1

It savagely defends an otherwise oppressed or powerless group, requiring service as a price for this aid

2

The chosen among the believers are granted magical powers or occult gifts

3

The faith can bestow wealth and material prosperity on those who serve it

4

It allows an undead or undying state of eternal life for devout servitors

5

It gives practical protection against a plague, disaster, constant environmental hazard, or other threat against its believers

6

It provides political power through blackmail, bribery, vile favors, and other works in favor of its followers

7

Its principles are the comfortably established morals and beliefs of its hereditary believers, as much as they hide them from outsiders

8

It provides intense physical pleasures or sensory delights that its believers normally would never get to taste

9

It provides muscle to its faithful followers, letting them murder, beat, or terrorize those who stand against them

10

It justifies their worst impulses and gives a divine rationale to a vicious, depraved subculture the believers belong to

11

It promises salvation from an impending catastrophe that will be unleashed on all unbelievers.

12

It gives its outcast adherents a sense of meaning, importance, and power with its terrible majesty and awful splendor