007 - The Priest of the Church

The Church of Everlasting Suffering is by far the biggest and most well-organized religious group across all of Posterra. Some claim their success lies in the tangible realness of their God. The One True God, as they like to make sure you know their position on the matter, is a real entity. Most wise men consider it to be some supreme biological weapon of the distant past, a peculiar super-organism created sorely for mass destruction. A floating orb of alabaster flesh, oozing milky liquid that causes extreme agony on contact, it displays basic sentience, some long-eroded programmed purpose and astonishing potency in causing pain, opening up like a fleshy flower to spew toxins, shoot barbed hooks on hard as steel sinews, created manifold limbs for cutting, shearing, crushing and tearing. Some though consider the thing to be a god – and why not? It defeated anything that ever dared to threaten it. It levitates stately above the ground, is seemingly ageless and immortal and for reasons unknown, tolerates presence of lesser beings as long as it doesn’t register them as threats… And so, the cult crew, from a bunch of absolute thrill-seeking lunatics to a vast church that praise the entity as a Lord of Suffering that offers great gifts of purifying pain, transcendent agonies and elation to a higher plane via anguish unspeakable. Many users of the Pained Tears – as the liquid produced by the entity was called by the devout – displayed growing mutations and changes, transforming into vile creatures of hyper-sensations, driven by desire to feel more and more. These Chosen are considered sacred and elevated within the Church to high positions despite their flickering sanity.