High Cultist

Description[]

The High Cultist is the leader of an entire town of worshipers dedicated to the Great Old Ones. However, regular human sacrifices to weed out the unworthy have left the town with only a small but highly dedicated population. There is a special sea water well in the town where women are encouraged to submerge themselves in the hope of being impregnated by a Great Old One. This never happens, but many women find themselves taken by a Deep One instead. The offspring of such a union will be a hideous fish-like humanoid instead of the noble Starchild everyone hopes for. These half-human hybrids are highly devoted to the cause and will help the cultists spread the influence of the Great Old Ones. The cultists build similar sea water wells in all coastal settlements they conquer and subject the population to their rites, thus gaining the services of the resulting hybrids as soldiers for the High Cultist's armies or as a defensive force for the settlement.

The High Cultist needs to conquer more settlements to gain sacrifices. They are needed to summon Deep Ones from the depths of the sea and convince them to support the High Cultist's cause. Summoning rituals are always risky and a successful cultist never summons anything that he cannot also kill if things go awry.

Even though his service to the Great Old Ones has changed him, the High Cultist is ultimately human by nature and unable to grasp that which is required to perform the most difficult rituals. To gain access to such magic, the High Cultist must summon an Old One to continue into the realms where he himself cannot go. Starspawn can use astrology to divine the location of enemies and to open pathways for powerful Horrors to attack them. The Queen of the Deep is an Old One who can summon entire armies from the deep.

Abilities:

Gains hybrids from all coastal settlements.
Cultists collect sacrifices from hamlets, villages and larger settlements.
Cultists can use sacrifices to perform rituals.
Cultists are are easy to replace as new ones join frequently.

Starting Resources[]

Units

Territory

1 Deserted Port
1 Farm

Recruitment List[]

Basic Recruitment[]

#	Name			Notes
5	Archers	50
1	Catapult	25	50
5	Crossbowmen	50	5
5	Heavy Infantries	50	25
1	Ship	10	25	Requires a Port
5	Spearmen	50
5	Swordsmen	50	10

Special Recruitment[]

#	Name		Notes
1	Assassin	special	Leader
1	Captain	40 + d10	Leader
1	Scout	15 + d10

In addition to these units, the High Cultist will receive special recruitment offers from the Wizard Offers list if he owns a library.

Summons[]

#	Name	Ritual	Notes
d2	Anglers of the Depths	Ceremony in the Deep
d3+1	Anglers of the Depths	Greater Ceremony in the Deep	Mass Summoning⁶
d4+1	Angler Spawns	Ceremony in the Deep
3d6	Angler Spawns	Greater Ceremony in the Deep	Mass Summoning⁶
1	Basalt King	Contact Old Ones	Leader
1	Basalt King	Deep Rising	Leader, Mass Summoning⁵
1	Basalt Queen	Contact Old Ones	Leader
3d6	Deep One Warriors	Call Army of the Deep	Mass Summoning³
2d4	Deep One Warriors	Call Warriors of the Deep
4d6	Deep One Warriors	Deep Rising	Mass Summoning⁵
5d6	Deep Ones	Call Army of the Deep	Mass Summoning⁴
d5	Deep Ones	Call of the Deep
d3	Elder Things	Call Elder Beings
1	Elder Thing	Contact Elder Being
d3	Formless Spawns	Call Elder Beings
1	Formless Spawn	Contact Elder Being
1	Hybrid Cultist	Call of the Deep	Leader, Promotes to Star Child
1	Kraken	Ceremony in the Deep
1	Monster of the Deep	Ceremony in the Deep	Stupid
4d6	Pillars of the Depths	Deep Rising
d4+1	Pillars of the Depths	Greater Ceremony in the Deep
1	Shambler Prince	Call Army of the Deep	Leader, Mass Summoning²
1	Shambler Prince	Call Warriors of the Deep	Leader
3d6	Shamblers	Call Army of the Deep
d4	Shamblers	Call Army of the Deep	Mass Summoning⁴
d2	Shamblers	Call of the Deep
1	Star Oak	Contact Elder Being	Stationary
d3	Star Oaks	Call Elder Beings	Stationary
1	Starspawn	Contact Old Ones	Leader, Promotes to Elder Starspawn
2d5	Strange Things	Call Elder Beings	Stationary
d4	Strange Things	Contact Elder Being	Stationary
1	Void Lord	Contact Old Ones	Leader
2d5	War Shamblers	Call Army of the Deep	Mass Summoning²
d4	War Shamblers	Call Army of the Deep	Mass Summoning³
d3+1	War Shamblers	Call Warriors of the Deep
2d6	War Shamblers	Deep Rising	Mass Summoning⁵
1	Yithian	Contact Elder Being
1	Yithian Sage	Call Elder Beings	Leader
1	Yithian Sage	Contact Old Ones	Leader, Mass Summoning¹
d3	Yithians	Call Elder Beings
d4	Yithians	Contact Old Ones	Mass Summoning¹

Spawns[]

#	Name	Spawned by
?	Hybrid Fishermen	Controlled Coastal Settlements
?	Hybrid Soldiers	Controlled Coastal Settlements
?	Hybrid Spearmen	Controlled Coastal Settlements
?	Insane Fishermen	Controlled Coastal Settlements