Cult of Norok

The Cult of Norok is a secretive group in Helsia who worships the dark lord Norok

Beliefs and practices
The cult of Norok follows the belief that there are 3 dimensions the dimension of light ruled by Akalia the dimension of darkness ruled by Norok and the material universe and it was there for eons that the deities of light and darkness were in an endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Akalia being the deity of creation, light, hope, and love and Norok, the deity of The void, death, famine, and destruction Each deity represents what can be categorized as forces of nature

For as long as our universe has existed there has been a give and take between Norok and Akalia where they vie for dominance. But because they both are representations of light and darkness one could not exist without the other.

Sacrifices
The cult of Norok typically those sacrifices instead of rituals the types of sacrifices typically involves something living like animals captives of just plain plant life for Norok needs to consume life force sustain himself the rarer the creature the better the best type of creatures/items to sacrifice to Norok is souls for souls are much more filled with vibrancy and to restore his vitality than

Clergy
The cult of Norok is headed by a High priest/Priestess who is appointed by the Pharaoh of Nazarath Once appointed, they keep their position for life. The High Priest/Priestess is the ultimate voice on religious matters, even higher than the. They may make other members of the religion a priest or revoke it at their discretion. Priests have the ability to marry couples and divorce them.

Lore

For eons the deities of light and darkness were in an endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Akalia being the deity of creation, light, hope, and love and

Norok, the deity of The void, death, famine, and destruction

Each deity represents what can be categorized as forces of nature

For as long as our universe has existed there has been a give and take between Norok and Akalia where they vie for dominance. But because they both are representations of light and darkness one could not exist without the other

Akalia would create countless worlds of plenty and beauty that soon after creation would be devoured by Norok, for he needs to consume life to renew his vitality. The name of the first world of these worlds has been lost in time. But there's ancient legends that speak of it as a land of deep oceans, tall mountains, scorching deserts, and freezing tundras. Only towards the middle of the world existed a valley of plenty inhabited by voluptuous animals. Some large enough to crush the trees beneath them with their feet and some who were no bigger than pebbles, barely visible to the naked eye

but as the saying goes

“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long”

From the depths of the void, Norok saw this plentiful world, teeming with life and began to plan his assault. Not long after, like your mother vacuuming your room, you fat fuck Norok swiftly set about consuming all the life on this ancient planet. By the time Akalia noticed what was afoot it was too late, her beloved world was in ruins. After this crushing blow she would go onto birth another planet, continuing the cycle.

Akalla would go on to do all she could to keep Norok from destroying what she had created each cycle. Each time an epic battle of light and dark would commence. But the deities could never completely overcome each other.

After each cycle the aftermath of the battle would leave the world where it was fought barren and void of all life. World after world, these ancient deities would continue this cycle time and time again. Akalia fought to preserve her beloved creations and Norok would continue to devour these worlds to maintain his vitality. After this everlasting cycle took place on countless worlds with no changes Akalia noticed something different on her newly created world of Paxia, creatures that could feel hope and love just like her. She traveled around the world with the intent of observing this new species she dubbed, humans. Over time she became attached to humans seeing them all as her children and loved them dearly.

When the Great Devourer came for Paxia Akalia battled fiercely, desperately wanting to protect Paxia and the people apart of it.

Whilst the battle raged on, Akalia saw her beloved creations, her children dying from the horrors Norok had brought upon the land. This began to make something stir inside of Akalia, a primordial anger. As fast as light she struck with godly fury at Norok, shattering parts of the dark deity off, forming crystals. But it was fruitless for in the end Paxia was devoured by Norok.

While these crystalized pieces of Norok hurdled towards the ground a mortal by the name of Anton was struck by a large piece. He was not killed like the other humans around him but instead fused with the dark energy, saving him. When Anton came to, he was in a strange realm, a realm that had no resemblance to Paxia. The land was barren and withered with pools of magma being the only thing illuminating his surroundings. As he began to stand on his own two feet a veil of black appeared in front of him. A wave of emotions instantly washed over Anton but most notably, he felt whole. Without wasting much time the being introduced himself as the Great Devourer, Norok. Though Anton was a creation of Akalia, being pierced by darkness itself changed him, he was now the first follower of Norok who brought him to where they were now. A place we now call the Nether.

After the destruction of paxia Akalia was wounded and retreated to her own dimension. But before she did so, she used the last of her energy to make the next world, known today as Jagdas. The last thing she did before her great slumber was birth the next generation of mortal humans. Not wanting the whole population to know of or fear the eventual conflict that will destroy their planet Akalia named VortexPie her mortal counterpart. He was told about the worlds that came before and was tasked to protect Jagdas from any evil that might attack it.

As time goes on Anton begins to learn from his new master. Becoming acquainted with a ritual that can corrupt animals into becoming monsters who are naturally aggressive towards humans. Knowing of VortexPie’s existence, Anton knew he had to infest the world of Jadgas with monsters to ensure his master could successfully consume the planet. When the hordes of monsters and undead were formed, they began their offensive on the unexpecting humans.

Many desperate battles were fought by the mortals to keep the dark hordes from achieving victory but in the end it was hopeless. All the kings and emperors were assassinated in a single night known as the Great culling with their leaders dead, the mortals scattered, slowly but surely being hunted down. After a period of despair and hopelessness for the human race Norok made his move. Without any warnings the legion of monsters alongside Norok swarmed the planet starting the end of another cycle

when the last of the mortal kingdoms had fallen a giant dark ritual which would have completely destroyed the world to give it to Norok but because Akalia had almost recovered but when the ritual commenced Akalia intervened instead of destroying the world and offering it to Norok it instead spread a corruption that turned forests and oceans into a hellish landscape filled with lava

When they were put together the world itself shaked because of the pure power surrounding the two deities coming to fight one and other once again

Right when Norok returned he began to devour jagdas but suddenly an immense light came from the sky it was akalia who had been able to heal completely

The battle that was fought between the two deities was legendary the few who saw it could not describe it with words for it was beyond anything a mortal had or will ever see and some even had their minds shattered by the sight that they were seeing

In the middle of the battle Norok was gaining an upper hand on Akalia until the mortal champion of Akalia joined the fray but he was no match for all the might of norok but he was able to distract norok for enough time for akalia to fuse herself to him infusing all of her might into this little mortal after that she began to attack Norok with fury and vengeance

Akalia was quickly getting an upper hand on Norok when he realized that it was because of her champion and them fusing he quickly fused himself with his mortal champion but still Akalia had the advantage he was confused for each time he would try to attack them they would deflect and counter attack perfectly

But it was simply the pure trust between akalia and her champion it made them like a symbiotic organism but with norok and his champion there was no trust anton0541 tried to obey his master but he could not even comprehend the horror of norok himself so his body began to reject norok and he would force himself to stay inside Anton0541 but after countless attacks where each time norok would grow weaker and weaker and Anton0541 would try to expel him from his body so when Anton0541 gained more control of his body because of Noroks growing weakness he realized that they were losing so in this second right before Noroks defeat Anton0541 figured out that was holding Norok back was his pure arrogance he could never acknowledge his defeat and retreat so Anton0541 used all his power even turning his own body to dust and put it into spell that upon Noroks defeat trapped much of the escaping power into shards and threw them into the void where they would lie in wait for norok to recover and reclaim them

in the aftermath when Akalia saw the corrupted land of jagdas she knew that with her remaining power she could not uncorrupt the land so she would then birth the new worlds of eldham and rathnir where she would seed life and eventually put the surviving mortals of jagdas on the worlds so they could rebuild after

When life had grown enough on the world's akalia took the remaining mortals and seeded them across rathnir and eldham quickly they began to prosper and grow soon after Akalia retreat to lick her wounds and wait for the next cycle and left the duty of destroying of finding the shards of Norok which had landed across rathnir and eldham

So in a blink of an eye ages went by and the people quickly forgot the past and the grand deities only few were reminded by a lone traveler he was named vortexpie the servant of akalia he would travel between the worlds of rathnir and eldham slowly tracking down the locations of Noroks shards and destroying them delaying his recovery each time he destroyed one he would absorb its power growing stronger but when he destroyed what he thought was the last crystal he saw a vision of the greatest of the shards located on a northern island in eldham so he traveled to it when he arrived he saw a small community of mortals was worshiping the shard when they saw him they somehow knew that he was there to destroy the shard a couple of the people quickly rushed against him he recognized their looks they were corrupted with the dark mutations of Anton0541

The battle fought between Vortex and the mutants was surprisingly short because of the power he had gathered from the shards of Norok he had become almost unstoppable the cultists realized this and they begged the shard for help

the shard sent a vision to all of them of a ritual that would lead to their victtory

When they performed the ritual the shard absorbed their souls using them to power it self up so when vortexpie came to destroy it it fired a giant dark blast filled with the torment of countless souls when it struck him the pure pain and sadness made him weak and all the energy of the destroyed shards flooded away some were absorbed by the main shards and other were blasted to areas of rathnir and eldham vortexpie was left broken and weakened he quickly used the last of his energy to make a portal and flee to his home but even there where Akalias blessings was present he slowly grew mad he saw terrifying visions

It began to make him realize or just believe that akalia did not want utopia she wanted the endless cycle to continue the endless suffering and rebirth so she could survive

but Norok just wanted to end the cycle end all suffering forever end all the bad in the world

He began to despise akalia for her lies and for her deception in rage he screamed

“curse you akalia” he began to realize soon after that his youthful body began to shrivel and decay and he began slowly dying in the moment of his death the recently reborn Anton0541 channeled his dark magic to save Vortexpies soul and reform his body soon after

Vortexpies reformation him and Anton0541 returned to the island in the north of eldham to seek guidance from the shard of Norok and it gave them them a task it was to build a city that would prepare to help in a coming cycle for Norok was soon healed completely for they are about to battle again and again till the end of time