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I'm in the middle of working on a cult for the Infernal Duke Crocell from Princes of Darkness and I'm running into some snags thinking up what his cult would look like. On the one hand what little write up we get paints him in a lot of ways as something close to the 40k god tzeneech, with this love of art, poetry, and languages that never existed, loving speaking in riddle like poetry, and being what I can only assume is a cohort or Geryon and most likely crafting various heresies and lies to topple worlds. That being said though I'm having a real trouble thinking of what a cult to this infernal duke would be like.
My current idea is using him as a deceptive god of knowledge and hidden oasis' with a cult that is often associated with water guilds in harsh badlands and wastes. Within the cults the practice finding hidden knowledge like lost sources of water as well as hidden knowledge and magic. To this end I see them having rituals where they hold themselves underwater in meditation, waiting until they begin to run out of air and using the oxygen deprived state as a way to divine cosmic truths and other knowledge they may not have access to.
The problem I'm having is with figuring out where the more overt evil of his this infernal duke actually fits. Part of me sees it as maybe being some larger scam on his end, in which he espouses some perfect world that never was and gets people to pledge to follow him and his perfect cultural ideal (think artistic haven but with a strict hierarchy) but in the end their souls are inevitably condemned to the pit.
Beyond that though I don't really have much and I feel like it still needs something to really make it pop and stand out as a cohesive whole. Any help anyone can give on the matter would be greatly appreciated or even your own ideas and interpretations.