large port city offer up sacrifices to foul, slime-based creature that sleeps under the bay
- Psychic ravens enthrall kind-hearted citizens and force them to participate in grotesque rituals
- Rival cults based around gender work to undermine the other's authority through assassination and smear campaigns
- Dryads in the nearby forest have ensorceled a township into worship, drawing life energy from their supplicants
- A knight in obsidian armor has gathered a group of followers that are kept drunk on power and loot
- A college for talented young spellcasters is secretly a coven of warlocks and their demonic overlord
- Ancient monastic order seeks to destroy all knowledge and return life to its natural state
- Guild populated by the world's most renowned marksmen requires new entrants to give up something extremely precious
- City's sewer system is maintained by trash-eating monstrosities and their misshapen caretakers
- Odd ruler starts a cult of personality and begins to deprive citizens of liberties, but nobody seems to care
- Sharp-dressed man comes into town one day and dispenses bottled happiness to those who swear fealty
- Wild beastmen carry out holy crusade against civilization, force those they conquer to join their warlike cult
- Cats begin to infest an entire port town, malevolent and wicked keen. Soon, the original inhabitants are forced to flee
- Young heroes around the realm begin to cut deals with ambitious dragons to further their careers
- Oddly dressed merchants sell strange instruments at competitive prices. They are strung with something unnerving
- Group of devoted, religious alchemists springs up, create and dispense miracle cure that is 80% human blood
- The large, secretive family that lives in the mansion on the hill are strange folk, and some whisper immortal
- There is more to the local homeless and young orphan population than meets the eye
- and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides; and a dark wind blows; the government is corrupt
- Down in that hole, a scream; the vocal cords are ruined, a dry howl is all that resounds aside from the chanting
- Seventeen demons have descended on the capital, and are forcing clerics and priests into their cult and swordpoint
- A serpent cult that plans on infecting their town with a disease that mutates flesh into scales
- Swimming in the lake is a serpent, speaker of lies and tempter of the holy; its sign is destruction, and its followers many
- A figure appears in the moments before death and offers reprieve. Those executed join it in undeath
- A musician charms and lures his groupies into the forest. When they return, they are deeply changed
- Long live the King. In fact, he plans on living forever.
- Those who venerate the lord of death do so in strange manners. Oftentimes it's considered macabre and disturbed
- Two wicked princes play the deadly game of politics. The court has been swept up, along with the entire population
- Where do all of the spiders come from? One small village, nestled on the edge of a remote jungle
- The river king demands the sacrifice of valorous souls; the village that worships him is now entirely cowards
- Every moth around the city has started to grow larger and more intelligent. The cult that springs up to worship them is fearful
- One story begins where the last one ends. Souls pass on, and a group of clerics finds this abhorrent
- The earth is blackened, but the farmer's harvest is plentiful. Their bargain is dark
- A nameless cult, composed of every human that has ever lived. Their souls are woven together, bound by a wretched fate
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