Dreadlore Cult

The Dreadlore Cult is the most secretive guild known (and unknown) to the overworld. Made up completely of Ulkers, this underdark-based religious group is the most technologically advanced cult to be recorded in the world of Daerraphere. Their most recognizable traits are their black and bronze robes and red face paint.

Religious Principles
The Dreadlore Cult believes in no god. Instead, they believe in the darkness. Not in an evil way, though. The Dreadlore worship the "energy" that controls life and death. According to the Noxicom, the ancient tome of which the Dreadlore Cult revolves around, one's life is just a marionette. As long as the strings remained untouched, a person will live a full life. However, if one was to pull or break a string, the puppet would fall and the person would die. Through the learning and teachings of darkness, however, one can learn the secrets of sustaining these strings. Many Ulkers believe that learning and knowledge of life is the way to live longer AND help others live longer. Some Dreadlore Cultists have even gone so far as to create means of learning about the next life. Dreadlore Cultists believe that if you are chosen worthy by the darkness, you go to a heaven where the moon is always up and bronze towers dot the rocky landscape. Several Cultists have actually created a sort of portal called a Dreadlore spyglass that allows you into the next realm.

Dreadlore Priorities
In order to explore life, the Dreadlore Cult created three temples in three sacred towns; The Metal temple of Dreadlore Zytharten, the Mage's temple of Dreadlore Ulsear, and the Darkness temple of Dreadlore Vuloxx. In the lifetime of all Dreadlore Cultists, you must travel to all of the temples and learn the knowledge from each one. Also, Dreadlore Cultist are prohibited from going to the overworld.

Ranking
The way Dreadlore Cultists rank themselves is by the amount of knowledge they have learned through the use of tomes (and partially by age of the Ulker). Here is a list of rankings.

Trivia

 * The Dreadlore spyglass can be modified to see into the Shadowfell and Feywild.
 * Several sightings have been recorded of huge, metal robots guarding Dreadlore outposts, although no one has seen one for nearly 600 years.