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It favors monstrous body alterations

2

It’s a remnant of a now-dead culture

3

It has a variety of potent ancient artifacts

4

It’s a sect of a better-known public faith

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It cuts secret deals with the ruling class

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It has a totemic beast or monster type

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They live where normal people couldn’t

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They’re cannibals or other gustatory deviants

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They have agents in other religious groups

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They were thought to be wiped out in the past

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A subculture of the land is friendly to it

12

It employs technology-like magics

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It has a lot of servitor monsters obedient to it

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An area is tacitly understood to belong to it

15

It was once a public and powerful faith

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It has open sympathizers among the great

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It’s thought to hold back some awful doom

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They only look like humans

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The visible part of the cult is but a fraction of it

20

They serve a purpose that no longer obtains