[[GENERATE CULT|Cult Generator]] { (set: $groupA to (either:"Hermetic","United","Mystic","Worshipful","Gnostic","Oriental","Esoteric","Enlightened","Perfected","Fortunate","Blessed","Royal","Sovereign","Illustrious","Grand","Illuminated","High","Free","Virtuous","Reborn","Wise","Ascended","Loyal","Improved","Splendid","Reformed","Venerable","Devoted","Noble","Serene","Ascetic","Honest","Distinguished","Ancient","Dutiful","Benevolent")) (set: $groupN to (either:"Order","Masters","Daughters","Brethren","Fraternity","Temple","Society","Servants","Circle","Academy","Sanctuary","House","Philosophers","Builders","Comprehenders","Knights","Initiates","Acolytes","Magi","Adepts","College","Heralds","Church","Keepers","Lodge")) (set: $objectA to (either:"Golden","Silver","Hidden","Sacred","Secret","Shining","Burning","Five-Sided","Seven-Faced","Eightfold","Veiled","Holy","Conquering","Eternal","Jewelled","Inner","Outer","Forgotten","First","Second","Third","Fourth","Final","Forbidden","Emerald","Impeding","Crimson","Ebon","Colossal","Lost","Immortal","Celebrated","Unseen","Perfumed","Silent","Sleeping","Whispering","Crawling","Singing","Inevitable","Unfound","Revealed","Celestial","Faceless","Unbegotten")) (set: $objectN to (either:"Dawn","Light","Gate","Science","Flame","Eye","Wheel","Pyramid","Serpent","Prophet","Realm","Tower","Cross","Mirror","Mountain","Equinox","Garden","Aeon","Judgment","Key","Cipher","Goddess","Chaos","Shrine","Star","Sun","Oracle","Rite","Doctrine","Way","Self","World","Dragon","Elixir","Emperor","Hour","Chariot","Path","Crown","Twilight","Void","Darkness","Scarab","Saint","Catechism","Lotus","Martyr")) (set: $myth to (either:"Thoth","Isis","Horus","Osiris","Amon","Dagon","Ishtar","Tiamat","Babylon","Atlantis","Lemuria","Mithras","Ahriman","Marduk","Cybele","Hermes","Abbadon","Enoch","Abraham","Lilith","Zarathustra","Baal","Astarte","Atum","Khepri","Ra","Moloch","Shaddai","the Annunaki","Perun","Gog and Magog","Gilgamesh","Merlin","Wodan","Circe","Ymir","Shakti","Mnemosyne","Tethys","Kronos","Hyperion","Selene","Pallas","Bacchus","Orpheus","Prometheus","Persephone","Charon","Acheron","Elysium","Tartarus","Hecate","Rhadamanthys","Apollo","Artemis","Cernunnos","Oberon","Beltane","Samhain","Antioch","Carthage","Zosimos","Abramelin","Nineveh","Thebes","Baphomet","Assyria","Ezekiel","Mizraim","Solomon","Bethlehem","Yaldabaoth","Samael","Brahma","Vishnu","Shiva","Marzanna","Constantine")) (set: $firstcity to (either: "London","Paris","Marseille","Venice","Trieste","Genoa","Berlin","Rome","Milan","Naples","Madrid","Lisbon","Seville","Barcelona","Vienna","San Francisco","Prague","Moscow","Amsterdam","Buda-Pesth","Constantinople","Los Angeles","Chicago","New Orleans","Providence","Havana","Boston","New York","Philadelphia","Montreal","Hong Kong","Shanghai","Bangkok","Bombay","Calcutta","New Delhi","Cairo","Tangiers","Cape Town","Nairobi","Havana","Buenos Aires","Mexico City","Valparaiso","Sydney","Melbourne")) (set: $consonant1 to (either: "Chth","Ll","Y","Tch","Sh","Ny","Fht","Th","B","Gl","Gh","Gg","Dgh","H","Gn","Bw","Gth","Tl","Ch","N","Dh","By","Kh","R","X","Hx","Mbr","Z","Bb","Mn","Rl","Ml","Q","Qq")) (set: $vowel1 to (either: "a","u","o","i","aa","ua","oi","ia","ii","oo","uo","'")) (set: $consonant2 to (either: "chth","ll","y","tch","sh","ny","fht","th","b","gl","gh","gg","dgh","h","gn","bw","gth","tl","ch","n","dh","by","kh","r","x","hx","mbr","z","bb","mn","rl","ml","q","qq")) (set: $vowel2 to (either: "a","u","o","i","aa","ua","oi","ia","ii","uo","'")) (set: $consonant3 to (either: "chth","ll","tch","sh","fht","th","b","gl","gh","gg","dgh","h","gn","bw","gth","tl","ch","n","dh","kh","r","x","hx","mbr","z","bb","mn","rl","ml","q","qq")) (set: $vowel3 to (either: "a","u","o","i","aa","ua","oi","ia","ii","oo","uo")) (set: $oldname to (either: "$consonant1$vowel1$consonant3","$consonant1$vowel1$consonant3$vowel3","$consonant1$vowel1$consonant2$vowel2$consonant3","$consonant1$vowel1$consonant2$vowel2$consonant3$vowel3")) (set: $oldnoun to (either: "Child","Spawn","Worm","Hound","Denizen","Beast","Goat","Bride","Sphinx","Dweller","God","Thing","King","Queen","Pharaoh","Effigy","Wolf","Leech","Serpent","Idol","Widow","One","Flame","Eye","Horror","Leviathan","Doom","Maw","Toad","Ape","Chaos","Fiend","Husk","Jackal","Phantom","Sorrow")) (set: $oldadjective to (either: "Cold","Dark","Blind","Black","Green","Crimson","Bloated","Crowned","Horned","Silent","Seven-Faced","Pale","Nameless","Grey","Charnel","Elder","Dread","Crawling","Howling","Whispering","Shrieking","Weeping","Slumbering","Shambling","Hunting","Bleeding","Devouring","Mindless","Faceless","Unspeakable","Shrouded","Flayed")) (set: $oldprefix to (either: "Dust","Star","Tomb","Moon","Flesh","Sky","Night","Skin","Cloud","Witch","Mist")) (set: $oldtag to (either: "in Yellow","of Shadow","of the Woods","Below","from Beyond","in the Mist","under the Hill","who Comes in Darkness","of the Labyrinth","that Should Not Be","of the Abyss","in the Earth","of the Deep","of the Pit","of the Ruins","of the Lake","of the Desert")) (set: $victim to (either: "a police lieutenant","an asylum warden","a prominent doctor","a well-loved politician","an eccentric millionaire","a psychic medium","the owner of a curiosity shop","a faith healer","a stage magician","a priest","a decadent poet","a notable philanthropist","an escaped lunatic","a hospital matron","a famous detective","an art collector","a distinguished academic","a museum curator","a wealthy socialite","a retired general","a retired admiral","an underworld boss","the director of a theatre troupe","an admired actress","an old sea captain","a lighthouse keeper","a gravedigger","a journalist","a newspaper editor","a film star","a modernist author","a crazed hermit","a schoolteacher","a judge","a lion-tamer","an anthropologist","a zookeeper","a ballerina","a foppish dilettante","a classical violinist","an old woman who solves mysteries","creepy albino twins","a fighter ace","a theoretical physicist","a mathematician","a librarian","the last scion of a noble family","the matriarch of a noble family","somebody's butler","a merchant banker","a merchant seaman","an acrobat","a confidence man","a safecracker","a forger","an airship captain","a young buffoon and his ingenious valet","a war nurse","a wise old monk","a gentleman thief","a dog")) (set: $monster to (either: "a shoggoth","a byakhee","a star vampire","a Deep One","a shantak","a Serpent Man","a moonbeast","a dhole","a Hound of Tindalos","a dimensional shambler","a fire vampire","a rat-thing","a voormi","a wendigo","a hunting horror","a fungus from Yuggoth","a nightgaunt","a ghoul","a ghast","a Leng spider","a tcho-tcho","a gnoph-keh","an insect from Shaggai")) (set: $artefact to (either: "a rare manuscript","a curious assemblage of gears","a light-distorting lens","a jewelled dagger","an obsidian pyramid","a runestone","a pagan idol","a scrimshawed tusk","a wooden mask","a Renaissance painting","a cuneiform tablet","a papyrus scroll","a rare orchid","a man-skin drum","a set of bone pipes","an iron key","a many-angled prism","a black pearl","a conch-shell trumpet","a waxwork head","an almost-human skull","a creepy puppet","a human heart preserved in amber","a clockwork orrery","a carnivorous plant","a catatonic child","a red-eyed cat","a globe of another world","a defaced Bible","a Mayan codex","a Tarot deck","a catalogue of devils","a voodoo doll","a bottled ghost","a chalcedony amulet","a reliquary","a Hand of Glory","an Oriental carpet","a monarch's death-mask","an alchemical elixir","a prayer wheel","a menhir","a flayed tattoo","the hand of a mummy","an oil-lamp","a prehistoric figure of a woman","an immortal monkey","a pornographic etching","a set of bronze bells","a silver coronet","a caged songbird","a meteorite","a trove of banned books","a shrunken head","a leopard")) (set: $place to (either: "Persia","Arabia","the Sahara","the Congo","the Serengeti","the Okavango delta","the Kalahari","Madagascar","Sicily","Malta","Anatolia","the Caucasus","the Carpathians","the Scottish highlands","Greenland","New England","New Mexico","the Yucatan","Patagonia","the Amazon","the Andes","the South Pacific","the Australian desert","Tasmania","New Guinea","New Zealand","Borneo","Sumatra","Burma","Cambodia","Mongolia","Nepal","Tibet","Kashmir","Siberia","Tartary","Ceylon","Antarctica","the Moon","Mars","the Earth's core","the future")) (set: $crime to (either: "use $artefact to destroy the sanity of $victim","use $artefact to transform $victim into $monster","steal $artefact from $victim","abduct $victim and feed them to $monster","summon $monster using $artefact and send it to kill $victim","destroy $artefact that is currently in the possession of $victim","steal the lifeforce of $victim and use it to power $artefact","stage an evil play, set in $place, about $artefact and $victim","use $victim to recruit subjects for an experiment involving $artefact","trap the soul of $victim in $artefact","steal a map of $place from $victim and use it to find $artefact","abduct $victim, take them to $place and sacrifice them on a forgotten altar","steal $artefact, with the aid of $victim, from a museum department dedicated to $place","force $victim to guide them to a lost city in $place","use $artefact to open a gateway to a lost city in $place","abduct and enslave $victim recently returned from $place","dispatch $monster to $place and have it bring back $artefact","recruit people for an expedition to $place with the help of $victim","open an ancient tomb in $place and take $artefact from it","imprison $victim in an ancient tomb in $place","slay, with the help of $victim, $monster that guards an ancient tomb in $place","found a new society in $place with the help of $victim","cross-breed $victim with $monster and venerate the offspring","open a gate back in time, using $artefact, to an ancient version of $place")) (set: $firstname to (either: "Simon","Tabitha","Alistair","Algernon","Helena","Constance","Camille","Leo","Dolores","George","Samuel","Anna","Florence","Maud","Phoebe","Israel","Eric","Anton","Vladimir","Victor","Emma","Max","Neville","Mabel","Bertrand","Archibald","Lachlan","Howard","Geoffrey","Violet","Cecil","James","Herbert","Marco","Immanuel","Karl","Douglas","Maurice","Lewis","Ruth","Otto","Eliza","Millicent","Cyril","Charles","Edith","Selma","Albert","Owen","Olaf","Ernst","Anselm","Ambrose","Agnes","Isabel","Ezra","Oscar","Francesca","Beatrice","Stephen","Diana","Penelope","Bernard","Raymond","Rupert")) (set: $lastname to (either: "Blackwood","Thorne","Marvell","Swinburne","Liddell","Westcott","MacGregor","Sprengel","Farr","Cracknell","Felkin","Burnett","Steiner","Nightingale","Olcott","Quan","Hong","Chan","Harding","Ledbetter","Knightley","Washington","Campbell","Massey","Klein","Talbot","Scribdin","Munday","Tweedale","Doyle","Chambers","Frazer","Spencer","Sykes","Wolff","Lewis","Penniman","Malinowsky","Leach","Levi","Powell","Gliddon","Rochester","Zola","Hesse","Griffin","Ende","Starr","Carroll","Haeckel","Zeiss","Wynn","Fortune","Moore","Morrison","Skelton","Graves","Derleth")) (set: $goal to (either: "live forever","speak with the dead","percieve the true nature of reality","transcend human form","destroy the Moon","awaken $oldname from its slumber","finally die","become an avatar of $oldname","be restored to their full glory","rise from the grave","found a race of monsters","start the next great war","unleash a devastating plague","resurrect an ancient sorcerer","usurp the throne of God","bind all humanity to their will","slay a hated rival","travel between worlds","travel between dimensions","blot out the sun","bring about the apocalypse","make audible the music of the spheres","become pregnant with $oldname's child","be reincarnated as a child","put their soul into someone else's body","open a portal to $oldname's realm","convert the nation's leaders to $oldname's worship","psychically contact $oldname","alter history","see the future","survive the impending apocalypse"))} The members of the (either: "$groupA $groupN of the $objectA $objectN","$groupN of the $objectA $objectN","$groupN of the $objectA $objectN of $myth","$groupA $groupN of the $objectN of $myth","$groupA $groupN of $myth","$groupN of $myth"), an elite magical society based in $firstcity, are secretly devoted to the worship of $oldname, the (either: "$oldadjective $oldnoun","$oldprefix-$oldnoun","$oldnoun $oldtag"). They plan to $crime. This will enable their leader, $firstname $lastname, to $goal.