Blood Cult from Blood Cult by Alkilith
At the beginning, the cult was young: young were its followers and young were its gods. The cult flourished in the barren regions of Yom-Kaleth, in the squalid merchant cities of Sadath and Morgadan, then spread throughout the khanate until it reached the rich capital, Sal-Barath, the Hundred-rayed Star. From the gods, the adepts of the cult obtained wealth, happiness and clairvoyance. The gods were magnanimous, because in exchange for joy, only a small sacrifice was asked to the faithful: an ounce of blood a day. But soon the benefits increased and in presence of a greater bliss, the gods thirst became greater: the ounces became two, then three and finally four, so the adepts had difficulty to satisfy their will. To overcome this difficulty, the adepts therefore spread the practice of bloodletting among the population: a healthy and invigorating practice, they said. The adepts became priests of the medical art and occupied top positions in the Temples of Healing.
Bloodletting became very popular: everyone, from naive commoners to wealthy merchants, underwent the treatment by virtue of the rejuvenation and lengthening of life that it granted. Thus the gods had blood in abundance, every day, for many years. Then the Heresy of the Cult was born: groups of young adepts, corrupted by the worm of pride and presumption, began to question the word of the priests and the practice of the Ritual Bloodletting. In the wild regions on the outskirts of the Khanate, heretical churches were born that approached young people thirsting for Truth, at odds with the church-government of Sal-Barath. The gods did not like all this: so the khanate fell into a fatal period of civil war. Years of war and massacres only led to a stalemate, in which the Church of Sal-Barath lost more and more power. So, at a certain point, the same gods, who until then were sleeping in the recesses of an unknown dimension, decided to come out ...
0:00 - The Citadel of Sal-Barath
1:36 - Thirst of the Blood Cult of Yom-Kaleth
3:39 - A Rejuvenation from the Gods in the Church of the Hundred-Rayed Star
5:47 - The Heresey of the Cult is born
8:46 - Blood Drunk before the Eve of Battle
10:24 - The Unending March of War for the Khanate
13:26 - Opening of the Blood Gate to the Abysmal Dimensions
