#cultists

[wh40kartwork]

Major Issue

by Yos Bayu Pratama

#fun #chaos #khorne #daemon #cultists #warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #40k #bayu pratama

[spooky-month-archive]

Skid's dad and cultists

#spooky month #sr pelo art #skid's dad #cultists

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

THE YELLOW KING

by Maximiliano Moretto

#tentacles #fhtagn #maximiliano moretto #concept art #chara design #creature #monster #horror #octopus #throne #fantasy #cultists #elder god #fhtagnn

[dragonofthedepths]

On Display 5.2.23

DP x DC. Clockwork, Danny Phantom, John Constantine. Ghost King Danny.

"Oh no." The words were filled with a quite horror.

John Constantine grimaced. "You can feel it too?"

"How could you not?" Shazam was starring horror struck at the scene of the screen in front of them, Zatana just behind him. "They're family."

John turned away from the screen. He didn't need to watch it to know what was going on, it just provided context for the helpless fear and all-consuming protective rage echoing across the world that any idiot with a smidgen of magical sensitivity could feel. "Well, obviously some idiots are managing to miss that memo. We need to stop this now." He turned. "Bats, stay out of this one."

"What? Why?" Batman -predictably- growled.

"Because this is not the time for your morals," this was not the time for the Justice League to be involved, but the very public broadcast had made keeping it to just the Justice League Dark impossible, "he's going to kill them, and we are going to stand out of his way and let him, unless it's to hold them down for his swing. And hope he doesn't hold the whole planet responsible and start a cross-dimnsional war with us!"

Being ancient and being powerful does not mean being invulnerable. A group of cultists successfully capture Clockwork, planning to use him as a scapegoat/sacrifice to summon the Ghost King. Once the ritual starts they have three hours to plead their case before the summoned King the circle breaks and he is released into the world.

Clockwork makes an incredibly powerful, enticing, and rare sacrifice, what Ghost King would turn that down?

One who's just had his family tortured in front of him for three hours.

Unfortunately for the cultists, Danny loves his mentor, and their fate was sealed from the moment they put their hands on him.

The Justice League/Justice League Dark are racing to rescue Clockwork before the 3 hours is up, to try to lighten the King's ire as much as they can. Sam and Tucker are also racing to find Clockwork and stop the cultists as quick as they can (and probably a bit more willing to break kneecaps to see it done).

Day (618/100) in my #∞daysofwriting @the-wip-project 8th of Feb. Okay technically I wrote almost all the prose between the dialogue today, but I didn’t want to leave it empty T-T T-T T-T

#Amity Park is a place in the DC universe this is not a world-jumping thing #dp x dc #Ghost King Danny Phantom #Clockwork #Sam Mason #Tucker Foley #Justice League Dark #Cultists #Justice League #Danny Phantom #DP #DC #scribblings from the deep #∞daysofwriting #fix tags later #Clockwork & Danny #lost time

[bornulhuu]

Various cultists of Tirar: 1. pic - followers of greatwurm Emlyth, they offer worship and tribute out of necessity; So that the giant burrowing worm entity bothers avoiding their settlements. Otherwise her indifferent greatness would burrow over them sooner or later. Some of them get afflicted by her radiation.

2. pic - worshippers of Tel-Nebuk. They work as miners in deep pits and ever expanding mines, assisting their old god in his search of ancient artifacts. In return they get to keep any scraps of precious metals and are gifted with invigorating flames.

3. pic - Aquatic beings that worship the nuclear leviathan Shabaja. They leave their young inside jellyfish like organisms until they grow old enough to join on their pilgrimages to the planets underground oceans where their god is most often found. They have a special spiritual link with it, and are proud to be of use to the leviathan, if it means getting devoured.

#lovecraftian #bornulhu art #monster design #character design #cultists

[witchmarsh]

#gamedev #pixelart #gaming #rpg #pixel art #indiedev #witchmarsh #platformer #crpg #animation #writing #gameswriting #dialogue #screenwriting #cultists #lovecraft #lovecraftian

[wh40kgallery]

Wrath of the Soul Forge King

Artist Unknown

#imperium #adeptus astartes #astartes #dark angels #azrael #chapter master #deathwing #terminator #chaos #vashtorr #daemon #cultists #heretek #bolter #plasma weapon #bionics #banner #unknown artist #40k

[dailyadventureprompts]

Adventure: Countess Ledrick's (Re)Doubt

You were warned about bandits in your travels through the Kingsfault mountains, but you didn't expect them to be such gracious hosts. It's about after your third stein of ale at their leader's high table that you start to think they might want something from you more than coin.

Even monsters can change, or so thinks Ledrick as she wipes the blood of her latest kill from her blade. A little over a decade ago she was at the vanguard of a mercenary force pillaging through the land clearing the way for an invading army. After the fighting was done while most of her companions were either going home or turning bandit she decided to take over the keep of a minor noble she'd help to butcher.

It was mostly a joke, a commonborn killer like her declaring herself a countess and presiding over a court of outlaws as they drank a dead man's wine. Presiding turned into setting down rules for her gang, which turned into negotiating for food with nearby villages in exchange for protection from monsters and whoever didn't want to follow her rules. Fast forward eight years and Ledrick's being cheered by the people she once came to conquer as she stands between them and and ettin looking to break down their village gates.

Time has a way of changing everything... grudges are buried, children are born, and necromantic cults of dragon worshippers emerge from their tomb sleep... all part of the great cycle.

Adventure Hooks:

Tracking a bounty into the mountains leads the party to the countess's court, where their quarry has thrown himself on Ledrick's mercy as someone who fought alongside her in the early days of securing her lands. Lendrick will let the party plea their case, but conflicted between a soldier's honour and wanting to be a lawful lord will instead send them out searching for the local priestess of Tyr, god of hardwon peace, who has offered the countess wise council in the past and has been missing of late on pilgrimage to a shrine in the wilderness.

The party may also fall into Lendrick's company after their quest or patron sends them to defend against a threat lurking in the mountainous wilderness, where they'll use her fort as a forward operating base. Learning to live alongside the Countess and her retinue of semi-retired killers may take some getting used to, but if the party can win their trust they'll have no truer allies when the threat comes calling.

There have always been drakes roosting in the Kingsfault mountains, but in recent months the countess's domain has seen more attacks than it has in the past twenty years. Something is driving these beasts to attack, and the former merc has put out a call for aid to , knowing herself ill equipped to investigate the causes and that her people would be better served with her managing the monsters.

Background: It was a little over a year ago when one of Ledrick's old warbuddies came calling, a battlemage named Hess who in recent who's post-retirement delving into the more esoteric side of magic has led him down a dark road. Showing up all smiles and grand stories of their shared suffering, Hess convinced the countess to let him and his acolytes apprentices delve an old ruin in her territory, promising to share some the riches they unearthed as repayment.

Hess was good on his word, tribute to the countess's court arrived after just a few weeks of delving and maintained at a steady trickle ever since. Part of this tribute happened to be a cursed idol that unless properly contained attracts the violent attention of dragonkind. Hess neglected to include care instructions when he sent it along, hoping to use the countess's defence of her lands as a means of harvesting drakeflesh under the guise of helping to search for reasons behind the attacks.

Further Adventures:

Several of Ledrick's underlings are beginning to fall under Hess's sway; sure the drakes have killed a few dozen peasants but merchants are willing to pay for their horns and teeth hand over first, to say nothing of the drakescale armor some of the more gifted armorers have been knocking together after their hunts. Would they really let all this stop to all this just because some do-nothing farmers got hurt?

Behind his jockular attitude and harmlessly crass jokes, there's something deeply wrong with Hess. War left wounds in his psyche and now something festers beneith his scars eating away at who he is, driving him to delve deeper into the tomb and unlock its secrets. Pretending to help with the party's investigation, he'll send them on a wild goose chase into the mountains towards a dangerous ruin claiming it as the origin of whatever's causing the drakes to attack.

By the time they realize the deceptio Hess and his followers will have cleared out of the ancient tomb, leaving behind a series of spells that will lock the party inside and reactivate all the traps and guardians the cult spent months disarming. Perhaps most dangerous of all is a construct of Hess's own fevered design; built of drakebone and sinew grafted into armor, a half finished war machine that will stalk the party through the darkened halls.

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#low level #cultists #ally noble #d&d #mountain #bounty #monster hunt #dragon #villain cult #villain mage #bandits

[aprocessionofthoughts]

To lose control

ai-less whumptober 2023 day 6- mind control fandom- Danny Phantom x DC TW- loss of control summary- Danny's been working part time for the JLD when they come across and artifact he'd hoped to never see again.

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Danny had been a consultant for the Justice League and part time member to the JLD for over a year now.

They both thought he was just a human with a connection to the occult. He planned to keep it that way. He didn’t really want to get back into hero-ing. He had had enough of that and was quite happy that most of his rogues were now his friends. And any ghost that wasn’t friendly was often taken care of by his parents who had greatly changed their views after he had told them his secret.

With his luck, he should have known that all his work at keeping Phantom a secret from the heroes would eventually go down the drain.

********

Danny paced by the side of the warehouse waiting for the League to finish taking down the summoners. He was merely here to help with the cleanup and to help determine which artifacts were dangerous and to collect any tomes for the JLD to review later.

Danny thought that Constantine could handle that on his own, but apparently since he was still ‘new’ the League had thought it necessary to send him so he could get more experience.

Finally, his comm dings and he makes his way to the door.

Constantine is inside along with the Bats, Danny really only recognizes Batman and the current Robin, the rest look familiar but he can’t remember any names. 

Though that one with the red helmet sure feels familiar. Almost as if…

He’s cut off from that train of thought when he senses pick up another familiar energy reading. One that makes him freeze in place, eyes wide.

“What’s wrong?”

Danny stumbles back. Holy Ancients! That’s Batman. How had he gotten so close without Danny noticing? Oh right, he was distracted by the energy he had hoped to never feel again, already he could feel memories trying to pull him into a panic.

Danny ignores the Bat who’s looming over him in favor of looking around the room. There was obviously a fight and Danny can see a summoning circle in the center of the open space with knocked over candles around the edge and piles of scattered herbs. The scent was making his nose prickle.

Danny ignored it as well as the Bat who seemed to be getting broodeir. Where was… There. He zeroed in on one of the cultists. A cultist who was wearing a necklace with a red gem. A very familiar red gem. 

Danny lets out a small gasp and Batman follows his gaze, his own eyes narrowing. 

“What is it?” 

Constantine is turning to them too, as are the other Bats.

“What’s wrong, mate?”

Danny can see the other Bats tensing,

Danny opens his mouth to tell them about the dangerous artifact, no need to tell them about said artifact’s abilities, when the cultist looks up and meets Danny’s eyes. Then he grins his eyes glowing faintly as the shard of crystal also glows.

“Look what we have here.” comes the raspy voice. “And here I’d been upset when our ritual was ruined.”

“What’s he talking about?” says the bat with a blue bird shape across his chest. Robin is starting to approach the cultist. 

“His necklace—”

“Stop.” says the man and Danny’s jaw clamps shut. He can feel the Red starting to haze his vision and he fights against it.

“Mind.. control..” he rasps, his body twitching as it fights to throw off the gem’s effects.

Robin has nearly reached the cultist. 

“Stop him.”

Between one blink and the next Danny finds himself having flung Robin away. Everyone is ready to fight now and the Red is still fighting to take over his vision.

“Run!” he manages. He doesn't want to fight them. Not if they don’t have the proper equipment. They don’t know what he is, what he can do. He doesn’t want to hurt anybody, except maybe the cultist.

“Strange, that you have a ghost working for you. Though I’ve never seen one look so human before.” Danny hears the cultist say, but he can’t move. He feels like a passenger in his own body. He can see everyone giving each other uncertain looks. They haven’t moved yet, but they will soon if they don’t think Danny’s a threat.

The bats have started to move towards him when the cultist says, “Attack.”

Danny feels the Red wash over him as he fires an ecto-beam at the nearest bat. At the last second, Danny’s able to redirect it to miss.

At least everyone’s on higher alert now.

But his body keeps trying to attack everyone and even though he’s fighting it, Danny knows it will only be so long before he succumbs to the Red. 

As he’s grappling with Batman he manages to grunt through gritted teeth, “Find– Manson–” 

Then the cultist shrieks, “Get over here!” and Danny finds himself putting up a shield between the cultist and the hero wearing black and blue. “Get me out of here.” the cultist growls.

Danny turns to grab him, making them both invisible and intangible as the Red drowns him.

He can only hope that they’ll find his friends before he does anything too terrible.

Then, there is only Red.

#ailesswhumptober #ailesswhumptober2023 #day 6 #mind control #Danny phantom #batman #dp x dc #dp x dc au #fanfiction #Danny fenton #john constantine #bruce wayne #all the other bats are mentioned #hurt/no comfort #open ending #cultists #in the red

[weirdlookindog]

Nikolai Lutohin - Bruderschaft des Satans (Brotherhood of Satan)

original cover art for Geisterjäger John Sinclair Vol. 4 #20, c. 1992

#nikolai lutohin #bruderschaft des satans #brotherhood of satan #geisterjäger john sinclair #jason dark #cover art #horror art #pulp art #german horror pulp #art #cultists #painting

[stonedrunkwizard]

#cultists #wizards #ritual #occult #horror

[wh40kartwork]

Cultists of Nurgle

by fat-elf

#chaos #nurgle #cultists #warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #40k #fat elf

[spooky-month-archive]

A doodle Sr Pelo created in response to a Spooky Month ship poll that was held on Twitter

#spooky month #sr pelo art #skid's dad #cultists

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

LADY IN BLUE

by Carpet-Crawler

#tentacles #fhtagn #carpet-crawler #creature #monster #horror #concept art #chara design #demon #eclipse #dark fantasy #cultists #elder god #fhtagnnn

[oldschoolfrp]

On Mount Tamalpais "The Cult of Stellar Propitiation is bringing a monster down from the stars to devour San Francisco as an object lesson to the rest of the world and as proof of their devotion to their uncaring masters." (Steve Purcell for Steve Perrin's Cthulhu mythos superhero scenario in Different Worlds 35, July/August 1984)

#Steve Purcell #Different Worlds #Chaosium #cultists #cult #skull #magic #Golden Gate Bridge #San Francisco #Mount Tamalpais #Steve Perrin #monster summoning #1980s

[qxurugosk]

Hear me out.

Cultist OCs should rp together and see how they would all interact with each other. Do I expect some inner conflict within the group? Probably. Are they willing to work together for The Prototype's cause? Certainly. Will they hate each other? A possibility.

#space riders au #cultists