D4T4: BLOOD CULT PURISTS
Astral Sanctum is a world of rituals and living cathedrals, where gothic horror and deep-space mystery collide. Here, the Purists rule. An ancient and unchanging race, their tree-like bodies pulsing with lava-like ichor, a sacred substance that fuels their rituals.
They do not war. They do not divide. They are bound together by one god. The Entity. It does not speak. It does not move. It does not rule. Yet its will is obeyed.
MAJOR SPOILER WARNING
The Entity & Silent Seeding
Under the Entity’s wordless command, the Purists enacted “Silent Seeding”, a campaign to plant the seeds of their influence across the universe. They did not conquer with war. They did not spread through diplomacy. They corrupt. When the process neared completion, the First Envoys were deployed, Roses, strange cosmic beings that shepherded these newborn anomalies, guiding them toward something greater.
They weren’t just messengers. They were leaders. Organizers of a growing, secretive force that no one understood.
MAJOR SPOILER WARNING
The Hive Strikes
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The Khat Rath Zu were the first to recognize the Abstracts as a cosmic infection. They didn’t understand them. They couldn’t categorize them. But they knew one thing: they spread. But Astral Sanctum made a mistake, it revealed itself.
The Purists took the bait. Silent Seeding had been slow, careful, almost undetectable. But they pushed too far, seeded too deep. And now the Dark Forest had eyes on them. The Hive traced the spread of the Abstracts back to one place: Astral Sanctum.