Faiths¶
The priesthoods, orders and cults of Terrun: how the gods are actually served, as distinct from who the gods are. The pantheon pages describe the deities; the pages below describe the people who worship them, and the small cults with no home of their own are gathered at the foot of this page.
Faiths with their own pages¶
| Faith | Serves | One line |
|---|---|---|
| Kalari Priesthood | the dead Kalari | Priests without divine power who keep the faith of the Riven Gods alive, hunted by the Sancturi and the Divine. |
| Divine Authority | the Divine | The fanatically orthodox clergy of the Age of the Divine, before whom kings bow. |
| Cult of the Dragon | Pravustiratel | Seeks to reunite the dead primal dragon's spirit, heart and bones. |
| Earth-Heart Cult | the worldstone fragment and Agrob'Anzut | The orcish religion of the earth-heart, destroyed and reborn among humans and goblins. |
Orders treated under Factions¶
The organised religious orders are Factions pages and are only linked here: the Orders of Arya, the Orders of Moros, the Orders of Tarus, the Knight Orders of Orandos and the Orders of Anariel; the Brotherhood of the Sun, relic-hunters of the Kalari legacy; the Sancturi Clergy of the Imperium; the Light of Kalar, jailers of demons; and in Proturas the Children of the Light, the Divine Alliance with its Templars of the Divine and Divine Order of Lorsythe, and the warlock concords, the Warlocks of the Blue Flame and the Raven Concord, whose warlocks each take "a piece of Inwe's soul as their own" and are "seen as blasphemers, heretics and abominations by worshippers of the Kalari pantheon" (S078).
Smaller cults with a god's page to live on are treated there: the Priesthood of the Iron Lady and the Hand of Setarak under the Elder Gods, the Nyxian Priesthood under Nyx, the Blood Cult of Arya and the Raven Keepers under Arya, the Priests of Belos under Bhaal, the Order of Vyranc under Pyri, and the Tuulish religion, the Cult of the Crocodile God and the worship of Rak'or under the Demigods.
Red Priests of Glaur¶
In the Age of the Divine, the Primal Red Dragon Glaurmelnis and "the Red Priests of Glaur" are counted a rising power: "They have an unsteady truce with the Divine" (S112). Dragons, and Glaurmelnis in particular, rank third among the sources of magic of the age, after the Divine and Seth'Arax, working "Fae, Mithis and Astral Magics" through the "Priests of Glaur" (S112). The northern-powers list of the Fifth Age names "Glaur - Dragon Priests" among the organisations of the north beside the Church of the Divine (S015). The Red Priests are one of the few faiths of the age whose god is neither dead, imprisoned nor the Divine.
Gap
No source describes the Red Priests' rites, seat or leadership, or says whether "Glaur" is a short name for Glaurmelnis or a title.
Primal Union of Ter'Gaia¶
The Primal Union of Ter'Gaia are elemental cultists "made up of Guhvils, Humans, and even some Uk'zarai and Kobolds" who overran a complex of Orandos in the Illuri Fold of the Rift, where the Fire Primordial Ambusthene, "Sovereign of Searing Refulgence (one of the Six Sovereign Fire Primordials)", lies imprisoned. "They built a crude shrine from Felsite on top of Ambusthene's prison" and "plan to free Ambusthene" (S010).
Their leader is Rhivzom, "Fire Cult Leader, Grand Luminari", an Uk'zarai fire priest once condemned for treason in Proturus who escaped and "met with the Gaia Council"; under him serve the warlord Drotvull, the spymaster Gaezlac, the High Luminari Eewaz who heads the temple with four priests and a dozen acolytes, the quartermaster Calleen, and the temple vault's guardian, a greater fire elemental called Afflion (S010). Their rite of liberation needs "a Frost archon heart to douse the flame wards" around the prison, for which they hunt the Boreal Elves' patron Uiren, and "the souls of 4 Red Dragons" to draw the Primordial out (S010). The cult "control the fold and are manipulating the Guhvil invasion. One of the Guhvil generals and several Guhvil council members are cult members" (S010). Rhivzom and his lieutenants are Figures of the Into the Rift campaign; the Illuri Fold is described under the Rift.
Gap
What Ter'Gaia is, and who sits on the "Gaia Council", the sources do not say.
Children of the Choir¶
A cult of the Fourth Age in the Pits of Turis, the spore-filled fungal caverns of the Westmarches. "Cultists have been here 20 years", and they are called "Choir-people" or the Children of the Choir, with "dark green, pretty skin" (S359, S362). The pits "are perpetually filled with fine white fungal spores … Anyone who inhales them for more than a few minutes begins to hear music" (S362). The cult holds an "Ascension Ceremony" under a High Chorister, some 250 people strong, in a chamber of pink spores (S359). The cult is bound to Thraazul, the Fungal Titan whose bones lie in the pits, and the orc Vograg's son Zek'roh "went to join the cultists" (S359). The Pits of Turis are described under Geography; what the heroes of the Marshford Campaign did there is told in its chronicle.
Gap
The sources do not say whom or what the Choir sings to, what the Ascension Ceremony makes of its celebrant, or how the cult relates to the Fungal Titan.