Cult of the Sleeper Tsathoggua is keenly interested in worshippers because congregations work together as groups to capture and he is always hungry for sacrifice His cult follows the provide victims for the awakening of Tsathoggua same natural cycle in almost every case (see below) All When possible, they attempt to bring their cult to a the stages of the cult may be present simultaneously on position of importance in their land a world or continent, but in any one region or nation, only one stage manifests at a time to begin kidnapping humans and other intelligent At all times and at all stages, the primary function victims to sacrifice to their god The benefits they of the cult is to keep Tsathoggua fed so that he receive from this are obvious, even to outsiders, and the continues to reward his worshippers Unlike other cult continues to grow Typically, the cult still attempts Mythos cultists, cultists of the Sleeper are often sane to keep the sacrificial nature and true purpose of the and rational, if callously so Tsathoggua places no religion at least somewhat hidden premium on madness or destruction for its own sake, and thus his cult can operate in an ordered society—at least for a while Sleeper Cult Beginnings Downfall of the Sleeper Cult Unless the cult is able to achieve a stranglehold on an entire nation, eventually its prominence leads to disaster The vile practices, kidnappings, and murders Initially, only a few unlucky individuals in any given of the cult, as well as its dealings with hideous formless region know about Tsathoggua The Great Old One spawn and other monsters (such as serpent folk), lead may make personal appearances or his formless spawn the forces of law and order to strike back and try to may contact likely individuals These people begin suppress the Sleeper worshiping Tsathoggua and start organizing services Even if the Sleeper Cult does manage to gain support for fellow cultists Tsathoggua’s cult at this early stage in high places (for example, by converting a nation’s often seems more or less harmless Only animals (dogs, king or vizier to its number), this can lead to a mass cows, etc.) are sacrificed to their foul deity, and the revolt against the horrors it perpetrates The natural obvious benefits of the cult make it seem attractive, at response to the Sleeper is a call for its official ban or least to those of a low moral nature even a pogrom against the cult Sleeper worshippers At this stage, the cult may be limited to a particular go into hiding or engage in pitched battles with the clan, race, or guild, but it always looks to expand The authorities Usually the Sleeper Cult is exposed before cult is not an exclusionary organization and welcomes it has grown too powerful to be stopped, and thus it is outsiders as adherents eventually doomed to widespread destruction The Rise of the Sleeper Cult Eventually, the Cult of the Sleeper becomes large and But even then it is not gone The Sleeper in Secret forms a proper church At this point it is grouped A few cultists almost always remain, often the most into congregations, each of which has formal worship intelligent and potent They carry on the lore and the services, one or more temples, and an organized legend of their god Even if most of the cult dies out, hierarchy with initiates, acolytes, and priests These 182 At this stage, the cult is strong and bold enough